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Hey everyone! I'm coming up with a reward structure for my goals and I'm hitting a wall. My first thoughts were exactly the kind of thing I don't want: bad food, day off exercise, etc... Now I can only think of big rewards instead of smaller ones for smaller goals. What are some examples of rewards you've given yourself for hitting goals?

** Dear newbs: As of right now it seems we don't have a guild leader. I've been here for over 3 years so if you have questions feel free to ask me. You can ask here, PM me, @ tag me in another thread, or post in the general chat thread. Please feel free just to drop in and say hi too. My threads tend to move fast because I'm friends with crazy people, but we're the good crazy. ** Right-o. Changed my title because I decided to take this challenge in a different direction. So the American Psychological Association's definition of resilience: Resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or significant sources of stress — such as family and relationship problems, serious health problems or workplace and financial stressors. It means "bouncing back" from difficult experiences. tl;dr version - I have an anxiety disorder and feel like I'm constantly stressed. Which is Not Good psychologically or physiologically. I've also had a number of massive stressors recently, one of which is only going to get worse from here. I've been told I'm handling it all really well and I know they're legitimate things to be stressed about, but I don't like where I am right now. In my crisis management class we talked about resilience and how to build/strengthen it, so I'm pulling from the principles on his powerpoint and choosing goals that were on my list that will mesh with what he said. The Goals 1. Take Care of Yourself Movement every day - yoga, Elements, even a walk around the block Cut out dairy, minimize meat Be in bed by 11pm, out of bed by 8am Cut caffeine 2. Active Problem Solving Register and study for the Certified Associate in Project Management exam (falls under "goal setting") Complete one Spanish skill or 30 exp on Duolingo every day. 3. Maintain a Positive Outlook Post a daily recap of all the things I did - job applications, phone calls, taking out the trash, anything to prove to myself I did more than just sit on the couch all day End journal entries with 3 things I’m grateful for 4. Social Support ??? 5. Meaning and Purpose Daily meditation Journal every day Reach out to some of the organizations I might want to volunteer at and see how to get started The much longer version of the rationale: (under a cut for length, not because I'm embarrassed or ashamed to talk about anxiety/etc... actually I'd talk about it forever if you let me) Handy dandy tracking spreadsheet. Feel free to make a copy and adapt to your own needs.

I recently completed my personal training sessions, so I'm feeling a little Lost In Space.. Ooh, switched series, whewps. Goals: STAY THE COURSE "*I* don't know. Fly casual." I've set up an exercise schedule since going solo, I need to A. learn how to stick to it, or how to make it up if I don't, and B. Come up with a regimen. I'm going through the Nerd Fitness Academy workout paths, but they've been feeling insufficient, so I'm working on building more around it. PARKOUR! "I didn't know they were looking for somebody to *lead* this crazy attack." So, I signed up for an online Parkour 101 class. Issue one: I suck at online classes. Issue two: I don't know how to parkour. To combat these, I've assembled a team of (wait no sorry I'm jumping movie series again) local friends that will meet me on Saturday mornings to practice. That means I need to do it AND I need to prep practice facilitation. MAINTENANCE MODE, ACTIVATED "Without precise calculations we could fly right through a star, or bounce too close to a supernova and that'd end your trip real quick, wouldn't it." I hit my side quest of weight loss - cool, not my main priority though. Now that I've hit it, I need to learn how to maintain it. I've been really good about tracking my food (nearing one year of daily tracking on MyFitnessPal), but I've increased my calories for maintenance, and now I need to see if it was a correct balancing or if I need to adjust it up or down. And try not to freak out, as I'm totally okay with increasing weight as long as it's in muscle. LIFE GOAL: TIME MANAGEMENT "Even if I could take off, I could never get past the tractor beam." Facebook takes up A LOT of my time, and I've been unhappy with that for quite some time. However, part of the reason I can't quit entirely is because I end up doing a lot of (non paying) work and social there. So for this challenge, no facebook feed. I can look at status updates, mentions, I can post, and I can view groups, but no scrolling on the feed.

