Siuken's Swordmage trials

[Siuken]

Barely made it out of my home town of beginnings. On my way traveling to the next town, I stumbled and injured myself. But as they say most things in life you must pick yourself up and continue. I made it to the town nearby just before I ran out of provisions. The city's not what I expected, there's a lot more hustle and bustle and life within the Guild Hall. Rangers from every Walk of Life gather together, taking on jobs, completing quests, it's quite marvelous. I've already spotted fellow companions for my previous jobs in town of beginnings. I quickly headed to the job board to pick out a few quests. Since I'm starting new in this Guild I figured I'd pic ones that are simple and straight to the point. I can only imagine what lies in store for me as I begin this new journey. Today I become part of the Rangers - Siuken

 

Main Quest: Consistency part 2- Vengeance

• move (jog/walk) at least 5 mins a  day

• clean up my diet (no fast food Mon-Fri)

• read for at least 30 mins a day

• lift 2-3 days a week

 

My apologies for the late entry. I drew inspiration from other rangers and friends on here to simplify my challenge quests. I work third shift at the Sheriff's Department, so keeping things simple is key. Anyways I'm excited to become part of the Rangers! 

 

[MattSkywalker]

Yay, I have the honor to be the first.

 

The goals are excellent, my friend! Kudos for making jogging/walking a part of the challenge, and a good call to make it 5 min a day. One step at a time, and you'll be off to Mordor!

 

Welcome, Ranger!

[WantMy$2]

Hey there! The goals look vital but efficient. 

 

Good luck!

[starpuck]

Yeaaah there you are! 

 

 

 

Glad to see you here among us friend!    Gondor has long awaited your joining of our ranks!

[Siuken]

3 hours ago, MattSkywalker said:

Yay, I have the honor to be the first.

 

The goals are excellent, my friend! Kudos for making jogging/walking a part of the challenge, and a good call to make it 5 min a day. One step at a time, and you'll be off to Mordor!

 

Welcome, Ranger!

Thank you its good to be here

 

3 hours ago, WantMy$2 said:

Hey there! The goals look vital but efficient. 

 

Good luck!

Thank you! 

 

1 hour ago, Starpuck said:

Yeaaah there you are! 

 

 

 

Glad to see you here among us friend!    Gondor has long awaited your joining of our ranks!

 

Lets get this party started!

 

[TGP]

welcome Suiken-san.

those are worthy goals.   

 

how has the year gone for you?  have you been making steady improvements in your regime or is it still rather new...

 

if you haven't seen it; NF has a huge amounts of articles about just about any exercise topic you can think of.

[Siuken]

Day 1 and 2:

since I missed the update yesterday I figured I would touch base for both days. Trying to find the motivation to keep going and changing my mind set to where I actually enjoy the process is a bit difficult, lol. But i tell my self to try and embrace the suck. My back is still in some pain, but I retain mobility. For those who may not know I injured my lower back at work a little over a week ago. Made doing lifts a bit hard, but I should get in two work outs this week. Embrace the Suck. 

 

The book I'm reading has been on my lost of books to read for a while, mainly because i own it and its just been sitting there. lol. Its about Social and Political philosophy. Basically Books that are on the Top reading lists from the art of manliness lol.

 

Main Quest: Consistency part 2- Vengeance

• move (jog/walk) at least 5 mins a  day : X X _ _ _ _ _       

• clean up my diet (no fast food Mon-Fri): X X _ _ _

• read for at least 30 mins a day: _ X _ _ _ _ _ 

• lift 2-3 days a week: _ _ _

[MattSkywalker]

Political and Social philosophy? Sounds interesting! Which titles/authors?

 

Congrats on the walk/jog - I see you've been good at those. Here's to you successfully braving the suck until it passes and your back recovers!

[starpuck]

Nice job pushing through.  It's super hard, I know.   I have had to talk myself into both walks this week so far- but I heard someone 'round these parts once say, "Do something because you've told yourself you are a person who does it."  Sometimes that shift in self talk goes a long way!

 

Hope the back feels better soon.

[Siuken]

8 hours ago, MattSkywalker said:

Political and Social philosophy? Sounds interesting! Which titles/authors?

its short snippets from many great books, such as "The Prince", "The Republic" and it goes through the ages including such authors as henry Thoreau and many different others. Its pretty cool. Although I left it at home today so I is sad I wont be able to read it today.

