Wockerjabi's Quest: To Slay the Jabberwock!

[wockerjabi]

Monday has been good. Food goals were met and I went on an insanely long hike, so that's one workout for the week.

[wockerjabi]

I have met my food goals Tuesday. I didn't do any exercise (above work and walking there and from) to allow myself time to recover from the 24 mile hike yesterday. I'll have to put in a workout tomorrow if I want to meet the exercise goal for this week. 

[wockerjabi]

I am going to attempt the fourth sidequest, although I haven't got around to typing up a response to the third one. Because I started late, week 3 will be six days. Midterms are always provisional, anyway. Now that I am a Level 1 Marsh-Wiggle, my points will be allocated as follows:

 

Eat in actual meals: 2 CON

Stay within caloric limit: 2 CON, 2 WIS (because this one has been a learning experience)

Avoid sugary stuff: 1 CON (this is such a longstanding quest, it doesn't get many points)

Exercise 2X per week: 1 STR, 2 STA

 

The cumulative score thus far is 86%. The scores broken down by quest are:

 

Actual meals: 84%

Calories: 79%

Sugar: 84%

Exercise: 100% (I'm not counting the second workout of week 3 against myself until tomorrow)

 

And based on that, my (rounded) points are:

 

1 STR | 2 STA | 0 DEX | 4 CON | 2 WIS | 0 CHA

 

A bit of a caveat here: my goals are all to better my normal activity. So, while I'm actually weak in "constitution," most of my points are focused there. 

[wockerjabi]

Commpleted a bodyweight workout today (the second of Week 3). Was pretty good about eating in meals, but succumbed and had some cereal at the end of the day, pushing my calorie total over limit.

[Presea]

Ugh, cereal is so tempting.  I don't even buy it for that very reason.  But at least it's not too calorically dense, so you're probably not too far over, right?

[wockerjabi]

No, not too far. The problem with cutting things out is that after a while you end up eating too much of something that isn't even very appealing (like raisin bran).

 

Thursday has been much the same as yesterday. 

[Cohen]

I love some cereal too, so I give myself calorie space to fit it in and choose low sugar type. 

I have it with a banana and chocolate milk before workout, so it satisfies my choco craving

[wockerjabi]

That sounds delicious, Cohen. 

 

Friday was also over the calorie limit, although I was good about eating actual meals.

 

Saturday's calorie count was reasonable, and proper meals were eaten, but I ate something sugary (coffee fro-yo, for which no regrets). Wandered around downtown for several hours this evening, and walked halfway home, which I'm counting for a workout (the first of week 4).

[wockerjabi]

Sunday, proper meals were okay, but not great, and the calorie count was over.

[wockerjabi]

Monday I have been good about food, but since on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday my calorie intake was over 3000, I've decided to scrap the idea of eating three meals like a normal person and return to breakfasting on coffee or tea as is my normal habit. Everything I eat before about one PM is just extra calories; It doesn't make me less hungry in the late afternoon and evening. I'm still going to make a point of putting a proper meal together, and not just eating things one by one (which is probably a better definition of binge behavior than the one I started with), and avoiding snacks.

[wockerjabi]

Tuesday was good, Wednesday I failed two out of the three objectives, and I did not work out, even though it was my day off, so failed at that for the week. 

[wockerjabi]

Thursday was good in regards to calorie goals, but bad in regards to actual meals and sugar.

 

Friday was bad in regards to calorie goals, but pretty good in regards to actual meals and sugar.

 

Saturday met all three goals, by some miracle, as I've been ignoring this quest (although the discovery that breakfast just does not work for me has been useful).

[wockerjabi]

Oh hey, I was doing a quest a while back. How did it go?

 

Second half of quest overall score: 73%

Eat in actual meals: 79%

Stay within caloric limit: 53%

Avoid sugar: 84%

Exercise twice per week (not counting work/walking everywhere): 80%

 

Main goal of not binge eating for a week: fail (but there were some five and six day stretches)

 

Point allocation: 

Meals: 1 CON

Calories: 1 CON

Sugar: 1 CON

Exercise: 1 STR, 1 STA

 

Based on my scores, I've gained 2 constitution points, 1 strength and 1 stamina. Because I didn't achieve the main goal of this quest, I'm going to stay at level 1 for now. I'm quite pleased to have achieved gold (more than 93 miles) in the "walkers" PvP challenge during this quest. I don't normally bother to log my mileage, and was surprised at how fast it added up. This has been a useful experience. I'm definitely going to try again, with refined goals.