ICB Posted September 12, 2017 Report Share Posted September 12, 2017 1. Strong Enough to Shoulder It He grabbed the Librarian by two handfulls of chest hair and pulled him up to eye height.'I'm not bloody well going to have it, understand?' Vimes shouted, shaking the ape back and forth. 'Oook,' the Librarian pointed out, patiently.'What? Oh. Sorry,' Vimes lowered the ape, who wisely didn't make an issue of it because a man angry enough to lift three hundred pounds of Orangutan without noticing is a man with too much on his mind. -- Guards, Guards Goal: Lift Heavy Things (preferably not Orangutans) 3 times a week 2. The End of Cake Winder's mind felt even fuzzier than it had done over the past few years, but he was certain about cake. He'd been eating cake, and now there wasn't any. Through the mists he saw it, apparently close but, when he tried to reach it, a long way away. A certain realization dawned on him. "Oh," he said. YES, said Death. "Not even time to finish my cake?" NO. THERE IS NO MORE TIME, EVEN FOR CAKE. FOR YOU, THE CAKE IS OVER. YOU HAVE REACHED THE END OF CAKE. -- Night Watch Goal: Take a month off from sugar My diet has tightened up a lot, but damn do I still have a sweet tooth. I'm going to make an effort to cut out anything with processed sugar - sodas, sweet tea, cookies, etc. etc. 3. Long Arm of the Law 'It seems I've only got to be unwell for a few days and you manage to upset everyone of any importance in this city.' 'Sir.' 'Was that a yes, sir or a no, sir, Sir Samuel?' 'It was just a sir, sir.' Lord Vetinari glanced at a piece of paper. 'Did you really punch the president of the Assassins' Guild?' 'Yes, sir.' 'Why?' 'Didn't have a dagger, sir.' -- Feet of Clay Goal: Heavy Bag Workouts 5 days a week Goal: Swim Cardio 2 days a week My new gym has a heavy bag and a pool. The heavy bag is a great warm-up before I lift weights, and it's also a fine Act 1 before I do a longer bout of cardio work in the pool. I'm trying to get to the gym every day, so the heavy bag will be my warm-up every time that I do. Special Long-Term Quest: Cholesterol II Vimes carefully lifted the top of the bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich and smiled inwardly. Good old Cheery. She knew what a Vimes BLT was all about. It was about having to lift up quite a lot of crispy bacon before you found the miserable, skulking vegetables. You might never notice them at all. -- Thud! Goal: Lower cholesterol numbers (significantly) by September. OK that doctor's appointment has finally been scheduled for September 19, next week. My cardio is better, my weight is down, but I may need to go ahead and start with the cholesterol meds if my numbers haven't dropped. 3 Quote Link to comment
ICB Posted September 12, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2017 Scoreboard: 1. Strong Enough Goal: Lift 3 times a week Week 0 ✘✔✔ Week 1 ✔✘☐ Week 2 ☐☐☐ Week 3 ☐☐☐ Week 4 ☐☐☐ 1/12 2. The End of Cake Goal: A Sugar-free month Week 0 ✘✘✔✘✔✔✘ Week 1 ✔✔✘✔☐☐☐ Week 2 ☐☐☐☐☐☐☐ Week 3 ☐☐☐☐☐☐☐ Week 4 ☐☐☐☐☐☐☐ 3/28 3. Long Arm of the Law Goal: Swim 2 times a week Week 0 ✔✘ Week 1 ✘☐ Week 2 ☐☐ Week 3 ☐☐ Week 4 ☐☐ 0/8 Goal: Heavy Bag Workouts 5 times a week Week 0 ✔✔✔✘✔ Week 1 ✔✘✘✘☐ Week 2 ☐☐☐☐☐ Week 3 ☐☐☐☐☐ Week 4 ☐☐☐☐☐ 1/20 Hat-tip to @Luciana Valerosa Culming for the formatting idea! unicode: ✔✘☐ 2 Quote Link to comment
sarakingdom Posted September 12, 2017 Report Share Posted September 12, 2017 Your new gym sounds amazing. As do the time management skills involved in going every day. My time management is far less good than that. Quote I felt like I could run forever, like I could smell the wind and feel the grass under my feet, and just run forever. Current Challenge: #24 - Mrs. Cosmopolite Challenge Past: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11a & #11b, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #23 Link to comment
ICB Posted September 13, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2017 16 hours ago, sarakingdom said: Your new gym sounds amazing. As do the time management skills involved in going every day. My time management is far less good than that. I'm really pleased with it. Plus, it's closer to work AND half the cost of the old gym. This is one work benefit that really was a win-win-win for me, and I love it. Going every day is the plan, for sure. I'm lucky that my morning routine starts extra early, but I don't need to be at work until 9 or even 9:30 most mornings. Unless there's some sort of emergency errand or weirdness, there's no day-to-day reason for my schedule not to work out. This morning is a good example: I didn't go to the gym because I was super worn out. I'm not too stressed about it because Week 0 doesn't count and I'm still figuring out my new bed times, etc., but this morning was just a miss because I didn't get my butt in gear. Quote Link to comment
Kishi Posted September 13, 2017 Report Share Posted September 13, 2017 The new situation sounds pretty dope! Also digging the new Pratchett quotes. Need to get back to that. Here's hoping that the new numbers beat the old ones! 1 Quote Work like a farmer, train like an athlete, fight like a soldier. 2 Tim. 2:3-6 BATTLE! Link to comment
courtneyc Posted September 14, 2017 Report Share Posted September 14, 2017 Yay for heavy bag workouts! Nothing like knocking something around to get you pumped up for the rest of your workout. Also, I love the use of boxes and checks to track! I'm such a visual person. Writing things out for these challenges doesn't always register for me the way a good visualization does. I'll have to keep your system in mind next time I'm doing a challenge the requires more tracking. Quote Current Challenge, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 "Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work." - Stephen King Link to comment
