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Mid way through part 5 I switched from paleo-ish to Keto. I like the keto diet and will continue it this challenge. Crossfit will also follow me to part 6...but who could quit CF. Also, I have a 5K on July 15th. I don't anticipate being able to run the whole thing, but my goal is to run as much as possible. Goals: 1) Eat Keto keep nuts and nut butter to single servings don't over do dairy remember to eat veggies with dinner using MFP is optional, it can be useful but using it daily can be a drag. So maybe try to use it on weekends when sticking to plan is hardest. but again this is optional 2) CrossFit and Run at least 2 WODs per week at least 2 running days per week 3) Allowances for non-Keto foods 1 meals per week Days in which allowances are used will count as passing for goal 1. EDIT: I just officially canceled my Weight Watchers subscription. I was technically a free life time member, but have been struggling for almost a year to stay at my set goal weight. I am getting leaner but building muscle so my weight is staying a little high. WW only cares about the number on the scale. They also sort of criminalize all fats...which doesn't fit in with the Keto diet. I have toyed with the idea of canceling for some time now but felt committed. Well no more. I AM FREE!

After a while lurking in the logs I'm back for a challenge. Completely nutrition related challenge, I'm going to stop eating CRAP for 4 weeks. Goals: - No carbonated drinks - No refined carbohydrates - No added sugar - No Processed Foods This basically puts me back into Paleo which always makes me feel good and gives me more energy. I'm expecting a rough first week as the Sugar fairy has me in her power again and the carb monster is at the party too but I've done it before and I can do it again! Edit: Damn I thought this challenge would be all nutrition related and nice and easy, then I saw the Ranger mini and a Ranger's gotta Ranger after all. Ranger mini goals: Distance Feat: Walk 100km in this challenge Speed Feat: Try for a 2K row PR Recover feat: Sleep or at least stay in bed 8 hours a night during this challenge Ranger Feat: Finish my first Audible book

Continuing from Chapter 1, my quests going forward are the following: Nutrition: Batch cook some time during the weekend. Use the Zone Diet guidelines for quantity and ingredients. Prepare my own breakfast and lunch for the five days of the working week. Dinner and weekend food is not tracked, so I get to enjoy something with the SRLF and maintain my social life. Coffee: It's summer so I can't go with hot tea only. Coffee is allowed, but breaking the habit of a morning coffee at work earns me money in savings, as described below. Workouts: Nothing new here, 3 Crossfit workouts during the week. Things will however get highly competitive due to my new reward system, outlined below. Life Goals Continue Bullet Journalling. It works Spend at least one hour every day working on my thesis and nothing else. I know there's no room for variance, life events etc because I'm leaving none. If I can't do it, I'll mark it a fail. Zero flexibility means I can't relax and take this easy. Purge. I need to clean up my living space. First step is CDs and clothes. Besides purging, I'm looking to sell these in hopes of aiding my financial situation. Thanks to @Teros for the inspiration here. Plumber. Find a damn one that will show up, manage to have enough money and get the damn toilet fixed Tires. Inspired by @Rurik Harrgath, change the ancient tires of my dreadful car before I die in a fiery car crash explosion. The wrestling narrative will continue as well. For those who haven't been following this, I’m playing Total Extreme Wrestling 2016 and doing the Road to Glory challenge, essentially creating a newbie 18 year old alter ego in some backyard wrestling promotion as I try to headline the Main Event of a big promotion’s Pay Per View event. Technical details and rules can be found here. I am using the game’s database of characters, but set in 1997. Considering the first TEW was set in 2005, it's pretty early in that universe and if played well, I should have the chance to rise together with the game's most famous characters. This challenge will run from April 3rd until my return from Ireland on July 10th. My aim is to maintain good habits and train for the Ireland Tough Mudder on July 5th, which I'll be running with fellow nerds @Jarric and @Miw_Sher. Other than that, I'll be looking to compete in any events or crossfit competitions that come up, namely Compete Live Athens if it happens during that time. Just like the last few challenges, to add extra motivation and work towards a major life goal, I will be setting money aside according to my progress in order to buy a motorcycle. - Batch cooking for the coming week earns me 1 Euro - Not having a coffee at work earns me 1 Euro in savings instead of said coffee - Every day of Bullet Journalling earns me 1 Euro in savings - For every day where I spend at least an hour working on my thesis, I get to save 1 Euro - Managing to sell my CDs or clothes earns me the equivalent amount in savings - Workout earnings are calculated as the difference between male athletes below me from male athletes above me on the day's Whiteboard. For example, ranking 12th out of 30 earns me (30-12)-11=7 Euros. Even a single workout can mean massive savings, so I better not skip those. Also, I gotta be super competitive and not merely make it through the WOD. Time to kick performance up a notch. Tracking spreadsheet

I can't find my old log, so I'm starting a new one!

Since I'm not going with a new theme or changing my routine in any significant way, I decided to just go on with the last challenge. Exercise: 3 WODs a week 3 lifting sessions a week 2 Krav Maga classes a week Nutrition: Aim towards 200g of protein a day. Stay under 100g of carbs. (Yes, I'm back to tracking macros) Batch cooking will be of much help to attain those goals, so I'll try to do it for the entire duration of the challenge. Key word is TRY.

