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Hello, I just discovered NF and am excited to get started. This will technically be a five week challenge with this week being "week 0". 38 year old female Diet 1. Log all food for the month in MFP. 2. Lose 2 pounds. 3. Research ways to incorporate more protein into my diet without going over my calories. Fitness 4. Begin a bodyweight strength program (3 days per week). Life 5. Successfully finish this semester at college! 1 research paper 3 tests 6 finals I've been working on my diet over at MFP for the last three months and have currently lost 9 of the 20 pounds needed to get back to my goal weight. However, I haven't done any exercises for the past two years due to serious illness (and very sporadically prior to that due to multiple injuries). Lv 1 "Novice" doesn't cut it, its probably more like Lv -2 "Invalid". Still, things have stabilized and I'm feeling pretty good about what I can acomplish right now. Thanks, and good luck to everyone on their challenges! https://www.nerdfitness.com/character/143414

So as the title states, I have FINALLY sold my house... as in I just got notification that I am richer 5 min ago I also have my competition in a week and a half, and I am starting to feel the nervousness of it creeping in. This challenge will be a bit wonky due to the comp happening, and then me changing things up afterwards to recover properly and then start losing some body fat. Dec 1-10 Goals 1. Hydrate and keep up with protein. - minimum of 66oz of water and a minimum of 160 g of protein a day (OMG, thats a lot of chicken) 2. Train smart the week of, last heavy day will be Tuesday, Wed/Thur/Fri will be mobility, light weight, stretching, ect only. 3. Have fun at the competition! I have worked hard and made some serious gains on weights... I can now overhead press 140, and farmer DL 350. Weather or not I get pwned or throw out some ownage myself I will have a positive attitude and figure out if this is something I want to continue doing (at least competition wise, not giving up all together... F that noise). Post Dec 10 Goals 1. Let your broken self heal. I am horrible at this thing called "resting". I need to make sure my body heals/is rested before I go back to being a badass. 2. Track everything, and match your cut macros from nutritionist, keep drinking all the water. (Christmas will be my cheat day besides 1 weekly cheat meal) @RedStone I may be hitting you up again for accountability! 3. Start adding cardio.... DUN DUN DUN! (There would be a gif here but work interwebs are crappy atm).

This is my first Challenge! I just joined Nerd Fitness tonight, and I'm so excited to start my journey. I'm in the worst mental and physical shape of my life, and the number one thing keeping me down is my depression. It's hard to even get myself out of bed and take care of myself. So I'm starting small. Every time I push too hard, I fail. I'm going to try the "slow and steady wins the race" route for once. For some extra accountability, here is my My Fitness Pal food log; the key is "NerdFitness". Diet Goals: Log ALL intake, daily. NO BINGES. Fitness Goals: Yoga at least 3 days a week. Lifestyle Goals: Clean for an hour every day.

Hello fellow rebels! I'm starting my second challenge. ** Diet ** When I do drink alcohol, replace fail drinks (I'm looking at you, sugary cocktails and beer) with better alternatives (like red wine or vodka soda) - see the Can I Still Drink Alcohol? quest. This goal is one I'm rolling over from my previous challenge, as I didn't do nearly as well as I wanted to and need to keep working on this habit. Defeat the sugar beast! Cut out refined sugars, and limit the use of other sweeteners like maple syrup and honey. ** Fitness ** Complete one of the following each week: three bodyweight workouts (I'm still on the 1A/1B series but maybe I can progress this month!) or two bodyweight workouts and one kickboxing class. Participate in the 30 day yoga challenge - complete at least 10 minutes of yoga per day! ** Level Up My Life ** Spend at least one hour each week de-cluttering and organizing my room

Quest for the Dragon Balls Quest Start-Date : December 5, 2016 Phase I : Preparation for Long-term Journey I'm a super-duper newbie around here, so if I'm doing something wrong--let me know! Trying to get a feel for this setup. - - - I. Diet (Packing & Prepping for the Trip Ahead) Log foods, drinks, & other sources of calories everyday for the rest of the month. Cut daily sugar intake to <30g per day, to start. II. Fitness (Tinkering with the Radar) Light cardio 3x per week. III. LVLUP Life (Assisting in the Lab in the Meantime) Finish a book this month, because I don't read as much as I should. About Me Hay hay hay.~ Since this is my first challenge, I thought I'd formally say a thing or two about myself. I'm here to get my fitness thing started up again. Somewhere along the way, I lost all motivation & ended up in a bit of a spot. I miss how it feels to be in-shape! Being able to have stamina, endurance, & just feeling lighter. While many go to college & gain weight, I did the opposite--I lost weight! A lot of it. Coming back home, though, I'm back to the same old routine I had. My family doesn't care too much about how they eat, & because I didn't stay diligent enough, I'm back at square one. No worries, though! I know I can do it again. & this seems like a really fun way to do it! More about my hobbies~ You can tell I'm a nerd for DBZ. My journey from here on will be based on a long-term adventure to discover the dragon balls! I feel like that'll motivate me to take this in bits & pieces. Other things I like : kawaii culture, comics & manga, sketching, running my etsy shop, going to cons & cosplaying, gaming. So yeah! That's a little bit about me. n_n - - -