Overview / Motivation: I finally broke through the mental brick wall (aka My MBA) last week while wrapping up the previous challenge. I walk this coming Sunday which still seems surreal - being done has not really set in yet. It's been a 3.5 year challenge that is now well worth the mental and physical battles of late nights (and the occasional all-nigher), too much caffeine, and lost weekends. I'm excited to check off the MBA Epic Quest after the ceremony on Sunday. MBA fun aside, it is now time to get back to my basement gym which I finished cleaning off at the end of last week, and start to rebuild much of my lost progress over the past few months. I was able to maintain a good level of fitness thanks to a good diet, NF Yoga, some running and intermittent fasting, but lost a good amount of muscle mass. Now it's time to kick it up a notch! I'm also wrapping up my goals development. I'll be building out my mission and longer term goals associated with Adventure, and Impact/Legacy. These will be the most difficult for me to build out personally, but will be well worth it once they are done. Main Quest (revised for 2016): Hit the following benchmarks in strength and stamina: Bench Press 250 lbs. Squat 250 lbs. Complete 20 Pull Ups Reach 180 pounds Side Quests: Average 3 Weight Training Sessions / Week Points Potential: STR +5 Grading: A= Average > 90% B= Average > 80% F= Average < 80% Complete 1 - 2 Mile Runs per week Points Potential: STA +3 Grading A= Average > 90% B= Average > 80% C= Average > 70% F= Average < 70% Average 2 NerdFitness Yoga Sessions / Week (Use any video) Points Potential: DEX +3 Grading A= Average > 90% B= Average > 80% C= Average > 70% F= Average < 70% Life Quest: Set Final 2 Long Term Goals (Adventure & Impact/Legacy) Points Potential: CHA +4 Grading Pass / Fail

Let's try this again. I guess two years ago when I wrote my first introduction I wasn't ready to commit. After losing some weight through a very physical job, I'm feeling better and more confident in myself and getting fit again. Here's my back story that hasn't changed since I typed it 2 years ago, well a few minor details but hey.... Now some background info.....I'm no stranger to fitness. In high school I was on the swim team (I was a sprinter, freestyle and butterfly) kept me in great shape. After highschool I joined the United States Marine Corps where I spent the next 6 years, running, rolling, hanging, and in general doing Marine things, I was probably at the peak of my fitness at that time in my life. I was able to do 20 dead hang pull ups, 100 crunches in 2 minutes, and had a 19 minute 3 mile run time. Well I guess the years of doing that took it's toll on my knees, I developed arthritis in my left knee at a young age (25) my surgeon (former Phoenix Cardinals team surgeon) very strongly urged me to no longer run, an activity I used to love. After that surgery I started putting on more weight, I had a sedentry job and not being able to run really took it's toll on me mentally and physically. So in around 2008 I decided to take my life back, I came across a book that I owned and actually used sucessfully to lose weight ( back in 2000 when I got out of the USMC), Body for Life by Bill Phillips. Over the next few years I participated in a group online and did back to back BFL challenges, after losing probably 30 or more pounds I started slacking off and trying different lifting programs like Chris Waterbury's Summer Program, I started putting on some mass and went from about 180ish to 190ish but with visible muscle mass added. Now somewhere in there I somehow hurt my lower back.......this was a game killer....I've never expereinced so much pain in my life. I found out that I have severly herniated discs, L4,L5,S1.......I've been told the surgery is 50/50 on pain relief and that my best bet is to lose weight. I have been dealing with this for about 3 years now, I just found out about 6 months ago that I have really bad venous reflux (vericose veins) in my legs with my right leg being the worst of the two. Needless to say I now have to wear the super cool medical style compression stockings, or have surgery, which even after I would have to wear the compression stockings. With these health problems I'm limited in what exercises I can do, which is part of the reason I'm here. I need some accountability and some advice, because I am going to give 110% of my dedication to losing weight. I absolutely need to start losing weight, it's impacting my life in more ways than one. I have six kids, I can't do squat with them, because I'm either in pain or too tired because I'm in pain....make sense? I don't feel like I'm guiding my kids into healthy decisions because I don't eat the best and I don't exercise. Right now I'm the heaviest I've ever been in my life at 235 lbs, I carry it around my middle like a tractor tire. My goals for right now are to change my eating habbits to become more Paleo like (sorry gotta have my coffee and kombucha). I already drink a ton of water, at least 96 oz daily, if not more. And just be more active, I am going to start doing the body weight exercises I saw in an article here, I'm pretty sure I can do most of them. I want to start walking with my wife, but I don't know how far I can go without my legs killing me. So that's another goal to get out and walk with my wife. **Sorry for the run-ons and wierdness, I was just trying to get the bulk of it down.**