Hello there guys,We are a Barcelona's fitness center and we are planning to build our own "functional training / street workout park". Our idea is to buy all the materials and make it cheaper than it would be buying a pre-fabricated park. The objective is creating a park were to attract crossfit, streetworkout and calisthenic users.Since I'm sure that you have far more experience than us, I would like to know your opinion: First of all, what are those elements that you think its should be a must? I mean: high bars, parallel bars, crossfit jump box... On the other hand, we have a punching bag, a climbing rope and a training rope. All we need to do is create the structure for this three. We have searched measurements for high bars and parallels. What we have found is that high bars should have a height of 2,50 meters and around 1,50 meters of width and parallels around 1,50 meters of height. To me, that seems a little bit high. What do you think? Thank you so much for your help.

This challenge I will be channelling one of my favourite Disney women: Fa Mulan. While not technically a Princess, she is brave and strong and beautiful. She starts weak and works on herself to become a strong enough soldier to defend all of China. She’s pretty damn BadAss. As such I will be theming my regular goals around Mulan. Eat like a warrior (freggies, protein): In order to perform I need to maintain good eating habits. Continuing the 5-a-day freggie habit and bringing in the a-protein-with-every-meal habit. This could take many forms… meat, eggs, cheese, protein shake etc. Haven’t decided if we’re bringing back the Whole30, not likely seeing as we have a wedding to go to, my birthday, a concert which we’ll be staying with Mr’s Mum and sister… Actually thinking about it that’s going to be a ‘no’ on the Whole30, but good choices where possible. Marked x/5, x/3 daily. Training to defeat the Huns (gym): In 2.5 weeks will be my 25th birthday. I want to lift my bodyweight (70kg). I’ve been making steady increases in my weekly deadlift (46kg, 57.5kg, 65kg), and expect to continue this trend to at least 1RM my bodyweight. Only 5kgs to go, totally possible. Other than that, I will continue going to ROAR 3/week and BigLift+Boxing 1/week. Where possible I’ll tag along with Mr to any weekend sessions he goes to. Note: I will be aiming for 70kg even if my bodyweight goes down between now and then (I’ve lost 10kg since when I started at the gym in August down from 80kg, technically I should lose another 5-10 to fall in healthy for my height, but I want to start packing on some muscle, and we all know the scale lies about that). Marked running total x/4 per week. Birthday Deadlift PR is its own mark. Notes… in case I forget something (studying): As of Wednesday of zero week I will have completed the Business subject, but will have the second half of my Chinese Mandarin class to go (through to 5th June). I will continue to keep up with classes and homework too. I have two written tests upcoming and plenty more to learn, online quizzes and the such. Marking: All classes attended (3/week). Homework on 5days a week marked x/5. Side note: She's doing this with her left hand, which is hellah hard... you're almost better to just learn to write characters with your right because its so hard to follow the strokes and not get mega-smudged. Side-side note, I don't know all of these characters, but I see the depictions of woman, fire, people/person and sun. Huzzah for knowing some tiny things! Bonus goal~ Who is that girl I see? Skin-care erry day. I get topical eczema in one of my eyebrows and on one of my ears (lovely). It's not very noticeable, but goes away when I take proper care of my skin, so proper care I shall take. Daily cleanse and moisturizing cream to banish the eczema and the beginning of lines from living a quarter century. Mark daily Y/N.

Starting weight baseline: 198 lbs. CrossFit Skill Metrics: CrossFit Metrics CrossFit Games Athlete profile: https://games.crossfit.com/athlete/602549 PRELUDE: Sinister forces have arisen. They haunt the shadows, preying primarily on those in solitude, plaguing your thoughts and leading you further and further astray until you have strayed so far from the Path that you inhabit the self-same darkness these demonic entities originate and derive their baleful powers from. Lo, I am no blessed Paladin or Priest, nor mighty Warrior or Sorcerer. I am blessed by no faith, but remain strong of limb and keen of reflex; still, it will take a cunning mind to withstand the taint of Demonic corruption. I will either find the strength within me to resist or I will surely fall to insanity and madness... can one hope to dance with demons and emerge through the waltz unscathed? I am the Dark Ranger, and I will find out. HAVOC. 4 CrossFit classes per week: ☐☐☐☐ [Challenge Total: ☐☐☐☐☐] 3 Supplementary workouts per week: ☐☐☐ [Challenge Total: ☐☐☐☐☐] MASTERY. Visit the Sanctum of Inner Sight (Happy Place™) daily: ☐☐☐☐☐☐☐ 3 sessions of “something resembling meditation” per week: ☐☐☐ BLOOD ALCHEMY. RP Plan & MyFitnessPal Tracking 5 of 7 days/week: ☐☐☐☐☐ [Challenge Total: ☐☐☐☐☐] Mindful Moment before meals [Challenge Total: __ ] SELF-IMPROVEMENT JUNKIE. Post a daily challenge update 4 of 7 days/week: ☐☐☐☐ [Challenge Total: ☐☐☐☐☐] To-Do list… ☐☐ Debt Management. ☐ Skin Care 101: have moles looked at/removed. ☐ Read: Focus on your N.U.T.S. "Step into the abyss. Welcome it. Know it. It's yours, now." – Kunai. CHALLENGE INSPIRATION: Duty no longer will suffice; this battle is one of survival. In the long-abandoned Dreadlands exist a sect of forgotten souls oath-sworn to seek out and eradicate the infernal taint of evil wherever it may be found… these dark marauders, witch slayers and demon hunters have dedicated themselves to thwarting the darkness through whatever means necessary. Their use of weaponry and apocryphal magicks considered by many to be unnatural or itself as evil as the corrupt forces these restless vigilantes claim to destroy have earned the mistrust of nearly all, though their successes cannot be argued. Like them I have seen the madness within and I must resist its temptation, to fall down that hole into insanity. For the last few months I have been battling my own demons in the form of anxiety and it has made some significant impacts on my personal life, mental wellness, & motivation on more than one occasion. As with my personal health and fitness, I seek artifacts, traits and abilities, and wisdom through self-care that will aid me in this battle lest it conquer me completely. I will carve out my Path. This is the season of the Dark Ranger.