Okay, I'll be out of town, living it up in NYC for Halloween on October 30, so I should line up my 4 Week Challenge now. It's pretty straight forward. I am starting Week 3 of the Zombie Run 5K program, and my goal is to continue that 3 workouts a week. I am also starting the Handstand course from Nerd Fitness, I've not had time to look it over but I intend to do Handstand work on my non-running days. Also I am headed to Japan in EXACTLY 2 MONTHS! So I am not reading any more books, or listening to anymore podcasts. Only my Japanese lessons so Ican get back to functional speaking (I took it in college, I was alright speaking, but never learned much kanji). I have little Japanese learning games I play on my phone rather than Facebook, etc. I can look at Facebook too, but I'd prefer after a round of Japanese quizzes. On top of this I want to keep meal prepping, and pill prepping (I feel SO OLD). I have new medications for anemia and asthma, I might lay off the iron pills a bit because they made me feel ick last night, and just iron-up my food (hello lentils, kale, etc), but I am now the little organized lady with an am/pm pill box with my meds and vitamins all laid out... and it's wonderfully convenient! I prep wonderful looking meals, but often when it's time to eat them I have no appetite... I need to figure out why this is, and what I can do about it. So working on light, clean food for lunches. I also started something I've been sharing with people from Camp nerdFitness, but should throw out to everyone! I've made up a game called "#WednesdayBridgeClub, which is just posting pictures of ourselves in backbends on social media. On Wednesdays. For fun! Everyone's invited to join. Okay, Oct 30, bring it.

Hello, I am Rock N Llor and this is my very first challenge (I tried to do one some years ago, but never really got into it). I'm from Mexico City and really needing to level up my life (as I have been in doom of depression for a long time and with thyroid problems). My goals for this challenge are: MAIN GOAL Being more disciplined and create habits: my life need some rules and me sticking to them so I can focus on the food stuff. DIET: - Paleo diet 80% of the time (to try to see if it helps my thyroid problems and depression). - Drink more than 6 glasses of water a day FITNESS: - Find time for meditation - Workout at least 4 days a week LEVEL UP MY LIFE: - Find time to re-know what I like in life and find what my quests are (not quite sure about me and my decisions up to now) - No snoozing (hate to admit it, but usually snooze for not minutes, but hours) - Find my patronus to get rid of the dementors following me

Snickie has not fared well in the first half of season 1 with the Crystal Gems. Let's hope she can turn things around and get out of Pearl Point debt! Amethyst - Food Gems don't need to eat, but I do. Gotta make sure that what I'm putting into my very human body is actually good for humans! Amethyst isn't a good example, but she can put away all the junk food I don't eat. Record each meal and snack in my handy dandy spreadsheet. +1 point per paleo (Wahls) food group represented in substantial part Wahls groups: leafy greens, cruciferous vegetables, colorful fruit/vegetables, meat/poultry/fish, seaweed, etc. -1 point for non-paleo food group represented in substantial part non-paleo neutral: plantain chips, oatmeal, vodka sauce from a jar (I checked the ingredients mkay) New scale effective on Week 6! Steven - Music Steven is a friggin' musical prodigy, and heaven knows I don't practice enough. The Gems all have their own musical talents and leitmotifs as well. One day I can hope to be as good as Steven. +2 points for the first full 60 minutes of practice (0 points if less than an hour), +1 point for each additional 30 minutes -2 points if I don't practice at all Exception: illness; 3 hours or more of rehearsal Connie - Academics Academics are life right now. College and stuff. I'm terrible at completing large assignments on time and actually studying, so here: +1 point per 30 minutes per subject (partial credit given) studied or assignment worked on PDE: +1 point per problem worked (since these tend to take a long time anyway) -n points on the (n-1)th day after it was due and not turned in +1 point if Japanese was studied Garnet - Physical Jasper is out there somewhere. I need to be in top physical condition to be able to combat her when she comes. +1 point per exercise type attempted (at least 10m) +1 point for dance - dancing is important for fusion. +1 point for NF mini-challenge items -1 /day if non-exercise streak exceeds 1 Exception: illness, injury The Human Population of Beach City I'm human, so it's important to do other human things. +1 for getting 7 hours or more of sleep at night +1 for each additional hour, not to exceed 10 hours -1 for each nap taken -1 for getting less than 6 hours of sleep +1 for each 15 minutes of meditation +1 for each day that I make my bed Peridot - Logging If I don't log about it (or at least throw down numbers and details in my spreadsheet), then does it really exist? o_o How am I supposed to keep track of all the good things I've been trying to do if I don't, you know, log them?! +1 for each day that I log things into my spreadsheet +1 for journal entries Handdrawn images coming soon! (No more broken IMG codes and no more ZIBBITs. )

