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Lightsaber skills Create a routine for staff containing the tricks I already know plus at least 2 new tricks to learn this challenge. Routine should be around 20 mins including warm up. (probably will be lots of video and bloopers this challenge) Why it's a challenge: Honestly, picking up my staff and playing with it is not really a challenge. I truly love it. However, the challenge lies more in the time management. I am THE WORST™ at time management. I have to structure my morning better to accomodate a 20 minute session and still get everything ready for work and get out the door with pants on and stuff. Why I want to do it anyway: STAFF!! And having more time to practice each day means faster progress. Find Jedi Calm Find two favorite meditations and do them every day, one in the morning and one at night. Why it's a challenge: See time management above. I don't have a solid grasp on how time works. I wake up with 10 minutes before I have to leave and I somehow think i'm gonna workout, meditate, cook breakfast, sit and eat breakfast, bullet journal, reflect on the day, pack for work, pack for after-work activities, and get there on time??? Why I want to do it anyway: Its good for my brain and my old therapist said i should LOL. Plus, you know, I'm gonna be a jedi someday so. Gotta practice. Get friggin' Flexy Using GMB's focused flexibility and some specific stretches my coaches gave me for my sad pathetic shoulder mobility, create a routine and stretch EVERY SINGLE DAY. STRETCH ALL THE DAYS. Why it's a challenge: I'm so, so, so not flexy and I hate stretching and I don'tttt wannnaaa doooo ittttttt Why I want to do it anyway: Big serious reason is injury prevention. The last two times I got wow-maybe-i-should-see-a-doctor hurt, it was because I pulled a muscle that would have been FINE if I wasn't a solid. And both times i went "that's it i'm streching every day now" and didn't. Less serious and fun reason, back handsprings!!! Re-create Spend at least 1 hour per day, or 7 cumulative hours in a week, doing something with no purpose. (ideas include, reading fiction, maybe drawing, playing video games (i haven't don this since i was a child) watching hockey without feel like i have to multitask.) Why it's a challenge: I WANT TO DO ALL THE THINGS!!!! As evidenced most recently by this challenge. I feel like i've "wasted my day" if i don't do something super productive every single minute. If I sit and continue to watch TV for 2 minutes after I've finished eating, I feel insta-guilty. Waste of 2 minutes. Could have been reading a textbook. Could have been doing a handstand. Could have been conjucating russian verbs. I jam-pack my days until i'm so over stressed that I crash, and then when i'm crashing doing nothing, I'm hating myself because i'm wasting time being unable to move. Why I want to do it anyway: If I get to be 75 and I speak all 12 of my target languages and i've mastered algebraic topology and non-relativistic quantum mechanics and i've fixed all the plumbing issues in all my neighbors houses and fixed everyone's laptop who asked and was all these things to all people, but I hated every minute of it?? NEver enjoyed my life? That's a fail. I need to do something purely enjoyable. Be a kid again. Come home and play for a bit before doing productive things.

