Hey, first time participant here, just seen the post in /r/running - what a fantastic idea.

I've just turned 30. At the beginning of the year I began a running streak, which has seen me drop a fair bit of weight. I should probably check on how much at some point, but I've yo-yo'd so much through the years, I lose track!

I'm currently sitting just above a 'normal' BMI (12lbs). I know BMI is much discussed, but it seems about right for my build, so figure that sounds like a good target to aim for for this challenge.

I'm also training for a half marathon, the same one I ran last year in 2.5 hours and looking to cut a lot of time off of that (I'm at least 28lbs lighter now), I'm publicly aiming for a flat 2 hours, but my true intentions are even more ambitious.

Post half marathon (about midway through the challenge), I want to be back to training BJJ at least twice a week

And finally, I want to get a hold on my diet (this sits well with the weight loss thing, I reckon). I have a MFP account, so think logging on this (even when I falter) more regularly should be a priority.

90 Day Goals

• Lose 12lbs, get BMI within 'normal' range
• Continue my running streak, it's too big to quit now!
• Half marathon in 2 hours (or less ;) )
• Log regularly on MyFitnessPal (I think 75% is a realistic aim)
• Regularly train BJJ twice a week

Sprint 1 Goals

• Lose 4lbs
• Hit 256 day milestone (I only consider binary numbers as milestones) for streak
• Be prepared for half marathon - eg, have already cleared a 13 mile run (it's in week 1 of sprint 2)

Accounts

• dailymile
• myfitnesspal

Hey everyone. Nice to meet you! My name is Beatrice and I'm an American expat living in Buenos Aires. My stats: 38 / F / 5'10" / 239#

I have been slowly changing my eating and exercise habits in the past couple of years and have come down from a high of 282. My ultimate goal is to get to 170 and see how I feel there. My interim goal, these 90 days, I want to get down to 212. Last time round I had a goal of 30 pounds and I lost 20 in two months and then gained 5 back the last month for a total loss of 15 which isn't shabby, but is far from my goal. My biggest hurdle is complacency when nearing my goals. I want to have a strong finish this go round and lose those 30 pounds.

So far I am doing well, having lost 4 pounds in the last week since cutting out refined carbs. I am cutting out wheat and sugar from my diet and for the most part it's easy, but every once in a while I get a massive craving and I just have to push through. I am also trying to not eat food that comes in prepackaged in plastic bags - that seems to cut out junk food. I am not perfect and don't claim to be, but I have made more progress with this group in the past 4 months then I have in the past year, so this is good.

Thank you all for your support and encouragement and sharing your stories, struggles and victories. I both appreciate and need you. You all are an inspirational group of women.

*Edit to add my Fitocracy and Loseit.com profiles. I'm always up for friending on there too.

Hi all! The btfc seemed a little too intimidating for me so this looks perfect. I'm excited!

• Age: 24, 25 in September
• Gender: Female
• Height: 5'-5'1" (or just plain short)
• Current weight: 127lb
• Current waist: 28" (this seems to be one of my best progress indicators)
• Highest weight: ~180lb in 2007 or 2008
• Diet: Aim for 1300 calories a day (generally ending around 1250), with some cheat days (no more than ~300cal over) not very often
• Exercise: Strength training 3-4x per week, Pilates sporadically (10-30 minutes probably 3-6 days a week), some cardio

I've been losing weight extremely slowly lately, probably because I'm gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time. My interesting limitation is that I'm hypermobile, so I need to be very careful with weight training to strengthen the muscles around my joints and not hyperextend them. (I've read I shouldn't do yoga for this reason either.)

90 Day Goals

• Hit 122 (I would say 120, but that's probably too much of a stretch)
• Really keep up with my pilates and strength training. (I've been worried I might fall off the horse with these)
• Graduate to my 20lb dumbbells for more exercises

My biggest overall goal is to possibly be ready for some introductory middriff-baring costumes in February, as I'm a cosplayer and that's when convention season begins again, so hopefully this challenge will get me on track for that.

Sprint 1 Goals

• Hit 125

Friendsies?

I'm on MyFitnessPal right here as indiraa_dw.

Good luck everybody!

I didn't check in for day one, so I'm gonna pretend this is day one. My Round 22 goals are here.

Sprint 1:

• 1400 Calories per day

• Gym & stretching 4x/week (Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri)

• Minimum 1 hour of learning time each Saturday, at table

• Make extra car payment

• Read Search Inside Yourself & one Read Harder book.

I've set up a private subreddit for myself to track goals. Last round, I caught myself "cheating" by basically planning my excuses to post here the next day, in a weird form of self-sabotage. But then when I tracked entirely privately, I lost the accountability of this sub. I think my compromise will be to just post a weekly summary here. So on Mondays, I'll recap the previous week with basically a tally of how I did on each goal. Hopefully that will help me strike a good balance.

Monday Goals:

• Grocery shopping & meal prepping

• Gym & stretching

• Take stuff upstairs to closet (Christmas tree, fan, computer, etc)

• Brace self for payroll fun Tuesday.

It's still Sunday night, so I'm going to haul my trash out to the curb (there's a lot, I did some overhauling in my kitchen) and then sit down and build my grocery list. Then dinner & the Sense8 Christmas special.

BQ: When I went to visit my grandparents. I was there to help my grandma after her surgery, but it ended up also being the last time I saw my grandpa before he passed. It was hard to see him so weakened, but it did help brace me for his passing about a month later. At the end of my visit, when I was getting ready to go to the airport to come home, he got up and gave me a hug and told me he loved me, and called me his "little [name]", like he used to call me when I was a little kid. He was never a very expressive man, so this was his version of a big show of emotion. It really meant a lot to me.

Welcome to 90days! Here's the sign-up form! Sorry for the delay. Good luck with your goals this round! :)

Hi ladies! Posted in the main intro thread already, but I'll repost here as well. This is my first 90 Day Challenge.

About Me

• Age 22 (will be 23 on 9/30, though)

• Female

• 5'7

• Don't have measurements, but I'm usually a 2-4 in jeans

• Current weight: 130 lb

• MFP

90 Day Goals

• Reach my goal weight: 120 lb

• Be 90 days closer to successfully running my first half marathon on February 17 (I'll begin Hal Higdon's Novice 1 program 12 or so weeks before the race)—I'll work on further specifying this goal as I get into training!

• Do yoga once a week to improve flexibility

• Be consistently eating a clean, paleo-ish diet 6/7 days of the week

Sprint 1 Goals

• Reach weight of 125 lb

• Run at least 30 min/4 times a week to begin building a solid anaerobic base

• Try yoga for the first time

• Eat clean, paleo-based diet 6/7 days of the week

• Log my food and workouts on MFP at least 6/7 days of the week

I'm glad this sub-group exists, sometimes it's discouraging to see how much longer it takes our bodies to change than the boys' >.<. Good luck, girls!