THIS CHALLENGE IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY SEVENFOOTGEEK: HI I'M STILLSKIES GRAPPLING AWESOME MORE AWESOME HUGS SEE Y'ALL IN FOUR WEEKS What do you mean that's not a challenge?? Oh, fine. THE YEAR OF DISNEY PRINCESSES BECAUSE I AM A MOTHERFUCKING PRINCESS MONK: PRINCESS LEIA EDITION And before you say, "stillskies, Leia is NOT a Disney princess," I would like to point you to this video: Now that we've cleared that up, let's begin! Rescue the Boys by Choking Bitches With My Thighs Stupid Han, always ruining perfectly good plans (when, y'know, your supposed rescuers actually have a plan). So, in order to clean up the mess that Han and Luke made, Leia is going to have to get creative. Fortunately, everyone knows a Storm Trooper can't aim for shit, so she's just gonna have to dodge until she's close enough to take him down. And she can do that because she's totally trained in bjj. CHALLENGE: BJJ - 3 classes a week GRADING: A - 3 classes | B - 2 classes | C - 1 class These can be on different days, or, if I'm feeling ambitious, all in the same day (although, let's be real, my limit is two classes in one day). They can all be Basics, or all Intermediates, or a mixture of the two. For it to count, I have to attend the whole class - the half hour of basics I get on Saturdays before transitioning to women's won't count - and there has to be instruction - randori doesn't count, either. Sometimes the Millennium Falcon Needs a Push It really is a piece of garbage, and there isn't always a helpful scavenger ship to come and swallow it up when it stops running. (12 parsecs, Leia's ass.) Anyway, sometimes, it needs a helping hand, and the best way to do that it so make sure she can get parts from A to Z quickly, no matter how heavy they are. Lift, Leia, lift! CHALLENGE: Lift - 2 sessions a week GRADING: A - 2 sessions | B - 1 session | C - I gymmed? I've actually been doing pretty good at this, but I've been neglecting pretty much everything but bench press. Whoops. (Did I mention I 1RM'd 100lbs last month? Because I totally did!) So, for a lifting session to count, it has to have at least two of the following lifts with a barbell: deadlift, bench, weighted squat (any variant), overhead press. I Can't Keep Eating Like an Asshole With the Empire defeated and going back to real life as a diplomat, Leia won't be running around, climbing trees and generally burning more calories than she can feasibly eat (it also helps being on a planet that has actual, y'know, food). If she wants to maintain her current figure, she's gotta figure out how to balance the eating and the exercising. Such is the life when the universe is no longer in peril. CHALLENGE: Food - eat only what starsapart says I can 6x week GRADING: A - 6x | B - 5x | C - 4x I've gained back some of the weight that I'd originally lost, and last challenge pretty much showed me that I can't really deal with MFP without spiraling into the wonderful reaches of anorexia. Which is so not healthy. So, stars has access to my MFP, and she'll tell me what to eat. Easy as pie. I'm giving myself one 'free' day because I know myself and know that I'll start to get pissy if I don't have some control (and I want soda). Still Taking None of Your Shit It may be thirty years after the fall of the Empire, but General Organa is still taking no one's bullshit. You have your own agenda? Cute - she'll discuss it once you do what she tells you. Some things, at least, never change. And she's making sure you don't forget it. CHALLENGE: Life - figure out 2016 goals GRADING: Subjective I more or less figured out my work out schedule and whatnot last challenge (and that reminds me: stillskies, actually put that shit on paper; post it notes in your office are going to get lost - again), but I... have no clue what I'm actually working towards anymore. I need to actually figure out goals. As such, this challenge is just... to figure it out. Could be I come out with actual goals, could be I just brainstorm for four weeks. Guess we'll see.