Well, not to brag (too much) but it has been a pretty Incredible year for this super hero. First off, I had a rollercoaster named in my honor: The Incredicoaster, https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2017/11/pixar-pier-to-bring-new-incredicoaster-and-more-to-disney-california-adventure-park-summer-2018/ and now the sequel to my movie has been announced (premiering on my birthday) To continue the awesomeness I will work on these goals this challenge. The last week of the challenge we are having out of town family, and hosting a Christmas get together, so I will do what I can and not stress the rest. Goals: 1) Morning Routine drink water or broth read Bible (almost done with reading through it in a year _reward super fancy dinner out) start workout by 8:30 Week 1 _ _ _ _ _ Week 2 _ _ _ _ _ Week 3 _ _ _ _ _ Week 4 _ _ _ _ _ 2)Focused Flexibility 3 x a week Week 1 _ _ _ _ _ Week 2 _ _ _ _ _ Week 3 _ _ _ _ _ Week 4 _ _ _ _ _ 3) Let My Light Shine 3 x a week Use light box Take Vitamin D walk - winter weather permitting- I don't have to walk to complete this goal. Leaving it up to my judgement. I do better with some outside time, but if the weather is truly miserable all week, then I'm not going to stress about it. Week 1 __ _ _ week 2 _ _ _ Week 3 _ _ _ Week 4 _ _ _ Other: Habits I already have Do my workouts- currently using Integral Strength from GMB post video on GMB so the trainers can advise me I'm not tracking on MFP, just doing an experiment and seeing how I do without tracking;

Intro/Chapter 1 here: Chapter 2: A Blinky Mess WhiteGhost reaches the end of the wall and takes a bounding leap off of the back wall, tic-tacing over to a window ledge and pulls himself up. Afraid that looking over his should to check his pursuer will take precious seconds, he focuses on shimmying up a rain gutter until he reaches the edge of the roof. Only once he has pulled himself over does he risk taking a look to see how things are going. To his delight, the big man is still on the ground of the alley, trying in vain to grab the fire escape ladder. WhiteGhost breathes a sigh of relief “Well, that wasn’t so bad, but I am going to need to be more careful so I don’t get recognized. It will be a lot harder to find Blinky if I have people looking for me” he thinks to himself as he sets off at a brisk run across the rooftops. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blinky lives in a nondescript 3rd floor apartment in Indian Flats, a middle income neighborhood on the West side of town. He started out as a CIA forensic accountant many years ago working in the organized crime unit, but he traded sides and went to work as a financier for a mob boss who made him an offer he apparently couldn’t refuse. A couple of years ago he got caught embezzling his boss' cash and as punishment got his eyelids cut off, hence the nickname. He now works as a freelance financial advisor, supplying his services to white hats, black hats and anyone else with a lot of cash and something to hide. When WhiteGhost gets to Blinky’s place he finds the front door hanging from just the top hinge, twisting slightly with every gust of wind. “I guess I’m not the only one who needs a word with old Blinky,” WhiteGhost mutters under his breath and he slips silently through the broken doorway. Inside, Blinky’s place has been completely ransacked. Drawers have been pulled out and dumped on the floor, his bed has been flipped and the bedsheets are strewn wildly around the bedroom. His bookshelves have been pulled down and the floor of the living room is a sea of books. WhiteGhost takes a look at the computer desk and smiles to himself. The guys that did this clearly were not professionals, just some low level thugs who didn’t understand Blinky’s world. The computer keyboard has been smashed to pieces and there is a hunting knife sticking through what remains of it, pinning it to the desk. The monitor has been knocked to the floor with a fist sized hole through it. However, the tower under the desk is untouched and apparently still on, the cooling fan creating a dull hum in the background. Empty diet cola bottles litter the floor and a half eaten burrito is mashed under a tipped over chair. Apparently Blinky was interrupted unexpectedly. WhiteGhost hooks up his tablet to the computer through an HDMI adapter and discovers a TOR browser open, with TrueCrypt and Bleachbit running in the background. If Blinky didn’t have time to close these, he must have really been in a rush to get out. The TOR browser is open to a Lelantos email account, but most of the emails don’t make any sense. It seems Blinky was encrypting his messages manually before entering them into the encrypted system. Given the types of people he deals with, he couldn’t afford to mess around. The last email received, though, was not encrypted. Opening it up, WhiteGhosts finds a Darknote XDN blockchain showing transfers of large sums of bitcoin to accounts in varying countries with Switzerland, Russia, South Africa, China, India and Mongolia coming up the most. The email sender is merely identified by a single letter: H. “No time to worry about that now,” WhiteGhost thinks to himself. “I need to find Blinky and get to the bottom of this.” He reaches down to unplug his HDMI cable, and decides to pull out the hard drive for later. As he pulls it out, he notices a yellow sticky note stuck to the inside of the computer tower. He pulls it off and finds “WG38.2946071.-80.3132366” scrawled in pencil. Mission 1: Improve Grip Strength 3x/week (excluding Mission 2) Mission 2: Muscle Up Routine (+full body) 2 Days/Week Mission 3: Focused Flexibility 5 Days/Week Mission 4: Homemade Meal 1/Week Go/no-Go = 15 second one hand hang on each hand by end of week 4 Neither hand = Can’t decipher the clue, needs to keep working 1 hand only = Deciphered the clue but needs help Both hands = Deciphered the clue and can act on it

