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April 23 to May 20 Routines are sexy. I read this sentence somewhere and wrote it down as a motto for this challenge. This challenge I’ll start writing my thesis and getting some data at school. I’ll have to keep the momentum of last challenge to get this task done and keep going for my studies. I’m curious how well I’ll handle these tasks. Goal One: no snacks! I’ve been snacking again. So I’ll try to cut the sugar again. No chocolate, chips, cookies, or other artificial stuff for me. If I really need something I only get a cocoa. I should look up, what sarakingdom wrote about the cocoa in one of her old challenges. Goal Two: Exercise Aiming for three workouts a week on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. I can try to get in a missed workout on Sunday, but I don’t want to make that a habit. Bonus: Go to classes 2 to 3 times a week. Goal Three: Study So it’ll be 25 Hours this challenge und I’ll try to get in 20 pages during this challenge. Let’s see, how that goes. I’ll need a page tracker. Some old habits I had accomplished and how well I did last month:

February 5 until March 11 So I decided to make 2018 my year and stumbled over this inspirational quote: The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. I want to achieve some things this year and change the things, that made me loathe 2017. I've to write a detailed reflection, but let's start for now. Last challenge I got overwhelmed again, by focusing on too many goals at once. So I’ll only track three goals. I’ll still try to stick to my old habits, but I won’t track them actively for now. Goal One: Self-care All work and no play makes Luciana a dull girl It’s important to plan nice things for myself and take breaks. At the end of each day I’ll reflect about this goal. This includes mediation, socializing, gratitude, etc. Pass/fail for reflecting and doing something against stress symptoms, when I notice them. Goal Two: Exercise I’ll try to do some workouts at home again. I’ll start with 20 minute sessions and hopefully I’ll be able to increase them. And I decided to schedule a specific number of exercises at the beginning of each week and for each workout I miss, I’ll put 3€ in my piggy bank. The money will be used for a one year membership, if I don’t get my stuff done regularly. Zero week: I’m scheduling five 20 minute workouts. I don’t have many appointments this week and I want to start this challenge strong as long as I’m motivated. This week I would like to do some sun salutations again and do the 8 brocades at least once. There are no classes for the next few weeks, so I'm following some instruction videos on youtube. Goal Three: Study During my last successful challenge I aimed for 15 hours a week and studied 16,5 hours on average every week. I managed to get the 30 hours in the first two weeks of the last challenge, but then I got overwhelmed. So maybe I shouldn’t aim for 30 hours and instead plan with 20 hours of study time. I’ll track this goal with my paper tracker and at least once a week I want to update my spreadsheet here. My last challenges’ goals were:

With this challenge I get back to level 10. So I had a few successful challenges and I've been slowly trying to get back into some kind of healthy routine. But now I want to try going back into the options and set the difficulty-level from easy to normal again. That means, I'll try to eat healthier and do more exercise and get in some more study time. For zero week I'll test out these goals and see, if I have to change anything. So I'm serving some hot new goals: Still love this gif ^^ Goal One: Food Overcome the Virus and scavage enough for food Since I changed my diet and incorporated moderate exercise, I haven't been getting sick so much anymore. Let's see, if this also helps when it's getting colder again. I'll start counting calories again and stop snacking. I don't want to gain more weight and also I want to have an eye on what I eat, because it will get more stressfull the closer my exams draw. - 5 portions of freggies - 3l of water - count calories - no snacks until December... Only birthday cakes, if I get invited to any parties. Goal 2: Exercise Don't let them outrun you For morning routine it's all right, if I get it in. Just do something for 20 minutes. If I get up earlier, I'll do more. But for now I just want to keep the momentum and try to stick to my new found routine during my new schedule. There are a few days, where I have to get out quite early, so it doesn't make any sense to do more days with this routine. But I can try to extend the sessions a little on the other days. And I'll try out Aikido this challenge. Let's see how it goes. - morning routine 3 times a week (5 tibetans, yoga, sometines also stationary bike for 20 minutes. It depends on when I get up and how much time I've left) - visit at least two sport classes a week (Tai Chi, Yoga, Aikido, ...) - go out and walk at least 5km a day on 6 days a week (I won't take my bfs gradfathers offer to drive me around) Goal 3: Study Get your stuff done and don't give in the lethargy There's some intense stuff going on this semester. So I'll have to up my numbers. - at least 30 hours a week (includes time I spent at university and drawing for my art exam.) Bonus: To-Do-Lists at least one item a day Bonus: meditation

