Starpuck : S.H.I.E.L.D. Training Level 1

[starpuck]

STARPUCK TRAINS WITH S.H.I.E.L.D

 

 

 

Agent W:  "Who is this new recruit we have here?   Starpuck?   What kind of name is that anyway?   And just where did we find her?   I mean really..."

 

Agent C: She's got potential.  She just needs someone to help her find it.   Besides, she was on our recruitment list as of April.    Time to get to work on this.  

 

Agent W:  She was recruited months ago??   What the hell has she been doing?  Who's been training her?    Is she even still at the training facility?

 

Agent C:  Technically no, but you'll fetch her, bring her in and get her started and then, we'll run a fake mission and see how she handles herself on the field.

 

Agent W:  I think this is a really bad idea.

 

Agent C:  Trust me.

 

 

::TRAINING DETAILS::

 

Fitness Regime

1. Bodyweight/Balance Train:  3X / WEEK   STR 3
2. Move & Sweat!!: 3X / WEEK  DEX 1, STA 2  
3. Track food intake via Fibit/MFP  CON 2 / CHA 2

Life Goals

• Research photography classes and sign up for one before next challenge.  WIS 2
• Swapped above with : Step out of comfort zone, body acceptance project.   CHA 2
• Reorganize vacation pictures and move to Smugmug album. (8000+ photos!)   WIS 1
• Make appt for that one 'you-know-what' thing and DO IT.  WIS 2

 

 

 

 

Starting Stats:

Weight 156.1

Chest

Bicep  13.5

Waist  37

Hips  40

Thigh  26

[starpuck]

A little bit of backstory for my new guild, and for my own reference later ...

 

So my first assassin guild challenge.    I've been with the rangers since joining NF but have lately felt lost with all the strange ciphers and codes thrown around there ... like WOD, MWOD, AMRAP, OHP, OHS, RFT, WUT TO THE WUT?

 

When I first joined NF in March of 2013, I was >.> out to prove something to a teammate of mine.  She'd just joined Crossfit and was out to proselytize all the peoples to the greatness of it.    I wanted to show her that it's less about "The Name Brand" of your workouts, and more about just DOING them.    So I started doing playground workouts.  I LOVED THEM!   I still do!!!   I had a TON of success with my exercise regime that consisted, really ... of pull ups, push ups, planks/core stuff and whatever other silly thing I could do on the bars.    I lost 15 pounds in 15 weeks.   Shifted my belt buckle TWO FULL NOTCHES to the thinner and had a boost of confidence that was near blinding.

 

Winter at my latitude brings on a wave of seasonal depression for me most commonly known as S.A.D.    I struggle through the winter, even though I am active with hockey.     Our last winter here in Chicago was really brutal.   (We had a streak of days where our HIGH was -16 degrees.)   It also lasted into April.  (Heck we had a snow shower in May even.)   In February, they fired my friend/coworker and the work load went haywire for 5 months.  And in the middle of summer, there was a family crisis that pulled my attention and focus that way.   All that I'd lost in weight, and gained in progress ... went right out the window.    I now have to face the unpleasant task of starting over - and dealing with the frustration and regret I aim at myself for having 'let myself go' in the first place, and be determined enough to face the hurdles of having to relearn things and not give up because "I used to be able to this."    It's going to be tough for me, but I can still remember how I felt when I was at my peak level of performance last August 2013.    I want that back.   

 

Additionally, food is still my biggest challenge as well.  I get kind of rage-quitty when I track calories, but I think I need to for this challenge so I can see where my 'usual intakes' are.  Plus, I will be on vacation TWICE this challenge, and being able to plug things in to MFP might help me be a bit more sensible in the allowance of 'vacation indulgences'.  (IE, not every meal, every day, lol.)

 

I'm really excited to be here in this guild and hopefully get to a really strong and balanced place again.   If you want to see what sort of things I'd like to be capable of doing at some point ... then check out the webpage and videos of Barely Balanced.   An acrobatic comedy team that frequents my local ren faire (and others.)   It's this kind of functional strength and balance I would love to achieve!

[obax]

Welcome welcome! I shall be following along!

 

I get the feeling of 'I used to be able to do this', it's how I feel when I go climbing. I was pretty lax about it for a while and I slid back quite a bit, but it doesn't take long for your body to remember how it feels to do all that awesome stuff and you'll start to see progress before you know it!

[Tateman]

I love the S.H.E.I.L.D. Theme

 

I have done pretty well since starting to really track my foods at MFP.

[Batwoman]

People like your friend are why I can't bring myself to try Crossfit.

 

I know you have probably heard this question before, but I just don't know the answer so here I go... have you tried paleo/primal instead of calorie counting?

 

Look forward to following along and welcome to the guild.

[Wufkar]

Hey girl. Kick it.

[CelebrateCeleste]

I hate "I used to be able to do this...." I feel that a lot.  And my work has a crossfit club that meets three times a week. Then some members lift the other 2 days too.  I get very concerned that no one is looking out for their form and someone is going to get badly injured.