/Goes and googles sites Lol I have no idea what those places are :P Edit: Just checked them out. Awesome! Can't wait to level up :D

Fitocracy: harmedgreen Daily Mile: harmedgreen

Hi all,

This is going to be my 2nd round. Round 6 was really great for me -- I only lost 1 pound, but I definitely feel stronger and have more endurance. I was unfortunately derailed towards the end and didn't finish strongly (got bronchitis!) but I feel like round 6 helped me develop tools and habits to benefit me this round.

Fitocracy name: Apoptoeses

Age:24

Height: 5'2"

Current/Highest Weight: 153lbs

Lowest Weight: 119 lbs

Waist: 31"

Hips: 42"

Upper arm max: 13" (a big problem area for me!)

Thighs max: 24-5" (left is 24, right is 25...)

90DG: -10lbs (143)

LTG: -37lbs (115)

Current gym routine is 25-30' elliptical, then weight machines. The elliptical portion is done on med resistance for the first mile, high resistance for the 2nd, and ease back into low resistance for the 3rd. Just being able to do a 10min mile pace on the elliptical is awesome for me -- at the beginning of Round 6 I couldn't. Now I can do the first mile in just under 8 minutes (my record) and can finish 2 miles in 18-19 minutes. I know these times don't exactly translate to "real" running but I hope to build my strength and endurance to start to do trail running.

I am hoping this cycle to transition from weight machines to barbells and squats. I really need to find someone to teach me proper form for the squats though. I'm trying to read up on it and I just don't think I'll be able to properly critique my form myself.

I may try controlling my diet more strictly this round. Right now I am eating pretty healthy, no simple sugars/processed foods in my diet and I increased my (vegetarian) protein intake. I have trouble sticking at 1200 calories though, and I need to work on it -- I'm usually at 1500-1700.

Anyway, met some great people last round, can't wait to start again this round!

edit: whoops, still haven't gotten used to being 24.

Day 64!

For those of you who are looking to improve your plank times, I have created a new Fitocracy group, 5 Minute Plank. Come join!

THE LOOONG WEEKEND

I ate and drank too much on Thanksgiving (why break tradition?), but with exercise, diet and some fasting, I kept my weight the same as the week before.

I managed to run >5 miles and do a heavy squat workout.

TODAY

Today is all about getting back into the groove. I'm refocusing on hitting daily eating goals (LeanGains), and improving my lifts and cardio.

I'll be heading to the gym later today to do bench press day. And calf raises and planks every hour with katiekatums.

Meh, there's nothing wrong with weighting yourself on a daily basis, as long as you're keeping track of the overall trend (using loseit.com?) and using that to gauge progress.

I am loving all of the introductions. It is so great to hear about everyone else!

• I am a 33F, and I got into running in July 2013, but stopped pretty quickly. I live DC, which has a super active runner community so I have always toyed with the idea. Now I am back and really into it! I have been running with a real commitment for 6 weeks now.
• My running goal for Round 13 is to complete my first race, a 10K in May. I know I can run a 5k (a slow one), but I didn't feel ready for Bridge to 10K. I am doing Ease to 10K instead. Though Zombies, Run! is calling my name for when it gets nice outside!
• As I mentioned, I plan on running a 10K in May. No goal time yet since I am not really sure what to expect. My husband and I are thinking of signing up for the Disney Wine and Dine Half Marathon in November. But that is a big step for people who just became runners a few weeks ago!
• An odd goal I have for myself is going to an actual running store and buying shoes that are good for me. While I love my running shoes (Mizuno Wave Inspire), I want to talk to a professional about what is best!

Looking forward to hearing from all of the other runners. I'm so excited to be part of the run club for the first time in my life!

Hi all,

This is my first round. I split up my goals between daily habits for the whole round and then tasks for each of the sprints. So far sprint 1 has the most tasks, but I figure I'll add more in the mini-breaks.

Daily Habits - I have 5 basic ones, with a sixth habit just to make sure I stay on top of them all.

• Exercise (Running 3x/week following training plan; youtube yoga on other days). Habit trigger: right after I get home from work.
• Wall slides. Habit trigger: right after I get dressed in the morning.
• Read (I already do this pretty much every day... this should be my easy habit). Trigger: right before bed.
• Tidy/clean for 20 minutes. Trigger: Before I start cooking dinner.
• Meditate. Trigger: Not sure on this one. Will play around with possibilities to see what sticks.
• Check off habits. Trigger: Between brushing teeth and reading before bed.

Sprint 1 tasks/goals

• Meet yearbook deadline (I teach yearbook and we have ~130 pages due on May 22.)
• Finish shawl that I'm knitting for one of my bridesmaids.
• Buy tickets to flight to Boston this summer.
• Build playlist of dance songs for wedding reception.
• Grade and return all assignments within 10 days of due date.
• Sign up for summer grad class.
• Sign up for a 5k sometime in the summer.
• [Edit: remembered another goal] Watch one of these movies

Haha I'm the early bird yet again, hello from Australia!

~~Before I get into everything I need some help, I'm new to reddit and don't know how to insert tables in comments or make things bold. Is there somewhere I can look to get all the neat tricks? Or is there any people that have tips to share with me :)~~

Onto the good stuff, this week has been good. I finished my book (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance), completed the first week of C25K, and sent off one job application per day (except one day where I couldn't). I wrote in my journal most days, but missed a couple.

GOALS FOR NEXT WEEK

• Write in journal every day
• Get out of bed before 8AM every day
• File at minimum one job application every day
• Finish reading my next book by Sunday
• Complete week 2 of C25K
• Complete week 1 of Starting Strength
• Practise guitar at least 30 minutes every day
• Stick with paleo diet
  

BQ: Can't beat fried eggs and bacon with a nice pork sausage and a bit of spinach. Absolute ripper of a meal!

Here's a neat table for next week:

Oh boy doing all this fancy commenting stuff is ~~fun~~ but^wait^help^I^cant^stop

The recipe that got my family to loving lentils and stop complaining about not having meat (substitute veg broth and make whatever changes you need to make it vegan): http://allrecipes.com/recipe/tasty-lentil-tacos/detail.aspx

My all time favorite soup recipe (sub veg broth, I use dried herbs and I don't use parmesan cheese): http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Creamy-Bean-Soup-with-Fresh-Herbs-and-Spinach-233693

Hi Everybody, excited 90DaysGoal first-timer here!

I'm a 25 year old, 6'3" male from the U.S. Midwest. My brief story goes something like this: I was a very in-shape high school athlete at 185 lbs, and I know I NEVER dreamed that I would ever be the "type of person" to have a weight problem. How can a person not see weight gain coming and just easily do something about it, right? ಠ_ಠ

The slip up started in college where I began drinking, and eating poorly in the cafeteria. I stopped working out with any regularity. A back injury further set me back and the fear of making the pain/injury worse kept me from thinking I could seriously get back into shape. Eating habits got worse after graduation, as my new job was very stressful and I gave myself the "there's no time" excuse when it came to working out. I ballooned to 245 lbs. Emotional eating and secret binge eating (fast food) were part of my reality up until not more than a month ago.