In honor of Halloween the Scout mini will be monster themed What? You were expecting this? Nope - we'll be trying to conquer our monsters! so strap on your runners and let's get hunting!

For the next few challenges, I am going to attend Hogwarts!!! Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry Life Challenge Here's the basic plan: I've 'mapped' the Hogwarts school subjects to categories of life goals. For each challenge, I will choose at least three of these to work on; one has to be related to fitness, one to food/diet, and one to other life goals. As I progress in these challenges, I will then have a chance to earn OWLs and NEWTs in each subject, by completing a major milestone. (To see how I've mapped the subjects to life goals, open the spoiler) Challenge #1 For my first Hogwarts challenge, I shall be learning to fly! That, plus some Potions and some Charms. Flying This is usually me with flying. But no more! Complete an 'assignment' from Zombies Run! 5k at least twice a week (thrice, for extra credit!) = 10 XP each Potions Cook twice a week. = 5 XP each Charms Get up before 7:30 every day. = 3 XP each ----------------- TOTAL possible points Flying: 80 Potions: 40 Charms: 84

If any of you followed my last challenge, thanks! I haven't lost any weight since then, but I have started weight lifting so I don't expect too for a few months since I am building muscles. This time around I am looking more to dropping inches as a minor goal. My main goal this challenge is to socialize. Which is a big challenge for me as an introvert. I have become more active in our chat room, but I want something more than that. Totally clueless on how to do that. I tried social Apps, even dating Apps with more of a networking feel, I got scared and deleted all my accounts. Maybe I am afraid of judgement. I originally didn't want to socialize until I was at a lower weight, but I decided to take a chance. Lets hope this goes well.....

WARNING: SPOILERS FOR STEVEN UNIVERSE. The world of Steven Universe has many facets (lol pun) which need to be balanced and addressed. Here are my goals missions to become a well-rounded Gem Fusion It's very important to be able to physically synchronize through dancing in order to perform fusion. I can work on this through various means: Zumba (Mondays and Wednesdays when I don't have orchestra or practice) Other cardio dance routines Swing dance (Tuesday night class) In addition to physical synchronicity, I must be mentally and emotionally sound in order to maintain stability. Meditation (3*30m/week) (Basically I just sit down somewhere with my hands doing like Stevonnie in the episode Mindful Education. Which happens to be the sacral chakra mudra, which I only know because I randomly looked it up years ago and I had to look it up again just now. Interesting that they chose that one. But anyway. I mostly zone out. Feels good.) Music http://66.media.tumblr.com/edeab642c38d9c1536cf0a01734307ff/tumblr_inline_o0lj4d2f4O1sirzhl_500.png[/img] Steven is something of a musical prodigy. He and most of the other Gems have use song as a means of expression and have done it well. Practice clarinet: 1h/day Exception: amount of ensemble rehearsal exceeds 5h Exception: amount of performance exceeds 2h, does not include pep band game performances Bonus points: practice 2h without neglecting homework Negative points: practice does not include Kroepsch Finger Studies Negative points: practice does not include use of a metronome or tuner During practice, to improve shaping and expressivity Record myself singing etudes and literature and technical exercises Listen to said recordings Emulate the shaping naturally made by the voice on the clarinet. Exaggerate, then reel it in. Studies http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/5b5ddad38ff36cf3d5e6b79fab8cb61c.jpg[/img] Just because Steven doesn’t go to school doesn’t mean I can neglect my habits. After all, look at Connie! Assignments will be completed on time. Homework will take precedence over physical activity and entertainment. Even if I have to block YouTube (I usually don’t due to listening assignments). Addition: longer, less straightforward assignments receive an index card with an outlined process Negative points: homework turned in late or not at all Negative points: homework turned in incomplete Negative points: 30m+ spent on YouTube goofing Negative points: homework neglected for the day (I have plenty of long assignments I could be working on) Negative points: losing sleep in order to complete an assignment I procrastinated on Combat https://cdn1.lockerdome.com/uploads/0819ffd867baacf6f194598fdedae100445e55c77e849a40fee05f21996630b4_large[/img] The Gems are almost always fighting. While I prefer a more peaceful, non-confrontational lifestyle, it is still important that I am physically fit and able to take care of myself. Beginner bodyweight circuit Build one set beyond the requirements of the basic exercises, then split into multiple sets and build those up. Never run a circuit for 2 days in a row. I can, however, run individual exercises (i.e. push-ups) as long as I don’t hurt myself and don’t run individual exercises more than 3 days in a row. Sonic mini-challenge: complete the various acts and challenges for points. The Gems work as a team. Food Gems don't need to eat, but I do. I can't live on fish pizza, donuts, fry bits, and Cookie Cats alone! Heck, even Amethyst is affected by the various things she eats (cloud, rotten burrito) Points for each meal that follows the paleo and Whole30 guidelines Negative points: a meal does not contain any “healthy” element (fresh fruit, fresh vegetable, meat). I.e. No meals consisting entirely of pasta with salt and maybe sauce from a jar! Breakfast instant oatmeal is neutral. Negative points: allowing fresh foods to rot and having to throw them away. Food for social outings will be considered on a case by case basis. Report It’s important to log my thoughts and things I’ve done. Just because I’m not a Homeworld Gem doesn’t mean that I shouldn’t be filing reports for my own sake. Detailed daily reports will continue as in log_Snickie [exercise], but with the physicality categories changed from Guild type to Goal type as designated above. Weekly reports will continue here with summaries under each category. I will keep a written journal by my bed and journal in it when the world isn’t out to drown me in homework from teachers who think theirs is the only class that matters. This doesn’t have to be updated daily but it should be updated at least weekly. Clarinet practice journal falls under Music. This should be updated with each practice session and lesson. Pearl Points. Pearl Points will be awarded or detracted with every weekly update according to how I did with each facet of the challenge. Rewards TBD after doing some math as to how many I can earn, lose, and how to reward them. It'll probably end up on a GPA scale and each letter grade will be.... something. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1i_0LP-2zByg-QIV-SzoKOzroJlblX3ut6NjZfAF3VfQ/edit?usp=drive_web