 

Anyway.  I wish you lots off success in this challenge!  Have fun!

[chammy]

I end up saying this a lot now (answering e-mails), but starting over doesn't mean you failed - it just means you have another play through.

 

The first few levels will be familiar, so you can breeze through them relatively fast. Of course, sometimes you forget about that one monster that pops out and throws you off, but soon enough you'll bypass it like you have in the past with no issue.

 

Pressing Restart isn't failure. It's just a New Game.

[karinajean]

Hey yay assassiny challenge!

One if the things I like about "starting over" is you ALREADY KNOW YOU CAN DO IT.

I track calories every day. I am resigned to it. I don't want to believe this will be my like once I hit my goal - but it keeps me on track like nothing else. Ugh.

Sent from my iPhone while riding a unicorn through the cosmos.

[starpuck]

Hey thanks Obax!     I guess this happens to almost every body in some way, shape or form.    I will try and remember that Obax says "It doesn't take long for your body to remember!"

 

Thanks Tateman!!   I was sketchy about doing another SHIELD theme but it's returning on Sept 22nd, so I know I'll get all re-into it and be like YES YES SHIELD!  I love the bar code scan option with MFP.   We're going to try it.   Maybe I should make that goal worth more stats .... hmmm.
 

Yar Batwoman.   My first few months at NF I did what I lovingly called PaleoALMOST.   I think there's the potential for two problems there for me.  I don't really cook.  (Hate it, and current living arrangement makes it a scoche tricky.)  So I'd end up eating way too LITTLE.   On the other side of that spectrum, is finding meals I really liked and eating way too much!    When "I'm On" my food preferences are naturally healthy ones.  But regardless of being off or on, portions tend to trip me up.   Yum = EAT ALL THE YUM.   Even if I am already full.  *blush*   Someday I may try it again.  
 

Wufkar?  Kick it?  Like the Beastie Boys!?  Ok you got it!
 

Heeeey CelebrateCeleste!      Let's start a club that has a sign that says, "No I USED TO's!"  What do you say?     Thanks for the cheering on!!  So far I am feeling capable of nailing this one!
 

Awww Chammy!   That was PERFECT for me today, as just last night my friend lost all his game progress on Dragon Age.  (His computer got a virus.)  So I sat and played along with him as he started over.    I said, "Well this time it will be easier because you already know what to do and where to go."    Perfect analogy for me this morning.    Your some kind of rockstar!   Thanks!
 

 Hi hi KarinaJean!  Yup you and the others are getting me to shrug off the regrets.     I got this.  Rarr.     Do you ever have an issue with looking at what you ate, and the calories left for the day, and it like ... makes you want to throw kittens off of tall roofs into the waiting hands of carnivorous evil circus clowns?    That's the one thing that I get hung up with on calorie tracking.    Perhaps I am part dragon, I want to hoard all the calories, and still be satisfied of hunger and taste yumminess.
 

[karinajean]

 

 Hi hi KarinaJean!  Yup you and the others are getting me to shrug off the regrets.     I got this.  Rarr.     Do you ever have an issue with looking at what you ate, and the calories left for the day, and it like ... makes you want to throw kittens off of tall roofs into the waiting hands of carnivorous evil circus clowns?    That's the one thing that I get hung up with on calorie tracking.    Perhaps I am part dragon, I want to hoard all the calories, and still be satisfied of hunger and taste yumminess.

 

 

honestly mostly I eat the exact same thing for breakfast and lunch every day, and then mix it up for dinner. which is absolutely calorie tracking by DRAGON HOARDING.

 

other times I plan plan plan and then I stress out that I spend too much time thinking about food and I worry that my eating is becoming disordered (though really I am pretty healthy with my relationship with food) and then I realize that ALL MEALS in the USA are kinda disordered, really, between our obsession with cheap high volume food and our obsession with fitness and thinness. And then I decide I can't beat the system so I just ignore all those feels and plan it all out.

 

so, yeah. definitely a hate-hate relationship there.

 

but I like thinking of myself as a DRAGON! that makes it a lot better!

[Batwoman]

I end up saying this a lot now (answering e-mails), but starting over doesn't mean you failed - it just means you have another play through.

 

The first few levels will be familiar, so you can breeze through them relatively fast. Of course, sometimes you forget about that one monster that pops out and throws you off, but soon enough you'll bypass it like you have in the past with no issue.

 

Pressing Restart isn't failure. It's just a New Game.

 

Stealing this forever. That is so brilliant.

 

 

Yar Batwoman.   My first few months at NF I did what I lovingly called PaleoALMOST.   I think there's the potential for two problems there for me.  I don't really cook.  (Hate it, and current living arrangement makes it a scoche tricky.)  So I'd end up eating way too LITTLE.   On the other side of that spectrum, is finding meals I really liked and eating way too much!    When "I'm On" my food preferences are naturally healthy ones.  But regardless of being off or on, portions tend to trip me up.   Yum = EAT ALL THE YUM.   Even if I am already full.  *blush*   Someday I may try it again.  