This challenge will run for 85 days from 1 Jan 2017 to 27 March 2017, that's 85 days. The Crossfit Open starts on 23 Feb, I'll be doing the first workout, 17.1 on Sat 25 Feb. January goals - control the Spice: - No alcohol, I do this every year. - No sugar - No bread Supplementary: - walk 100 km's (24 per week) I'm not going to include any training goals because I already *know* I will train hard. February goals: TBA - will tweak as required depending how Jan goes. March goals: TBA - will tweak as required depending how Feb goes. Inspiration: - I'm destroying my numbers from this time last year, I've put 30 kg's on my deadlift this year and I can squat 110 for reps, I've got TTB's, DU's and CTB, none of which I had in more than a handful of reps last year. - I've overcome some horrific injuries this last year and have been training consistently the last few months. - Time to realign the nutrition to support the training commitment. - Crush the Harkonens!

Ta-da! I have shaken off my cold with copious amounts of Dayquil and hot baths, and I am here, with you my Ranger brethren, to take on a new challenge. Which will be not terribly unlike my last challenge, but hopefully more amusing, and with 37.9% more bicycles, since the weather is better. I had a very intense challenge laid out with a very serious VIKINGS ARE BADASS theme, but it's like 75 degrees and sunny and I'm down some weight and the Justice League trailer looks fucking great and I'm just kinda in a good mood this week, and it didn't feel like the right theme. So I changed it. And so I give you my new challenge: BECOMING BOHDI! Yes, I have designed my challenge around the greatest surf-riding savant of modern cinema. We have, after all, a ton in common: - passion for the nature and the sea - thirst for adventure and travel - perfect blonde highlights and slightly androgynous surfer-chick hair - urge to buck the system and travel light I mean, yeah, there's some sociopathic behavior and the whole bank-robbing thing, but I can't spell or resist cheese fries, so we've all got our problems, right? We'll just gloss over that for the moment and get to the challenge. 1: Get the spiritual side of it: https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/45b03b32-d6e4-4c2f-a2d4-70fa90f4e922 I started meditating during my last challenge and doing Wim Hof breathing exercises, and holy cow does it make a difference. So goal number 1 is to continue meditating daily. 2: Get that Surf Body: Patrick Swayze had one of the all-time great physiques on this film and he apparently did almost all of his own stunts. I mean, he's not Jason Momoa or anything... ...but that's not the question at hand. Actually after looking at that picture I can't remember what the question was. I may need a moment. Okay, I'm back. I lost 1.9% body fat last challenge so my goal is to lose another 1% by challenge end. Which means no cheese fries. Sadness. I got a bike trainer - the Mantis has been on me about it for ages and I finally got a cheap one - so that I can do some indoor training, and I will continue to workout at the gym and post my workouts, if only because it's never not funny to say, "Today I worked on my snatch." I'm trying to do two workouts a day, but it's not like it's 40 miles on the bike in the morning and then heavy lifting in the evening. It's either a strength workout or the bike and then a walk or yoga or a spin on the trainer or whatever, something simple. Goal 3: Traveling on the money, going where the waves are: I had plans for an ambitious cross country road trip this spring, but I changed my mind, and now I think I am going to go to Belize to go snorkeling, because it will be cheaper and shorter (like a week instead of a month) and I found out that there's a chance to see whale sharks there, which I'm kind of obsessed with. So goal #3 is to save up the money for that trip, even if it means selling everything I own that's not bicycle-related or my cat. And that, actually, is it for now. Simple challenge for once. Bonus content if you're bored:

As stated in my Roadmap for 2017, my goal for the year is to be more me. To implement that, I’m going back to the basics, the good ol’ 3 fitness quests plus 1 life quest format and a challenge theme to keep things interesting. Goal 1: Eliminate sugar. Holidays have been heavy on the sweets and the first step towards getting my nutrition back in line is to drop a returning habit of casual treats before it settles in for good. Goal 2: Eliminate coffee. Probably have tea instead. Morning coffee at work has become a habit and I gotta get off the caffeine hook. This should also reduce water retention, make me feel less bloated and maybe drop some weight or at least points off the waist. Goal 3: Crossfit 3x a week Life Goal: I’m using a wonderful agenda gifted by the SRLF as I’m getting into Bullet Journalling. Should help me get shit done and pull my head together. Goal is to update the log nightly To keep things interesting, I’ll be adding a little theme and narrative. I’m playing Total Extreme Wrestling 2016 and doing the Road to Glory challenge, essentially creating a newbie 18 year old alter ego in some backyard wrestling promotion as I try to headline the Main Event of a big promotion’s Pay Per View event. Technical details and rules can be found here. I am using the game’s database of characters, but set in 1997. Considering the first TEW was set in 2005, it's pretty early in that universe and if played well, I should have the chance to rise together with the game's most famous characters. This challenge will run from January 9th until the end of the Crossfit Open in March 27th. My aim is to prepare for the Open, do it and be better than I was last year. This will be my second ever Open, so if the repeat workout is one from last year, I’ll have some direct way of comparing, otherwise I’m aiming for better than 15.863 Overall and 47th in my country, which were my ratings last year. Last but not least, to add extra motivation and work towards a major life goal, I will be setting money aside according to my progress in order to buy a motorcycle. 1 Euro will be saved for every day without sugar, without coffee, every night of BuJo-ing, every workout and ever 3 workouts per week. Reserving the right to add extra rewards, such as a lump sum for doing better than last year in the Open. Tracking spreadsheet is here.

Hello everyone! So excited to be back with the Rebellion and doing these challenges again. I tend to take about 4 or 5 attempts at things before they actually stick but you know what they say, try try again and all that. This month's challenge will mainly be focused on nutrition. I am going strict paleo. There, I said it! On my last thread I talked about how I feel like I am no longer just a beginner. I've been working on myself for long enough and seen changes in myself often enough to want to kick things into high gear. I currently possess the body that I thought I never would have when I wasn't even that much heavier. I can see muscle definition in my arms and I'm on top of my diet to the degree that I'm no longer sick all the time. But I want more. And I don't want to half-ass it. I would like to whole-ass it. Because there are people out there who look amazing and do amazing things and it's just occurred to me that with enough training and dedication I could possibly be one of them! A truly shocking realization. The same one which prompted me to apply for a theater program. Because up until recently I thought becoming an actual paid actor was about as likely a career as unicorn breeding. But somebody's gotta be an actor, why not me? If somebody can go from 25% body fat down to <20% body fat, why can't I? So I am hereby declaring that I am no longer simply a beginner and am capable of more drastic and difficult challenges. With that in mind, here are my goals for this challenge: Exercise Crossfit 3x a week. Strenuous exercise class 1x a week, could be lifting, gym, zumba, body combat or another crossfit class. Just keeping it diverse and interesting. Diet Follow a strict paleo diet for this month. Drink only water or tea. Giving up peanut butter (you will be sorely missed). Level up your life Learn to play one new song on the piano. Let the pain begin.

TW: depression, anxiety, hopelessness What. An. Incredibly. Shitty. Day. Let me just start by saying that I have depression and anxiety. It's relatively mild, in fact the official term for my level of depression as explained to me by my doctor and therapist is "sadness". It seems to be mostly manageable and I have good days and bad ones. Most of my bad days correlate with work. I really do not like my job. I work in a retail store in a mall, we sell mostly household items. It is a mindbogglingly boring job that mostly involves dusting and human communication, both of which I don't enjoy unless in very certain circumstances. I feel guilty for hating my job so much, after all it's a pretty basic, alright paying job. My boss is kind and some of my coworkers are fun to be around (others not so much) but still I am emotionally drained after each shift and dream of quitting every single day- even though I only work 3-4 days a week! I'm ashamed that I feel this way. After all there are other people in much worse situations complaining much less. But feeling guilt over my sadness because others are sadder is the logical equivalent of not allowing myself to be happy because other people are happier. Now isn't that just ridiculous? I'm tired of my life. I have a BSc in psychology, a field I don't like at all and shouldn't have studied to begin with. I wasted three years of my life and haven't progressed at all towards any kind of meaningful work. I don't know what I want to do with my life but I picture it involving some kind of performance, theater, writing, stand up.. But when I mention that people constantly remind me that performance arts are difficult - as if the only reason I would pursue them would be out of laziness. Then there's the added anxiety of actually being on stage, what if everyone laughs at me? Assuming if I even get into a theater program, which I'm not even sure I truly want? There are three things you need to make it as an artist: talent, discipline and passion. And I am scared that I only have an ounce of each. Passion especially. Life seems dull and grey and I don't even know if I have passion for anything. I just feel like an ungrateful, spoiled little brat who doesn't want to work for anything. I don't know if I have what it takes to be an artist, and if even I don't fully believe in myself why the hell would any producer or director? I just hate this feeling of not having a purpose, a goal, something! Frodo didn't feel like he had a purpose and then bam! Take the ring to Mordor. There's your ultimate life's mission. Can someone give me a quest, please? I want to change my way of life, figure out what I'm supposed to do, and I want to do it right now! Because otherwise I have to go back to work tomorrow and continue leading my boring ass life until I eventually kill myself.