Good morrow fellow adventurers! Apologies for the huge absence over the last few months, hope you have all been well and adventuring good and proper As per my last challenge (back in the day), I'm working on adding little things that I can do on a daily basis without having to think about them, so the whole getting healthier and stuff can be sustainable. Currently I do the following: - 2.5 minute squat when I brush my teeth in the evenings - 25 press-ups when I get out of bed, on every morning I go to work - 10 minute jog on every morning I go to work - 3x10 reps on the dumbbells/barbell each morning I go to work (Mon, Wed, Fri - biceps curls and lateral raise, Tue, Thu - bent over rows and military press) - commute walkings (just over a mile from home to tube, and again from tube to work) So my commute walkings have got a bit lazy and I tend to hop on the bus if it's there. Also the jog is sometimes cut short depending on how tired I am in the mornings. I've also got pretty bad with calorie counting (as in, I'm just not), and am getting back on the flabby side... So, goals for this challenge: - Calorie count staying under 1900 at least 4 days per week - sub-clause: don't eat like a dick on the other days - Make press-ups an everyday thing - sub-clause: catch ups allowed if I forget - Do full commute walk at least 4 out of 5 days per week - sub-clause: walk time can be made back at lunch or after work - If I cut short the jog two days in one week, I have to go for a 20 minute run at the weekend or one evening that week - sub-clause: none, but I wanted the list to be neat Points and scoring Keeping things simples, I will either pass or fail for each week. I need to pass three out of the four weeks to pass the challenge and level up. Boom.

Challenge 2! I'm going to focus on my chocolate cravings this challenge. Since it is a huge deal for me I'm going to go easy on the other quests this challenge. How could this happen? Erza's friends have been kidnapped by the Strawberry Cake monster! But the monster is able to control her if she has any remnants of the cake inside her. And it takes an average of four weeks for the digestive system to completely eliminate a trace of strawberry cake. This means... this means... Her beloved cake has betrayed her! After all this time! If only she had eaten cake in moderation rather than scoffing it down everyday, she wouldn't be in this mess. Its time to say goodbye to her beloved cake and defeat this monster! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So yeah, replace cake with chocolate and I have a big problem. I've decided to go cold turkey for the month. If it doesn't work, I'm going to to try some moderation tips people on here have recommended me. I've tried moderation before and it didn't work, so I'm not going to try that unless I really have to. Quests to defeat the monster: Strength: Level up to defeat the monster - Continue weight training at the gym 3x a week. - Continue with chiropractor stretches Diet: Get rid of my beloved Strawberry Cake from my system so I can fight the monster - Don't eat chocolate for a month - Have 2 portions of veg instead of high carbs (I had 1 portion min. in previous challenge) Journal: Study weaknesses the monster has I'm looking up ways to kill the Monster, not make more cakes, I swear! - Log thoughts everyday (my counsellor has said this should help with my depression and anxiety). I'm nervous about doing this challenge, but I really need to get this chocolate addiction under control. At the rate I'm eating it I'm bound to get diabetes. And losing some weight would be nice too. Though I'm more concerned with the actual addiction, because I have a feeling I'm just going to replace the chocolate with other junk food. But that's for another challenge.