Hey dudes! (and I mean "dudes" in the non-gendered way, encompassing all people across the gender spectrum) You know what I love? Magic. I'm a huge fan of the game Mage the Ascension. It's an old school World of Darkness game that hinges on the idea of reality being subjective and characters gain power by having a seeking. A seeking is where the part of you that allows you to do magic (your avatar) takes you on some quest to prove that you're ready to wield greater power over the universe around you. Your avatar is part of you. You're born with it. Basically, you are proving to yourself that you are ready to go to the next level with your magic. You're that much closer to being capable of, literally, anything. I like the idea that your willpower and drive can help propel you forward. I like the idea that obtaining a self-mastery can help a person control circumstances that seem out of their control. I like magic. Basically, I've started looking at the life quests that we have as ways for our characters to learn magic. Basically, I wanted to post how I'm looking at my life quest line in alignment with my favorite role playing game. 1: You can do magic because your paradigm says you can do magic. Since this is a game, your paradigm gives you the reasons why you are capable of achieving any goal you set forth. Your paradigm is the framework under which you work your mojo. Your achieved goals have to fit within your paradigm. If you achieve a goal that doesn't fit into the framework that you thought you could achieve a goal, then you need to rethink how your personal reality works. As we grow and do more, our paradigms change. 2: Magic is made up of different things. There are nine spheres in MtA and each of them govern a different concept that you work with. The spheres are the tools you use to reach a goal. They're big, overarching concepts and how you control them. Correspondence: distance and spacial stuff Entropy: Fate, chaos, and probability Forces: The elements! Life: Living, breathing, growing things Matter: Physical stuff Mind: Exactly what it sounds like. Prime: This one's hard to translate into work out mechanics, but it's the guts of magic. The literal force there, so it could be considered your internal self mastery Spirit: Otherworldly not-on-this-physical-plane stuff. How that is defined is up to you You use these spheres to do magical effects. There is also more than one way to bake the proverbial potato. EXAMPLE MAGIC: I want to run and finish a 5K race. What are the things I know how to do that will help me run a 5K? Life/Prime: I'm going to use my physical training (Life) and my personal fortitude (Prime) to help me power through a race Correspondence/Mind: I know that 5K is just like walking to the grocery store and back. (Correspondence) If I think of this like walking to the grocery store and back, it won't be as scary(Mind) and I can finish this race. I want to do a presentation for class Entropy/Mind: I've thought about all the possibilities (Entropy) , and I have mentally prepared myself for them. (Mind) Knowing the possibilities makes me feel less scared about this exchange. I practiced my presentation and I feel very calm. Matter: I decided that speaking in front of a crowd wasn't my strongest suit, so I made a video for my classmates to watch. (Matter) This works to my advantage, because I am really good at making digital stuff. Since that fits within the assignment parameters, I can feel much more confident. 3: Learning Spheres Some magical effects can only be done using certain spheres. So, obviously, you are going to need to learn them. Want to master entropy? Try doing something spontaneous. Mind? Try and get in touch with your emotions by journalling. Pick up a crafty hobby if you want to learn matter. Read some self-empowerment books to up your prime or spirit scores. If you want to start a camp fire, you can't do it without forces. So, basically, you never to learn to use the skills you have, but don't be afraid to fill in the gaps. EXAMPLE: I want to grow an organic garden this year How will I learn how to grow an organic garden? Life/Forces/Prime/Matter: I'm super committed to the idea of growing an organic garden (Prime), so I used my knowledge of plants (Life) and the weather patterns in my area (Forces) to choose when to plant my stuff. I also took my time to learn about new and safe alternatives to using pesticide on my plants. (Matter+Life) Anyone have any thoughts on this? Thanks for reading!

