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it's august! it's hectic! I'm going to have a big august that will need to be weekifIed, and can only be unified by the training I have to do for the 8K I am signing up for on the VERY LAST DAY OF THE CHALLENGE! GOALS! * Do the Hal Hidgon Running Thing - which also includes getting the movements in on the other days, too. I'm following the HH 8K Novice program which I've done a few times before and like a lot. I'm already on week 7, what is this magicalness? out of a total of 8 weeks.... so this week I will do 7, next week 6, the following week 7, and then I'll have 8 the last week of the challenge / week of the 8K, right on schedule. the 8K is 9/9/17. * GET THE PROTEINS. this is going to be tricky because I'm going to be on the road for all of or partial weeks 1-3. so.... this will take some work. I'm aiming for 120 g ish or as much as I can get over 100 without being a disaster pants. Simultaneously, STICK TO THE BUDGETS. hit up that calorie budget yo. you know what works good for you. try to do your very best because YOU KNOW THAT THERE WILL BE SLIPPAGE WITH ALL THE TRAVEL. * WRITE THE THINGS DOWN and plan the things. This is super critical! I need to do this to meet goal #1, so it's kinda cheating. I'm ok with that. As my tkd instructor says - if you're not cheating you're not trying. Bonus planning points for reading up about strength training and prepping for convos with my dojo owner about deadlifting, because I'd like to give that a shot next month. ALSO, I didn't write ANYTHING down in my hobobujo last challenge and that bums me out. Here's my epic schedule: Week 1: PREP FOR BEACH / GO TO OHIO Week 2: BEACH BODY BEACH PARTY PLUS BONUS ECLIPSE Week 3: BUSINESS BODY BUSINESS TRIP Week 4: OH MY GOSH IT'S SEPTEMBER ok in? IN.

Hi everyone! It has been about a year since my last challenge and I previously mainly hung out over in the Assassin forum. However, my life has changed (I've move twice and started my first full-time job) and so have my goals, so here I am! I've been about 30 pounds heavier than where I would like to be for about a year now. Most of it's due to poor eating habits, a weird schedule, and not being active enough. Now that I'm only working one place instead of freelancing and living on my own for the first time, I have a lot more control over my life and can make healthier choices. I'm still working up to 80 hours a week, but it comes with guaranteed breaks and not having to eat on the run all the time. Which brings me to me this challenge. Main Quest: Lose 30 pounds in a healthy way! I'm on a mission to get down to a healthy weight. Right now, that means starting by getting more active, which means walking. A lot of walking. I'm hoping to be down 10 pounds by the end of the challenge. Challenge Goals 1) Go for a 15 minute/1 mile walk every morning. I actually started this yesterday, and now it's official to keep it going. I'm moving into a busy time at work that involves long hours and not a lot of activity, so this will help make sure that I start my day off right. If I can't get outside for some reason, I'll do a 15-20 minute workout in my apartment. 2) Hit 10,000 steps on my FitBit every day. I'm generally pretty good about this unless I'm having a super lazy day off. But lazy days off are no reason to not get up and move any longer! I'm giving myself 3 free days throughout the challenge in case I get sick or get snowed in, but the steps must be made up for on another day that week. 3) Sign up for and successfully complete the Christmas Town Dash 8k at work in December, running at least half of it. I just found out that there's an 8k race at work and will be running it! Because it's my longest race ever and I'll be working a lot of long hours at work, I don't want to worry about training to run the whole thing without stopping, but I can definitely run half!