Hello everyone! I'm new here, and I'm going to be turning my life around. I've been doing it off and on for a few years now, not really making progress and even going way too far backwards in progress. When I was approaching 280 lbs, I came to the conclusion that I am a dumb. I stuck to a strict calorie-counting diet and started training for a 5k, but then hit a horrible stint where my back and limbs decided "Nah, this progress thing is the pits." and proceeded to mess up. Constant stiff back and back pain, plus pain around my hips, made the 3x/week 5k training so painful that my motivation died and I stagnated ever since. But, I'm at 215 lbs now, which is nice. Going to finally break out of that stagnation now with this 4-week challenge; or, I suppose, 1 1/2 week challenge. Diet Eat a vegetable with one meal every day Reduce fast food consumption by 50% Fitness Complete the NF bodyweight workout at least 1x a week Level Up Your Life Go to bed 10 minutes earlier each week I put them in my character profile, too!

I’m a huge fan of Orphan Black. Can we say holy awesome kick ass women!? So for this challenge I will be drawing from the show, as well as doing a rewatch of the series. I hope I've done this first post right. Season 1 (Sarah) Quest 1: Run a 5K and 5 miles in order to escape Prolethean dirt bags. Couch to 5K (run 3 times a week) Drink 3 glasses of water a day Vegetable with every meal (breakfast isn’t necessarily necessary) Season 2 (Helena/Alison) Quest 2: Make a meal worthy of Helena’s appetite with Alison’s homemaking skills twice a week. Find cookbooks Make a meal plan for the month Do not waste food! Leftovers are your friend Season 3 (Felix) Quest 3: Strength train 3 times a week to get a hot clubbin’ bod. Drink a recovery smoothie after each strength training sesh Do a 30 plank every morning and every night Do 5 pushups every morning and every night Season 4 (Cosima) Quest 4: Find an apartment in Seattle and activate full geek monkey mode. Go to 2 viewings a week Start Tuesday and Wednesday mornings by looking for apartments for 10 minutes Spend time in Seattle having one little adventure a week And as far as the Academy goes, I would like to make it to Level 4 by the end of the challenge. So there it is...Welcome to the trip, man.

Backstory As a child, our hero was transported from the west coast in a red Chevy van pod, and landed in the snow on his grandmother's porch in the Midwest. Soup, as he was called by his family, was slowed by adversities that he mistakenly thought defined his destiny, it wasn't until later in life that he discovered his powers. Living paycheck to paycheck and his travels consisting of work to home and work again, he was in what many would call an enormous rut. Evenings and weekends were spent on chores around the new house and staring at Netflix on a small screen. Most of his waking hours were spent tired and anxious to be doing more. Weighed down by the shackles of pizza and ice cream, his fate appeared to be written. High cholesterol, a waistline north of 40 inches and more than a decade since the scale read under 200 lbs. Lee was taking regular beat downs by a bully named Metabolic Syndrome. Despite these health concerns, his greatest fear was found in that of not having a connection with his offspring. Interactions were few and far between with his eldest child, a daughter who he had once been close with. He helplessly watched his son, who was still at home, being sucked into a world of adolescence that is largely spent looking at screens. Seemingly helpless. On a cool September morning in 2016, the story changes. Scrolling through a screen of his own, he stopped on some headlines in a dusty old news feed on his phone. Deciding to explore an interesting headline further, his finger touched the screen. A bolt of electricity charged from the Feedly app to his finger, then through his body. When the smoke settled, he heard a voice instructing him to seek out the wise men named Barnes and Nobel. They held a scroll that would guide his mission. He traveled over the largest river in the country, threw the fields to the capital of the cheese state. In a sea of bound paper, he found the scroll...Level Up Your Life. Just as bolts had shot from his screen to his finger, they did from the scroll to his eyes. Soup Star was born... The Training Begins I wanted to start small without creating a list of things that I would not be able to finish, however there were a lot of things that I wanted to get started on. With that, I kept it to one small goal for these different categories. The first three focus on things that are already involved with the NF Academy, started yesterday and today. The others stem from personal epic quests of awesome. Physical 5-minute walk per day for 30 days Nutrition Log Food Daily for 30 Days Mindset Complete Mindset Module in Academy Soundtrack Development Complete "Getting Started" and "Stage One" sections of guitar lessons in next 30 days. One-Eyed Willie's Rich Stuff Develop budget for October and review budget weekly Yoda (teaching stuff) Teach son to ride a bike in next 30 days Field Training Learn the Boy Scout Six Knots within 30 days Thanks for stopping in my first challenge thread. May your day be awesome!

