Ninja's first challenge

[Ninja]

I've always been a yo yo dieter. Do good for a couple days, horrible on the weekends. Do good for a few weeks, stop for a few weeks. Lose a few pounds, gain it all back. I've hovered around 240 pounds for about 2 years now. For more of a background, I'm 31, and was skinny fat up until about 25 or 26 when I stopped working retail and started soul crushing desk jobs. I had a push to lose weight and to 205 at one point, but I've ballooned back up to 250 as of Friday. I haven't seen the scale start with a 199 in at least five year so...

 

 

MAIN QUEST: The main quest for now is simply to weigh less 200 pounds. Will switch to something else once this is accomplished but this is first and foremost. I do have another main goal which is to one day complete a tough mudder run, but that will be another main quest for another time. Before I get to that I want to complete a 5k. But before any of that, this is the main quest.

 

Goal #1:  Lose 10 pounds. My basic #1 goal for every challenge until I reach the main quest goal will be lose 10 pounds during the 6 week challenge. A challenging but not impossible amount to reach every 6 weeks.

 

Goal #2:  Post in battlelog and challenge every day. I've started plenty of journals various places around the web and the one thing you can count on is if I'm not posting in it that day, my diet has gone horribly wrong. Consistent logging will help me well stay consistent.

 

Goal #3:  The plan of attack will this: Keep calories under 2500 6 days a week. Saturday is the standard cheat day. Sometimes co-workers want to go out to lunch so every now and then this will pose slight problems. Get it closer to 2000 though. I put this first because diet is most important. #2, work out 5 days a week, M-F after work. #3 I walk on my lunch breaks if nothing else is going on. So get your lunch walk done 4 out of 5 days a week. Will strive for 5/5 but every now and then there are meetings at work or the whole office goes out to lunch or something.

 

Side Quest: I need to do more with my life than just lose weight. Need to find something better than a dead end 30k a year job. So apply to 5 new jobs during the challenge. By apply I mean custom cover letter and resume, not just resume spam 5 places to say I did it. Improving my financial life is really a secondary main quest to losing weight so every challenge I should shoot for doing something that improves that as well. Thank fully, I at least have no debt.

 

 

Grading, eh we'll take a look back and see how I did. I'll assign attributes later. Well when I complete the first 3 weeks and get my first set of points I'll set my baseline. For now I think I will start as an Orc Adventurer. Haven't figured out what class I want to be yet, leaning toward Ranger but we'll see.

 

Quick question, how do I get that fancy progress bar in my sig?

 

 

[Arya Sapphire]

Hi Ninja!

 

Consistent journaling is definitely an amazing tool to use and we're all here to cheer you on along the way. 

 

Good luck with everything. I know you'll do amazing!

[Hazard]

Hi!  Wanted to wish you luck on your challenge.  You can do this!

[Ninja]

Thanks guys. Time for all of us to kick some ass 

[Sirona]

Looks good!

 

To add the fancy progress bar you use the progress bar code which is between quote and Twitter on the bottom toolbar. Pick a colour for the top fill-in box and put the percentage in the bottom box.

[Ninja]

Wait they say, do I look like a waiter? Let's get this party started already

[Blaidd]

Nothing wrong with starting already (the only thing is that it only counts to your final totals from Monday ). You have good goals, however I noticed in Goal #3, you literally have 3 more goals.  You could always split them out and make those your goals (they'd definitely help you lose those 10lbs you're wanting to). 

 

Good luck

AB xx

[Calm_Batman]

Goals look good and achievable I think. I can relate to the lunch at work thing. We have supplies always dropping off donuts and stuff or when I'm workin off shift like aft most Guys want to order out for lunch. It's tough but you can turn those down. Just keep the end goal in sight!

Good luck!

[Ninja]

Thanks guys. I'm already well on my way on my Ninja quest, I'm just excited to get the real thing going.

[Ninja]

Hitting the ground running, already down 5 pounds before the challenge begins. But that won't count towards the 10 I want to lose for the challenge. 

[AegonVI]

Wait they say, do I look like a waiter? Let's get this party started already

 

That's the spirit, bro! Let's slay this dragon! (Or, because it's our first quest and (you and I at least) we're trying to lose weight... Um... Let's... Gather our gear...? I don't know... Maybe to later slay dragons, though!)

 

Hitting the ground running, already down 5 pounds before the challenge begins. But that won't count towards the 10 I want to lose for the challenge. 

 

That's fantastic! By the end of the challenge you'll be down 15+ pounds! I believe in you!

[Ninja]

Those dragons are definitely going down, er eventually!

 

Challenge starts tomorrow. Let's all get ready to fly.

[Leigh]

Good luck Ninja! I know exactly what you mean about the dieting issues... I work at a Subway and god damn it's hard to stick to healthy food when you're surrounded by the smell of melted cheese, bacon, bacon and more bacon and fresh bread. >_<

 

 

That's the spirit, bro! Let's slay this dragon! (Or, because it's our first quest and (you and I at least) we're trying to lose weight... Um... Let's... Gather our gear...? I don't know... Maybe to later slay dragons, though!)