Hi everyone from Barcelona, Since January I started eating ealthier in something close to paleo diet. Nothing too strict, basically my diet would be: 7 30am -- a full egg with 2 eggwhites. plus some chickpeas or rice 10 am -- a fruit, usually apple 1 pm -- main mail, meat or fish with vegetables, (sometimes some carbs like potato) 5pm -- a fruit and a protein shake with fresh whole milk 8-9pm -- dinner, very similar to lunch sport I do: 1 day soccer match - 7 30pm 2 days crossfit 6 30 pm (heavy lifting included) 1 days - 10am (fasting since last dinner) 10x100m sprints with some push ups, squats etc Since I train on the evening, when I train the shake moves after training With this simple plan I'be been losing weight and more fat than muscle, I'm really happy with the results so far. I track myself with body measurements, photos, etc. It's nice to see how the measurement of the waist reduces and the chest maintains his size The thing is for the last 3 weeks I'm slowing down, the waist is not reducing anymore and still having fat there. I estimate to be around 16-17% fat, I want to level up, keep losing fat. Soooo since I read so much about 3 meals instead of 5 lately and also about fasting. I ask: Should I eliminate de 2nd and 4th meal? Shoud I then move the fruit to the next meal? Should I remove the shake in the non-training days? Should I try to move the lunch later to 10am so I have a bigger "night fast"? Should I maintain the plan and just make a 16h fast once or twice a week? Should I shut up, reduce carbs and keep with my plan? I have tested training with stomach empty (saturay 100m sprints) and no problems of energy or whatever, also skipped fruit of the 4th meal of the day and no issues but I become hungry until start training....I guess it's that I'm used to it after years of 5 meals and going to the gym always with something in the stomach. If I would fast I would on mornings, going to bed in an empty stomach is very difficult to me. Any help appreciated!!! go on rebels!!! In fact, I can show you the tracking for more information, the fat percentage is from a fitbit aria...not super reliable but well, the trend is what I look

Starting weight baseline: 198 lbs. CrossFit Skill Metrics: CrossFit Metrics CrossFit Athlete profile: https://games.crossfit.com/athlete/602549 PRELUDE: 2017 has been an interesting year so far and turning 30 last autumn even more so. Shortly after the new year’s start I received some delightful advice from a certain Rangerly chaplain about taking time to work on myself no matter the state of affairs in my life, and even though I’m living on my own terms again, there’s no better time than the present to follow through on that transformation. Though I might be starting late (or early, depending how you look at it), it feels good to be focused and on the rise again. This challenge is dedicated to Rurik working on Rurik. BLOOD & IRON ALCHEMY. MyFitnessPal tracking 5 of 7 days/week: ☐☐☐☐☐ [Challenge Total: ☐☐☐☐] 4 CrossFit classes per week: ☐☐☐☐ [Challenge Total: ☐☐☐☐] 3 Supplementary workouts per week: ☐☐☐ [Challenge Total: ☐☐☐☐] Retest two or more CrossFit metrics: ☐☐ NOURISH THE MIND / BE MORE HUMAN. Mindful Moment before meals [Challenge Total: __ ] Try to visit Rurik’s Happy Place™ daily: ☐☐☐☐☐☐☐ 3 sessions of “something resembling meditation” per week: ☐☐☐ GET SHIT DONE. Post a daily challenge update at least 4 of 7 days/week: ☐☐☐☐ [Challenge Total: ☐☐☐☐] To-Do list… ☐☐ Debt Management. ☐ Skin Care 101: have moles looked at/removed. ☐ Read: Pending ☐ Oil change. ☐ Make insurance claim for car tire. ☐ Have wheel assembly repaired before it falls off and I die in a fiery car crash. ☐ Finish V-Day prep. ☐ Drop off my donation shit. CHALLENGE INSPIRATION: Hearing the call of duty once more, I drag myself from the morass of a dingy hotel room in a forgotten third world country (read: new apartment in the same old city I've come to love) and rise to the demand again... What started as an endeavor to motivate myself toward a more inspired and considerate lifestyle and daily routine strangely, as it so often does with me, became so much more. Where once I’ve derived motivation from marauding vikings, barbarians and warrior dwarf archetypes or relentless tomb raiders and methodical operatives, ultimately I’m just Rurik. So my challenge inspiration is just that... me. Even if I like to think of myself as a modern viking, a little something like James Bond meets Conan the Barbarian. Life is too short but I can’t forget there's always time to make meaningful and impacting changes on my health, body, and spirit; not only for those people in my life who are most important but also for myself. It’ll be a process, one I’ll have support and encouragement through, but ultimately a journey more important to me than anyone else. It's Boom Time™, motherfuckers.