So lets take a second here. I seriously have to go back and find whoever suggested Darebee for the combat portion for this weeks challenge!!!! So I'm scrolling through and I see the word challenges and because... you know... I can't help myself, I go into that tab and low and behold there it is. The Pandora Fitness Quest. So now I'm reading through and looking at it all and I'm thinking, "Oh sweet Jebus... I'm going on a freaking adventure!!!!" So there it is folks. I'm now on an adventure pending whether or not my gallbladder is really trying to attack me or not, it hurts guys.

Hey friends! If you choose to participate, here's a mini for this challenge Gratitude statements are a great way to focus on the positive things in your day, or even to reframe tough moments as lessons. Gratitude is strongly associated with improved mental health and happiness, something we all deserve. So, each day (or whenever you feel the urge) share one to however-many-strikes-you gratitude statements in this thread Here are mine from yesterday: Gratitude: I am grateful for soft evening air I am grateful for extra sleep I am grateful for a good brain day Looking forward to sharing with you all! -Spooky

Hey everyone, hope your challenges went well! This was my first time doing a NF challenge so I'm not really sure what to do now. It says that the next challenge isn't until 25th September, so we have a week break inbetween. What are we meant to do during this week? Do we keep going with our quests? But then that's not really a break. But lounging around the house eating junk food and not exercising doesn't sound like something we should be doing either.

