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I am a 24 year old uni student still figuring out how to do everything I want to do in my life and fighting the procrastination monster and some major energy suckage. I wish I could do everything but there’s not enough time in the day or energy in my body. Main Quest - Find some sort of life balance, feel good in my body and in my professional life. Goals: 1. Complete the Ultimate You challenge! Ultimate You is a gym and training facility that runs a weightloss challenge called 9 in 6. Basically, you try to lose 9 kilos in 6 weeks to get some wins on the board and to get you motivated to continue with a healthy lifestyle. It contains a few parts: Part A – go to 5 classes a week STA 3 STR 2 They have at least six classes a day during the week and a few on Saturdays as well. With my schedule I should be able to complete this part of the challenge, even though it takes a little while to get to the training facility. I’m counting on the community aspect of the Ultimate You challenge to help me to commit to these classes. I’m confident that if I get to the classes I’ll be able to give them my all. Part B – eat according to the nutrition plan CON 3 It’s dairy free and gluten free, and although I don’t have access yet (I’ll update when I know exactly what’s going on) the general gist I got was that it’s mostly paleo with cycled carbs, I’m guessing from rice and sweet potatoes and things like that. It sounded pretty whole foods based which I am definitely up for. EDIT: I will be eating 6 small meals a day, including mostly proteins + veggies. steak and veggies, chicken and veggies, fish and veggies, etc. I will also be drinking a green smoothie once a day and drinking some protein shakes. There are a lot of no no foods, but I'm not focussing on those. Part C – Community building and support CHA 2 Community building! I mentioned that I’m going to count on this to help me out, because I really need people IRL to encourage me to keep going. I can tend to jump into things and then flake out later so I really will be needing the encouragement. I do want to get other friends to encourage and be encouraged by after the challenge is finished, so I’ll be posting here quite a lot, too, as well as on the Aussie Nerdfighters facebook page and the page for the Ultimate You challenge. My boyfriend is also really encouraging I also have to email updates to my trainer once a week, so that will be hella motivating. 2. Do yoga once a day! CON 1 STR 1 DEX 1 Nerd Fitness yoga as much as possible, but otherwise a few decent salutes to the sun before bed is okay. The point is to get used to stretching, and to work into a decent before bed routine. I love yoga and I used to be really flexible, and I want to get into weight training more after the challenge so I know I’ll need the support yoga gives me. 3. Finish the semester well! WIS 2 I want to go to classes, finish assignments and maybe even make some friends in my classes. It’s past the halfway point now but there’s no reason I shouldn’t give it my all now. Education is important! I've had anxiety in the past and it's hard to make friends because I'm only in second year but I'm a few years older than most of my classmates. So this is hard but it'll be really good.