My back now feels mostly "normal". Thanks in large part to the folks at r/keto, I am in control when it comes to food, cravings free, and dropping weight daily, losing just over 7 lbs in the last two weeks. For the first time since gaining all of this weight, I know I can do this, I will accomplish my 90DaysGoal, and I will go on to achieve my final weight goal. I'm joining Round 4 here to enhance the personal tracking that I've been doing, which is what I think will make the difference between success and just losing some weight to gain it back again.

Male, 25yo, 6'3"
234.8 = Current Weight
210.0 = 90DaysGoal
190.0 = Final Goal Weight

How I'm going to get "there": Ketogenic Diet with calorie tracking (Lose It!), C25K (starting today), weightlifting, outdoor biking.

Best of luck everyone, let's do this!
edit: formatting

Hey Fitbit Force users! In case you haven't heard yet, Fitbit has issued a voluntary recall for the Force in response to various reports of skin irritation from users. On that page there is a further link to obtain a full refund of your valuable fitness tracker moneys. They have also said there will be news about their next generation tracker soon.

I'm not actually experiencing the issue that is triggering the recall, but I am thinking about returning it anyway; I wonder what support will be like for a recalled product. My plan is to use the next 90 days to text out some running apps on my iPhone (along with the HR monitor I ordered) and then to pick a new tracker once the new Garmin has come out and been reviewed. Hopefully Fitbit will have announced what's coming up by then as well.

Hi everyone! Mr_Nox here. This is my 4th round as a participant in 90 Days Goal, and I've been a mod here for 2 rounds.

I'll be posting [Daily Challenge]s, in which I challenge everyone to complete 1-3 sets of certain exercises. I hope you all join in!

About Me

• Age: 45
• Height: 5' 8"
• Current Weight: 164 lbs
• Highest Weight (2002): 205 lbs
• Diet: LeanGains, with periods of Protein Sparing Modified Fasts
• Exercise: run 3-4x per week, lift 3x per week, plus spinning and yoga classes

My Goals

• 90 Days Goal(s):
  • Maintain weight < 165 lbs
  • Stick to planned diet 80% of the time (including tracking diet in MFP)
  • Body recomposition - lose 2-3% body fat
  • Complete B210K
  • Run 3 races
  • Alcohol on weekends only
  • Improve lifts -
    • 255 lb bench
    • 285 lb squat
    • 425 lb deadlift
• Sprint 1 Goals
  • B210K - weeks 1-3
  • Get lifts back to where they were in Dec 2011
• Sprint 2 Goals
  • B210K - weeks 4-6
• Sprint 3 Goals
  • B210K - weeks 7-9

Planned schedule:

• Sun - long run
• Mon - lift
• Tue - run/spin
• Wed - run
• Thu - lift
• Fri - run
• Sat - lift

I'll be using the 30 day sprints to help checkpoint my progress. If something goes wrong during a sprint, I'll change my plans to fix the issues during the next sprint.

I also plan on challenging KatieKatums on her plank goals. :-)

Let's Be Friends

I'm on Fitocracy as nox and My Fitness Pal as mr_nox. I invite you to friend/follow me!

This is going to be an excellent round. I can't wait to begin and to share this journey with all of you.

Hullo everyone! I realize this is a bit early for most people. I'll be posting the Monday recaps on Sunday around 10:30pm my time so that our Aussies don't have to wait too long to check in. Hope you'll bear with me and check in when it's most convenient for you :)

Hey guys!
Week two has been WON-DER-FUL! Seriously, I am pumped and really enthusiastic! I am now 179,8 lbs, for a total of 5,2lbs lost since the beginning of the round. I have a bit of a psychological barrier to break here… I’ve never been healthy and under 180lbs as an adult, and as weird as it seems, I kind of dread the sight of a 17X.X on the scale… Anyone else has ever felt this kind of weird anxiety?
This weekend was awesome, I “read” a really interesting audiobook that’s called The Power of Habits and I think you guys would enjoy it too, if ever you are scientifically inclined! I’ve also officially started the Freeway to 10k program to increase my running time and it feels great to push myself again! I even had enough calories left for today to enjoy a beer while watching the sunset (I love my apartment…)
This week was pretty much a FLAWLESS VICTORY! I’ve restarted exerting properly, am eating as I should, did a budget and registered at mint.com, started looking for part time jobs, cleaned my apartment pretty thoroughly, have been productive even though I decided I wouldn’t work after 18:00 anymore AND have kept a decent social life. The best thing is that I don’t even feel depleted or exhausted; in fact, I have more energy than ever and it doesn’t feel like it is just a phase!
I am so happy to have proven myself that I can do it again and in a healthy way! Last round, things backfired a bit (understatement…) but I managed to go through the storm and maintained my weight. This round is more about finding a new equilibrium with my lifestyle, heading towards where I want to go and enjoying the ride!
Have a nice week everyone and keep up the good work, it’s nice to read you and hear from your progress :-)

Ok, nox, I'm going for a 5:00 plank by the end of the round. So I'm going to try to do something like C25K for planks this round, three days a week. With intervals on MW and a long plank on F, starting next week. So this week I'll just try out the intervals idea on TTh, which works perfectly for today's challenge :) I'll do set 1 as soon as I get back from lunch.

Annnd back! I've set up a plank schedule to try to get me to a 5 min plank by the end of the round. And here's my first day's work for it:

4x55 sec plank with 15 sec rest in between, ouch!

4x20 sec side plank with 15 sec rest in between, repeated for both sides

My obligatory first post, 29 year old German programer here (dude), who tries to do Keto and is a vegetarian, who is running and doing weight lifting, and some mod-ing in a great fitness comunity, seeks for people to chat via IM.

EDIT: I like hobbies and long walks on the beach

Totally awesome that it's now automated!!

But I have a question - some of the teams are not accurate. For example, there is a "Paleo" and a "Primal" when in fact there is just one team this round which is called "Paleo/Primal" (I know cuz I made it heh) - there also isn't any "Keto" team this round that I could tell.

I'm going based off of the round 5 team sign up spreadsheet

I didn't look closely at the others but I was wondering, if nothing else, if my team could be accurately reflected as "Paleo/Primal" instead of two separate teams? bats eyelashes :)

Hello, also my first time.

About Me

• Age 22 (will be 23 on 9/30, though)

• Female

• 5'7

• Don't have measurements, but I'm usually a 2-4 in jeans

• Current weight: 130 lb

• MFP

90 Day Goals

• Reach my goal weight: 120 lb

• Be 90 days closer to successfully running my first half marathon on February 17 (I'll begin Hal Higdon's Novice 1 program 12 or so weeks before the race)—I'll work on further specifying this goal as I get into training!

