miss america: mysterious interdimensional superhero

[BlackTezca]

PFFFT!!  One day won't kill ya .  I think you have been building up the habit so that's awesome!  Looks like except for that one hiccup, you have been doing great!! 

 

Awesome you have made a Life Plan as well as have been spoiling yourself with self care!  Awesome stuff

[RisenPhoenix]

Social events with friends.  Always a good reason to fail.  As long as it's only an occasional thing.

 

What's Habit Bull?  Did I miss you explaining that?  Looks kinda nifty.

[miss america]

What's Habit Bull?  Did I miss you explaining that?  Looks kinda nifty.

 

I don't think I ever did! I mostly just wanted some sort of app to track my habits, so that at the end of the challenge I don't have to go back and read all of my posts and add them all up. This one (Habit Bull) won out! It has the added bonus of kind of Don't Break the Chain style motivation, where it gives a nice visual to how long your streak's been going. There's definitely been a couple days where I've waffled on actually getting my stuff done, but I didn't want to break the streak! It's also really easy to track the missions I don't do everyday, but a certain amount of times per week—I don't have to grab a calendar and figure out if I worked out last Monday or last Tuesday, and how many times was that for the week, etc. etc...

 

MISSION REPORT - 1/19 (Day 15)

 

Mission 1: Tracked AND stayed under! 

 

Mission 2: no BWW required

 

Mission 3: another video workout completed! I put it on the TV this time so it was a lot harder to pause... which I think ended up as a good thing

 

Life Mission: completed

 

[Solstice Tiger]

Look at you being so awesome!

[deftona]

Great work, I love the idea of a tracking a habit, I love a good streak! Are you aware of habitrpg? You might be interested

[miss america]

Great work, I love the idea of a tracking a habit, I love a good streak! Are you aware of habitrpg? You might be interested

 

You know, I had heard about it while I was researching, but I think I got it confused with Chore Wars—which is similar but wasn't quite what I wanted for this. Now that I know they're different (and that habitrpg is so pretty and colorful) I'm definitely going to check it out!

 

MISSION REPORT 1/20 - Day 16

 

Mission 1: Tracked food, went over 'cause I was being a snacky brat since knew Agent Carter shenanigans always put me over anyway... but then there was no new episode this week! So I wasted my over day for nuthin'. 

 

Mission 2: BWW completed

 

Mission 3: no boxing

 

Life Mission: wrote a blog post!

 

MISSION REPORT 1/21 - (Day 17)

 

Mission 1: Tracked and stayed on goal

 

Mission 2: no BWW required

 

Mission 3: Completed boxing

 

Life Mission: face wash

 

At some point during my boxing workout I totally jacked up my knees!!! I didn't notice until after though. It started out as a good thing kinda—I've built my wind up enough that I could do almost the whole video without stopping. Of course that included about 5 minutes of power/jump squats, which previously I was doing either very slowly or with significant breaks between. Hopefully I've recovered by tomorrow. They probably just need to get used to the structure of my newly impressive quad muscles, right?!?

 

[Terah]

ouch! Better to let your knees rest a bit and do an upper body workout. You don't want to injure yourself further (didn't took my own advise and it took me 2 months before I could bent my knees without pain).

[BlackTezca]

ouch! Better to let your knees rest a bit and do an upper body workout. You don't want to injure yourself further (didn't took my own advise and it took me 2 months before I could bent my knees without pain).

 

I second this advice!  Rest your legs and workout that back, chest, and arms!

[Teirin]

Thirded.  That's some good advice.

[miss america]

ouch! Better to let your knees rest a bit and do an upper body workout. You don't want to injure yourself further (didn't took my own advise and it took me 2 months before I could bent my knees without pain).

 

I second this advice!  Rest your legs and workout that back, chest, and arms!

 

Thirded.  That's some good advice.

 

Definitely went this route!! The pain was mostly gone after about a day, but I switched out the squats/lunges in my BWW for the past couple days, and did a "low impact" cardio workout instead of the bouncey boxing one. I'm taking it slow just in case though—did just a half-set of squats for my last BWW and will increase back to normal if all seems well. Thanks for looking out everyone!