When you first get your Driver and become a Kamen Rider, the path is never always crystal clear. You may win a few battles here and there, but there's an element of struggle. You're not sure how to use this power that you've been given. While you're struggling with that, your battles keep seeming easier and easier until you hit your first hurdle; a new opponent who's stronger than you. That's when it becomes clear; all those previous struggles were meant to prepare you for that first power up in order to defeat said opponent, so you can find your purpose. Sure, I feel like I've won a few of these first battles last challenge, but a few opponents that ran away before have returned, and they brought friends. I'm not at that hurdle yet, but I know it's coming. It's time I focus on what I'm really struggling with this month in order to be ready for my soon-to-come power up. Goals for this challenge are as follows: Continue to attend class a minimum of two times each week and stretch daily. I did well with class attendance last month, but I relied heavily on gaining that sticker to do so. Going to add it again so it becomes a habit that no longer needs a sticker. Stretching didn't go so well, so it's back to get better. Continue to journal daily and track all food and drinks in MFP. I did well with the journaling, but it followed the same as the one above; get dat sticker. I'm keeping it until I don't need it and adding my tracking to it as well. This is something I started recently, but it's been sporadic, and I don't want it to be, so there. Follow elimination protocol for caloric drinks, especially coffee-containing substances. I feel like I got a handle on my treats, so I'm moving on to a sub-par habit that I've picked up. I've been drinking the not-optimal coffee options for caffeine (see this chart for reference; I'm mocha and frappuccino -.-). This usually only happens when I succumb to Big Food, but I'll need to be extra conscious about it for when I do. Typical protocol; toss 1/4 for first two weeks, then progress to 1/2 for the second. Eat a home cooked or prepared meal for breakfast AND lunch a minimum of three times a week. Yeah, I know I was working on vegetables last month, but I really noticed just how badly I struggled with just EATING the food I brought to work and being too lazy in the morning to get up early enough to eat at home. It hurts my gut, waistline, and wallet, so I'm going to focus on this for now. It doesn't need to be squeaky clean, but it should still increase the quality of my food and decrease the quantity. I'm set with my strategy, now it's time to implement! Here comes Week Zero!

This challenge, I am going to do the dreaded thing...a sleep challenge. The thing is, I sleep OKAY. Most nights I manage 7 hours, sometimes 6 on bad nights. But when I sleep naturally, I sleep 7.5 hours. I read all these things about how important getting your FULL amount of sleep is and how it affects just about everything. I'm often really groggy. I'm alert for maybe 2 hours after waking up, and then I get sleepy. I am a napper who could easily take 3 naps a day if schedules allowed. And I pretty much only have the mental clarity to really talk well with other people when I'm NOT tired. So in theory, if I get enough sleep, my workouts will have more energy, I will have more willpower to resist junk food, and I'll be better at talking to people. That's why I'm taking this on. Here are the goals: Goal 1: Get enough sleep (7.5 hours a night is my natural pattern) I already get up fairly early, so I have to work on inching back bedtime. I struggle with that, so I've avoided doing a sleep challenge up until now. But with constant travel and running around, it just feels like time. So on most nights, I'll aim to... Sign off of my computer at 9ish Meditate, do any chores or reading I feel like for a while to unwind Try to sleep by 10ish but it's ok to stay up doing non-screen things if I can't sleep. On bootcamp days when I wake up at 5 instead of 6, it will be more like 7 hours of sleep vs. the ideal 7.5. I won't worry about that for now...I'll just try to stick to the routine above. Travel's going to fuck me up because my boyfriend is a night owl, so I'm just going to ignore that can of worms for now too. Goal 2: Do whatever the hell exercises I feel like. Do them with love. Do a lot of them. Last week I added