I'm not watching the current Game of Thrones season, so I'll not make this an GoT theme, although the title fits. I hape my paper will finished before the new book anyway. Can't afford to study so long. And I have to hand in my 20 to 25 pages by the end of the month anyway. Gosh... I should have started earlier. Last challenge didn't go so well. But I didn't finish playing yakuza yet. With all the studying I had to do, I couldn't really put much time into playing video games. So let's just copy and paste some stuff. ^^ Time for a new challenge! I'll mostly continue with the same goals. And I'm not going to change the names. So when I get back for a long retrospective at the end of the year, I'll know, that I sticked to the same old routine. Goal One: Overcome the Virus and scavage enough for food In yakuza zero you have to get ramen and other food to sustain yourself. And you get money by fighting against goons in the streets. It feels so much like the old GTA games combined with streets of rage or Tekken. Goals drink 3l a day and more when I get exercise (track in plant nanny) 3 portions of freggies (paper tracker) reduce unhealthy snacks and take away (not more then once a week, paper tracker) ==> aim for six good eating days a week. And for the beginning of the challenge I'll try to not eat any sweets for as many consecutive days as possible. Bonus: Try out some new recipes and post them in the forum. Goal Two: Don't let them outrun you almost every day: walking or another cardio Bonus: establish morning routine: 20 minutes sun salutations, 5 Tibetans and 10 minute meditation. I try to get it in at least three times a week Goal Three: Get your stuff done and don't give in the lethargy Study 15 hours a week again. Bonus for writing at least five pages a week on my paper Goal Four: To Do List Adulting like a pro! I'm going to write to-do-lists again and set priorities. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Challenge Retrospektive Goal One: Overcome the Virus and scavage enough for food Grade: 66,25%, B (Last challenge: 75%, B ) Couting calories really didn't go so well. I'll try to focus on not snacking this time and try counting calies again in September. Goal Two: Don't let them outrun you Grade: 89%, A (last challenge: 86%, A) Did get in some walking, but sticking to my morning routine didn't go so well. Let's try again. At least once a week would be an improvement. Goal Three: Get your stuff done and don't give in the lethargy Grade: 95%, A+ (last challenge: 118%, A) At least I did get my stuff done and didn't miss any deadlines. Goal Four: To Do List I'll try to write a to do list every week. But I forgot to track this gal last challenge. FINAL CHALLENGE GRADE: Goal 1: ~54% ~B (failed extra goal) Goal 2: ~70% ~B (failed extra goal) Goal 3: ~ 93% ~A ~72% = B

Hey you guys, remember when I became the best male wrestler in history last spring/summer and continued the Undertaker's Wrestlemania win streak? That was fun, wasn't it? So this year I am trying to achieve this: Wait, no - not the healthy butt. Although of course P:BA (achieve the best ass in England not including Greater London) is still very much a goal. My quest for this year is to beat the record for holding the Divas title. The current record belongs to Nikki Bella and her reign was 301 days. (hey, if WWE can completely forget about The Fabulous Moolah's 8 year reign then so can I). I have to perform on every TV show (Raw, NXT and Smackdown), as well as every televised special (eg Beast in the East) and PPV. In order to perform, I have to complete a cardio session - usually a 40 minute elliptical session for every day the TV show airs. I can move these days around if I need to but the idea is that I will 'perform' every Monday (Raw), Wednesday (NXT) and Thursday (Smackdown). I have created a roster of 50 female wrestlers, all the current batch, along with some important ones from yesteryear and each person has an exercise session attached to them. For every show I perform on, I roll dice to determine if it will be a title defence, and if it is, I have to complete that wrestler's exercise session in addition to my own cardio in order to retain the belt. I also have to perform at every PPV and televised special where there is always a title defence. I have to do this for at least 302 days beginning 4th January so this challenge should take me up to 1st November 2016. These rules will stand even when I am not on a challenge. This is my main fitness quest that will determine the cardio element of my workout schedule for most of this year. ONTO THE CHALLENGE! Goal One - Wake up, it's Feeding Time When combined with intermittent fasting, IIFYM is like supercharging my fat burning furnaces so I will calorie count and eat whatever I want as long as it fits my macros. Stick to calories every day - graded as a percentage Goal Two - Don't be a Lemon! I have never been convinced on the 8 glasses a day thing. All it seems to do is make me pee all the time, so my goal is to drink 5 glasses of approved liquids (shut up, Scotty) which includes herbal/green tea and water. I also want to eat 3 portions of freggies a day - scaled down from my usual 5 because I fast. Graded as a percentage based on days passed. Goal Three - Never Give Up I have populated my training schedule with my title defences, the Doodlies workout-based challenges and P:BA and NF Yoga so all I need to do is make sure I follow it. Graded as a percentage based on days passed. Goal Four - DON'T YOU DARE BE SOUR! This year I am really making efforts to check my negative self talk and leave that shit in 2015. I am going to work towards a more positive way of viewing myself and the world around me. Every day, I will ask myself if sunbeams are coming out of my face today, and if they are, I get a big ol' tick for that day. Also graded as a percentage based on days passed. The pass rate for each goal is 75% so if I achieve that I can have full points in each. I am not sure how the stats are going to work going forward with the new character thing but the idea is points are scaled down for anything I get under 75%. I am also doing two more adventures - firstly, I am trying KonMari (YOU'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE, TERAH!) and I am also trying a different method of scheduling my time with my Passion Planner. In addition to this, I am trying to knock off tasks from the Roadmap I made last year and although not worth points this challenge I am going to document all of that here because if I try to do it on a Battle Log I end up just ignoring it in favour of the challenges and it ends up looking all sad and neglected. So I think that's it. Mega shout out to DarK_RaideR for helping me brainstorm ways to make this challenge more awesome although he might notice I left a lot of amazing stuff out (guess what my mega challenge will be next year? ) Another special mention goes to Doc Viking for services to excellent booties. Let's do this thing!