• Do yoga once a week to improve flexibility

• Be consistently eating a clean, paleo-ish diet 6/7 days of the week

Sprint 1 Goals

• Reach weight of 125 lb

• Run at least 30 min/4 times a week to begin building a solid anaerobic base

• Try yoga for the first time

• Eat clean, paleo-based diet 6/7 days of the week

• Log my food and workouts on MFP at least 6/7 days of the week

I have a blog at 100daysofslimmer.com that I'm starting today :)

ME * 27/f/Netherlands (orginally from England, emigrated here last year) * Highest weight: 210lbs * Lowest weight: 138lbs (last August, I had a bit of a bad year and self-medicated with food) * Height: 5foot 1inch * Diet: Calorie Counting, try to limit RAPping (refined sugars, alcohol, processed foods). * I'm on MFP if anybody wants to friend me.

90 DAY GOALS: * To lose 15lbs+ * To make a noticable improvement regarding my aerobic capacity * To give up diet soda (it's currently a crux and I'm trying to wean myself off it!) * To log daily on MFP - even if it's a bad day! * To get over my gym phobia. I was a gym junkie last year before I emigrated to the Netherlands. I don't speak Dutch very well and am very nervous when I go to the gym because of it, even though most people here speak Dutch. * To check in here (even if I don't post), and update my blog daily. * Conquer my emotional eating (maybe this is a bit of a longer-term goal, but hell, I'll give it a shot!)

SPRINT 1 GOALS (first 30 days) * Lose 7lbs * Start New Rules of Lifting for Women * Exercise 3 times a week * Get my daily water intake in!

Those sound like good initial goals. If you find yourself meeting your goals early, you can always adjust them for the 2nd and 3rd Sprint. Do you track your calorie intake? If not, I recommend My Fitness Pal, although there are others out there. Welcome!

My name is Becky, I love to run, and I'm trying to up my game on that front. Long term my goal is a BQ (why? becuase it's out there) and maybe and an Ironman before I turn 40 (because eff 40!). So today, that means mass loss goals, and mileage goals that will hopefully let me meet speed goals.

I'm a FitBit wearer, and you can find me on MFP under BexKix.

I've tried one other round (under another username I'm sure) but fell off quickly.

Stats
* f/37
* Married Mom of 2 youngin's
* Working, I'm a mechanical engineer
* 5'7.5", 167 or so pounds

Diet: trying to move toward Paleo for inflammation concerns (arthritis, et al) but tend to slip when stressed. Boo.

Exercise: running Here's my DailyMile Profile. I love running, my inconsistency is holding me back so I really need to fix that.

I absolutely LOVE Crossfit but it made my runner's knee flare this April. Everything's back on the up and up so I'm back to trying to convince hubby to let me ease back in. :)

Overall Round 15 Goals (10/6-1/13/2015)
* Weight: lose 14 from wherever I am at on 10/6
* Weekly Running mileage increased to 35mpw (I'm currently 15-20 so this should be realistic)

Sprint 1 Goals: (10/6-11/4)
* Evening Routine every night (This is a list of to-dos that keeps my mornings sane, getting myself and the beloved kidlets out the door)
* Continue Pfitz's stretching routine after EVERY run
* PT every night
* Track food, MFP
* Weight ... 160ish, specifically, it will be whatever 4 pounds in 4 weeks ends up working out to. I have been plateued at 164-167 for what seems like forever (18 months of off and on trying).
* Running mileage... 100 miles in October, 25 miles per week. I'm signed up for a local challenge so that should add motivation. :)

Looking forward to getting to know the community. :)

Hi everyone! [Mr_Nox](/u/Mr_Nox) here. This is my 13th round as a participant in 90 Days Goal. I'm also a mod, and look forward to once again helping out and posting Wednesday's Check In! I've been slacking off the past few rounds and not posting much, but will change that this round.

In Round 6, I made it down to 160 lbs and ~10% body fat, but my weight is back up to 180. My goal is to get myself back into excellent shape and lose the gut. One recent issue is that I've been diagnosed as pre-hypertensive, and I'm on a beta blocker. I'm pretty sure this has contributed to my weight gain.

About Me

• Age: mid-40s
• Height: 5' 7"
• Current Weight: 178 lbs
• Highest Weight (2002): 205 lbs
• Lowest (recent) Weight (4/2012): 159.5 lbs
• Current body fat: 18%
• Diet: IFish Ketoish
• Exercise: lift/bodyweight 2-3x per week, cardio 2-3x/week

After several years of working out, I'm now in very good shape for someone my age. My long term goal is to stay in good shape and not get hurt.

My Goals

• 90 Days Goal(s):
  • Drop body fat down to <15%
  • Stick to plan 80% of the time (including tracking food intake in MFP)
• Sprint 1 Goals
  • Drop weight to 175 lbs
• Sprint 2 Goals
  • Drop weight down to 170 lbs
• Sprint 3 Goals
  • Keep weight down between 165 and 170 lbs

I'll be using the 30 day sprints to help checkpoint my progress. If something goes wrong during a sprint, I'll change my plans to fix the issues during the next sprint.

Let's Be Friends

I'm on Fitocracy and MFP. I invite you to friend/follow me!

This is going to be an excellent round. I can't wait to begin and to share this journey with all of you.

Pizza.. bag?? Hehe never heard of it, but I get the idea. Oh dear, good luck man. Sometimes you need to choose: hang on to diet and miss the goodies, or accept the extra calories. Make sure it's worth it!

I'm doing meh today, my buttcheeks are having a scare from the deadlifting yesterday ouch and I think I left my energy at the gym. I haven't even had breakfast yet.. Not my day today. whine

Fingers crossed for uplighting!

I would challenge you to a dual, but I don't want to compete against my first supporter :P

I'm excited to see UNINVITED13TH vs. NOX though!

I'd love one. Also, anyone can feel free to add me on Fitocracy. It's awesome seeing other people's progress, and getting "props" definitely feels encouraging.

Plans for this round:

• Use fitocracy for EVERYTHING. As you mentioned, tracking progress is extremely important, and for me a huge motivator. Find/add me here
• Follow Starting Strength (mostly). I'm not doing power cleans because I'm a sissy, but I'm doing assistance work of 5x10@50% of my 5RM on all the big 4 lifts. So kind of a weird SS+ BBB portion of 5/3/1 combo. And then I'm doing rows instead of cleans, so it's a bit of everything.
• For fun: Rock Climbing. Also hoping to use it as an on-off gauge of my strength progress.

Plans for today:

• ~~Off day! Will probably sneak in something silly like a quick set of crunches or leg raises, but nothing serious.~~
• Eat 3,000 kCal, cut back on carbs for today.
• ~~Drink lots of water~~
• Buy some magnesium supplements (Thanks nox!)

Day 3!

