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Hey All, Wow, long time. Thanks to Love_of_Snuggles and Fearless 2.0 for bringing up NF recently. I really think this is good timing. I have been alone in my travels for years now and it's time to reach out and be a part of a community again. I can't imagine a better place than NF for such a place. Okay, theme is: Slow and Steady, fuck the race. I have spent decades trying to get to a good place and then be healed. HA! Doesn't work like that in life. So I'm trying a new approach. Not being a victim. I have PTSD from childhood and am now 54. I am just now being an adult in regards to taking responsibility for the whole of my mental health. I have come a long way so far to be sure, but laying down the crown of Victim is no easy thing. It's how I survived this long. And surviving was all I cared about as a kid. I didn't realize how much it would restrict my life as an adult. So staying conscious of when I use old 'unhelpful' traits and habits is the overall goal for the foreseeable future. This means be truthful with myself, my therapist, and you all here. My first goal is to check in here each day: 1 update post and 5+ reactions to other people's posts (these I take seriously so no quick click and off I go). My second goal is to do my exercise walk each day: at least as far as I'm going now and hopefully, but not required this time, longer. My third goal is to meditate for 10 minutes each day: I can use a vid, music, or PT exercises to accomplish this task. My forth goal is to reach out to people IRL via texts, zoom, and phone: I think for 4 weeks, I want to be able to do this twice a week (gaming not included). In order to succeed in this challenge, I need to accomplish an average of ~75% of each of my goals. Okay, well this is weird, but familiar! Have a great challenge everyone!

Going Slow-Carb, that is. This challenge I'm gonna switch to the slow carb diet as lain out by Tim Ferris in the 4-hour-body. Basic gidelines go like this. Is not to different from Paleo, except for it's mandatory cheat day. I'm really curious of how it will turn out, especially the damage control part; since I have cheat meals every weekend anyway it seems like a good idea to plan it in advance and lessen the damage through bodyhacking. If it turns out a terrible scam or something, I'll switch back to paleo and hopefully have nothing to regret. My exercise goal is the same as last challenge: attend CrossFit 3 times a week and KravMaga 2 times a week. Financial goals: -Sell all airsoft related things except for the AK74su -Sell one of my guitars -Refrain from making credit card purchases -Stop buying any book that catches my attention on Amazon. Seriously, stop This goals might include some business aspects if the beard oil deal goes forward. It will be a change not to spend my money like I'm a child, but the secret project it's worth it.

So I'm in week 6/16 of a 10K running programme and did my first super-slow run today. I had to do 10-15 mins and felt it in the legs a bit more than usual, but does anyone know the purpose of this? I'm doing an hour-long slow run tomorrow so what's the difference between that and a short, super-slow session?

So I just had the best epiphany ever while doing the washing up: why not take it easy this year? So many times I have struggled to lose weight and get fit, taken on too much too soon, suffered injury or just failed for lack of willpower, you know the story... So this year, why not take it slow? So my challenge for this year is: lose 1 kilo a month (half a pound a week) This will add up to 12kgs a year (yay! Maths!) . I'm 76kgs now, so hopefully by the end of the year I will weigh 64kgs and I can spend the whole of 2016 losing the remaining 2kgs if I feel I need to (My ideal weight - dream weight - goal weight is 62kgs, which is bang in the middle of the healthy BMI range for my height). Before you ask, yes, I do need to lose mass, not just recomp, but of course my goal will be both. But since I am in the "fat and fit" department (I SO hate this term) atm, my main goal is to lose mass first and foremost. I am absolutely thrilled by this challenge. It's so realistic! Why haven't I thought of this before?

6 Week Challenge Goals: 1a. Walk at least 1 mile every day and take feet photo at beginning and end. 1b. Incorporate No Need For Speed plan. 1c. Incorporate walks to library to donate items. 2. Go to gym at least 3 days a week. 3. Play racquetball at least 1 day a week. 4. Drink 2 Stanley bottles of water per day. 4/20/3103 EDIT: 5. No Plants vs. Zombies or Facebook for the rest of the challenge starting with Week 2.