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With my last couple of challenges I've attempted cuts and failed miserably, completely my own fault. Loss of focus, laziness, etc. My previous challenge, which I did complete, consisted of two main goals: cutting a serious amount of weight and deadlifting 405. I met the latter of the two goals. The former I dropped the ball on completely. Lately I've had a lot of things pulling me in multiple directions. But now I have a lot of support for my weightloss at home both with family and friends. I really need to focus in on this. My main quest for this challenge, my first challenge to try to become a warrior, is to be consistent with my cut for six weeks. Period. If I am consistent I will lose fat. That's it. Recently I've started some medication that has as a side effect some serious weight gain. That coupled with my haphazard eating habits of late has led to me balloooning up. At the start of my previous challenge I weighed 205 pounds. I lost some weight down to 194. In the last few weeks I've blown up to a whopping 228 pounds. To be fair, a lot of this is water retention (I have to believe, as my waist size hasn't changed hardly at all). But a lot of it is also fat that I put on all by myself. The plan going forward is to log everything I eat both in LoseIt, and on here. I'm sticking to whole foods and cutting out all unnecessary carbs like bread and pasta and sweets (which I don't really eat much anyways). My doctor has recommended that I avoid most carbs anyways as it seems to exacerbate some issues that I have. As far as calories go I'm starting out at roughly 2500 daily, and will be slowly reducing this over the course of the six weeks. I am going to attempt one 24 hour fast per week, but that's not necessary for me to achieve my goals. Mostly I think that the weekly fast will help a lot with the water retention. I'm back to drinking protein shakes because it's a lot more convenient with my dietary restrictions to get my numbers up. At the end of this six weeks if I can get back down to 200 or less I will be very happy, but the main actual goal is to be consistent. I've been way too comfortable lately eating ad libidum. As of the start of this challenge I've had one protein shake (cheap brand) for 300 calories, 60 grams of protein. Aiming for 150-200 grams of protein today. I want desparately to complete this challenge, get my weight back on track, and become a warrior. Let's do this.

A BIT OF BACK STORY My name is Wolverine (a.k.a. Dillpedo a.k.a. Dillon). I am an Assassin. I took a hiatus from NF due to health issues (uncontrollable migraines). I am back now (two thumbs up for medication that works). CHALLENGE INTRO Two big goings on as of late: (1) I'm in the final stages of back injury recovery (bulging disc) and my doc just gave me the green light to start working out again, and (2) the wife and I just bought a house (escrow closes on Friday). Long story short = stress eating, not working out, and large amounts of not giving a damn have been had by all (but especially me). MAIN QUEST An awesomely vague "get beach ready" for a trip to Mexico in February. Since we're now in debt up to our eyeballs... it may be the last vacation we have for awhile and I'd like to NOT look like a beached whale while we're there. What does "beach ready" look like? I'm thinking Jason Statham, but I'll settle for me minus some jiggly bits. GOALS Awesomely not vague, but S.M.A.R.T. goals are as follows: Track Some Stuff Daily tracking of macros, calories, and bodyweight. Weekly progress photos. Eat a Bit Less Stuff Average 2,000 calories per day for the first week. Adjust as needed in following weeks to maintain slow, consistent weight loss. Do Some Stuff I've got two itty bitty calisthenics routines I do every 30 minutes at work (keeps the back from seizing up). I'm gonna continue with those routines five times per week (every workday) until we're settled into the new house. At that point I'll start up "real" workouts again.SIDE QUEST Knock something off the house to-do list every day. Doesn't have to be big, just has to be something. MOTIVATION Confidence. There's a certain feeling I get when I'm "in the groove" and I feel like I've lost that recently. Too much life controlling me and not enough me controlling life.