 

Whoo dragons! *grabs a wooden sword* Let's do this!

[Ninja]

Project day 1

 

Diet 1460 calories
53 g of fat
88g of carbs
164g of protein

Diet won't usually be this low

lunch walk done

workout

front squats 
45x12
50x8
55x6

stiff leg dead lifts
45x15
55x10
65x6

db press
25x15
30x10
35x6

rear delt flies 
10x15
15x10
​25x6

[Ninja]

Project day 2

 

diet 1870 calories
fat 69g
carbs 241g
protein 133g

Had two pbnj sandwiches for lunch which contributed to the high carb number

lunch walk done 

workout

Did the treadmill first 6 minutes 6 incline at 3.5 mph. This seemed tough. The the rower, 2000m took 10:22.7. Labored through both for some reason but overall a good day as i got done everything I need to get done. 

[Ninja]

Project day 3

 

Day 11
Diet 1979 caloires
119g of fat
80g of carbs
173g of protein

Shoulda had a carb source with dinner instead of just meat, oh well calorie wise I'm happy with it

lunch walk done

workout

5 minute elliptical warmup

cable rows
40x20
60x10
80x6

db rows
20x20
30x10
40x6

db curls
20x15
30x8
30x6

cable curls
20x20
40x10
60x6

tricep pushdowns
50x20
65x10
​80x6

[Ninja]

Forgot to update last night

 

Challenge day 4

Diet 1999 calories
64g fat
241g carbs
135g protein

Lunch walk done

Workout about 5 minutes on the rower, got bored and stopped. Then 10 minutes on the treadmill at 6 incline 3.5mph

[The Swedish Ninja]

Cool, yet another Ninja is born!

 

Nice goals. I have the same problem as you with the dieting/eating, either perfect or horrible. But You can be it, you just have to put your mind to it. Your side quest goal seems like a great idea, to many people rot away at jobs they don't´ enjoy, but few takes action. Good for you!

 

Keep up the good work, I will come and check in on you from time to time to see that you stay on track. 

[Arya Sapphire]

I hope you're having an awesome day today!

[Ninja]

Well sweedish ninja up jump the devil...

 

Challenge days 5, 6 and 7

 

Days 13, 14 and 15

First the good news. Weigh in on Saturday was about 242 (I have a cheap dial scale). Bad news I can't say the diet was on point any of these days. Friday co-workers wanted to go out to lunch so I did. Going to have to put my foot down this week and decline any offers. Saturday I had intended just a cheat dinner with the gf but that somehow turned into pizza and wings and oh hey lets go donuts too (I wasn't driving). Sunday was a fathers day bbq kind of thing. Did get my workout in Friday night. This is the exact type of shit I need to avoid doing every weekend. Hoping for nice quiet boring weekends until 4th of July at least. 

 

But anway down 3 pounds on the challenge. I can easily still hit my goal of 10 pounds lost by the end of this. 

[Leigh]

Why not take a few minutes and google a few restaurants in the area that offer healthier alternatives and see if you can get the guys at work to go there instead?

[The Swedish Ninja]

Nice with the 3 pound drop!

I suggest you do a weekly reflection of all your goals, it´s a great way to reflect over your success and what can be made better. It is also easy to follow for lazy readers

[Ninja]

For the lazy readers a recap of last week

 

Diet was good M-Thursday, weekend not so good. Lost 3 pounds. Hit my lunch walk 4/5 days. Hit my workouts 5/5 days. Still, the diet is most important, so that needs to be king. I'm the poster child of being able to work out regularly and still be fat. Definitely will have to look into healthier ways to eat out. I'm trying to convince everyone when we go out to go to a sushi place so I can just get some chicken and beef teriyaki. Unfortunately the gf and well her entire family is overweight too, so they don't really think about things the way I do.

 

challenge day 8

Day 16
The gf came over, I told her just make chicken and rice, she made chicken and mac and cheese. Ugh. And I can't not eat it, everything offends her. We've been fighting enough lately I don't need WW3 because I didn't want to eat her dinner. I know she doesn't want me to lose weight. She's afraid I'm going to leave if I lose weight. I'll estimate the diet around 2500 calories because I only had one serving of the mac and cheese. Two nights in a row of shitty sleep because she wanted to fight all night.

Lunch walk done

Workout

front squats 
45x15
55x10
75x6

Stiff leg deadlift.
55x15
65x10
75x6

dumbbell shoulder press
30x15
35x10
40x6

rear delt flies
20x15
30x10
​35x6

[Arya Sapphire]

Ohhh, that workout is crazy! Good job! 

 

Also, you had an amazing week and you should feel proud of yourself. Don't beat yourself up.

[Ninja]

Thanks arya!

 

Challenge day 9

 

gf made dinner again but I think it was actually fairly healthy. A pork chop, some corn, some rice, and some mac n cheese. A small serving. Diet was on point rest of the day. I'm estimating around 1800 calories, I think I got it under 2000.

lunch walk done

Workout 
10 minutes on treadmill at 3.5mph and 6 incline, 10 minutes on elliptical.