 

6 hours ago, Starpuck said:

Nice job pushing through.  It's super hard, I know.   I have had to talk myself into both walks this week so far- but I heard someone 'round these parts once say, "Do something because you've told yourself you are a person who does it."  Sometimes that shift in self talk goes a long way!

 

Hope the back feels better soon.

Thanks! Ive been pushing myself to make sure I stay mobile. I knocked out a quick HIIT today which made it feel amazing....until the adrenaline dropped lol. I watched a Goalcast video showing a former Navy Seal. He went on to tell about how he tried 3 times to pass BUDs and twice failed. The third time He was told not to try, as he had two broken legs, and numerous other ailments. But he learned to embrace the hard time, to work though them and he over came them. Since then the things I don't wanna do, I make myself do them regardless. Its part of the reason why I say run/walk for at least 5 mins, because usually after 5 mins  I have the will to keep going.

[Siuken]

Thursday - Sunday follow up:

Thursday : Completed a short run and work out. A mixture of 5x5 and the Nerdfitness Arrow workout.

Friday: Did a short run up and down my driveway. wasn't long but at least I did it.

Saturday: Went on a 3-5 mile hike up in the beautiful Cades Cove here in TN.

Sunday: Took the Girlfriend on an adventure to NC and the Ocoee River area.

 

Overall I feel like I did pretty good this week. when I got to work today there was a few officers running around the complex, I was playing a game on my phone waiting to go in, and it struck me....I could at least take a walk around the building. I had plenty of time. So I did. I slipped a little bit in the eating part of things as Wednesday and Thursday I ended up buying some fast food. But I'm fixing that today as I have made food. However where  I have done well my reading fell to the wayside (dragon age inquisition has been taking my time lol) I am going to try t fix that this week.  

[starpuck]

Omg, such a great game... I assume you've played the others too?    I mean, I am so hooked on that world that I have one piece of art hung in my room.

This.

Which is the map of Thedas, lol.

 

You got lots of walking and running in, so that's awesome.    Good job with the progress!

 

[Siuken]

10 minutes ago, Starpuck said:

Omg, such a great game... I assume you've played the others too?    I mean, I am so hooked on that world that I have one piece of art hung in my room.

This.

Which is the map of Thedas, lol.

 

You got lots of walking and running in, so that's awesome.    Good job with the progress!

 

oh yeah, I really like Bioware they make games I love such as Dragon Age and Mass effect. In fact after this I may go play ME again. Ive been thinking about ME:A but Ive seen some really, really bad reviews. Farcry 5 comes out tomorrow but I may wait a while on it.

[starpuck]

I played through ME:A ... it didn't hold up to 2 or 3 of the original, but it's still a Bioware game.   Which means it's still better than a lot of other big titles out there.    But, there was graphics issues (I feel like they phoned it in) and I had romance issues because they made all the chicks really freaking awesome... but except for Garrus, I'm not a xenofreak hehe, and so my human options were ... well there was no choice.   But alas.

 

Still great quotes, great moments and a feeling of being way out there in the middle of a new nowhere.

 

 

[Siuken]

1 hour ago, Starpuck said:

Still great quotes, great moments and a feeling of being way out there in the middle of a new nowhere.

Well I still may purchase it, especially since its not that expensive anymore lol

[MattSkywalker]

8 hours ago, Siuken said:

Thursday - Sunday follow up:

Thursday : Completed a short run and work out. A mixture of 5x5 and the Nerdfitness Arrow workout.

Friday: Did a short run up and down my driveway. wasn't long but at least I did it.

Saturday: Went on a 3-5 mile hike up in the beautiful Cades Cove here in TN.

Sunday: Took the Girlfriend on an adventure to NC and the Ocoee River area.

 

Overall I feel like I did pretty good this week. when I got to work today there was a few officers running around the complex, I was playing a game on my phone waiting to go in, and it struck me....I could at least take a walk around the building. I had plenty of time. So I did. I slipped a little bit in the eating part of things as Wednesday and Thursday I ended up buying some fast food. But I'm fixing that today as I have made food. However where  I have done well my reading fell to the wayside (dragon age inquisition has been taking my time lol) I am going to try t fix that this week.  

