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Hi guys, Time for our 3rd meetup (this year) in beautiful Sydney, Australia, home of many more meetups than Melbourne ever manage Everyone is welcome to attend. Date: Tuesday 12th August Time: 6:30pm Venue: Hurricane's Grill, Darling Harbor Confirmed so far: Endor, Yuen, BarefootDawsy Witness the marvel of our very own HufflePuff Warrior @Yuen eating a whole cow and 2 sets of pork ribs! Witness the majesty of the fabled scout leader @BarefootDawsy running away from a plate of prawns in sheer terror But most of all come and enjoy some good food and the company of fellow Nerds for an evening. Hope to see you there. @suguru

Holle enters, quietly, Jedi shields up, so no one will see her. "What are you doing here?" she mutters to herself, looking around nervously. "I've got a really bad feeling about this," the Raven on her shoulder mutters. "Shut up!" she snaps, a little too loudly. People turn to look. "Now look what you've done!" she chastises the bird. He cackles a laugh, almost falling off her shoulder. Feeling him shift, she gently puts her hand up to steady him. Holle sighs, then swallows hard as a dark haired woman glides across the room towards them. In silence, the two watch her close in on them. "Welcome," she says, quite pleasantly. "I didn't know if you were going to show up or not." Holle paused, trying to find words that wouldn't make her sound too stupid in this uncommon territory. "uh, neither did I." * fail * "Relax, have you formulated a goal?" Holle sighed, nervously, "To start making goals," she shrugged. "All my life I've just been doing what I was told.. I think it's time to start thinking for myself, and actually WANT something. " The woman laughed, "Don't you want anything?" Holle shrugged, "All my needs are met. But I cannot help but wonder... The Herald cries that I should level-up my life, not just "settle."" "Are you ready to grow, then?" she smiled. "I.. I don't think I have a choice." "Very well, then. Do you have a physical goal?" "To not be so pathetic.. I'm not very strong, and I get out of breath too easily." "So you wish to begin with strength and endurance, perhaps.?" Holle nods, grateful that she could put it into words for her. "So how is your eating?" "Well, it could be better. I think I will try to cut out more of the sugar. I usually avoid it pretty well, but there is still room for improvement. And no more butter or cheese." "So, you want to cut out sugar & dairy, how about allowing 1 carb item per day as your maximum?" "That sounds like something attainable." Holle nods in agreement. "How much exercise do you get?" "I am on my feet all day..." She tried to tuck in the exasperation she felt at that response, but Holle could feel it. "I'm sorry, I was whining, wasn't I?" Holle regrouped, "it was my New Years resolution to stop whining. I stretch in the mornings, but I wouldn't call it a workout. I have lots of routines left by The Herald, but I never seem to actually do one." "So, can you try to do a full work out, say, once a week?" she offered. Holle thought about it. "That sounds so lame.... " She shook her head, gently, "Once is more than zero." she offered. "Very well then. Actually work out once a week for 6 weeks. Maybe then I will see that it's not as big a deal as I'm making it in my head." "We are making progress! One more goal for now, to make it 3. What would you like to work on?" Holle shifted & looked around the room. There were a lot of people, with a lot of different conversations going on. "How about if we get you in here, about every other day, and you make some friends!" "Friends?" Holle squeaked. She nodded, "yes Ma'am. You need some accountability." "Very well... actually talk to other people.." "It's not as dangerous as it sounds," she soothed. Holle was emboldened by her new friends' straight forward attitude. "And you know what, I think I'm ready for a career change. I'm going to start looking around for something a little more fulfilling than my hum-drum just-settle line of work." "There you go! You're thinking higher already!" "Now if I can just maintain this.." Holle thought to herself.