That is a fantastic title, I'm fairly proud of myself for that! Anyway, I feel that missing more than 2 weeks of the current challenge is enough to want to wait until the next one starts to officially log there. That is to say, I will still sort out and start on my goals RIGHT NOW, but I won't join a 6-week challenge until the next one starts (Feb 23 - April 5 I believe is the next one) So a preview and toe-dipping-to-check-the-temperature is what this is, I suppose. There's always room for tweaks and scootching to adjust for the busying of schedules or for more leisure time as it comes along. MAIN QUEST: It resides in my signature~ inspired by Daft Punk's song "Harder Better Faster Stronger" and Might Guy from Naruto, I never want to actually be able to finish this goal. So, my goal is to be better than my past self. YEAH FOREVER-GOALS! My current goals to achieve the fundamentals of my main quest are as follows: EDITS IN BOLD Goal #1: Mostly Vegetarian, Mostly Paleo Inspired by: Everyone who's ever picked on me for eating a vegetarian meal. Please note: I am not a vegetarian. I just don't eat a whole lot of meat products, they tend to be a smaller part of my diet because I prefer vegetables. Someone once told me this meant I was "Mostly Vegetarian", and I laughed pretty hard not gonna lie. I told one of my vegetarian friends about it and they got upset to the point of being offended, which I thought was strange but hey- to each their own.Plot Point: Reduce grain intake and replace with more proteins and healthy fats. I mean I love veggies, but they're not gonna keep the engine running all by their lonesome. Veg intake is already optimal.How-to: Replace at least 1 grain product per day with a protein/fat combo (ei: replace veggie burrito with lettuce wrap + meat/nuts, replace sandwich with raw almonds, ect) watch portions - make sure to have ≥ of veg instead of going nuts later and filling up on potatoes/breadGoal #2: Walk to Mordor Inspired by: The Lord of the Rings & Nerd Fitness! Great movie/article. I have a good activity level, but it's kind of sporadic and dependent on other peoples presence (my mother at the gym, my co-worker for bouldering, my sister for Just Dance Wii, ect)Plot Point: Walk places, or around. Don't have to go anywhere necessarily, but motivation always helps! Instead of paying an extra $3 to go 5 km from work to the next bus stop, walk. 0.75 km from the grocery store on the way home to buy those raw almonds instead of asking someone to pick it up. It's a beautiful, fresh-aired day, walk the 11 km to the local nature park and back, plus whatever wandering happens at the park! Anything counts.How-to: Walk a total of 25 km (15 miles) per week walk 5 minutes/day minimum - first thing after breakfastGoal #3: BAT-CAVE!!! Inspired by: Batman & Nerd Fitness (I spy a theme here)Plot Point: My living areas are pretty chaotic, it's not good. Definitely need more order and organization in that department.How-to: Do one thing, every day, to improve the overall functionality of my batcave living spaces. Can be cleaning, dusting, re-organizing all of my mothers DRAGONLANCE books (that last one takes hours though, maybe for an especially enthusiastic day) order of importance/rooms to focus on first: Computer room, kitchen, bedroom, living room.Goal #4: Finish This Challenge Inspired by: Every other challenge/goal that I have not finishedPlot Point: I habitually quit after a week or two for most things. No longer. I am now someone who finishes what I start or has the sense of mind to not start that thing.How-to: Keep a day-to-day journal. Post a cumulitive report online once a week (Friday) I opted to replace one of my diet/fitness goals with another life goal because that last one is fairly important. It's not looking at my failures in life and trying to be motivated by regret. I've accomplished a lot since I decided I wanted to be healthy: Lost 45 lbs Started exercising again Made new friends Go out of my way to socialize instead of complaining about being lonelyand then some more, so it's more looking at my failures and seeing how I can better myself from them (see: main goal). And this all starts today, right now. After I post this, I'm going to go wash todays dishes (goal #3) and then I'm going to check out what food-stuff we have so I can plan tomorrow's breakfast (goal #1). I'm not going to put too much pressure or planning behind this, because I know it doesn't work and I'm only moderately insane. So tomorrow's goal achieving plans will be made tomorrow, likely right before I do them. It's 11:01PM here in Canada, I wish you all a good night! Happy Tuesday~ -Rebecca

Hi there, It is my first challenge with the scouts, but in my heart I know it is a right place for me and I truly hope to find support and guidance here:) Here is a little intro: My name is Mathieu, this challenge will be my 3th on nerd fitness. In my first challenge, I have started to run. first 5k then 10k at the beginning of my second challence. I had never ran before but liked it a lot. Enought in fact to buy the ''No Meat Athlete'' book and read it all. Reading it gave me the idea for this challenge and the next ones for the months (years) to come (more on that in a sec.) The second challenge I have done it with the assassins, deciding to start bodyweight training indoor (easy to do with kids at home). During those 2 challenges, I had setted goal only for 6 weeks. and have found myself realising thet my goals were not