in an extra workout (4 vs. my usual 3) and I LOVED IT. I'm generally aiming for the same 3 workouts per week, but I'll try to get in that 4th workout when I can. I'll continue running once a week, with at least an hour of yoga required before I'm allowed to run again. I'll continue working on focused flexibility. If I get through my Aikido test in November without crying, I can buy a sledgehammer and I might start doing some shovelglove. Yadda yadda. I'm not tracking or scoring any of this. I've done 3 workouts per week since January, and I have no intention of breaking my streak now with the end of the year so close. ...And that's IT. "What??" you say, "You usually have like 20 elaborate steps for every goal!" I decided enough was enough for now. I don't need to lay out the workout goals, because I've got those down. As for food, my food vibes have been terrible since July. But last week I just suddenly hit the right buttons and started getting back on track again after watching some meal prep videos on YouTube. I think SEEING healthy food and reminding myself what a healthy diet looks and feels like did more for me that scoring or tracking or any of that nonsense. If there's anything I've learned by experimenting with different kinds of tracking this year, it's that I KNOW when I'm eating healthy and when I'm not. I don't want to keep fighting myself and feeling guilty, so I'm just going to go with the flow while I'm feeling it. If the switch turns back off, I'll go back to scoring food. In the long run, this makes sense. I don't want to track food for the rest of my life. I generally want to eat paleo/primal because that feels best for my body, but I'm going rogue and not setting any goals about it for a while. There are times when variances make sense, and it's hard to capture that in a scoresheet. So I'm just going to keep learning how to eat in a sustainably healthy way. Let's do an icebreaker! Do any of you have any weird sleep habits or sleep experiences? I'm a cuddly sleeper so I have to hug either a stuffed animal or a blanket or a pillow when I sleep

Goal 1: Be strong. work out, 3x/wk (bodyweight, dumbbells, challenging yoga, TRX) Goal 2: Be nimble. mobility 6x/wk walk 7x/wk (GMB Elements per programming) Goal 3: Be limber. flexibility -pick 4 stretches to perform daily, scale up or down as needed (GMB Focused Flexibility) Goal 4: Be mindful. -switch to black coffee to eliminate unnecessary a.m. calories -play with regular am fasting, aka skip breakfast -do daily walk fasted if possible -drink extra water -one alcoholic drink per week, or 2 halves -take a picture and post it -read a book I'll be tracking this challenge with a daily checklist (thank you maegs!). Goal 1 is any workout I choose. I realize consistency is preferable, but I love variety and variety loves me. Goal 2 is a pre-written program through GMB and a daily walk. I may need bail on the walk if the air gets bad, but hopefully I will be able to make those up by doubling up some other time. Goal 3 is a pre-written program and I may need to change the parameters there. I haven't read through it yet or done the assessments. Goal 4 is a bit more loosey-goosey. I'm just going to do as much as possible on that front and see how I tolerate some of those changes. Yay for checklists!

In the past year, Elastigirl and Mr Incredible have destroyed 4 Omnidroids, saved the city from certain destruction 5 times, captured 4 villains, all while still maintaining their normal jobs. They have earned a rest, and have decided to take a vacation. Are you wondering what superheroes do for vacation? They go exploring for treasure! Several years ago, the Incredibles had found a treasure map, but had been to busy saving the world to follow it.For now, the world seems safe from Omnidroids, so the Incredible couple are going treasure hunting. The map leads them to an exotic volcanic island. While searching for treasure, they will have to be careful to avoid the lava flow. But, hey, they are super heroes, so a little lava won't stop them from their quest. This challenge my husband and I will be celebrating our 30th anniversary by going to Hawaii. Part of our trip will be hiking at the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. This is part of my Epic Quest, and we have been saving money for this, and am super excited about it. Beside the Volcano National park, I hope to also get some time in hiking, geocaching, snorkeling, reading, eating, drinking, and generally having a good time. Since I'm gone for half the challenge, I'm separating it into two parts, one for when I'm home, the other for while I'm away. Part 1 :Treasure Hunting Being a super hero I will boldly explore the island in search of treasure, and like any good explorer does, will document my findings Goal 1: Treasure: Unlock some of my adventure quests from my Epic Quest : ideas include kayaking, snorkeling, paddle-boarding Goal 2: Be Bold: Superheroes and treasure hunters are bold. Do something on the trip that takes me out of my comfort zone. Goal 3: Journal Take pictures and share them here Part 2:Adventure preparing Whether she needs to take care of her family, save the world, or search for buried treasure, a superhero needs to be strong. While at home, I will Goal : 1 Log food on Myfitnesspal (note this may not happen the day I return, but soon after) Goal 2: Continue Focused Flexibility and kettlebell workouts ( not putting how many days here, giving some leeway for getting back into the swing of it after the trip)