I'm increasing my activity in several ways:

1. Daily challenges!
2. Get outside and do Winter activities, esp. skiing
3. Run more and get ready for upcoming 5Ks
4. Spin classes 1-2x per week
5. Start lifting again once my tendonitis heals

Everything is tracked on Fitocracy (come follow me!).

YESTERDAY

It was a fantastic day. I did the daily challenge (lots of diamond pushups and bench dips), and had a crazy spinning class.

My diet was perfect - calories were just below target, and macros were spot-on.

TODAY

I have another spinning class in the afternoon, followed by a much needed massage therapy appointment. Hopefully she can help the tendonitis heal faster.

Diet is the usual - fasting until the afternoon (nothing but water w/ BCAAs), and then Paleo food. I've become addicted to Paleo burritos - a burrito bowl (no tortilla) with steak or chicken, guacamole, tomato slices and tomato salsa. Good stuff.

Day 0!

YESTERDAY

It was unseasonably warm here yesterday, and I took advantage of it my going for a 4.5 mile run (well, mostly running - some walking too).

Diet was pretty much perfect. Just a few dozen calories above goal, and ~30 extra grams of carbs.

TODAY

Today is my first experiment in "cheat" days. I've generally tried to stay on diet every day, but I've noticed that this leads to binging. Instead, I'm saving Sundays for "eat whatever you want" day. I'll keep track of what I crave during the week, and save those items for cheat day. I'll still track what I eat via MFP.

I'll hopefully head outside for a few laps around a track. My son and daughter both told me that they want to join me. :-)

BTW - follow me on Fitocracy! http://www.fitocracy.com/profile/nox/

EDIT: So, even with the cheat day and pigging out at breakfast and dinner, I only made it to 2500 calories. And I feel gross. Ugh.

God no, that was all in one workout! I workout maybe twice a day if I need to do something specific and ran out of time.

here's my food diary, look away!

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/PrincessBTits

Indeed before Reddit goes doen in an obligatory 'save the internets' action, a quick buddy post!

I'm a 30 yo Dutch female, here for my 3rd round, goal is to lose some weight. It's just ~5 kilo for me, but I'd like to buddy anyone with any goals -the game is kinda the same, right?

I like hobbies too, also Nine Inch Nails and Star Wars -which is the ONLY explanation for my username :P I'd like long walks on the beach also, however I'm still working on the long walks.

I guess I'm not that reliable, as my priorities are not to write comments every few hours, well because of my low enery levels. I'll be honest about that. I do however check in every day, and if there's something wrong I will always answer. Working on my availability, but I learned the hard way that my health comes first ;)

Also I already have some very awesome buddies, but that's the reason I'm posting here anyway; without them I probably wouldn't still be working on my health, I'd have stuffed my face WAY more, I would have skipped WAY more workouts etc etc. (thanks, you amazing people!)

I usually don't really use the message thing on MFP but I'll check it out during the dreaded but nescessary blackout -here I am- and also on Fitocracy

Hello, folks! I started 90daysgoal back in Round 3, but got sidetracked when I got knocked up! Well, baby asnowballschance finally popped out, and I'm ready to kick Round 6's ass.

I'm female, 28 years old, 5'4", and 236 lbs. This 90 days is all about stressors: new baby, new job (mid-February), and new country (also mid-February). Because of that, the crazy restricted diet I'm on due to my baby's food intolerences, and the fact that I'm breastfeeding and OMG NOM NOM NOM NEED MOAR FOOD, I'm going to spend the next three months building good habits.

During Round 6, I will:

• exercise every day (even if it's "just" walking, although I'm starting c25k as soon as my doctor gives me the OK)
• track all of my food
• eat breakfast every day
• plan my meals in advance every week
• drop 15 more lbs of maternity weight

In 2012, I will:

• Run a half marathon. That is all.

You can find me on MyFitnessPal as asnowballschance. Happy Round 6, redditors!

Edit: added MFP profile link.

Day 37!

I've been in a weight plateau for months. My weight has been hovering ±3 lbs my Round 5 starting weight. I'm not overly concerned about this, as my waistline continues to shrink. My pants waist size has dropped to 31" - that's a 5" loss since January 2010, down to the lowest it has been since the early 1990s!

YESTERDAY

Exercise consisted of an hourly wall sit and plank challenge with katiekatums, and then a huge squat day at the gym (11 sets of squats).

Diet was right on track. I finished the day +72 cal and a bit high on fat (I had to have a few Halloween candy bars!).

TODAY

The DOMS from yesterday's squats have kicked in, so I spent the morning foam rolling my glutes and quads. Hopefully my legs will be feeling better this afternoon, and I'll do some cardio at the gym.

Diet is <1500 cals and low carb today, so I'll most likely grab a rotisserie chicken and some green vegetables for lunch.

My diet plans are to cut unnecessary carbs from my diet, I find they are typically the source of my overages in eating. I want to eat more healthy veggies, I want to start enjoying more kinds veggies which has always been a sticking point for me, I'm a steak and potatoes type of guy, it wasn't until I was 28 that I started to enjoy mushrooms.

To track my foods I use myfitnesspal, to track my weight I use the hacker diet online it seems ghetto but it's the best weight tracking program I've found as it's the only one that uses weighted averages to track your weight loss/gain, so when you occasionally spike you don't freak out.

I've dropped a lot of weight doing protein sparring modified fast diets and felt so great I slid back into my previous lifestyle of fastfood and eventually regained it all. This time I'm trying to take the approach of losing the weight slowly, building good habits, habits are hard to break.

I acheived my stretch calorie goal (1600). I didn't achieve my exercise goals yesterday, I fell asleep before I "got around" to doing it. I told my SO that today I would be beginning a 5BX program and would appreciate it if she joined me so I'd have more motivation to do it. At lunch today I want to take my dog for a 20 minute walk as well.

that's me this week too. i never realized i had such serious chocolate until i was counting calories and couldn't allot for them.

dark chocolate bars and breaking them into their squares and eating slowly helps me. also yoplait fat free yogurt in the chocolate mousse flavor. pretzel m&m's only have 150 calories for a small bag.

also this thread had some good ideas in it.

DAY 31!

Hi everyone. Here's to a successful Sprint 2! So far (as of my post-run weigh-in on Saturday) I'm down 10.5 lbs since the start of the round! I have about 8 more lbs to go until I feel like I've hit my final goal. I'm definitely feeling more fit, and can once again fit into a few of my "smedium" shirts that I bought a few years ago when I hit my goal in Round 6. Still some flab around my center, but at the rate I'm going it will be gone in a month.

