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This is the dawning of a brave new world. No more hesitating, it's too late to turn back now, yeah! Back again for my third/fourth go around. I've given my goals careful consideration and thought, and here's what I've come up with, complete with moderately clever names and what-not. Drop and Give Me Ten (or at least six) Six would be nice. I've managed to lose a bit of weight over the past 5 months, but it's been slow. I thought perhaps if I make it a concrete challenge, that I might do better over the next 6 weeks, because goodness knows I do hate to lose. So the goal is to lose at least six pounds over the next six weeks, by means of diet and exercise. The exercise part is covered more specifically in two other goals I've set, so to achieve my six pounds of weight loss in six weeks, I'll be focusing this part of the challenge on Weight Watchers - I've been a member since February. I have managed to lose nearly twenty pounds so far this year, so I'm hopeful that I'll see more results during this challenge. I'm regularly attending meetings, but I still struggle with recording my points. So I think that if I faithfully record and stay within my points guidelines, and eat the recommended foods as I do so, I'll hit my goal. What's on the line? +3 to Constitution if I drop seven or more. +2 if I make 5-6 pounds. +1 if it's only 3-4 pounds. And no points awarded if I lose less than 3 pounds, because that will be very sad. The Final Countdown Last time around I made my strength training way too complicated, and thus it never got done. Even the Angry Birds workout was kind of a pain for me. So I'm simplifying this time around. I found something called a Countdown workout. That's where you do a certain number of reps of each exercise, like 10, then without stopping go back and do 9 of each, 8 of each, etc. I'm going to start of with 5 reps each of Burpees, Side Lunges (5 on each side) and Triceps Dips - counting down 5,4,3,2,1 - three times a week. This way I shouldn't have any excuse to miss a day, because there's always four extra days if a training session needs to be pushed forward. In Week 2 I'll up my starting reps to 6. So by the time the challenge is over I should be counting down from 10 reps of each. That's a move from 15 total reps of each exercise all the way up to 45 of each. It starts tonight. What's at stake? If I don't miss any days - do 18 days of countdown strength training, I'll get +2 to Strength and +2 to Stamina. Miss 1-4 days, I'll get +1 to each. And if I miss more than 5 days, I get nada. Run, Fat Girl, Run Yes, I've progressed through the first four weeks of the 5k program, although it took me 6 weeks to do it. So I'm thinking I'll need at least six weeks to finish out the remaining four. My goal then is to run three times a week, no matter whether I'm repeating a run or not. And actually, since my run time is so weak that fast walkers could pass me, I'd like to get a teensy bit speedier as I progress. Point being, make progress. Run longer, run faster. Either one is good and both is awesome. As an addendum, I also have the goal of finding and committing to and signing up for a 5k before the challenge is over. What's the prize? Committing to a run will get me +1 to Charisma. Failing to commit will get me jack squat. For not missing a single day of running, I get +2 Stamina and +2 Dexterity. 1-4 days missed gets me +1 to each. And missing more than 5 days will get me a big fat goose egg, and not the golden kind either. Write Here, Write Now I have some WIPs that I'd really like to finish, but I've fallen out of the habit of regular writing, and I seem to have this horrible block about writing at my own computer at home. I use a portable word processor for most stuff these days, and that's not much. But if that's what it takes to get me writing, than the word processor will be my best-est friend in the whole world. I MUST WRITE! What's in it for me? I'll finish a story, hopefully, and won't that be nice! But if I log 1,000 minutes of writing time in the next six weeks - an average of 24 minutes per day - I will get 3 shiny points of Wisdom. 750-999 minutes gets me 2 points, 500-749 minutes get's +1 to Wisdom. Less than that will be better than nothing, but not worth a point's worth of anything. So there it is. I hope I've been specific enough. Let me know what you think of my goals and if they need tweaking.