It was one of those cold, clear nights of winter that find most people huddled in their warm houses, watching the glow of their televisions while eating popcorn. But not this group. They had chosen a spot deep in the woods, far from civilization. The only lights to be seen were the stars above and the the campfire glowing brightly, around which they sat. Enjoying the warmth of the campfire they sat quietly around it, once in a while pausing to grunt at one another, or to take a drink of their ale. It was into this group that the stranger entered. Dressed entirely in black, she stealthily made her way into the campsite. Her goal was to blend in quietly to this group, observing them from a distance. She had heard tales of their heroic feats, and wanted to see if there was any truth in the rumors. She sat down, close enough to hear and watch them, but hopefully not close enough they would notice her. As she sat, the wolf that had been sitting amongst the group, turned to face her. Slowly, deliberately, the wolf began to walk toward her. She remained motionless, waiting to see what the wolf would do. As the wolf reached her, it turned its’ face to the moon and let out a long,low howl. The wolf’s howl alerted the group to her presence. They all turned to face her, grabbing their swords and axes, preparing for a fight. Calmly she stood up, removing her hood, she said “ Please, I come in peace, I have heard of your heroic feats, I too seek the harder path,the one tread by heroes. I seek to learn more of your Ranger guild. From out of the dark, a bearded man wielding a flaming sledgehammer appeared. “Who are you and why should we allow you entrance into our Ranger guild†he demanded. Not daunted by his fierce looks, she replied†I am Elastigirl, Slayer of Omnidroids, Destroyer of Syndrome, Hero of Metropolis†One of the group who had been sitting closest to the campfire stood up, “I have heard of her, I will vouch for her bravery and goodness†The sledgehammer wielding man turned to him, “Chaplain, you would vouch for anyone. You see the good in all. You would have everyone be a Ranger. Turning back to her, he gazed at her silently for a few moments, as if trying to read her mind. She confidently returned his gaze, knowing that just as she had much to learn from the Rangers, she also had many valuable skills to teach them. After a few moments he spoke again, “Very well, since the Chaplain himself vouched for you we shall let you in for a little while. But understand, the Rangers are an elite group, and if you wish to take part in our mission you must prove yourself†Elastigirl nodded her approval. “Very well, I accept those terms, give me any challenge and I will complete it†This challenge I am switching over from Assassins to Ranger. Right now, my big focus is on kettlebells. I am following Pavel’s Simple and Sinister program. My big goal right now is to be able to complete 10 full Turkish get ups with 35lbs in under 10 minutes and to be able to do `100 44lb. swings in under 5 minutes. I have been working on this for 6 months, and am still in the process of working toward that goal. My goals for this month are focused on things that will help me reach my big goal, look good doing it and, have time to pursue life goals, and a bit of Ranger adventure along the way Goal 1: Track food 6 days a week Points 4-5 days=5 points 6 days= 6 points 7 days= 6 points plus a bonus day to use on another wee Goal 2: Workout plan; Focused Flexibility from GoldMedalBodies. There are two main poses I am working to improve. My task is to do two stretches for each pose, and foam rolling.I will do the stretches at least 4 days a week. Simple and Sinister: Swings 4 days a week; Turkish Get Ups 3 days a week, the 4th day I can choose a different strength workout. Points: FF done= 1 points per day SS done= 1 point per day Goal 3: Track progress: Focused Flexibility: pictures week 1, end of week 2, and end of challenge Simple and Sinister: videos week 1 and 4 Points 2 per picture/video Goal 4: get up at 7:30 at least 4 days of the week Points: 5 points a day Goal #5 Ranger Initiation Be a Ranger (Ranger yoga, rucking, sledgehammers,bro-crow, etc) Video/photographic evidence at least twice Take part in at least three of the Ranger mini-challenges Points Completion= 10 points Life: turn extra bedroom into craft room 10 points Scrapbook; finish vacation scrapbook 10 points Look up hikes/ plan fun vacation ideas 10 points Update Epic Quest for 2016-10 points WEEK 1 point total 43 points WEEK 2 point total 58 points 180 points= Elastigirl proves herself Ranger worthy and will reward herself ; prize still undetermined 170 points= Elastigirl proves herself Ranger worthy, but she feels as if she could have worked harder,so she does not buy any reward.