Hi! It's been a long long while. During summer vacation I derailed embarracingly, had a bazillion beers, ate whatever the heck I wanted, woke up every day feeling like I had lava on my guts and one of my friends was mistakenly taken into custody and had to spend 4 days locked up until we managed to get things straight and get the poor dude out. Good times... But now it's time to get back on track and shed the extra Kgs. I've already returned to CF and Krav Maga. I'm also officialy dieting, that is obsessively tracking macros and calories (especially calories) even on weekends. I've cut out alcohol and started intermitent fasting again, in ~15 hour fasts(which basically means not having breakfast). Nare is on vacation with her parents and the academic year has not started yet, so it's a perfect time to focus on training and eating right. Let's do this!

I swear I have already lost these 10 pounds! (TEN pounds, not three...) But they keep coming back. So tired of losing them. Wish they'd stay gone. What do I want? Long term: Maintain my ideal weight/body fat %. 120 pounds/18-20% body fat. And that's me saying it's ideal because when I was in this range I had lots of energy and felt awesome, it's not some chart telling me what I should be. Short term goal: Get back to that weight/body fat percentage. LOSE 10 POUNDS. Probably can't do it in 4 weeks but I can get serious and move in that direction. How do I get there??? DIET GOALS 1. no alcohol at home we rarely go out but if we do I think it's okay to have a beer... 2. no bread I love breakfast sandwiches. but they lead to later day bad choices... 3. no soda I have ADHD and have self-medicated for years with coca cola BUT there are alternatives. I just need to be strong. The temptation is only there on the days I work because there is coke in the fridge at the office so I just need to be strong those days. I can do it!!!!!!! FITNESS GOALS 1. yoga - 1x weekly 2. xfit - 2x weekly 3. walking - daily LIFE GOAL With my ADHD I have learned that when I need to focus, I need to distract part of my brain (ie have music in the background). I think I need a distraction goal so I can focus on my diet/fitness goals... Each week I will have a distraction. I will post it at the beginning of the week. It might be something crafty. It might be something volunteery. It might be something else... Grading Diet Food Log: 2xp per daily journal/mfp all the meals to track what I am eating. - .5 xp per indulgance (bread/beer/soda) Fitness: 1xp per daily movement (1 yoga/2 xfit/4 PURPOSEFUL 2k+ walks) Life: 3xp identify distraction/1xp per distraction practice Starting stats 131 pounds 22.5% body fat percentage

Inspired by Tanktimus, and my love of George RR Martin's books and the hope that The Winds of Winter will be released this year comes Baxtan - The Winds of Weddings. Don't fret over the title to much, my upcoming wedding (July 22) is nothing to dread nor is there anything ominous about it... I just liked the sound of the title. Overall Goal: Get under 200lbs by wedding day! Current Weight: 239.4lbs (Jan 30th) Although I did not accomplish much training wise in the past challenge I did manage to drop a couple pounds. January 9th I was at 241.7 lbs and as of January 30th I'm at 239.4 lbs. I'm not sure if this was just making better choices with my eating or water weight or just plain luck, but whatever it was it has me moving in the right direction. I will only be stepping on the scale roughly once a month for sanity's sake. Diet and Fitness: - Attend Crossfit 3x Week ☐ ☐ ☐ (Challenge Total: ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ) - Eat within my suggested macros at least 5/7 days. (2500 cals, 40P/30C/30F breakdown) ☑ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ (Challenge Total: ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ) Like I said I did not manage much in terms of working out last challenge, this challenge that will change! And as far as eating habits are concerned... I did not do to bad last challenge but there is always room for improvement and since my fiancee is on a healthy kick as well it will make eating healthier that much easier! Adulting: - Stick to budget and savings plan - Read one book I had similar goals last challenge in my LUL section. Neither one turned out that great. My budget had to be manipulated quite a bit when I got the news that my Siberian Husky had ruptured his CCL (ACL in humans). This meant that he is going on a conservative rehabilitation plan that involves weekly shots of Cartrophen (Cortisone for dogs) and very limited use of his one leg. Basically at this point he is only allowed outside to use the bathroom and then right back in. No excitement, no jumping around, no nothing for the next 8 weeks or so until his leg gets stabilized. I would do anything for my dog-child so the manipulation in the budget was acceptable. This challenge I'll look to get that back on track. And I still have yet to read a book this year. That must change this challenge. There ya have it folks, updates will be more frequent this time around. Hope to hear from and get to know even more of you bad ass Rangers this challenge!

This morning I walked through the gates of Stormwind for the first time. I found my way to the paladin's college and found my quarters. Next week begins my journey so I shall begin to log my daily quests in these pages.

