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Greetings and Salutations Fellow Adventurers! You had me at the Star Wars opening theme in the mini-quest Hiraedd. My main quest: To increase my endurance, strengthen and tone my flabby post-two children body. I want to inspire my kids to be active, healthy, and physically fit. I want my family to have a sustainable and healthy lifestyle. Part 1: Do the beginners strength training/body weight work out twice a day three times a week. (+2 STR, +2 STA) 1a) I will do the BBWW on Tuesday, Thursdays, and Saturdays 1b) One circuit will be done either in the morning after I wake up or during my Lunch break at work, the second will be done in the evening. Part 2: Do interval training a la Steve's recommendations on alternate days from the beginners body weight strength training (three times a week). Outside if weather permits. (+2 STA) 2a) This will be done during my Lunch break on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Part 3: Exercise/Play with my children each day for at least 30 min, preferably outside (weather permitting). (+2 WIS, +2 CHA, +2 DEX) 3a) I hope by getting them outside to play for a half hour with me they will better understand the importance of physical fitness and maybe, just maybe go to sleep easier at night. Life quest: Maintain the budget that I set up in my first challenge, and pay off $500.00 of credit card debt. (+3 WIS) Motivation: I only have one family, one body, and one life. I plan to maximize the use and enjoyment that I get out of it. I will track my goals using my favorite tracking tool ever - a spreadsheet! I'm tracking it fully on a .xlsx, but I cannot upload the file to share with the limits of from the message board. Date Net Calorie intake Day of week Workout Play with Kids? Notes4/12/2014 2242 Saturday None No Example/In-between Challenges I use MyFitnessPal as my calorie tracker. I've been using it since last July and have lost 25 lbs using its method/madness. If I become injured (I had back trouble in the first challenge), I will do all that I safely can do without causing further injury. Since I do not have any specific calorie goals, I am not too worried about celebrations/cheat days, etc. I'm just tracking my calories using MFP because I'm data driven like that. My dietary requirements post-accident cause me to focus on whole foods and minimum processed foods/sugars, etc. If I eat badly, I pay for it physically so I am extra motivated to not eat crap. *Edit* As for how I will grade myself - it will be a pass/fail on a daily basis - I either did what I said I'll do or I did not. Each component will get a simple letter grade with notes as to why felt I deserved that grade. With my .xlsx tracker I have a daily grade for each behavior, and then I'll average out the grades for the whole challenge. */Edit*