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April 23 to May 20 Routines are sexy. I read this sentence somewhere and wrote it down as a motto for this challenge. This challenge I’ll start writing my thesis and getting some data at school. I’ll have to keep the momentum of last challenge to get this task done and keep going for my studies. I’m curious how well I’ll handle these tasks. Goal One: no snacks! I’ve been snacking again. So I’ll try to cut the sugar again. No chocolate, chips, cookies, or other artificial stuff for me. If I really need something I only get a cocoa. I should look up, what sarakingdom wrote about the cocoa in one of her old challenges. Goal Two: Exercise Aiming for three workouts a week on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. I can try to get in a missed workout on Sunday, but I don’t want to make that a habit. Bonus: Go to classes 2 to 3 times a week. Goal Three: Study So it’ll be 25 Hours this challenge und I’ll try to get in 20 pages during this challenge. Let’s see, how that goes. I’ll need a page tracker. Some old habits I had accomplished and how well I did last month:

Hey all you wonderful people <3 My brain has been a terrible jerk lately. Depression and anxiety have been far too high for me to function. So it's time to work on battling the brain beast, and try to get back to what has worked. So....daily to do list! That's my only goal. It worked well before I got derailed by a break in my routine, and then it was just so hard to get back on track. No use dwelling on that though because the only thing I can control is what I do right now. So here we go....

Let’s keep this ball rollin'... Okay, this is going to be my second six-week challenge, and I’m super pumped for this one. I had a lot of trouble keeping up last time, so this time around I’m hoping I’ll have a bit of experience under my belt so I know what I’m going into. Main Quest: Okay, so in my previous challenge my goal was to simply lay down a foundation. It didn’t go as well as I would’ve liked, but I still made a great deal of progress than the lazy, sedentary lifestyle I had before. So now I want to keep up my momentum and work harder, longer and more effectively. Now that I’ve seen just how much my body and I are capable of, I’m more motivated than ever to improve more and more, and keep applying Newton’s First Law. This is the first time I’m incorporating ‘stats’ into my challenge, and I’m new to the whole ‘attributes’ system (for Nerd Fitness at least!), so I’m just ball-parking these. If they seem too high, someone let me know and I’ll modify them. 1) Find a bodyweight exercise routine that works, and do it Monday-Wednesday-Friday. I still haven’t found one that will suit me perfectly, but I’m going through a variety of different bodyweight exercises that will hopefully help me build some muscle and get into the habit of exercising on a daily basis. Right now I’ve also incorporated splitting wood with a 16-pound maul for some arm and core exercise, and that’s a load of fun. I love useful exercises like that. If anyone has any suggestions for fun or ‘useful’ bodyweight exercises, I’d love to hear them. (Reward: +2 STR, +2 STA) 2) Learn at least three simple, healthy recipes. I’m a terrible cook; I’ll be the first one to admit it. But I really want to get better! I want to learn to create simple, healthy meals for myself, so I don’t have to always rely on other people or boxed junk. My ‘nutrition’ goal for this challenge, then, not only to learn the recipes, but actually prepare and consume them several times over the weeks ahead. (Reward: +2 CON) 3) Lose 10 pounds in 6 weeks. At the moment I weigh 183.2 pounds. At the rate I anticipate I’ll be losing weight by sticking with the two other goals, I’m hoping I’ll be losing 2 pounds per week, maybe even more. I’m trying to limit my calorie intake to around 1450 calories, and keeping up with my bodyweight exercises, so I’m hoping that it will help with losing that amount of weight in that short of time. (Reward: +2 CON, +2 STA) 100% Completion (with Life Quest) = +4 CON, +4 STA, +2 STR, +2 WIS Life Quest Finish my novel. November is National Novel Writing Month, where you are tasked with writing 50,000 words in 30 days. This equates to 1,667 words per day, which is a pretty sizable chunk of text. I actually won the challenge back in 2010, but I failed miserably in 2011/12. This time I think I've got a pretty good idea, but I’m already behind on my word count. It’s my goal to catch up and finish before the end of November. After it’s over, I’ll come up with a new Life Quest to do while finishing the rest of the six-week challenge. (Reward: +2 WIS)