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Hello fellow Adventurers! Last time was my First NF challenge. I think I did pretty well. Learned a few things, and am ready to kick this next challenge up a notch, One bad thing I did in between challenges was to revert back a little. I haven't done a true workout since last time. Eating has been ok. Sleep I have stayed up a little bit. All that is changing now Now I know between challenges, I am not going to revert back to the old ways at all. It is just better that way. So on with the new! My Main Quest: I signed up to run a Spartan Sprint Race in December 7th down in Malibu,Ca. I need to work on quite a few things to get ready for this. Mostly I need to lose weight, and get stronger. To do this, I am going to focus on extra exercise, and I am going to attempt to slay the sugar dragon. 1) Do The Whole 30 plan. This I think might be one of the toughest challenges for me to get going. This goes further then my must eat veggies goal last time. No more processed, well, anything really. I just finished reading the book It Starts with Food. Even now I am unsure if I can do this, but I am just going to go for it. I won't know until I do it 2) No snacking! Last challenge I was just going for no late night snacking. Now I am cutting it out completely. Part of the Whole 30 plan is no snacking, but I think it is important enough to warrant it's own listing. This won't count towards a pre or post workout meal if I need to start those. I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. 3) Exercise to be done 6 out of the 7 days. (Workout 3x, 60k weekly steps) Monday, Wednesday, and Friday will be workouts following the Rebel fitness guide. Extra cardio on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. So this will be another jump from my goal last time. I am going to make it mandatory for me to do the intervals on workout days, plus the extra walking on the days off. I am going to track my daily steps via my fitbit one. I copied the Walking to Mordor challenge sheets to my google drive, and will start up this challenge for fun and tracking of my daily steps My Side Quest: 4) Be a better Bowler This might be considered exercise and not just a life goal. I need to practice bowling. I have had one coaching session when I was in Reno with Mike Jasnau. He help line up a few things for me to work on. Not practicing for score, but working on technique. 4 to 5 specific parts to work. 10-20 shots each one. Also recording for review. My plan is to head over to the bowling alley every Sunday and get a lane to practice on. There is some things I can work on at home as well to help out. So I don't absolutly have to actually go to the bowling alley for them all, but I think it helps. My Motivation: I want to get healthy. Not just for myself, but for my kids. I want to show it can be done. I want to get healthy the right ways to show my doctor I don't need to get on their stupid liquid diet plan whenever I ask about food issues. I want to be like the people in the biggest loser fighting to get to 1'derland (under 200lbs in weight) ​I want to live a better life for myself. I never thought I would live to see the day that I would wish I could run again, or I could try to do pull ups. I want to be able to set goals that I think are impossible, yet get them done. This challenge has some of that in it for sure. One of the best memories I have was setting a goal to run a 1/2 mile in under 3 minutes. I was in 6th grade, and we just were getting introduced to running the 1/2 mile then. I saw the fast people getting it done. That first day I said before I leave that school I will run it in under 3 minutes. 6th grade we all rebelled against everyone. I don't know if I ever truly ran it. 7th grade we did the half mile runs, and mile runs twice a week. I think my best times we only in the 3:30 times or so. The last day of 8th grade PE. I was 225lbs then. I decided I was going to go for it. My friend was on the sidelines with a broken arm. My teacher said go, and I was off like a sprint. I remember just running so fast. Our course wasn't all track, it went around backstops and such on the school grounds. I remember passing kids like a blur. I kept going for the one faster kid in our group. Passed him coming into the last turn. I see my friend jumping up and down yelling for me to go. I was still just running so fast. Faster then I think I ever had. I crossed the line at 2:57. I did it, just barely, but I did it. I beat everyone that day. I just wished that carried onto rest of my school years. ​So that is the kind of stuff I am looking to do again. I can jog a little know, but I want to run. Anyhow, that is for other future challenges I think Grading! 1) The Whole 30. This is a sort of all or nothing challenge. I will attempt to grade it anyway A: Completed the whole 30 day program, and kept with it the rest of the challenge! B: Completed the whole 30 day program, but only continued a week afterwards. C: Completed the whole 30 day program, and stopped there D: You gave a good try, but failed to go a complete 30 days F: Didn't even give it a try 2) No Snacking. Will tie in greatly with the first challenge. A: Wicked, no snacking the whole challenge! B: Ahh so close. Just those one or two snacks did you in! C: Some days you snacked, some days you didn't. Really Meh effort D: Well, you sort of tried to have a few days there with no snacks F: Hmm, new nickname needs to change to Sir snacksalot? 3) Exercise 6 of 7 daysA: Sweet, You might be a little sore, but I bet you are feeling great!B: Got in all of the exercise and most of the stepsC: Only completed 1/2 the stuff. Not great.D: Well, at least you got a little doneF: Failed to exercise and walk. 4) Bowling practiceA: Practiced all the stuff, and recorded for reviewB: Practiced all, but didn't videoC: Practiced most D: hey, got some practice on one or two times at leastF: You did actually want to get better, right? Walking to Mordor spreadsheet for tracking my steps every day.Stats! Starting weight 318lbsLeft Bicep: 44cmRight Bicep: 43cmLeft Forearm: 33.2cmRight Forearm: 33.6cmChest: 134.8cmWaist at belly button: 144.4cmNeck: 49.1cmLeft Thigh: 72cmRight Thigh: 72cmLeft Calf: 50.9cmRight Calf: 48.3cm Week 1 Summary A- (got a B in one of the goals)Week 2 Summary CWeek 3 Summary CWeek 4 Summary BWeek 5 Summary A!Week 6 Summary A! End of Challenge Wrap up!