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The goal this challenge is to actually stick around the whole challenge haha Actually, bowling is back on the menu. Leagues have been going. I however have not been joined back up. We stopped bowling in March of 2020. I didn't do any bowling until May of 2021. A couple practice sessions, and then I bowled the Nationals tournament in Vegas. (actually did my 3rd best showing in all of my years doing the tournament) With things calming down a bit now, I have agreed to bowl this coming winter season. Starts September 9th! A couple of issues. #1 I am way, way, way out of practice. #2 I am way, way, way out of shape haha. This challenge, I want to work to getting myself on the path to much better health. I hope that this challenge shall be my epic respawn, and get myself moving in the direction I want to be going. It is the month that my Mom died 11 years ago. It sometimes creeps up on me mentally. So, I just have to be aware. Give myself a break if I need. Goal #1 - Get the sleep cycle in control Yeah, yeah, I know another challenge with a sleeping goal Honestly though, I always think of this as one of the keys to get me to make good choices. I have been staying up entirely too late again. Another problem I have, is that I stay in bed too long. A lot of times I will be tired from lack of sleep. Then just stay in bed for hours watching videos or whatever. The sleep challenge shall have 3 parts to it. Get myself reading at 10:30 PM Get myself to bed at 11:30 PM Get myself out of my bed asap, and start the day. There can be some exceptions. Friday nights, is usually the time my wife and I catch up on the shows we watch. Sometimes, we do watch later then 10:30 PM. It's on the weekend though, so it really shouldn't bee too much of an issue. If this happens, I think I just try to get to bed asap. This would be better then me staying up on the computer 15 points per day. All 7 days. 105 points per week. Goal #2 - Get back into tracking I use to never really have much issue tracking calories. It seems like I have been struggling to get myself to lately though. I really want to do it, because I want to get myself to eat about 2300 calories. No more then 2500 really. I'm not doing keto or anything this time. Basically CiCo. I haven't been massively trying lately, but I want to see if I can get this to work. I'll just grade myself on tracking. To make things even easier for myself, I shall accept multiple forms of tracking haha. Cronometer is the app I use to track. If for some reason I can't be bothered that day, then take a picture of my food. At the very least, write it in a journal. I 100% plan to get chronometer going again. I just know that I have tried a few times recently, and I seen to just break down sometime during they day. Mostly, just because I want to get to the shoving of food in my mouth I guess haha. Tracking each day is 15 points. 105 points for the week Goal #3 - Bring on the steps! I really need to get back into walking (and some day running). I don't want to focus on I have to go for a walk. More I want to make sure I have a certain number of steps. Obviously, I'm not getting 10k a day right away. I'd just be asking for an injury haha. I could say I need to walk for 30 minutes, but if I stand someplace playing pokemon go for part of that time, does it count? Biggest thing here is for me to get out, and get things moving. Build up that heart muscle. The question is, what is the goal to aim for. Looking at my fitbit data, I really have not been moving much. I think I will start off this first week at 5,000 steps. This should be easy. At least in my brain right now. Evaluate at the end of each week to see if I need to adjust the step count. I would like to increase it each week or two. Week 1 - 5,000 steps a day. 15 points per day. 105 points per week. Goal #4 - Clean out our storage unit This is going to be somewhat difficult. It involves more then just going there and bring it all in the apartment. I need to through out a lot, or donate if I can. I have a lot of baseball/sport cards. It's time I get thought them as well. I know a lot are really not worth a thing. There are some things to bring to the apartment. That means down sizing stuff here too. We have been working on this a bit the last few weeks too. While I want to add in workouts in the challenge, I predict much working out and soreness by clearing out this storage unit. Plus the added benefit of not having to fork out that money each month I would like to be all cleared out this month, but I'm not sure how feasible this is. My goal is to at least get to the unit once a week. Lot of things happening at the apartment too, so it will all kind of tie in together. 15 points per week, must go there at least once each week. Total challenge points: Week 1 (08/01 - 08/07) - 0/330 Week 2 (08/08 - 08/14) - 0/330 Week 3 (08/15 - 08/21) - 0/330 Week 4 (08/22 - 08/28) - 0/330 Week 5 (08/29 - 09/04) - 0/330 Measurements: Day 1 / End of challenge (coming soon) Chest - Waist - Bicep(L) - Bicep(R) - Thigh(L) - Thigh(R) - Weight -