I'm starting later, because I was in a bit of a funk. Those happen During the mini-challenge, I did a bunch of push-ups, and I really liked how it feels to have a bit more muscle in the shoulder region again. Being a bit stronger and having a bit more muscle just feels.. physically good? This is a thing I want. So, I think this challenge is a good time for me to get serious about doing body-weight exercises again. Also, erhm, I kinda finally got over the idea that "guys will not like me when I look strong, oh no" I don't care anymore. This kind of thinking is blocking my fun. Some goals that are doing the opposite of that: - Strong Nyxy: Push-ups and body weight squats. because I like those. A calendar will be hung on the wall to check how often I do some kind of workout session it, according to the do-it-or-mark-it thing I did last challenge. Thus, there are no goals regarding how often I do things. Following that same attitude, I'll try to determine what is enough activity for one workout session for me by setting no goals, but just writing down what I do - Curious Nyxy That thing I do for my back? I feel ready to try to make it harder. right now it looks like this: I'm pretty sure I could move back into the direction of doing a bridge, if I want. But, the goal is to kind of play around and see how different progressions/variants of these moves feel This can join with the rest of my workout stuff, really. - Relaxed Nyxy I will continue doing the exercises that were in my anti-shyness workbook. I almost got trough the whole thing last challenge, it might be good to reread some parts and see what that does for me, especially because it made a big difference for me already :) I'm counting this as a physical goal, because of how much it reduces my stress, like is argued for in this super great video: - Eloquent Nyxy I made a small stack of cards to learn more Serbian. Just HAVING the cards seems to convince me "Serbian Vocabulary" is a fun thing to play while having a tea. The goal is simple: turn that list of words I have into cards completely, so I end up with a little stack of things to say. It will prevent stuff like today's chicken incident. Since the goal itself is some kind of handwork involving scissors and markers, it's very attainable, if I end up learning serbian as a consequence, good. There's like, no pressure here.

How's it going people? Im an 18 (150 pound) year old high school senior, who is ready to change his life. For the past few months, i've been going through the same routine: Get up, go to school, come home. get on the computer, go to sleep. The funny thing is, that I have been doing weghttraining since last month, but I haven't been puting max effort, in both the gym and my diet. I could push for one last rep, but I never do, or I could eat another meal, but I say it doesn't matter. Since i've been skinny all my life, I always make excuses like, "Oh I just have bad genetics" or "I'm just not made to build muscle". It's pathetic I know, but I'm ready to change that. I'm so glad that I found Nerd Fitness, because I really like the energy of the community; everyone seems to want to cheer each other on and grow together.I want to be like you guys a improve my life too( while I still have the health and time to do it). I don't wan't to be 70 years old lving a miserable life, going through the same motions I was at 18, still wishing that I could get up and do something with myself. I'm gonna make a change in all aspects of my life (socially, phyiscally, emotionally, mentally). I'll look back on my life, old as shit and say, "I love the life i've been able to live". My Main Quest I want to build overall size strength, and flexibilty. I don't desire to be ridicuosly huge, but I would like to have a nice body to compliment and represent the hard work I put in the gym.In addition to that, I'd love to increase my flexibilty, because honestly, I just think being flexible is cool haha. To Achieve these Goals: I will take part in a full body resistance training routines(Mon,Wed,Fri) that consist of mostly compound movements .I will make it my best effort to eat at least 2500 calories a day, or atleast as many calories I can eat each day.I will take part in yoga at home to increase my felxibility and range of motion. Life Side Quests For basically all of my life, i've always been that quiet shy guy. It has never been a ridicously detrimental thing to my life, but inmany situations, it's kept me from speaking to people, voicing my opinions, asking questions, and showing my true self. Sometimes I fear what people will think of me, so i'll hold certain aspects of myself back. I want to break away from that shyness, and show more of who I am to the world! I want to be able to carry on a great conversation with someone, or ask a quesiton in class and not feel stupid. I don't know how i'm going to exactly change thay, but I will take some type of step to improve.Motivation My motivation is simple. I want to be proud of something that no one can take away from me, my body. i want to be proud of myself and what i've avvomplished. I want to inspire others, and show them that if a guy like me can improve, you can too! If you actually take the time to read this, thank you. I hope that I can make you proud.

Hey Rebels, My name is Manar and I live in Chi-town( or as many of you possibly know as Chicago). I am now a 26 year old, 225 lbs man but here is the catch: one year ago, I weighed 325 lbs!! I set myself a big goal by wanting to lose 100lbs in the first year. I thought it was impossible at first, but I kept having faith and believing in myself, and now I did it all on my own. I always wanted to be healthier and stronger and finally I decided at 25 years old that I have reached rock bottom and I wanted to change my life to the better. I figured since everything else in my life is messed up and not going as planned, why not take control of the one thing I can actually take control of and start working out to look better? It took a while before I saw any results, but I expected that after I did a bunch of researches online. I did not let that kill my motivation. I kept setting up small goals for myself and developed the determination to achieve those goals. I never want to go back to where I was and I think being a rebel will help me stay motivated and more determined than ever to reach my next goals and stay there. I want to be about 175 lbs or so with 10% body fat by next year. That's my next big goal but I broke it down to smaller monthly goals. I realize I need to start working harder to get to my next goal, which is why i was searching the web and finally found this awesome site to help me get there. I did it the first year alone and it was very difficult, but at least I don't have to do it all alone anymore