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The War on Sugar continues. I've lost a few battles here and there but I'm slowly winning the war, and this challenge is dedicated to keeping up recent momentum to continue gaining ground. My strategy has always been to control what I put in the (largest) hole in my face, to beat my body into submission with copious strength and cardio exercise, and to recover properly with nightly sleep and timely breaks in the program. I see no reason for drastic changes right now. I'm still in the final third of my previous six-week program which will wrap up at the end of challenge week 1, and at that time I'll prepare a new program with minor tweaks to the individual goals. Unless it proves too confusing, that is. We'll see how this all pans out. Drink. I'm only drinking water, all day every day. I don't do coffee or tea, so if I let myself get mindless about beverages then I'll be completely undisciplined with sodas, which are my favorite alternative to water. Until I reach a sustainable body composition I'm keeping it strictly to H2O. Club sodas are permitted, but anything with calories and anything with artificial sweeteners is forbidden. Eat. I'll be programming my usual zig-zag calorie regimen of 80% Paleo-ish eating. The keep track of my overall nutrition I'll continue to measure my portions and log everything in MyFitnessPal. Daily calorie targets are set based on my current composition and activity levels, and I've populated them in to my usual spreadsheet for tracking challenge goals. Exercise. M-W-F are strength days wherein I'm currently doing a tweaked version of 5x5 with barbells after a prolonged warm-up of BBWW circuits. T-Th I've been walking and running respectively. Sat-Sun are rest days and could flex to absorb a slipped workout if I decide to take a mid-week rest day. Rest. Go to bed on time with all lights and devices off so I can get a full night's sleep. I haven't been as strict with this one, so I'm making it a point of emphasis for this challenge. I'm dropping "guitar" as an ancillary goal after Week 1, and I'm just going to focus on the four targets above. I will continue with my practice regimen since I'm still part of the worship team at church, but I'm not making it a rigid thing this time. I'm retaining the c-c-combo breaker concept as a way to get out of a failure spiral, but I'll be more flexible about what qualifies since it ends up being a largely reactionary event. Progress will continue to be tracked on the spreadsheet(s); and weekly check-ins will consist of scale weight, waist measurements (at the navel and the belt-line), and progress photos. At the end of this challenge I will go have my composition measured in the BODPOD for the first time since last summer so I'll know where I stand with respect to my goal line of 15% body fat. That's it, clean and simple. Let's (keep) do(ing) this thing.