Sounds like you had a great week! And what do I see here? I think I see a runner in the making. Seriously, congrats big time on your consistency with running/walking. I love your decision to walk around the building instead of playing on the phone. That was very intentional, and that's how habits change!

[Siuken]

Welcome to my week

 

week has been jam packed with just terrible decisions and lack of wanting to do anything. Let us begin.

Monday- walked a little, got to about 5000 steps before the clock hit 12 and I started over, for those who don't know I work third shift. ate pretty spot on I was happy with that. still haven't read again other than websites....and I don't think that counts. lol

Tuesday- walked over 11000 steps and ate really well. I've been secretly trying my hand at some intermittent fasting, going down to two meals a day and trying to clean up those meals.

Wednesday- walked around a bit but I was so exhausted from work I took a light day. ate pretty good, still no reading

Thursday- Fail just fail, barely walked didn't work out, and to top it all I ate some fast food.

Friday/today- another fail....basically just another repeat from yesterday.

 

But tomorrow is a new day and I will do better.

[starpuck]

Just a thought - if you are Intermittent fasting on the front half of the week, could that be potentially part of the issue hitting Thur/Fri?   Maybe not enough fuel/energy... etc?    I've never messed with IF before, so have no clue how it works, but I know for me, when I do a bunch of activity, and lower eating, that I have a streak of a few awesome days, then I tank!

 

It's like I gotta find the happy medium for the long haul, instead of swinging on the pendulum.   I just wanted to write the word pendulum!

 

Have a good this week my friend!

 

[MattSkywalker]

@Siuken Hey I don't think your week was a such a disastrous failure. Not A+, but you did pretty good the first half of a week. You're fighting, and that's what matters. Maybe IF had some influence in feeling low-energy on Thu and Fri, as @Starpuck said. IF is generally not a problem to males, but at first it can give a low-energy feeling - not necessarily lined up with reality, but more with the habit (body used to receiving food at certain times a day). If that happens, it's just a normal part of the adapting period, so just take it easy, one step at a time, and see how it goes for you.

 

And as you said, a new day -> a new beginning. And also a new week -> a new beginning. Have a great one! It is yours to take.

[starpuck]

Hey Siuken!

 

It is, it is!  

 

Just checking in on my fellow rebel!  Keep putting up the good fight.   Even just the act of doing a single thing today, is still progress!

 

[Siuken]

I am so sorry I haven't been able to update all week. but as it is pretty late where I am an update is coming, just not tonight...errr morning lol 

[Siuken]

I'm sorry I haven't been posting a lot on this, no I haven't given up, I just work a weird schedule and NF is blocked at my work lol. I've also come to some good conclusions, mainly that I need to stop being so hard on myself. But here is the past week to today.

  

Monday- pretty good day ate only at home. played a game of tag with my son and nieces and nephews. 

Tuesday-  got a little fast food today, some nuggets and a frosty from Wendy's. 

Wednesday- Knocked out a 5x5 workout. Didn't eat well as I wanted,  people went and got food and i succumbed.  Ate a big thing of Pollo loco from the local Mexican  restaurant. but I didn't over eat and i walked almost 10000 steps. 

Thursday-  walked 10000 steps and did well with bringing food from home. 

Friday- Knocked out a 2 hour workout with a friend from work, twas amazing. ate pretty well Although I did get 2 egg white grills from chick-fil-a

Saturday- weekend is where I stumbled, I ended up getting dome Chinese food, and didn't break 4000 steps

Sunday- more Chinese food, no work out....

today- picked it back up ate some oatmeal, and a almond butter roll up with apple sauce. then knocked out another hour workout. feeling the high lol 

 

I can do better on my diet but, my back no longer hurts and I am embracing the suck. hope everyone is doing well. Also I've been itching to play some ME again so that may affect future challenges. 

[starpuck]

Good work there!   And yes, stop being so hard.  It's progress, we seek.  Not perfection!  Hehe, I may have done a duo-challenge with an old NF person that was N7 themed...   Jus' saying.

 

[Elastigirl]

What is an almond butter roll up?

[Siuken]

19 hours ago, Elastigirl said:

What is an almond butter roll up?

almond butter and a tortilla. lol I hadn't gone shopping and it was all I had lol.