 

MISSION REPORT - 1/22 (Day 18)

 

Mission 1: Tracked all food

 

Mission 2: BWW completed (no squats or lunges)

 

Mission 3: no boxing/cardio

 

Life Mission: completed

 

MISSION REPORT - 1/23 (Day 19)

 

Mission 1: Tracked food and under

 

Mission 2: no BWW required

 

Mission 3: no boxing/cardio

 

Life Mission: completed

 

MISSION REPORT - 1/24 (Day 20)

 

Mission 1: Tracked food

 

Mission 2: one extra rest day for BWW

 

Mission 3: extra rest day

 

Life Mission: completed - new book

 

MISSION REPORT - 1/25 (Day 21)

 

Mission 1: Tracked food

 

Mission 2: BWW completed, half set of squats only

 

Mission 3: Did a low impact cardio workout—thought it was going to be for feeble elderly people, BUT I actually ended up working up a sweat by the end I even found one that was kickboxing themed, so I at least still got my punching in!

 

Life Mission: completed - hair treatment + reading + worked on blog post

 

And here's the visual representation from Habit Bull!

 

 

[Solstice Tiger]

YO!

 

You're doing great!!! I'm so proud!

 

Wanted to let you know that my copy of "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up" came into the library a couple days ago and I spent my lunch break reading the first bit. I'm excited to tidy!!

[Kishi]

I'm glad to hear that the pain has dissipated and that you found ways to work around it. Now it's time to go back and hit it hard.

[Terah]

Good to hear you are doing well

[RisenPhoenix]

 

Damn right.  Smash through that wall.

[Retxab]

 

 

Hire a reputable contractor? I mean, I guess I could go the DIY route, but that takes a lot of time and would probably interfere with my workout schedule.

[miss america]

Wanted to let you know that my copy of "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up" came into the library a couple days ago and I spent my lunch break reading the first bit. I'm excited to tidy!!

 

YES!!!!! It's so ~*~inspirational~*~ My progress has kind of slowed, but that's partly because I did so much all at once that there's not THAT much more to get rid of

 

Hire a reputable contractor? I mean, I guess I could go the DIY route, but that takes a lot of time and would probably interfere with my workout schedule.

 

Ahaha! Touche.

 

MISSION REPORT - 1/26 (Day 22)

 

Mission 1: Food tracked and within goals

Mission 2: no BWW required

Mission 3: did one more low-impactish video workout, just to make sure all was good!

 

MISSION REPORT - 1/27 (Day 23)

 

Mission 1: Food tracked

Mission 2: BWW completed... sort of... (see next day)

Mission 3: no video workout

 

MISSION REPORT - 1/28 (Day 24)

 

Mission 1: Food tracked and within goals

Mission 2: Admitted that my BWW from the previous day had been totally half-assed, so I did a whole-assed BWW this day! I can now do push-ups from the coffee table... the floor is getting in my SIGHTS!

Mission 3: Back to my boxing video. No sign of the knee pain AND I did the whole thing with NO pauses! There are definitely a few exercises where I can still improve my form, but I felt pretty good about this I couldn't even remember all the spots I used to have to pause at. Now to see what else I can do...

 

MISSION REPORT - 1/29 (Day 25)

 

Mission 1: Food tracked

Mission 2: No BWW

Mission 3: No boxing

 

Eeek I've been really bad about keeping on track of these updates this time around! And I owe y'all some motivation on your own threads too...! This weekend, hopefully....

 

[BlackTezca]

Honestly, I'm gonna start slowly down on my updates too so don't worry about it!  You've been consistently going strong and I love your Rock pictures! 

[Terah]

Just checking in.

That book "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up" sounds really good. Going to read it too

[Kishi]

[Solstice Tiger]

CRUSH WEEK 6!!!!!!!

 

[Kishi]

Oi! Miss America! You still doing things and stuff?

[miss america]

CRUSH WEEK 6!!!!!!!

 

 

OMG IS IT REALLY WEEK 6?!?!? Wow!

 

Oi! Miss America! You still doing things and stuff?

 

I'm still here!! When I don't make myself post every day, everything falls apart update-wise, but I'm still tracking! Will post in a bit

 

[miss america]

How has it been so long??? Oh my gosh. Ok.

 

MISSION REPORT - 1/30 (Day 26)

Mission 1: tracked food check

Mission 2: no BWW OK

Mission 3: no boxing OK

Mission 4: self care accomplished

 

MISSION REPORT - 1/31 (Day 27)

Mission 1: did NOT track food nope

Mission 2: no BWW OK

Mission 3: no boxing OK

Mission 4: self care accomplished

 

(Just realized that this "fail" day is probably why I didn't want to catch up on updates here in the first place... even though I was still within my weekly goals for 2 of the 3 challenges, and this was only my second miss on the food tracking. SMH at my past self.)

