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Challenge #3: "A pig that doesn't fly is just a pig" Welcome back for another riveting challenge of mundane tracking and spreadsheets My name is Presea, I'm a 5'7'', 25 year old nerd. A simple actuarial analyst on the surface, a tennis-playing, anime-watching, video game playing, fantasy book reading, master chef at heart. My long term fitness goals for this year revolve around getting to a healthy body weight and body fat percentage. As I write this challenge, I am sitting around 177 lbs and 34% bodyfat by the calipers at the fitness consultant at work, or anywhere from 36-39% by my bodyfat scale at home. I've lost around 8 lbs since starting NF in mid-February, and hoping to get down to around 160 lbs by the end of the year. My goal for this challenge, as it has been the past two challenges, is a modest 5lb loss. My sister and I are big fans of Studio Ghibli/Miyazaki movies, and Porco Rosso is one of our favorites. Quest 1: Don't eat like a pig, but get enough fuel in the tank to outrace Curtiss I'm a firm beliver in CICO. I've been using my FitBit to estimate my TDEE, and shooting for a deficit on the eating side. My first challenge I only managed a cumulative deficit of 1,125 calories, but I started building steam near the end of my second challenge and managed a cumulative deficit of 16,738 calories over those six weeks. This time, I want to have a deficit of 500 calories a day (approx 20% of my TDEE), or 21,000 for the whole challenge. During the last two weeks of my previous challenge, I actually averaged around 770 deficit a day, but I started feeling run down, lethargic, anxious, and cranky. I am aiming for a lot of activity over the course of this challenge, so I do need to fuel properly as well. I've also toyed around with more restrictions (macros, paleo, etc.), but don't want to overcomplicate things. I think Porco would agree, simpler is better. A: Cumulative Deficit >= 21,000 B: 21,000 > Cumulative Deficit >= 18,000 C: 18,000 > Cumulative Deficit >= 15,000 D: 15,000 > Cumulative Deficit >= 12,000 F: 12,000 > Cumulative Deficit Quest 2: "A pig's gotta fly" While it's not the Mediterranean, Minnesota is beautiful in the summer, and I plan to spend as much of it outside as possible. Of course, I can't control the weather so indoors on the treadmill is acceptable when necessary . I previously had separate goals for all my activities, but again, simpler is better so I'm just going to aim for 1.5 hours of activity everyday. That's the average time for a tennis match or drill, and if I bike commute to work and back I'm closer to 2.5 hours. Where this will really push me is walking days - which are pretty much any day I don't bike to work or play tennis. My typical walks are 1 hour, but lately I've been pushing for an hour and a half. Another option is squeezing in 30 min walking on my lunch break and then doing the usual hour at home. Whatever works! The tricky days will be when I'm traveling for our trip over the 4th. We're taking megabus/amtrak out to Boston, so that's pretty much 2 full days on the way there and on the way back of being tied down to a seat. On those days, I will accept 1 hour of activity as passing. A: 42/42 days B: 39/42 days C: 36/42 days D: 30/42 days F: less than 30 days Quest 3: Kick back in your secret hideout Porco knew when it was time to put his feet up and get some R&R. I tracked my sleep for everyday of the prior challenge, so I have an idea of where my weaknesses are. One goal is getting my weekend nights to be more similar (let's be real, I don't plan on getting up on 5:30 on the weekend anytime soon) to my weeknights. Weeknight goal is to be in bed by 9:30pm and out of bed by 5:30am. Weekend night goal is to be in bed by 10:30pm and up by 7:30am. A: 90-100% of nights on target B: 80-89% of nights on target C: 70-79% of nights on target D: 60-69% of nights on target F: less than 60% of nights on target Life Quest: "I don't fight for honor, I fight for a paycheck" I've been really terrible lately about studying for my actuarial exams. Here's the thing: I get a raise every time I pass one, and I get a bonus if I pass on the first try. Here's the other thing: the sooner I stop being lazy and get them done, then I'm done with them forever. So let's just get on with it, m'kay? My goal for this challenge is to complete the Financial Economics Module. But really, instead of trying to be like Porco here, I need to be like Fio: A: Complete Module B: Complete coursework, start end of module exercise C: Complete 75% of coursework D: Complete 50% of coursework F: Complete less than 50% of coursework And that's it! Trimmed it down to 4 quests this time, whereas last time I had like 8. Hopefully I can manage better than a C this time