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Whew! I took last challenge off, because I was stupid-busy and basically had no faith in my ability to keep up with a challenge thread of my own, let alone any one else's. But things are calming down now, and while the break may have been good for my mental health, I've got some make-up work to do physically... Enough. I'm done with watching the scale creep up. Done with feeling out of control with eating. Done with feeling like shit in general. Goal number one: Get my food choices back in a good place. I've been trying, but falling in to the whole "eat well through the day, eat whatever is in the house at night" trap. So this: 1. Track EVERYTHING. Just track it. While I know what a good day of eating looks like calorie/macro wise, I'm not going to make hitting those metrics my goal for now. Just be conscious of and make a record of all the food. (7 points per week) 2. No snacking after dinner. (Sometimes dinner can be pretty late, so I'm not making a time-goal. But we always eat a proper evening meal at some point) If I'm genuinely hungry, I can eat vegetables without losing points. Raw vegetables. (7 points per week) 3. Meal plan: Weekly planning, grocery shopping, and bi-weekly meal prep. (4 points per week) 17 points per week (this allows for one evening of snacking, but it must be social). Week Zero: Week One: Week Two: Week Three: Week Four: XX / 85pts +3CHA Goal number two: Start working out again. The best news: my favourite kettlebell instructor will be offering a class once a week! She didn't teach at all last year, and the other classes offered were too early for me to make it to them. So Fridays at 630, I kettlebell. I am SO excited to get back into it! I will supplement with at least one additional workout per week. There's a super cheap membership option from my work that would give me access to the community rec centre by my house on Mondays and Wednesdays, so I'll probably do that. I do have a set up in my basement to do yoga or kettlebells or whatever as well though. 2 points per week: Week Zero: Week One: Week Two: Week Three: Week Four: XX / 8pts +3 STR Goal number three: Get walking, baby! I'm barely on track for my year-long step goal. I had really hoped to have some excess banked from the summer to carry me through the colder months... not too late though! 77,000 steps per week: Week Zero: Week One: Week Two: Week Three: Week Four: XX / 385,000 +3 END Goal number four: Purge this house. This has been a long time goal, that has occasionally been chipped away at.. Basically, my hubs and I are living in a house that is excessively large for two people, and we have managed to fill it with STUFF. Stuff we don't need and don't use. I'm so sick of the clutter. We've done some good cleaning lately, so the kitchen and living/dining rooms LOOK uncluttered, but there's a ton of stuff hidden. And don't even get me started on all the various rooms. We have a bedroom, spare room, craft room, office, another bedroom that's being used for storage, and actual storage room, a large laundry room and a rec room. It's ridiculous. I get 1 point for each hour I work on these things. (I found giving myself points for completion kept me from starting if I didn't think I could finish...) Taking progress pics too! I'm going to come up with a sliding scale of progress for this one, because I'm not totally sure what's reasonable. Update coming. Week Zero: Week One: Week Two: Week Three: Week Four: XX / ?? +3 INT