challenging enough. Not that it was easy, at first it all looks like hard goals to achieve in only a month and a half, but both time I manage mo principal goal in 3 weeks and pushed past it afterward. In the No Meat Athlete book, there is a wery easy to understand section on goal setting and I realise that I want a long term goal. Something to work on for the next months and years. Something that I fell I can't do without really putting energy and focus into it and that will takes me a few years to do. I have dont the exercice in the book and have set the following: In five years (summer 2019 aoutch), I will finish a triathlon. I have others goals that will lead to that so I can work on it step by step. This challenge will be my first small goal for the triathlon. Main quest : Getting in the right mindset for the triathlon. By the end of this challenge, There will be no doubt in my mind nor in the mind of my friends and family that I can ans WILL do a triathlon in 5 years. I already know how I am doing on a bike. In two shorts summer (short means I live in Saguenay, Canada), I have manage to ride 100k a few times. I now know that I can ride a metric century with little to no preparation. Pushing that bundary will be part of the summer challenge. Last fall, I have manage to achieve 10k 2 weeks in a row. I have then felt like I couldn't push more without more training. So manage a half-marathon will be part of next summer / fall training. The next thing is swimming... and THAT is where I have to start... because I can swim, and by swimming, I mean not sinking at the bothom of the swimming pool. But I have never really swam(besides at school... 10 years ago). When I have started to ride, I had to leasn hod to pedal, how to ajust my speed and so on. Same with running, I had (and still have) to learn how to run to avoid injuries, ajust my pace and speed to hold my 5 then 10k. I know I have to do this for swimming too. So that will be my main focus for this challenge. Mission 1: Swim at least one hour by week (str:2 + sta: 3) Misison 2: Build my avenger team. (wis: 3 + Cha 2) I have a few friends with whoom I have started a team caled Gamer Unleashed. They are great, but I don't feel like they will be enought to keep me acountable for my actions and would support and push me to go on when I will fell like droping this goal. By the end of the challenge, I will have at least 2 person who agreed to follow, guide and push me for the next 5 years (or at least part of it) and one of them should have experience in endurance sport so I can have a person to turn to if I need help instead of having to rely one websites. For that I will use this forum, talk about my goal to friends and family to see their reaction and use post about this goal on my blog to boost the visibility ( and makes sure that if I ever trop this goal, a lot of persons will see it... so I won't stop hoping that no one will notice). Mission 3: run on my bike at least one hour a week (indoor on a rooler) plus doing a full bodyweight workout of at least 15 minutes every day that I don't ride or swim, alowing myself on day off a week during the week end. (str: 2 + con 2) Life Quest: Make one change in my diet that I will stick with that will help me achieve my goal. On the first week I will do a journal of what I eat and analyse to make the change on week 2 (wis: 1) That is what I have for now. Thanks

I'm very new to the NF community and while I'm not sure the 6-week challenge format will work for me I'm hoping it will at least help me make some friends here. My theme for the challenge is The Blank Canvas. I've always been very bad at goal-setting because I'm easily paralysed by indecision and the enormity of committing to any one path, and that reminds me of the terror of a blank canvas or blank page. So this is me dipping a tentative toe in the goal-setting waters. Main Missions To run 5K shod without stopping or slowing to a walk by the end of January. To run 1K non-stop barefoot by the end of January. Side Missions Volunteer at a trail-running event in February to give myself some insight into how competitive running events work and get a sense of how to go about managing a longer run for myself, as well as network with other Perth runners. Research, and possibly make contact with, any group of barefoot runners in Perth, to ask questions about transitioning and hopefully get some encouragement so I don't give up on the whole barefoot thing. I'm feeling pretty demoralised by it. Goals To assist in achieving my main goals, I plan to maintain a 6-day exercise week. THIS HAS BEEN AMENDED - the current plan is in the quote box. - Fridays and Mondays will be (shod) running days, when I will complete at least a half-hour Zombies! Run! mission (preferably an hour). - Saturdays and Tuesdays will be biking days, when I will ride at least half an hour attempting to maintain an elevated heart rate, as far as practicable and safe (I'll be mostly riding around suburban streets). - Sundays and Wednesdays, I aim to walk/jog some distance barefoot to a nearby park (there are lots so distance will vary) to complete the Beginner Bodyweight Workout. This goal is tentative at this stage due to the demands of my job and my deep and utter loathing for the BBW. I know it features strengthening movements that will assist me in my aim to be a better runner, but if it has the effect of turning me to the dark side (i.e. hating the whole challenge) I will drop it unceremoniously.

