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My goal this year was to complete as many 4 week challenges as I could, to keep the momentum going from my main, vague goals this year - to lift more, to eat more healthily, to write more, to do more yoga, to declutter my life and to save money for my big trip at the end of the year. So far it has not quite gone as planned but fear not! I will carry on. This is my first foray into the guild of the Warriors! I'm excited and nervous. I don't really feel like a lifter yet. I want to lift heavy but I don't want to hurt myself, and I'm tight on finances so I don't have a coach or anything. But I feel like I have the heart of a warrior. And I know you guys are Nerd Fitness, so you'll be amazingly awesome and nice and all that jazz. To the goals! GOAL 1: LIFTING This is my main goal, so I will be focusing on this one if my willpower fades and I have to drop some of the others. I'm following the Rebel Strength guide (Barbell Battalion) and week one of this challenge will be week 4 of rank 1. Like I said, I don't really feel like a lifter yet because it feels like I'm lifting quite light weights. But I'm going slowly and increasing every week, and I know that if I can keep up this habit, I'll be lifting heavy further down the road, rather than recovering from injury. I hope. (This is mainly what I'm telling myself when I'm in the gym next to someone who's doing reps of full pull ups and I'm over here using assistance bands or whatever. Slowly but surely. Be the hare. All that.) GOAL 2: EATING My aim is to prep lunches and breakfasts every week and to eat everything that I prep. I don't want to waste food, and I want to eat well. This is usually where I fall off the wagon first, because I'm an emotional eater and I eat when I'm bored and I basically have a lot of issues with food. Again: slowly but surely. Yesterday I forgot my lunch. The day before I ate a different (non-paleo) breakfast. I'm giving myself some leeway, so that I don't accidentally eat a whole ice cream cake. GOAL 3: YOGA I have a couple of issues with my neck and back and I'm slowly coming to the realisation that I have to work on mobility all the time because if I just work on it occasionally, I'll feel better for a few weeks and then it gets even worse than it was in the beginning. So I'm trying to do one Nerd Fitness Yoga workout per week for this challenge, with a view to moving to more in the future. GOAL 4: WRITING I have a blog! EatCraftNerd.com. I write it with my sister. It's basically about all the things we like - crafting, beauty, nerdy stuff, food and world issues. I'm probably going to fit in some fitness related stuff, too. I already reviewed Level Up Your Life on there But on the whole my writing is patchy and sporadic. I want to write a blog post a week for the next four weeks. GOAL 5: DECLUTTER I just had a big tidy up of my room, with thanks to my mum for helping out/kicking me up the butt/vacuuming for me. For this challenge I want to pull out and recategorise my fiction books. GOAL 6: SAVING I'm doing pretty well in this area at the moment and I want to continue. My goal is to save $150 per week for this challenge. I have an automatic transfer set up for $100 per week and I want to see if I can do more than that. At the moment I'm only working part time so the challenge is to see if I can pick up a few more shifts and sell some of my old stuff to add to my USA fund. I'm heading to Camp Nerd Fitness and extending my travels a bit so having that as a motivator really helps me. I really love encouragement from people but I kinda suck at interacting on the forums so if anyone wants to come say hi, I'll check out your feeds on here as well and I'd love to connect on Facebook or by email or whatever as well. Feel free to give suggestions and tips! I go to uni and I work and have a social life but I'm determined to be healthy with my weird schedule and limited free time.