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I am respawning for another NF challenge! It's been a little while but I am back for another round! So this challenge for me is going to be all about the food because eating well has been getting away from me lately. There's be no food prep and poor meal choices, for the most part. I will say I have been doing a lot of salads at work for lunch, but that triggers in my mind the ability to indulge in poorer choices later, and that just has to stop. Goal 1: Planning makes perfect.... The first goal is to plan out my meals for 6 weeks - yes, all six weeks, including breakfast, lunch, dinner and at least one snack. The afternoon snack I think is going to be vital to the success of an overhaul of my eating habits, as I am usually really hungry after work. I delay eating a little bit with a walk with my dog, but I usually still nibble something before my husband makes it home from work, and I need that something to be more filling and not make me feel guilty. In my planning, I will allow some leeway for lunches, as a lot of time I do eat at the cafeteria at work and they always have a nice salad bar available, or some good fish/veggie options which are always tasty. But that is where the leniency ends! I will post my meal plans for the week (hopefully earlier in the week rather than later, but this week might get off to a little bit of a late start - a lot of my planning will happen tonight/tomorrow, since it's my day off!) I will accomplish my meal plans with help from my second goal.... +2 WIS, +3 CON (No slacking - 6 out of 6 weeks planned for all the points; 4 out of 6 for half the points, or none.) Goal 2: Go shopping! As much as I wish it were the fun shopping for shoes or elven weaponry, it will be the grocery kind! I will go shopping once a week to ensure I have lots of fresh produce in the house for my side dishes/snacks. Also some fruit in there too, as my sweet tooth has always been my downfall, and I will need them for curbing the cravings. My own style of nicotine patch in fruit form. +3 WIS, +1 CON (6 out of 6 for all points, 4 out of 6 for partial WIS credit, less than 4 = no points) Goal 3: No cake! There's bound to be cake. Somehow, there is always f*cking cake. And I think I just need to cut out sweet treats one at a time until there are few left. First it will be cake. No cupcakes, morning coffee cakes, regular cakes, ice cream cakes... etc. You get the idea. I'll try to focus the sweet tooth toward good dark chocolate, the occasional cookie, but cake is out. +3 CHA, +1 CON I know what you're thinking - where is the exercise?! I find that I am able to do SOMETHING physical every day - whether it's walking my dog 1-2 miles or weight lifting or even getting back to jogging (maybe soon?), this part is not so difficult for me. It is controlling the food that surrounds the workouts that is my trouble. So, my side quest: Working out 3 days a week, whether it's weights or jogging or walking, if it's over 30 minutes it counts. +1 STA, +1 STR - Need 16 out of 18 workouts to earn the stat points. So here's to getting back on track... Who's with me?!