 

Yeah. I kind of live in an ideal situation where my partner eats the same way I do (although I'm a little more strict). I also have my own house and kitchen and all those fun things that I take for granted.

 

I've definitely had those bingey, eat all the noms moments. Even now I get that too full feeling some times when I'm into something really tasty. In an ideal state of mind I try to take 20 minutes before I think about getting myself seconds. If I am still hungry after the 20 mins I get more noms. What happens sometimes is that we get into the mode of just shoveling tasty things in our mouth instead of savoring it.

 

Last challenge I fluctuated from being not hungry at all and eating practically nothing all day to being a hungry rage monster. The body is weird. Keeping track of cals suck, but sometimes it gives you a good framework of how you should be eating every day.

[Devyn]

YES YES YES! ALL OF IT YES!

[starpuck]

I also may or may not be binging today, in some kind of odd, 'omg starting Monday you can have none of the eats' panic.

I mean, I'm totally not... That's not happening.  I just.  I hear it can.  To some people.   To those people!  You are not alone! 

Because ... I've heard it from others. 

>.>

Yeah.

 

Also!!!  I am so excited.    Back to school clearance stuff means I picked up an awesome 6x9 planner/calendar/full month + weekly view planner notebook thing and 4 colors if gel pens to track stuff on it!

 

I LOVE ORGANIZY STUFF!

[Batwoman]

Also!!!  I am so excited.    Back to school clearance stuff means I picked up an awesome 6x9 planner/calendar/full month + weekly view planner notebook thing and 4 colors if gel pens to track stuff on it!

 

[chammy]

Stealing this forever. That is so brilliant.

Haha, well thanks.

[alienjenn]

ALL NEW PR'S !!!!

 

 

because yo... 

 

 

it's a new journey!

[Lokesbrah]

wohoho there we go!
Hello Hello Starpuck! Wow, great challenge! I'll be right here, suporting you every week!

 

Aim for something big, agent!

[ChristArtist]

gotta love that chammy! way!

and, I've started over so many times - but each time, I learn something new-er - which helps me to climb higher.

sometimes I fall further - but, the next time - I know I can climbe that high - and push past....as long as I keep going higher and higher....

and you keep going higher and higher, reaching stronger and stronger...I don't see any failure here...just a different outfit! ;-)

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[starpuck]

Spent the day with Nerds yesterday.    It was awesome.

But I am pretty sure that today's practice I am gonna look like this ...

 

[Nymeria]

   So I started doing playground workouts.  I LOVED THEM!   I still do!!!   I had a TON of success with my exercise regime that consisted, really ... of pull ups, push ups, planks/core stuff and whatever other silly thing I could do on the bars.    

I LOVE playground workouts!   There are so many awesome things you can do while just jumping around or climbing on the playground equipment.  

[joedog]

It's so good to see you getting back in the groove! I totally know what you mean about getting new calendars to track with. I'm all, I have to get a new notebook because I'm a whole new joedog today. Heh. 

[JessFit]

Starpuck, I like to cook and don't have many people in my life who eat the healthy noms, so if you want home cooked paleo just let me know

[maigrey]

oh hai girl, hai.   glad you had fun in THE BIG SKEERY CITY

[starpuck]

I LOVE playground workouts!   There are so many awesome things you can do while just jumping around or climbing on the playground equipment.  

 

I knoooooooow!   It's so awesome.    Buuut, now we're hitting winter time in Chicago, so to the indoors I must go.  Booo.   There is actually a gym in my little suburb, that is run by a guy who does those American Ninja Warrior type shows - and so he's built his whole gym around that.    Every once in a while I get the slightest inkling to check that place out...  

 

It's so good to see you getting back in the groove! I totally know what you mean about getting new calendars to track with. I'm all, I have to get a new notebook because I'm a whole new joedog today. Heh. 

 

Well the groove is there, sort of like in the start of a race... the engines are idling pretty hot, sort of feeling like they're ready to go, but the pedal hasn't been floored yet.    That's where I am at.  But we'll see if I can't jump out of the gate with a charge!    And yay for getting me on the notebooks!  (My friends tell me I have a notebook addiction.)

 

Starpuck, I like to cook and don't have many people in my life who eat the healthy noms, so if you want home cooked paleo just let me know

 

Ohhhh can we double down with some yoga AND paleo?     If you're trying to woo me ... it's working!

 

oh hai girl, hai.   glad you had fun in THE BIG SKEERY CITY

 

Not SCARY city, loud, chaotic, wait in line EVERYwhere, busy busy busy, noisy city.      But I did have fun.  Lots and lots of fun.   I don't think I will EVER forget the Thai restaurant awesomeness.  You were awesome helping me, (and everyone) navigate and situate Maigrey.  Thanks for being a doll!   And now I don't have to do anything downtown-y for like, another 5 years!