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Fitness: Signed up to works once weekly soccer today, it is Monday nights starting today. This is part of a deal swung with the boyfriend, I play soccer once a week and he lifts weights/does kettlebells with me once a week! So those two will happen weekly. Found out on Halloween the dog gained 20 lbs in the past year, not a good look on a 7 year old great dane that started out at 130 lbs. So I'm putting him on a controlled intake diet from free feeding but I want to start walking/running him once a week. I need to get some reflective gear for him, his boots are reflective but we learned last week he doesn't like running in those. Or running with his poop tied to his collar. Food: I tried paleo M - F but then I just super overly binged on weekends. Instead I'm going to say all day every day I get one and only one non-paleo part of a meal or snack. If I eat two non-paleo snacks I get 20 bent over rows per arm and if I eat a non-paleo meal I get 20 burpees. I did this for a week and I felt good but I don't feel like I'm at all accountable >< mostly because the boyfriend just laughs at me while I do burpees and the dog just gets in the way and I don't track when I get busy... need to work on this. Stress: Work is really frustrating me lately. I'm not sure what to do because I really enjoy my job but my employer is becoming challenging, we've always been a pretty laid back office but they've hired a GM from the automotive industry and let's just say typically professionals are trusted to be responsible adults and make good decisions and the anomalies are treated on a case by case basis. This GMs approach is to create enough rules and make them clear enough that we don't need to think for ourselves and we feel untrusted. All I can think of to do is start morning meditation but I'm open to suggestions. Life Goal: I need to write up my statement of experience for work so I can apply for my license and get a 2% raise. In the next 5-weeks I need to sit down and do at least half of my statement of experience so I can apply. I also need to reign in my finances, I feel like over the past couple months I've done real bad with my money and it's stressing me out, I wake up at night thinking about it.

A new challenge already? Sheize. My goals are changing... I still ultimately want to get to and stay at 20% but my focus is still on fitness. I'm trying to do 2 workouts a week entailing ST & cardio, each one has a heavy emphasis on one and light on the other. I have roughly 2 months to complete preperations for Tough Mudder. That's 18 clicks with various obstacles. My fitness has improved but I struggle to keep a good routine and eat well. So we'll see what happens.

Ok! Challenge number two! Many people built healthy habits in challenge one but I don't feel like I'm where I want to be right now. I improved my eating by switching a lot of my meals to paleo but as Nia Shanks recommends I'd like to be 90/10. I also need to change my approach to my fitness goals. They'll be the same as my last challenge but I want to change my mindset. Previously my approach was (unwritten) ST M|W|F and Cardio~ish T|T. This past week I've been testing out the "what did I do yesterday?" If it's nothing I'm going to try to do ST, same if it was Cardio~ish. If it was ST then I'll do a cardio~ish but my main goal is not cardio, I want to lift heavier things for my next challenge so I'm leading up to that now! Life wise what's holding me back from my goals is finances and self sabotage with my money. I have a line of credit that needs to be paid down so I can save for a house. I've done up a budget and I think by the end of this challenge I can pay half of it off if I stick strictly to that budget! GOALS IN BLACK AND WHITE: 1) Fitness: ST 3 x / wk & cardio~ish (movement of some sort) 2 x / wk Grading: A - 5 total/wk B - 4 C - 3 D - 2 F - or 0 2) Eating (mmmm food): Record 3 meals a day and snacks as being paleo or not. Aim is for 90% of meals paleo. Grading: A - 90% B - 80% C - 70% D - 60% F - <60% 3) Life up! Pay off half my line of credit by sticking to my budget. Grading: A - 100% of half B - 75% C - 50% D - 25% F <25% To date I've paid off 43% of my line of credit, or 86% of my goal. I've submitted some expense claims that I plan on putting on my line of credit but I don't think they'll come in before the end of this challenge so I've earned a B in this category. Next challenge for sure I think I can wipe out this line of credit, boo ya! Food wise we seem to have gotten our household into a reasonably good routine of buying and eating paleo (because when we started this I donated non-paleo foods to my friends and I buy only paleo on the groceries) but I struggled with recording my meals so I'm going to give myself a C for this because I so miserably failed at keeping track >< I wish google drive was more user friendly for android phones because then I could record as I do it... but maybe I'll try a different tack next time! Fitness changed a bit but I'm still not in a routine... Next challenge I think I'll set the goal of working out in the mornings, I think this may be my key to success. Maybe start with once per week then twice per week then thrice increasing every two weeks? We'll see For now I'm giving myself a C for this because I could have done a lot better.

The 6-week challenge is rapidly approaching and I've taken some time to establish some goals for myself! I'll work more on my character this weekend but for now we have: 1) Bodyweight training activity thrice per week. To start I'm going basic beginners bodyweight training that was e-mailed from Steve to me but I have a groupon where I got a really sweet deal on yoga so I may sub that in once a week for my body weight training. I would also like to do some kind of body movement two days a week whether it be walking, intervals, biking, something! Grading: 5 days of strength & movement - A 4 days - B 3 days - C 2 days - D 1 or 0 - F 2) Paleo eating. I'm going to clean out the fridge and cupboards of non-paleo food! I want to change my diet 100% but since I just started this last week I think a good objective is 75% paleo, no grains, dairy only when it comes to cream in my 1 cup of coffee/day, no refined sugar. That works out to 5 days, hopefully my two days I eat grains are not consecutive! Grading: 5 days - A 4 days - B 3 days - C 2 days - D 1 or 0 - F LIFE GOAL! 1) Completely move the remainder of my possessions out of my mothers basement! Failure is not an option on this one, I've mostly moved in with my boyfriend but one cannot know how annoying it is to need something and realize it is in a box in your mothers basement until it's happened to you. Grading: Boxes and furniture all moved and unpacked - A Boxes and furniture all moved - BSome boxes moved but not furniture or vice versa - CNothing or few items moved - F Bonus points if the headboard/frame I started gets both moved and assembled/stained! A derivative goal of #1 & #2 is that I'd like to lose an inch off the circumference of my bum so I can fit into the same shorts I wore last summer. I don't care about poundage just fitness but from fitness comes a healthier shape! Measurements to come on Sunday evening!