The portal flashed a bright light into the cold night of the desert. A quick observer would have seen daylight through the shimmering portal, a simple tavern, and then a small Hobbit dive through the portal, followed by a mug, which fell to the ground with a thud. Had that same observer listened closely, just as the portal closed, they would’ve heard a faint, distant yell of “And don’t come back until you can pay your tab….” Mizbrek brushed off his leathers, picking up his staff and affixing it to his back. He blinked a bit and looked around. After a few* perfectly reasonable celebratory drinks after handling Challongia Cavern, and a few** celebratory rounds for the bar patrons, the innkeeper had suddenly seen fit to call in his entire tab. The very nerve! On his celebratory day! Oh well, he thought to himself, I’ll just stay out of that dimension for a while. Azeroth is usually nice and safe, and they just got finished with their last major conflict. There’s usually a lull until the next one. He looked around the Azerothian landscape, calming his mind and trying to not see double. He’d had to cast the portal spell quickly, but he had been aiming for Orgrimmar. They often mistook him for a some kind of local creature here, but after some detailed and reasonable explanations*** he usually was able to slip into the city and lay low in the bars. And man, could the Orcs DRINK. He’d been hoping to catch up with Gamon and see what he’d been up to as well. The cold shivering of the desert told him he’d missed Orgrimmar. There was a squat settlement up ahead. Something in the back of his mind waved a cue card and told him it was a Goblin city, and a quick look around and search of his memory told him he was in the city of Gadgetzan, in Tanaris, several hundred miles south of Orgrimmar. Miz shrugged to himself. The Goblins generally knew how to party. And the hefty metaphorical weight of the gold from Challongia was burning a hole in his satchel. Surely it would be a quiet night with no surprises. As he stumbled through the front gates of the city, the shadows were suddenly thrown into relief by a bright green light up ahead. He looked up, along with the rest of the city, to see a green portal high in the air. “Oh the Goblinity!” one of the local bruisers cried, grasping his sword and yanking it from his scabbard. “It’s the Burning Legion! Quick, Marto, run and wake Mr. Noggenfogger.” “He was very clear not to be disturbed, Cap,” the other guard said. There was a sound overhead, like a large piece of paper tearing, and some kind of vessel came through the portal, followed by bright green meteors, three of which slammed into the ground around the city, their rocks breaking apart, and reforming into hideous, rocky, fel creatures, which started rumbling towards the Bruiser Captain. “I think I’ll go find Mr. Noggenfogger,” the other guard said. The Bruiser Captain turned to Miz, who’d been standing beside him, jaw wide. “You here to help?” In response, Miz whipped a keg from his satchel, which somehow seemed to be bigger on the inside, and tossed it casually at the nearest rocky infernal creature. The keg broke, brew spilling over the thing, which started lumbering towards them. Miz broke into a run, leaping at the last second and landing on the creature’s chest, perching there and smacking it hard with the staff. The thing roared, batting Miz aside as he leaped back, casting an incantation and breathing fire from his mouth, the brew on the creature igniting. It screamed, and as Miz landed he gathered his energy into his hands and blasted the creature with a jade-green ball of lightning. It’s scream was cut off as it dissolved into its component rocks, whatever fel magic binding it together broken. He turned back to the Captain, swinging his staff over his shoulder, as the infernal continued to crumble behind him. “I’m here to kick ass and drink beer. And I’m all outta beer.” The guard, almost on instinct, replied “Actually, Gadgetzan has 4 lovely and clean drinking establishments that would be happy to accept currency at entirely reasonable exchange rates. I’d be happy to point you to them, friend.” “No, man, it’s an expression, just…” Miz put his face to his palm, before looking back up. “Just, point me to the demons, okay?” Several large demons of various sizes and shapes teleported in around them, materializing out of thin air, as the rest of the darkened city lit up and readied for invasion. “That, I can do.” Hi everyone! Mizbrek here, your friendly neighbourhood multiverse traveling Hobbit Brewmaster! My last challenge I did pretty well, though fell off a bit at the end and on weekends in particular. I managed to get a lot of workouts in, continue a good trend on that, and did a lot around the house. Here you’ll see a lot of similar themes, along with some new fun thrown in. For my personal theme, I’ve chosen to imagine Mizbrek facing off against an invasion by the Burning Legion in World of Warcraft. For those unfamiliar, this is actually an event currently going on in game, as a prelude to WoW’s newest expansion, Legion, which will be launching on August 30th. Truthfully, this will be a challenge for me, but in a bit of an odd way. I’m a big WoW player, and for me this is Christmas and the Superbowl and my birthday all wrapped into one. I’ve taken time off from work, and I am SUPER looking forward to spending lots of time doing this. Now, obviously, spending days sitting around gaming is not super conducive to a healthy lifestyle! But I’m going to do my best to stay on track with it. I’m also incorporating running into my workout regimen. So far I’d been doing pretty strictly NF Academy body weight workouts, with the occasional yoga and golf thrown in. Now I’ll be adding in runs twice a week (and subbing out 2 body weight workouts for it). I’m a bit nervous about this, as it’s been a long time since I’ve ran any distance, and the last time I did I was getting weird pains in my left foot after about a mile. So we’ll see how this goes. I’ll be using the Zombies Run! App to help motivate and push me a bit, and for some added nerdy flavour. I’ve chosen to represent the goals by demons that Mizbrek would face during this invasion! Calories under 2100 - Infernal Here I’ll be working again to stay at around 2100 calories. I’ve done this pretty regularly and it’s not a HUGE challenge, if I’m being honest, but sticking with it is really the challenging part, through weekends and just for another month. I’ve been trying to do this for almost 3 months now, which is the longest I’ve stuck with anything like that! It may seem simple, but really this is the Big Daddy of it all. Workout every day (Bodyweight MWF, Run T/Th, Golf/Yoga/? on weekends) - Felguard I’m going to continue my workouts throughout the week in the mornings, doing NF Bodyweight 2A or B (alternating) on MWF and going for a short run on T/Th. I’m not setting a specific distance goal, but will be trying to be out on the road by 5:45am and back in by around 6:30am, in order to have time to make and eat breakfast and get ready for work. This may end up, truthfully, being a simple power walk time depending on my aforementioned leg issues, but the idea here is to work on another part of my fitness. I’m in the Rangers for a reason, as my ideal level of fitness is not so much being huge and bulky or lean and quick, but somewhere in between. Scoop litter box daily - Satyr Continuing on the housework theme from last challenge, I’m going to set a goal of doing the cat’s litter box daily. It’s a simple thing but it’s a household task I often forget about, meaning when I do get around to it it’s a long, unpleasant process. Instead of putting it off my goal will be to do it on a daily basis and keep it clean. Read the Economist Weekly - Observer Besides physical goals, I am always trying to be more well-read and more knowledgeable about the world. I have a subscription to both a daily paper and the Economist, and I’m pretty good at getting the paper read every day, but I’ve been failing slightly at reading the Economist, and I’d like to get back to it. I don’t have a particular goal in mind for this, truthfully, or a solid way to achieve this, other than taking time to do this during times where I’d otherwise be mindlessly browsing reddit or the like. I do intend to skim a fair bit, as I’m not a fast enough reader to get every word in and have time for anything else, but I think this will help me achieve that overarching goal of having a better idea of what’s going on in the world at large. Don’t Fall Off on Weekends - Succubus While the calorie goal is the Big Daddy, this is the...er...big Grandpa? K the analogy kinda falls off here. But truthfully this is where I’ve been losing progress. It’s so easy for me to relish the time outside, sit out and read a book, knock back a couple beers, not do any exercise, and suddenly my calories are thrown to the wind and I’m sneaking snacks at the end of the night. I wake up feeling terrible and ashamed, and I don’t want that to happen anymore. Almost every weekend I seem to gain back whatever progress I’ve made over the week, and it’s not a good thing. So by this I mean stay in calorie goal, don’t drink too much, and get some exercise in over the weekends. I intend for one day to be going to the driving range, and another to be yoga, but we will see what happens. Could be a run, could be a body weight exercise too. But if I had to choose one goal to work on, that would have the greatest impact on my life, this would be it. Journal Daily - Eredar This is a smaller one, but one that I’ve found, when I’m doing it, it’s great, and when I’m not, my mind wanders and I’m less focused. I use the 5 Minute Journal to work on gratitude and reflection, and my goal for this challenge is to get back to that habit, doing a short bit of writing in the morning and in the evening. I was into this habit for a long time and fell off it recently, so I think it’ll be good to get back to it. Thanks for reading folks, and hope to see you back here! Edit: Adding for easy reference, my goals for the Mini-Challenge! Strength Feat: I will do NerdFitness Bodyweight 2A this week exclusively (no 2B) and do full pushups, as opposed to knee or assisted ones. Combat Feat: I will head to the driving range 2 nights this week. Dwarves need to hit stuff with sticks, right? Golf is the same basic principle! Distance Feat: I will replace one of my morning bodyweight workouts with an extra run (guess I'm doing this this week!). Recovery Feat: I will meditate for 10 minutes as opposed to the usual 5 minutes daily.