My Goals

• 90 Days Goal(s):
  • Drop body fat down to <15%
  • Stick to plan at least 80% of the time (including tracking food intake in MFP)
  • Fit into the beautiful Italian-made suit that I had purchased a few years back - and have worn once!
• Sprint 1 Goals
  • ~~Drop weight to 175 lbs~~ SUCCESS!
• Sprint 2 Goals
  • Drop weight down to 170 lbs
• Sprint 3 Goals
  • Keep weight down between 165 and 170 lbs
• Daily Goals:
  • Track diet on MFP every day, no matter how off-track
  • Limit alcohol consumption to non-work days and social occasions, and no more than 2-3 drinks
  • Use standing desk for part of the day
  • Exercise daily
  • Track all spending in YNAB and keep to budget
  • Track all chains in Joe's Goals

YESTERDAY

I had a happy simple Father's Day. I had planned to go for a hike in the AM but the weather was not cooperating. I mostly sat around with the kids and then went to my daughter's dance recital in the afternoon. She did great! The family went out for dinner afterward and I had my first cheeseburger in a while. Back to eating well again today.

TODAY

I'll be focusing on diet today, and if I have time in the afternoon I'll head to the gym to lift.

CHAINS

• 90DG check-ins = 37
• Exercise chain = 0
• Diet tracking chain = 0
• Booze chain = 1

PROGRESS

• SW 183.6, CW 173.1, Sprint 2 goal 170

Yesterday Did all my goals, was really sucsessful day. Did everything and more!

Researching some self help articals about planning and live's vision-philosophy. Really need to focus on that. So for my new online journaling practise I think I am going to use Workflowy insted of Trello, because it gets really cluttered after a while.

Today

• ~~morning routine (30 min workout, meditation, organizing, breakfast)~~ success
• work planning 6 pomodoro
• learning habits
• drawing habits
• tour around a town with friend

I didn't stick the landing yesterday, so I'm going to review the goals I did accomplish this round:

• Minimum of 1 hour of learning- Done! My goals have shifted but I'm still building knowledge and learning new things. I'm fine with my goals shifting direction as long as I'm still moving forward in some direction, so this is a success.

• Read Search Inside Yourself- This one got set aside for Feeling Good, which I think was necessary. Again, shifting goals but I still made progress. This one isn't 100%, but maybe 75%. I need to be more consistent with reading my non-fiction books. But- I'm learning. I now meditate before bed every night, and I'm using what I've learned so far from Feeling Good to fight depression.

• Make at least one extra car payment- done! And a whole month before my first actual payment was due, lol.

• Read at least 4 books from Read Harder- I knocked this one right the hell out of the park. I got 9 books knocked off the list out of 23. (I'm skipping the poetry one. Sorry poets.)

So even though I didn't get anything accomplished on my primary health/fitness goals, it wasn't a total loss.

Today:

• Track food, stick to goal

• Gym

Yesterday was... not a victory. I had low-level anxiety about the gym all day, then when I went to change before leaving work I realized I hadn't packed a gym bra. That was basically my excuse to give up and go home. Then I wanted to just eat ALL THE THINGS when I was home. So yeah, not a great result.

Today I have a bra in my gym bag, and I'm charging my bluetooth earbuds now. No excuses. I just have to show up to the gym and do something. I can do that.

BQ: Start reading Feeling Good right away. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200.

As an Australian I'm a day ahead so I can already tell you what I did yesterday :)

Read my book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", worked on job applications and recovered from my run the day before. Today I started with the first run in the c25k program at 6AM, not too shabby!

Now for breakfast and then more job applications.

Thanks a ton :)

Sure, I'll give you a few.

Podcasts

• Entrepreneur on Fire
• Ask Altucher
• Ask Pat
• Smart Passive Income
• Rainmaker.FM (if you subscribe to the "master list" there's a bunch of podcasts)
• The Art of Paid Traffic

Books:

• The Lean Startup
• Hey Whipple, Squeeze This
• Ask: Formula
• Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook
• The Four Steps to the Epiphany
• The Personal MBA
• Become an Idea Machine
• Build Your Business Without Breaking the Bank
• Chronic Marketer *Zero to One

I second the Wikipedia suggestion, though, be careful to not find yourself immersed for hours and emerging when you learn about the farming patterns in ancient Mesopotamia. There's a fine line. You can incentivise this in the same way you incentivise a change in habit - you give yourself a reward at the end of it. I eat a small piece of chocolate after a run. Look at Charles Duhig's work on habit formation/modification. The book he wrote is called The Power of Habit and you can find simple summaries of the process at many different sites.

As for time management, have you considered setting, or working with, a timetable? Look for gaps and fill them with the things you want to accomplish. Finding 15 minutes shouldn't be too hard to get some Uke or studying in. The important thing here is to plan for this the night before. If you have the time set aside to do it, you're less likely to put it off until 11pm after beers. It's something I used to do and stopped until I came back across it a few days ago on Cal Newport's Study Hacks blog (under the much fancier title of time blocking).

I'm 5'9". I peaked at 230 lbs in high school, dropped 50 lbs doing low-carb in college (also with my mom), and then bounced between 180-200 lbs for about 5 years until I started 90days at 182 lbs in August 2010. I'm at 145 now, hoping to maintain this round. So... I'm you in about six months, because I know you'll reach your goals :) I'd love to have a buddy, so feel free to chat me up anytime. My info's over here.

edit: oh and I'll be posting weekly c25k threads, so I hope you'll keep us updated with your progress there :)

Heya there,

I am the mod who posted this, I get a feeling there will not be much going on in this thread as it is already a week old, but fear not, that post will return tomorrow.

If you like to have a chat and are around this time, add me to your favorite IM program. My contact info can be read here. If you have any questions feel free to ask

Greets Feck (29/m/Germany)

Yay! Obesity! The gift you didn't want that insists on keeping on giving. I also have craptastic knees due to carrying far too much weight, so annoying. But, we are both here being awesome!

I've been introduced to this. It is rather good for soreness. I hope you get well soon!

I personally use wolframalpha. There has yet to be something I couldnt search for and find for example

For example

Hi, I'm here for the first time :) I'm a student in Germany and I've always been unhealthy and a little chubby so I want to work on that. Specifically my goal is to be more healthy. I originally wanted to say eat less, but I've been using MFP for a few days and apparently I regularly eat far too little and am putting my body into starvation mode so I want to find a way to eat more and healthy. And I want to start doing exercise!

Here is my MFP profile if anyone wants to add me :)

Goals for today

• ~~7-minute workout after I wake up~~
• ~~Sign up for Round 14 (what I'm doing right now...)~~
• Do a proper grocery shop - I usually leave with about 3 things because I never know what to buy when I go in. If anyone could give me any tips for healthy eating as a student I'd be super grateful :)
• Finish writing my presentation for Thursday
• Except for the start and end of the day, walk instead of taking the bus

My first day! Goals are pretty straight forward

• Work a 12 hour shift (yes 12 hours). DONT EAT ANY CAKE/PASTRIES/COOKIES/ETC THEY PUT IN THE BREAK ROOM

• See how long I can go without drinking coffee, shoot for 4 liters of water.

• Day 1 of P90X after work

• Put everything in MFP/Fitocracy which I'm pretty bad at. My account for MFP is Jynxpdc and for Fitocracy it's Jynxpdc if you want to add me.