So I guess I will do a quick bio to preface myself before I delve into my character. I live an awesome life; I take nothing for granted. I have a great job that I love, a great wife whom I love, a fantastic house and 3 great animal companions. I am only 26 so I consider myself very blessed to be as successful as I am. I have found myself wanting though, I look in the mirror and I see myself at the heaviest I have ever been, I look around my house and see that I could be doing more. These are the things that are driving me to join Nerd Fitness. 6 months ago I started doing CrossFit. Love it. Will never go back to anything else. I think now is the time to hit the gas though, really push myself. I have always loved playing RPG’s, World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy, D&D, I love them all. After listening to a podcast featuring Nerd Fitness it inspired me to sort of take a different look at how I motivate myself. Why can’t my life be like my characters in those games? Why can’t it be about the journey and less about the end goal. So here is me giving this a go. I have decided to emulate my character as a Paladin from World of Warcraft. I believe that as a Paladin my abilities will stem from my strength, discipline, and intellect so these are my focus areas. Overall Goals for this year: Lose get to 160lbs down from 210, keep a clean house and begin graduate school. Jayahh: Forging a Path Strength 1. Go to CrossFit 4 times per week 2. Row at home 3 times per week 3. Track all meals in My Fitness Pal and meet macros 5/7 days per week Discipline 1. Eat Dinner at home 5 times a week 2. Bring lunch 4 times per week to work - Side Quest: Have salad when I go out for lunch 3. Clean the kitchen every night 4. Spend 5 minutes per day cleaning around the house Intellect 1. Read Level Up Your Life 2. Finish Applications for Graduate School

I don’t have a lot of plot exposition this time around, as I’m just mildly adjusting my last challenge, The Secret Life, which I feel really speaks to my overarching goals at the moment. I really want to travel more (by ‘more’ I think I mean ‘all the time’) and showcase my travel writing and photography more, so this challenge is designed for those things. Also, my December is going to be nuts so a simple challenge is best I also have a big trip coming in late spring that I’ll talk about more next challenge, but this challenge will begin to lay the groundwork. (And the financing.) To the Goals: PUT OUT THE MAGAZINE: I had a really hard time with this last time around; I’m not sure if it’s that I never seem to have a large block of time to get editing/writing done, or if I just have terminal ADD, but I only got it done once. So editing/writing is a big priority this time. Goal: “publish” something once a week, and post to my blog twice. Travel Journal: work on an ebook. I have like 3-ebooks half written (all about travel, go figure) so I need to work on those. Sell the Piano: Travel may be the only thing you buy that makes you richer, but it still costs money. I need to find ways to make extra cash to pay for it. I used to have a little ebay business where I sold second-hand clothes and old props and whatever, so I am going to start that again and funnel all the money into my travel fund. I’ll also be looking into other ways to generate income (sell my plasma? dog walking? ladies wrestling?) that also goes to the travel kitty. Get it? It's a travel kitty. Bake the Cake: Last challenge I attempted to eat a different foreign cuisine every week, which was frighteningly easy, because I love to eat out. However, I spend a fortune eating out in general, probably 6-7 times a week. So this challenge I am limiting meals out to two per week (meals that someone else pays for, like when I’m traveling for work, do not count against this), and making myself cook/eat at home. Still going to attempt to eat as much ethnic cuisine as possible. This will make it easier for me to control my intake, as restaurants (especially Tex-Mex, my favorite) tend to go overboard with the food, and work on my nutrition. Adventure Waits for no one: Again, aiming for one adventure a week. Can be a band, a hike, camping, kayaking, becoming a hermit in a mountain fastness, something. Ungoverned Afganistan: My domestic rangering is in severe disarray. One whole section of our house is basically unusable due to mess (I live in one of those sprawling split-ranch houses, it’s way to big and falling apart around us). I need to work on cleaning the patio, den, and my office daily and get it under control. Test the Body and Mind: Workouts. I’ll list these later so they don’t bore everyone, because they haven’t changed a ton. Just harder I’m also going to add one brain puzzle per day to my regimen, because lately I feel like I’m getting stupider. I think it’s just a combination of too much on my mind and a lot of distraction, but I gotta work on it. By the way, in case it seems weird that I have so much travel stuff on a site devoted to workout challenges, I have to say that my whole “get in shape” journey was started because I got so out of condition that traveling was becoming difficult. One of the reasons I finally snapped to and started getting stuff under control was watching my parents age badly and realizing that if I wanted to continue traveling as I got older, I needed to maintain the machine. So the two things go very much hand-in-hand in my book. So that’s it! Join me on my very Mitty challenge if you’d be so kind.