 

MISSION REPORT - 2/1 (Day 28)

Mission 1: did not track food nope

Mission 2: BUT I did do BWW check

Mission 3: and did do boxing check

Mission 4: and self care accomplished

 

MISSION REPORT - 2/2 (Day 29)

Mission 1: tracked food AND within goals double check

Mission 2: no BWW OK

Mission 3: boxing done  check

Mission 4: self care accomplished

 

MISSION REPORT - 2/3 (Day 30)

Mission 1: tracked food  check

Mission 2: BWW done  check

Mission 3: no boxing  OK

Mission 4: self care accomplished

 

MISSION REPORT - 2/4 (Day 31)

Mission 1: tracked food  check

Mission 2: no BWW  OK

Mission 3: no boxing OK

Mission 4: self care accomplished

 

MISSION REPORT - 2/5 (Day 32)

Mission 1: tracked food AND stayed within goals double check

Mission 2: BWW done check

Mission 3: boxing done  check

Mission 4: self care accomplished

 

MISSION REPORT - 2/6 (Day 33)

Mission 1: no tracking nope

Mission 2: no BWW OK

Mission 3: no boxing OK

Mission 4: self care accomplished

 

MISSION REPORT - 2/7 (Day 34)

Mission 1: no tracking nope

Mission 2: no BWW nope

Mission 3: no boxing  OK

Mission 4: self care accomplished

 

MISSION REPORT - 2/8 (Day 35)

Mission 1: no tracking nope

Mission 2: no BWW nope

Mission 3: no boxing nope

Mission 4: self care accomplished

 

MISSION REPORT - 2/9 (Day 36)

Mission 1: tracked food AND within goals double check

Mission 2: no BWW nope

Mission 3: boxing done check

Mission 4: self care accomplished

 

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OK so, overall I did all right for the past week and a half or so—I fell off the tracking wagon last weekend, and then this weekend I was at a bachelorette party so I didn't do much of anything at all, goalwise. That ended up turning out pretty well though, all things considered—we did a lot of walking, and while I definitely had some treats, I was also proud of myself for not going completely overboard and making GOOD choices in some instances! I made sure to have oatmeal and fruit and yogurt for breakfast, and healthy snacks throughout the day... just 'cause I have some indulgences, doesn't mean the entire day is lost and every choice counts I was a little disappointed when I got home and saw my weight had gone up quite a bit, but when I checked yesterday it had all dropped away and I was already back to normal! I guess that's that water weight thing you guys are always talking about But anyway, I seem to be back to my pre-vacation size, so the good choices did work out after all. I also wore some jeans on the trip that had been uncomfortably small a few weeks ago, but were perfect now!

 

Also, per deftona's suggestion I started doing HabitRPG! After that first weekend on non-tracking (and a lot of BWWs being accomplished at night or during the day, instead of actually waking up early to do them) I felt my motivation waning a bit, so I wanted to add something new to keep me going. It's actually really fun, though I only use it for a few of my "habits," so I'm not having to track everything in three different spots.

 

Oh, and if you have been following me since my first challenge, you may remember my life mission last time was to apply to grad schools—well, I just heard back from the first one, and I got in! Still waiting on the others, but it takes a certain weight off my shoulders (so I can put it back on for a shoulder press, obviously).

 

Anyway, for the last week of the challenge, I'm going to add these BONUS BUT TOTALLY MANDATORY CHALLENGES for myself so I know I will finish strong:

• Post an update here EVERY DAY
• Track food and stay within goals EVERY DAY
• Do all BWWs in the MORNING even if you are SLEEPY and the bed is WARM (I have already failed this for today but like, from now on)
• Do at least one boxing day on a THURSDAY, FRIDAY, or SATURDAY
• BE A BADASS

[Teirin]

Congrats on grad school acceptance!  Also on making good choices while on vacation and still having lots of fun.

 

Habit RPG is pretty fun.

 

You've been very consistent all challenge, one rough week isn't enough to sink it.  Finish up with an awesome week 6 and your bonus but mandatory goals

[Kishi]

Echoing Teirin. You can tell that you've done well this challenge. Your body is doing the things you want it to, and the fact that you got it back to where you wanted after vacation so quickly means that you picked some good habits and that they paid off.

 

Congrats on grad school! What are you going in for?