A Superhero Story In Paris by Lilith I’m a dreamer, and I love fantasizing. I love going to bed early, to live for a bit in my own stories. Stories I thought up based on universes from books and series. They are my escape. In those stories, I can be whatever I want to be. I can have magical powers, or be a parkour goddess, or survive outside with no other means than the weapons I carry. By itself that is not a bad thing, but I usually use it as an escape too. An escape from reality, when I don’t like reality as much anymore. Pressure from university, the struggle with my weight… No I’d much rather dream. Spend my energy and time on that. Lay on the couch during the daytime, just dreaming away. (See, this is a great example of what I want to do to my responsibilities. POOF YOU'RE GONE) But this is not healthy for me. I write my own reality, my actions are my story. I need to be the superhero of my own story. So far, I’ve been the typical hopeless case, avoiding responsibilities and hard work. But hey, EVERY superhero story starts that way. The superhero is never actually born as one, but becomes one. And that stark contrast, that is what inspires everyone, makes everyone love the superhero. Well today I’m starting on my superhero story. This is the moment things change, and I really work on leveling up my life. Making my life awesome, because it can be! I will live, instead of dream. (Yes I think Emma Stone is a superhero) The start of the challenge is actually my first day in Paris. I'm there for 7 months, doing an internship abroad. If that isn't an epic start of a story.... So below I will list my goals. But my challenge goals are more than the things written down below, it is also a change in mindset. It is believing in my own superhero powers, and not escaping into fantasy worlds anymore. Goals Walk 10.000 steps every day (fitbit) Follow GMB Elements Do 1 Vibram Run per week Follow Focused Flexibility (first week in Paris you can do just one stretch, to get used to everything first) Do at least one 10 minute meditation a day I'm already following GMB Elements, so I will be on my third week the start of the challenge. I love Elements so far so I see no problem with keeping it up! It's like I'm discovering my body tbh, even in normal life now I am so much more aware of my body it's amazing! (Well, that's the idea this challenge anyway! I will rock it!)

This isn't going to be an exciting challenge. Most of my last few challenges have not been exciting, but I've got to work on what I've got to work on, so excitement comes later. Basically I'm going to stick to it and just keep on keepin' on. My main goals have not changed. Goal #1 - The Plan The same plan as usual. In the last challenge, something seemed to get in the way of me fully completing the plan in every week. Most of that was legitimate (ie. actual obligations that took precedence to working out), but I did not do a good job of working around those obligations, I just let them get in the way. Hopefully during this challenge things will be less obligatory and I'll be able to stick to the schedule. Monday, Wednesday, Friday - strengthy stuff (pushups, hip thrusts, superman squats, elbow planks, body weight rows, fire hydrants, 3 sets) Tuesday, Thursday - run 2.4k flatter route on Tuesday, 2k hilly route Thursday Monday (and sometimes Wednesday) - hockey I have no problem with switching things up as necessary, but the key will be if I miss something due to legit life reasons, I have to make it up, on the weekend if needed. I purposefully have nothing scheduled on weekends, because I almost always choose fun over The Plan, but weekends are really the only time I have that's 'extra' for me to catch up, so I have to buckle down when I've missed something rather than just letting it slide. Goal #2 - Focused Flexibility I caved and spent the money on the program. It's fairly straightforward, and I've been doing an ok job of sticking to it for the between week (I did let life reasons get in the way one day though). This goal is simply to do it every day, and mark it off on the handy calendar they provide. Also, follow the program as closely as possible. The things I'm focusing on are my shoulders and hamstrings. I have found that I can do all the shoulder-focused exercises, but only 2 of the hamstring ones (I'm so inflexible I can't even get into position to do most of them). So I will follow the plan to change exercises after 2 weeks on the shoulders, but will stick with