• Don't screw this up on day 1

Ran 10.75 miles yesterday and it felt... okay. I struggled in the beginning, I cursed myself over every hill, but I finished strong and celebrated with beer, so I'll say it was a success. Funny enough, MFP had me at -3000 calories yesterday, I think I made up some ground on that number. Strava activity.

Today is my "off" day for the week, since I have pool league and very little time. I will try to get most of my goals done early, but no promises.

I also got my Garmin Vivoactive HR yesterday - love it so far! Steps, floors, calories, heart rate, sleep, notifications. It has everything I want in a smartwatch and more... my only issue is that I am not used to wearing a watch, I figure that will come in time. It is also a bit annoying when I am sitting at my desk, since it conflicts with my typing, so I am thinking I might just not wear it while I am working. It's not like I get it up very often anyway...

BQ: Alcest is a French shoegaze metal band that someone in /r/CA today me about years ago - they've been my favorite artist since. It's like 'wall of noise' meets death metal meets French ambient. Very trippy, very cool. Recommend Autre Temps by them if anyone is interested.

Daily goals:

• Run (s: 15)
• Read (s: 2)
• Stay below calories (s: 1)
• Practice (s: 8)
• Floss (s: 0)
• Drink 8 glasses of water (s: 2)

R20 goals:

• Run 250 miles (55.6/250)
• Read 12 books (1/12)
• <170lbs (177/170)
• Practice 90 hours (14/90)
• Sub 2:00 HM

I'm kind of lazy a lot of the time and make "mexican" "chimichanga's" with various ingrediants.

Basically... * Low carb tortilla's (the brand I use are 60 calories each)

• Beans and/or fake meat (black, pinto, refried, chik'n, sausage, setain, whatever).

• enchilada sauce (from a can)

• vegetables (squash, mushrooms, peppers, corn, etc.)

• cumin (lots), chili powder (lots), salt & pepper to taste.

• cheese (not necessary, but can be nice)

Mix the filling ingredients, stir frying as needed, plop about 1/2 cup in each tortilla, roll, fold up the ends, mist with olive oil, bake 20-25 mins in a 350 degree oven. The proportions vary according to my fridge, but roughly one can of beans, 1/2 small can of sauce, 1 cup meat-y stuff, 1 cup vegetables, and about 1 T shredded cheese per tortilla.

These are great: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/homemade-black-bean-veggie-burgers/detail.aspx

I skip the egg and use a bit of apple juice/cider instead. I like adding a hint of sweet to my savory meals.

I have a killer butternut squash enchilada & chocolate mole recipe, but it'll take a while to type out so I'll do that tomorrow.

I don't plan to specifically increase activity. I already have a pretty intense workout schedule focused on athletic conditioning. My goal for the 90 days is to hit each exercise as hard as I possibly can, to make every minute count.

My tip: don't get bored! Do lots of different kinds of things and think about your whole body. Do something crazy! Grab something heavy and pick it up! Drag a car tire around the block. Enjoy the looks you get.

This one?

Or is it something else? I've been interested in downloading this for awhile.

Most of this is copied from my comment in the intro thread, so you don't have to read it twice.

I'm 23 and male, 5'10"(ish) and at 297.8lbs now. I am very active for my weight, but I haven't been managing what I eat so my weight hasn't changed in a few months. Before that I was keeping up with my exercise and eating right and managed to lose 20lbs. Most of my exercise comes from hapkido and mountain biking, both 2-3 times a week.

Long term: get down to at least 180lbs

90 Day Goals

• Lose 25lbs

• Keep exercise up

• Focus on calorie intake and make long term diet changes

Sprint 1

• Lose 8lbs

• Begin biking more uphill courses

I am also on MFP

Since I can't really take any measurements at work, one thing that I can measure is my mountain biking time. I beat my previous time on my favorite trail this morning in 53min, compared to when I started a few months ago at +80min.

I'm gonna be starting this sprint a little later in. Went through my wedding this past saturday, which was fantastic, but I'm now left as an energy-less husk of a man trying to regain some semblance of normal day-to-day operations.

My weight can't seem to stabilize after the wedding. Before it, I was fluctuating a pound here and there, now I'm bouncing between 183-187. We'll see how it goes once I'm back in ketosis and going to the gym again. Right now, I'm just enjoying being lazy and planning my honeymoon (which will also contribute to me failing this sprint). In good news, I have a ton of money now! Wedding Pic!

hi, you are making awesome progress, but you don't have to deny yourself high fat foods. in fact, eating high fat foods will help you lose weight effortlessly. just cut out carbs.

sounds counter-intuitive, but please watch this documentary:

http://www.hulu.com/watch/196879/fat-head

r/keto has a lot of info! you don't have to starve yourself!

i didn't cook much this week.

on monday i made quiche with leftover grilled veggies. this is definitely one of my favorite things to make because i just used leftover whatever. it takes 5 minutes to prepare then i put it in the oven before i go to the gym and my parents take it out. when i get back it's cooled and ready to eat!

and on wednesday i made penne with avocado "sauce".

Wolfram Alpha on &quot;ideal body weight&quot; with your data

Not sure if you should take this at face value (as others said there are many things to factor in as bf% seems to be a much better indicator), but that is probably the answer to your question.

Had a non work related weekend, yay!

Trying to get back to the plan again on Monday from diet point of view.

BQ: I sometimes "eat the frog" first. Other days it is good to get some productivity juices flowing by ticking lots of small boxes.

There are a bunch of conflicting theories about how motivation to do stuff works, and while this ted talk does say that telling people your goals is bad, having so many people doing at the same time seems to motivate more then trying it on your own.

I like keeping things local and mostly use SportTracks 3. http://www.zonefivesoftware.com/sporttracks/

It's very nice for obsessive compulsives and running statistics. It imports from pretty much all GPS sports watches from garmin to polar to timex. You get lots of graphs and maps and stats.

Hey, it's still Monday on the East Coast, right?

My goal for today was to take measurements (done) and take photos (edit: done!). My goal for this week is to kick this sickness I've got :(

Where I am now:

• 29 year old female
• 5'2"
• 157 lbs
• Very little upper body strength :(
• BMI 28.7 (was 30.2 in May - progress!)
• Estimated 40% body fat (what?!) via several BF calculators <-- this put some things in perspective!

Where I want to be in 90 days:

• Lose 20 lbs
• Exercise 4-6x per week, including weight training
• Be able to do 5 pull-ups (don't know if it's realistic, but I'm putting it down anyway)
• Start and finish C25K
• Enjoy my 30th birthday (November 17th!) as a much smaller, stronger version of myself

What I'm going to do:

• C25K starts TOMORROW, sick or not
• Track my exercises on Fitocracy
• Start eating clean as much as possible while educating myself on what types of foods I should be eating
• Get on a regular sleep schedule (not impossible, but I work a lot of erratic hours so it's hard to get enough sleep sometimes)
• Sign up at the Y September 1st and take advantage of their gym, personal training sessions, and classes as much as possible

Why?:

• I outlined this part in my intro post, but basically, my 30th birthday is coming up and I don't want to start another decade being weak and overweight.
• Both of my parents are over the 250 mark and have loads of medical issues, and I don't want to end up going down that road.
• AND, when I get down to my eventual goal weight of 125 (round 9, maybe??), I've promised myself lots of new clothes!