sarakingdom Posted September 19, 2017 Report Share Posted September 19, 2017 On 9/12/2017 at 10:59 AM, ICB said: My diet has tightened up a lot, but damn do I still have a sweet tooth. I'm going to make an effort to cut out anything with processed sugar - sodas, sweet tea, cookies, etc. etc. On 9/12/2017 at 10:59 AM, ICB said: OK that doctor's appointment has finally been scheduled for September 19, next week. My cardio is better, my weight is down, but I may need to go ahead and start with the cholesterol meds if my numbers haven't dropped. It's not true for everyone, but a lot of people find that it's sugar driving the cholesterol issue. If you don't get the results you want tomorrow, might be worth reading up and seeing if it's worth the experiment to stay off cholesterol meds. (The downside is they're basically talking ketogenic, which is super low carb. The upside is staying off some very rough drugs.) Quote I felt like I could run forever, like I could smell the wind and feel the grass under my feet, and just run forever. Current Challenge: #24 - Mrs. Cosmopolite Challenge Past: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11a & #11b, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #23 Link to comment
ICB Posted September 21, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2017 Frustrating start to the challenge this week. I had my doctor appointment on Tuesday, and I'm going back to do a fasting blood draw in the next couple of days. While I was there, though, I got a flu shot and it did not go well. My left shoulder swelled up, and I ended up having to take Tuesday, Wednesday, and today off from the gym. It's finally chilling out now, so I can go back to my usual schedule tomorrow. Ah, well. The doc was pleased with my weight loss and my drop in bodyfat, and said that if my cholesterol numbers keep going down, he'll probably hold off on prescribing meds - even if my numbers are still high, if they're going in the right direction then it's a win. My entire objective has been to avoid cholesterol meds, so I'm happy with that. We'll see what happens. Also: going off of sugar is a huge pain in the butt and I hate everything and everyone. I'm doing pretty well at it except for yesterday, but ugh. I'd almost (almost) rather give up caffeine again, and that was rough. 1 Quote Link to comment
Shotokan Posted September 22, 2017 Report Share Posted September 22, 2017 Good job on your numbers going in the right direction. Making changes to stay off the meds is always a good path to take. Keep up the good work! Quote Doug In search of the ever elusive side thrust kick.... Student of Karate and Iaido Link to comment
Kishi Posted September 22, 2017 Report Share Posted September 22, 2017 Yeah, that sugar tho. It's pretty addictive stuff. I wish I'd never got started on it. You can come out on the other side, though. There is another side to get to. Quote Work like a farmer, train like an athlete, fight like a soldier. 2 Tim. 2:3-6 BATTLE! Link to comment
sarakingdom Posted October 2, 2017 Report Share Posted October 2, 2017 Have you reached the end of cake? Are you still punching the president of the assassins guild? I need to punch things. It is so hard to find punching. It should not be this hard to find punching. Quote I felt like I could run forever, like I could smell the wind and feel the grass under my feet, and just run forever. Current Challenge: #24 - Mrs. Cosmopolite Challenge Past: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11a & #11b, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #23 Link to comment
Kishi Posted October 9, 2017 Report Share Posted October 9, 2017 Oi! Things moving all rightly over here? Quote Work like a farmer, train like an athlete, fight like a soldier. 2 Tim. 2:3-6 BATTLE! Link to comment
The Shogun Posted October 9, 2017 Report Share Posted October 9, 2017 On 21/9/2017 at 5:22 PM, ICB said: Also: going off of sugar is a huge pain in the butt and I hate everything and everyone. I'm doing pretty well at it except for yesterday, but ugh. I'd almost (almost) rather give up caffeine again, and that was rough. Yeah.... Yeah... Goood.... All that anger... all that hate... Use it! Quote One shot, one life. Link to comment
sarakingdom Posted October 10, 2017 Report Share Posted October 10, 2017 3 hours ago, The Shogun said: Yeah.... Yeah... Goood.... All that anger... all that hate... Use it! Did no one check to see if you were Palpatine before making you a guild leader? That seems like a really basic question we ought to be asking. 1 Quote I felt like I could run forever, like I could smell the wind and feel the grass under my feet, and just run forever. Current Challenge: #24 - Mrs. Cosmopolite Challenge Past: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11a & #11b, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #23 Link to comment
Kishi Posted October 10, 2017 Report Share Posted October 10, 2017 11 hours ago, sarakingdom said: Did no one check to see if you were Palpatine before making you a guild leader? That seems like a really basic question we ought to be asking. True story: "Are you a Palpatine?" is not a question that's asked on the application to be GL. Maybe it should be. Quote Work like a farmer, train like an athlete, fight like a soldier. 2 Tim. 2:3-6 BATTLE! Link to comment
The Shogun Posted October 11, 2017 Report Share Posted October 11, 2017 On 9/10/2017 at 10:57 PM, sarakingdom said: Did no one check to see if you were Palpatine before making you a guild leader? That seems like a really basic question we ought to be asking. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA blame @spezzy for that one hahahaha Quote One shot, one life. Link to comment
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