the 2 hamstring ones I'm able to do for a while longer until I see some progress/am able to do some of the other exercises. Goal #3 - Bust the Pudge I'm feeling a bit like I might have actually put on a bit of fat over the last challenge, but I'm not sure if that's just my perception being tainted by the fact that I failed on this goal in the last challenge, or if I really did. Regardless, there's more of me than there really needs to be. The main focus will be eating a healthy breakfast weather I want to or not, and not buying food (breakfast specifically) at a fast food place/coffee place. If I had to have a calorie intake goal, I'd say ~1600kcal/day. I'm still debating if I want to try to track again or not, we'll see. The biggest challenge I have with this is that I go a long time between breakfast and lunch (I eat at 10:30am, and not again until 3pm), and by the time I get lunch I'm really hungry and probably overdo it (and underestimate when I'm tracking/thinking about calorie intake). Snacking doesn't seem to work well for me, since I tend to be not hungry until I'm HUNGRY, and then a small snack simply makes me hungrier. My work environment doesn't always allow me to just go eat some food whenever I want either. I have no idea how to deal with this, other than trying hard to be reasonable about my lunches, or at least to accurately estimate my intake. Related to this, I find that I can eat the exact same thing every morning and one day it'll last me until lunch, and another day I'll be hungry again in 2 hours. I have no idea why this is, but I find it very frustrating. The other thing I need to do is to be more strict about my dinners. I often eat dinner leftovers for lunch, and I'm not against having lunch be my biggest meal of the day (I actually like it that way), but that means I need to not have a typical North American-sized dinner for dinner. This causes strife with my family (specifically my dad, my mom is much more laissez faire), but I'm just going to have to put my foot down and ride out the strife. And that is all. Note: I will be at the cottage for the first week of the challenge, which means there will little to no updating. I'll keep track and post it all at once when I'm back on the 3rd. I have the ability to do all the things at the cottage (even the rows, I found a decent branch to hang the rings from), so I will do them. However, I was not smart enough to bring the equipment I need home with me for the weekend, so I will do strengthy stuff Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, play hockey on Monday, then run (a different distance) on Wednesday and Friday. This also means that I will eat very differently than I usually do. I tend to only eat 2 meals at the cottage, since I sleep in and don't have 'breakfast' until 1pm (and usually it looks more like lunch), then eat dinner at dinner time. I'll do my best to limit snacking, and have healthy snacks when I do.

It's me again! The people who have been following me last challenge know I didn't complete it. In fact I disappeared, going into full blown hiding. Which I am really good at! And although I am quite proud of that assassin skill, it is important not to hide from fellow assassins! So that's why I'm coming out of hiding again, and making sure I will stay out of hiding for the duration of this challenge! Uhhh... Nope still hiding... Wait I know how to unhide... I can do this! Close enough? I suppose so... So right, yeah, goals! Not too many this time, I wanted to do a bazillion things. Because I'm great at planning intricately busy things. And then the 'doing it' part comes along and I feel like meh.... So! Not too many goals this time. Just two. WOOOOO JUMP RIGHT INTO THE GOALS Goal 1: GMB Focused Flexibility (and any extra work I want to do ) DAILY Goal 2: Wrist Warmup + Frogger (at least 3 times a week) Video link for the wrist warmup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=235&v=mSZWSQSSEjE Page link for GMB frogger practice: http://gmb.io/frogger-handstand/ During the challenge I will still be doing Stronglifts, which I definitely still am in love with! So you might get updates of that. I will also keep doing hiking training, because I just need to. And and and I will also do some hooping! But the good thing is, I don't have to update on those, and I don't have to do them. But I can! Things are more fun when you don't have to do them right? HIGH FIVE! LETS DO THIS! Pssst and a little bit of motivation for everyone!