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Welcome to the adventures of the Queen of Diamonds, otherwise known as the Other Red Queen! Don't worry, I'm the good one ;-) I'm full of love and enthusiasm, with just a hint of snark. None of that "off with her head" garbage from me! Unless you deserve it.... Anyway! My journey brought me to live in Bavaria, Germany this year. While I've been here I've refocused on creating a shiny new and exciting life for myself, which involves losing 60lbs or so and developing some cool hobbies. Status: I'm 30 lbs down, and have been adventuring around central Europe! Primary Goal: Lose Weight This challenge I want to focus on getting from 195 to 185 before I leave for my 2,000km cycle tour on August 10th. Dropping that will make the ride easier! To get there: 1. Continue "Keto-Primal" 90% of the time. I started a "primal" diet in January, but have been very inconsistent. I dropped from 225 to 210 in one bout of seriousness, and from 210 to 205 in another....but they were months apart and involved gaining much of the lost weight back inbetween. All I felt was tired and unsuccessful. Its been a couple weeks on the Keto version of that real-food primal diet, and I finally feel great! I also started crossfit at that time. I finally fit into some smaller clothes! Note: The 10% is the odd day with 30-50 total carbs not a carbtastic extravaganza! 2. Track all the food! 3. Crossfit 3x a week (okay okay this isn't really for weight loss....It just makes me happy and feel strong! I'd rather drag muscle around the North Sea than Fat!) 4. Walk every day Goal 2: Learn some more German: I live here for another year...I need to take advantage of it 1. Enroll in classes (check) 2. ATTEND classes (follow through!) 3. Use Duolingo and Memrise daily 4. Set Rosetta Stone up. Use it. 4x a week. 5. Suck it up and actually speak to people. In German.

Hey y'all! We three got in on my original thread about needing accountability so I made this thread for public discussion about anything to do with our weight loss goals and the journey to get there. I dont think we should limit ourselves to just talking here but it's a start where we can all come to talk about anything to do with our day: ups/downs, success at the gym or scale, maybe a slip up and get support for all of it! This will be the most public so we can get support from each other and anyone else who'd like to join. I'll post more later, but this'll do to start. 'Merica in the house!

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Ok, here we go! Hobbit Adventurer Looking to Become an Assassin with some Druid and Monk capabilities This is a big transition period in my life. In less than three weeks, I'm moving to a different country. Last week, I graduated college. In the last six months, I've incurred and dealt with (both healthily and unhealthily... well, mostly unhealthily) a broken heart. In the last year, I had major knee surgery. I was with my ex so long (six years) that I hadn't really done any "adult" dating before them, and now I'm in my late 20s without a clue. It's been a real ride, and I've discovered two things: I want to be more flexible and able-bodied so that I can do fun physical things with new potential partners (yes, this includes sex), and I need to do some serious self-loving and learn to find and appreciate and really love my body (and my brain, but I don't have as far to go with that aspect). I want to know and love and use my body for myself AND for others. I injured my knee about ten years ago, and since then it's been several operations and lots of declining physical activity. Now my knee isn't perfect but it's much, much better than before. I tried to start running and hurt my heel (whoops), so I have to learn to have patience with myself and just lay off the legs a bit more. I need to be kind to myself, and think things through, and not stress or worry about making myself look active or evaluating myself harshly against others who don't have the same profile I do. I need to have fun and celebrate and explore myself (which is the purpose of this challenge, for me). If my goals don't seem attainable or would realistically need to be tweaked somehow, please mention it! I am (obviously) new to this. · 100 Breath Meditation - 4 times a week o http://kevinrose.com/100-breath-meditation Grading Scale A - 4 times a week B - 3 times a week C - 2 times a week D - 1 time a week F - 0 times a week Average A gains STA 3, B gains 2, C gains 1 · Flexibility Training - 4 times a week o Yoga - Surya Namaskara A & B (Ashtanga Primary Series) o Six Weeks to Splits § http://www.unique-bodyweight-exercises.com/splits.html Everything I look at is for the front/back splits, but I was hoping to do straddle/center splits. Someone should tell me if there’s a program out there for this! Grading Scale A - 4 times a week B - 3 times a week C - 2 times a week D - 1 time a week F - 0 times a week Average A gains DEX 5, B gains 4, C gains 3, D gains 2, F gains 0 · Pushup Progression – 3 days a week o Right now I can do zero. By the end of this challenge, I would like to be able to do five perfect pushups. I think this is attainable, right? Grading Scale A - 3 times a week B - 2 times a week C - 1 time a week D - 0 times a week F - 0 times a week Average A gains STR 4, B gains 3, C gains 2, D gains 1 · 64 ounces of water intake - 7 days a week o Simple. Drink it. It makes your skin nice and your joints move and your throat not hurt! Grading Scale A - 7 times a week B - 5 times a week C - 3 times a week D - 1 time a week F - 0 times a week Average A gains CON 3, B gains 2, C gains 1 Beginning Stats (STR): 1 (DEX): 1 (STA): 1 (CON): 2 (WIS): 4 (CHA): 6 --- Useful links that have been posted in this thread! http://gymnastics.about.com/od/trainingadvice/ss/centersplit.htm'> about.com’s How to Do a Center Split http://www.unique-bodyweight-exercises.com/splits.html'> A kind of terribly put together site for stretches that help get you to the (front) splits http://www.goldmedalbodies.com/crow-pose/'> Gold Medal Bodies’ Mastering the Crow Pose (yoga) http://www.thesecretsofyoga.com/ashtanga/Dristhi.html'> Explanation of dristhi (yoga) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t46jMhp6pjQ'> Demonstration of the knees-chest-chin progression for chaturanga (yoga) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caSIo6Rw0Bg'> Chaturanga alignment video (yoga) http://kevinrose.com/100-breath-meditation'> Kevin Rose’s 100 breath meditation http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2011/02/15/proper-push-up/'> Steve’s article on how to do a proper pushup http://phraktured.net/molding-mobility.html'>Phraktured.net’s Molding Mobility guide for warming up to and helping with pushups Inclune pushups guide Pushup Technique Improvement Demonstration of good arm form for pushups (you don’t need the product they’re showing) Gold Medal Bodies’ Mastering the basic pushup http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K7rv_vFOWM/ Spiderman Crawl