Use It AND Lose It! Challenge theme is a play on theory Use It or Lose It (if you don't use or continue to practice an ability, you might lose it). I want to use my gym memberships and time well, I want to continue to practice my handstands and muscle ups; but I also want to LOSE all those holiday pounds I gobbled up... Diet 1. Complete a Whole30 (Jan 2nd to Jan 31) - not tracking food as per rules but will keep food journal for accountability. +1xp per each day journal-ed. My husband and I always do a dry January so I knew this would be a great time to do a Whole30. It'll be my third time so i know what I'm doing and what to expect. Starting stats: 127lbs 22% body fat. Goal is to get body fat back down to 18-20% Fitness 1. Yin Yoga. 1x weekly. +1xp per practice 2. Crossfit. 2x weekly. +1xp per practice 3. NF Handstands. 2x weekly. +1xp per practice 4. NF Rings. 2x weekly. +1xp per practice 5. Continue journey to Mordor. 1x daily. +1xp per practice. It looks like a lot but it's really only two quests. Walking daily and exercising daily. Sort of a two-a-day fitness plan. For accountability I will keep track of my NF workouts on related NF pages but also for each I will keep track in my journal. Life I want to be able to say this... 1. Do something crafty 1x weekly (or more!!). For accountability I will post a Polaroid sticker photo of my craftiness in my journal (got an instant print digital camera for Christmas that I need to be using...) and/or post photo here on my thread. +1xp per crafting evidence posted. and this... 2. Spanish class. 2x weekly. Not just show up to class but also prepare for it and complete homework. +1xp per class (prepped for, attended, and followed through on).

Based on my moderate success securing my castle in the last challenge, I'm heading into the next challenge with some similar goals. Don't eat like an idiot! This mantra pulled me out of a couple of potentially sticky situations. Also, I'm going to track every day on MFP. It significantly helps link my eating with mindfulness. Do PT daily! I want to get back into running, and my #1 limiter is my set of janky knees. Really, it's not my knees' fault. They're just the victims of my horribly snug hammies and quads. What's a girl to do? Well, I have access to the MWOD site and Kelly Starrett's youtube channel. I also have a significant amount of trial-and-error experience with trying to get my legs working again. Specifically, I'm going to be working on hip extension with my leg flexed and hammie flexibility. Get one intense/CF workout in every week and one run. There are some things that I will accept in exchange for either of those exercises... namely, the snowshoeing I'm hoping to do in the next few weeks! There tends to be a slow-down every time I launch a challenge. To mitigate that, I'm putting Tapatalk on my tablet and phone. I'll be posting daily on my thread, bonus for posting on someone else's as well. If nothing else, I'll report what stretches/exercises I did the day before. My Why: In the upcoming year, I have several "checkpoints" that I'm training to be prepared for. In March, a very fit co-worker has invited me to go snowshoeing during a visit to Quebec. In July, M and I will be going to my his family reunion in Utah, and we will be the fittest couple there (even if M's sisters are faster than me, they can't do as many pull-ups!). On that note, M just finished building his truck for his tree/arborist business. As a result, I'm looking forward to doing tree jobs with him starting next month. This involves using chainsaws, hauling branches and rounds, running as the Gofer' for the climbers, and hopefully some climbing myself. In any case, I'm going to need to be extremely fit to be useful, let alone keep up!

"Do, or do not. There is no try." - Yoda Here we go "again". My first challenge back in November and intro to the Rebellion didn't go quite as planned so here I am again, starting fresh and looking for a respawn. I'm a huge Star Wars fan and for that reason I see no other better theme than Star Wars for this challenge. I am basically a new Jedi in training... unlearning bad habits, learning new good habits and acquiring a skill set to defend myself and defeat the Dark Side wherever they should rear their ugly mugs. Overarching Goal: - Get under 200lbs again!!! At one point in 2012 I believe it was, I was 242lbs at a height of 5'9" and decided that enough was enough. I changed my diet and started working our regularly. In about 6 months I dropped all the way to 191lbs and had never felt better in my life. Well needless to say that I am back to square one and would like to see those results again. My current stats are similar to the last starting point, 5'9" and 241.7lbs as of this morning. I know it won't be easy but one step at a time and I know I can get back to where I once was, and even progress further in my fitness abilities! Diet and Fitness: Mind Over Matter - Attend Crossfit 3x Week - Eat within my suggested macros (2500 cals, 40P/30C/30F breakdown) I remember the last time that I lost weight via exercising and eating healthy that the first month or so was a bit of a mind fuck for me. I had to break habits that we years old and basically hit the RESET button. Hence the "Mind Over Matter" mantra. This isn't an impossible endeavor, this isn't even ground breaking work, this is just something that I have to face head on and get through in order to build good habits and get back into a new routine. LUL Challenge: LUL = Level Up Your Life LMAO - Stick to budget - Read One book This year the fiancee and I are saving like mad for a down payment on a house so that we can house shop near the end of the year! Woot woot, I love house shopping lol. A lot of people find it the most stressful time in their life but I look at buying a new house as a new beginning, a chance to build a new life, an opening of a door of sorts into the future where anything is possible. So my goal is to stick to my budget and savings plan in order to buy that house near the end of the year! Also I would like to take the time to read one book a month and no time like the present to start. I spend so much time playing video games, or watching TV that I should be able to find the time to finish at least one book per month! All right, goals are out there, now time to get into action! Let's do this folks!

For those of you who are not familiar with the Cindy workout, you get 20 minutes to do as many rounds as you can of the following: 5 pull-ups, 10 push-ups, and 15 air squats. My goal was to hit 24 rounds. Last night, I tested out and got 24 + 21. (That's a total of 125 pullups, 250 pushups, and 366 air squats in 20 minutes). Huge woot! =)