Edit: Fitocracy

I'm feeling better today than I did last week. I ran 18 miles over the weekend, caught up on my duel with Nox Cheer me on!. I ate terribly on Saturday, but much better on Sunday, so I think I'm still down a little from last week.

Today is a rest day except maybe some weight stuff at home and/or the daily challenge and planks. I'm hoping that if I take the day off I will have some energy later for cleaning my apartment before my friend comes into town to stay with me Wednesday.

Goals for the week: Don't eat like crap (around 1500 cal a day), run 20+ miles, get some of my life stuff in order.

Hello all! I'd love to have a buddy (or two, or three!) just to keep me accountable around here and prevent falling off the wagon like I did last sprint. All I'm really looking for is the occasional "hey how's your plan going?" or "I haven't seen you around in a bit, what's going on?" as the case may be.

About me: female, trying to trim down a bit and gain some muscle for the purposes of becoming a better climber. The better strength-weight ratio the better, for that sport. As to be expected, I climb, I have tried getting into running (see the fell off the wagon bit, but I was on W4 of C25K and looking to hop back on that plan), and I do bodyweight workouts in my dorm room when I can. As implied, I'm a student (postgraduate), so my schedule is pretty varied.

Websites: I'm on fitocracy (tinyginger) and just getting back into tracking calories with loseit (zurgiea). Hopefully those links work, I'm always looking for more friends to keep me motivated! Feel free to add me (though please post in response and let me know who you are in the adding process).

Fitocracy is awesome. I encourage anyone not using it to sign up, and please follow me if you're interested (I'm currently doing Starting Strength, so anyone on that program might be particularly interested in my logs): http://www.fitocracy.com/profile/nymeatball

To me fitocracy does 2 very awesome things:

1) Record logs. Pretty charts and graphs. It's so easy for me to look and go say "Where was I a month ago?" I can do it for any exercise, any time, it's great.

2) "Constructive" guilt / motivation. Seeing someone bust ass on their workouts, regardless of age, gender, weight, makes me feel like if they can do it I certainly should too. I won't even lie - I get particularly motivated when I see someone who's beating me at my own lifts, and I think, geez, I should be able to keep up with them. Friendly competition is great.

I'm crazy excited for this to start! Hopefully I can keep up in a meaningful way.

Yesterday my workout did not actually do exceptionally well. My elbow was bothering me and after doing the bench press (Squat/Bench/Deadlift day) I couldn't really see myself managing the deadlift. In hindsight, I probably could have deloaded and done it, but I'll be better about it next time. On the other hand, my eating went much better! Breakfast and lunch were both light with good amounts of protein. Dinner I was not quite as good about, eating half of a small margarita pizza, but that's certainly an improvement over eating a whole pizza.

Today I'm not going to be able to get into the gym, but I've got a couple of 20lbs dumb bells that I'm going to do things with. Unfortunately, this is kind of light for me, but I don't actually have anything heavier at the moment. The exercises I've done in the past with the dumb bells have been bench press, bent over row, goblet squat, and standing shoulder press. I'm thinking I'll add curls today, because it isn't really that much extra effort even if it isn't a huge gain either.

Any recommendations for dumb bell/bodyweight exercises I ought to be doing on off days?

Also, I will hopefully figure out a way to take a couple of pictures today. Want to be able to see progress as this goes on!

Oh right, one last thing... I'm setting up my journal on Fitocracy again. I'm not sure if it will actually be useful, but hopefully the 90 Day Goals will help encourage me to track my progress.

Got sick on Saturday, spent the weekend & Monday on the sofa, dragged myself out of the house and onto the bicycle for a physio appointment yesterday and ended up feeling so shit after that I went back to bed.

Picked myself up today, slooooowly cycled to the gym, did some weights (repeat weights, no progression, nearly dropped the bar on my head when I started a coughing fit during an overhead press, still got 1282 Fitocracy points ) slooooowly cycled home. So. Tired.

Upside: too sick to have an appetite.

Goal: Get better.

Hello! I have not done any of the other rounds, but I'm hoping this'll help me stick to my plans. I'm 27, and doing an MSc in Biomedical Sciences atm. I am nearly done (about 8 more weeks!) so one of my goals is to finish that on time and figure out what I want to do next (I always thought I knew, but now that it is close I'm not sure sure anymore).

I'm recovering from surgery I had to remove a plate and the pins they used to put my legbone back together after I broke it playing rugby. I'm back up to 7K running and I have signed up for 3 10K races next year. I'm a sloooow runner and my goal is to get to 10K in an hour.

I want to keep up doing yoga (once to twice a week), partly because it has helped my posture and back a lot and partly because I think bending myself into a pretzel is fun.

I've been doing bodyweight and dumbbell work but far too half-assed, so I'm going to start going to the gym for actual weightlifting. I have no weightlifting goals yet because I don't know what is reasonable for me, but I'd like to be able to do a pull up and fix my leg enough to do a squat with good form.

All this will hopefully help me get rid of the bellyfat that annoys me and help me look pretty in my (yet to be bought) wedding dress in August.

I track my exercise on fitocracy

Ooh, I can't wait to see your progress post!

It's been really fun doing the plank challenge with you. :) Did you see that IAmAwesomePanda made it to a 4 minute plank this week? So awesome! I think I'm going to try to work on building up to around the world planks next instead of going for a longer time. No idea how that will go, but hopefully it'll be fun working on them.

Doing alright - mostly - which is good. I had one very 'off' day, but I logged my binge (mmm cookies) and got back on track the next day and all in all, I was actually below my calorie limit for the week and lost weight over all. I did beat myself up a bit, but because of the support here and on loseit.com I was honest with myself, got back on plan and moved on. I think this was a bigger victory than losing weight.

Dealing with the shame, etc and getting the fuck-its (as I call em) really can derail me. Seeing it all in numbers breaks it down for me and makes me realize it's not as bad as I imagine and it's just numbers. I tell myself and others that this is a marathon, not a sprint, but still, it's very hard to get out of the mind-set of bagging on myself when I do binge.

I am at the lowest weight I have been in about 8 years and I am so very close to the 230s! I weighed in at 240.3 this morning. I took my 60-day progress pics. GD - these are embarrassing, but also good motivators! I couldn't find my sports bra this morning so my boobs aren't as squished.

[Day Twelve]

Goals for Today

• Wake up at 8am :(
• No added sugar ✔
• Exercise ✔
• Message my accountability buddy ✔
• