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Hello! This is my third challenge, and like all the others, it's mainly to hold me accountable about keeping my life in check. That means taking care of the basics, which are: 1. Getting enough sleep: 7-8 hrs, daily 2. Eating healthy, and not too much: IF 16:8 method 4 or five days a week, and one or two 24hr fasting days a week (also at least one meal with veggies per day, and only a little chocolate, pastries, chips/candy, ice cream, etc.) 3. Exercise: 1 hour a day, five days a week Soo, pretty simple, except I kind of have control issues. Like, if there's food in the house I'll eat it, even if I don't really like it or am already full (I usually just keep my fridge empty nowadays to fix that). If there's something I need to do or read, I'll do it even though I should sleep. I do well if I feel like I'm being held accountable or if there's a challenge of some sort, which is why I love NerdFitness so much. Anyway, I'll keep an update by using the progress bars in my signature. Previously, I didn't actually write here too often, just because talking to myself seems sort of weird, and I usually keep real paper logs for the food. But I'm trying to be better about it, and I do look regularly, so if you say something I totally will respond My secondary goal would be to participate in all the mini-challenges. I will, however, be moving midway through, both to a new apartment and a new college, so it might be rough. We'll see how it goes. Oh, I would like to lose weight too, but I'd rather do it slow and steady and gain muscle. Skill and health over size. Also, I'm already at 1200-1400 kcal a day usually, so I can't cut too much more on food anyway. I primarily do at home bodyweight exercises and cardio, mainly Jillian Michaels dvds, and a little bit of yoga. I used to jog, but there aren't any good places around here. My new campus should be good for that though, so maybe next challenge. For sleep, ah, I don't know? It's just always the thing that gets put on the backburner, because there's work to be done, or schoolwork I need to get done, or hell, even just because I found a good book. Even right now, for the past two days I only got 5 hrs of sleep each night. I know it's important, but I don't act like it is. I just need to remember that sleep deprivation will screw up my brain really badly. So I'm trying to fix that. A large portion of it will also come down to doing the stuff I need to do in the day, not last minute at night. I don't cook (partially because I don't have any cooking stuff and it's not allowed in my apartment, but really, I just don't like cooking), but I do do salads, because they don't require heat or funny implements and whatnot, just a cutting board and a knife. Easy to make and easy to clean. I live right next to a market currently, and there's tons of cheap food there, both fresh veggies and ready-cooked meals, BBQ and grilled chicken, fried fish, etc. There's tons of food all around really, so it's not really a problem. I just need to go for the healthy stuff, as opposed to the quick and easy, ready-made, unhealthy stuff. I don't actually have any problems doing the IF methods though, so that's good. I intend to alternate between these three videos, with doing another 30 min yoga one (usually Sarah Beth or Ali Kamenova, depending on my mood) for the 30 day shred, because that's only half an hour. That's just tentative though, so if anyone's got Youtube videos they want to recommend, I'm always happy to try new things. Okay, that's about it. I can't wait to see what the Assassin guild's got this time. Last time was awesome!