Though it feels midway through a journey, this is a first step with getting involved with a community and holding myself accountable to my goals and making sure I get to a space I really would like to be in. My weight has fluctuated immensely throughout the past few years and I'm tired of blaming other events on something I control. Since moving back to Australia it has taken a bit to get back into the swing of fitness but I have gone from 122 kilos (approx 266 pounds) to 110 (242 pounds) But i definately still have a long way to go. I want the six week challenge to push me because in about 2 months time I will be going back to see my family in the USA and friends and I want to shock them with my reevaluation. That is why i have set myself these upcoming goals: Main Quest: 90 kilos! (198 pounds) To continue down this path I will - Continue to use the rebel fitness guide every other day (currently on a level 3 outcast0 - Run or walk every day - If I do go out for drinks with mates, I will only drink alcohol once a week but limit my intake to remove excess (In the past this is why my weight changes and gains so much) Life Quest: This isn't an advertisement or anything but I am in the process of starting an online music label with a friend of mine and I am yet to create a mix to post on our facebook page, my excuse? I don't know how to master and record my mixes to a high quality, by the end of the month I will finish a mix to post and distribute On a side note I think this life quest is fitness related but it is important to me: That I not only wow the people back in America but when I arrive in Vancouver I see my ex girlfriend (we split becasue of distance) and I want to wow her too with my transformation Pictures of progress will come I'm just in Uni right now so unable to get some snaps in the middle of the library haha As this is my first post Today I ran an episode of "Zombies Run" for about 5k (i think it was something like 4.89) with different intervals of speed Yesterday I had workout A of the outcast routine plus and episode of zombie run Tomorrow I will do the same thing but I will make sure to confirm that and not just say I will

Hello, all my fellow Adventurers! New here and pretty excited to do this! I really needed some motivation and was feeling too shy about how out of shape I am to even go into my local gym. (In fact if I had a Role Playing race, it'd probably be an orc, because I'm short and pudgy). I'm a former WoW player and currently a GW 2 addict and fell in love with this website with all of the gamer references. I feel like this new perspective of seeing fitness as a game and making it fun is definitely what I needed. I don't think I've ever been more excited about exercise. I've already talked to coworkers and fellow gamers to see if they'd get involved. Maybe one day they will...for now, I hope I can just rely on experienced Adventurers for pointers around here. I'm 5'2" and weigh 142 pounds. I would like to drop 12-14 pounds or at least drop a few pant sizes. I went from a size 5 only three years ago to a size 10 (and three months ago-I was a size 8). Most importantly, I just want to be healthy. I don't mind so much counting numbers as much as I am concerned about moving around physically. I've been stagnant for far too long and I can just feel the unhealthiness sinking in. It stops now. So, without further ado...here are my Goals for the 6 Week Challenge: Diet & Fitness Go on one hike a week - I feel like this is an achievable goal. I can start with short and basic hiking trails, then progress to longer and more challenging hikes by the sixth week. Cut out sweets & junk food - I eat too much junk. I love candy...I have a major sweet tooth. I would love to change my eating habits to be Paleo, but for now I have to start small....goodbye sweets! Complete a strength workout 3x a week - I've already tried some of the workouts here just to get the juices flowing. I love the Konami Code Workout. I feel like it's simple enough but can be adjusted to a more intense workout as I progress. I would like to alternate workouts per week, but definitely workout at least 3x a week (if not in the gym, then at home)Life Practice better time management - I am the worst at time management. I'm an assistant manager at a coffee house about an hour away from where I live. I somehow either fall behind during the day or finish on time, but want to stay long after clocking out to continue working. I need to keep better track of my time. I want to practice leaving at the time that I'm scheduled to leave (so I have more time for the husband, friends, and Nerd Fitness-of course).So, those are my goals and my first post. How am I doing so far? I'm really excited for this. Thanks for reading any and all. *edit: already messed up...oops, forgot to post name in title*

Morning, morning. So I stated in my introduction post I struggle with food, which seems to be the biggest problem everyone faces. What are some small food goals you adopted when you were first starting out to get over your hurdles? I know there are some small things I won't be able to completely get rid of (I love sugar. I'm sorry. I find it impossible to eliminte from my life entirely but I can get in control of my intake) but I at least want to be moving in the right direction. Thanks! ~ST