Getting geared up for the coming 4 week challenge! I roped my boyfriend into joining me, so while my long term personal goals are more Warrior guild (and I'll still be tracking my own battle log and goals separately), we've teamed up in the Adventurer's guild for this one. The theme? The Long Dark! Basically, we want to set goals to help us become better survivors and put our survival skills to the test (by camping out overnight at a camp site that has flushing potties is totally HARD CORE). I'll post the specific goals and challenges once we get closer to the start date. But they're probably going to be super easy HARD CORE.

This is my first campaign! I'm super freaking excited! I chose some goals and I wanted to post them early so that I could take other's input into consideration if they have any. (Please?) Without further ado: thefleet's Level 1 Challenge Diet Eat one paleo meal a day No more soda Fitness Move with intention every day. That could be yoga, body weight exercises, walking, jump rope, or whatever else I come up with. The only requirement is that I am moving with the intention of getting myself going and moving in a healthy way. Life Journal or meditate every day. Can you tell I used to be a druid? I'm working my way into being a ranger, I really need to up my stamina and I am enjoying the body weight workouts A LOT, I felt that I fit with you all as a ranger the best for now.

I've selected these from Spezzy's suggested Challenges for Newbies just to see how it goes. Diet Take one processed snack you have each day and replace it with a healthy protein, fruit, or vegetable for me this will be simply EAT one healthy protein, fruit or vegetable every day, since I don't Substitute one sugary coffee drink per day for black coffee or tea. working at Starbucks makes this simultaneously easy and hard! Fitness Complete the NF bodyweight workout at least 1x a week going to try to turn this into 2x a week, on Tuesday and Thursday Level Up Your Life (Pick One) Say one positive thing to yourself each morning when you look in the mirror definitely need this one Here goes nothing!

Finished reading Skin Game (again), the latest (?) in Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, hence the title. In other news, my latest occupation is Truck Driver, so I can't take all my Ranger and Warrior gear with me, so I figured it was about time to come find out what the Assassins are all about. Challenges: 1. Bodyweight circuit twice a week. 20 Burpees 20 Crunches 20 Pushups 20 Lunges 20 Bicycle Crunches Pullups to Failure Repeat x3 2. Eat well over the road. Lots of canned tuna and corned beef hash and protein powder. Multivitamins are a must! Need to figure out how to keep leafy greens in stock and fresh. 3. "James Bond Shower". Starts hot, to loosen the muscles; ends cold, to reduce swelling and increase metabolism. Life Goal. Socialize! The last year-ish has been really hard. Lots of frustration and drama, unfortunately. But I need to make the effort to break out of the shell I've built for myself. (Not unlike Harry camping out on Demonreach Island, actually) The only 'net I've got right now is a schizoid smartphone with limited data, but I'll try and update on weekends at least.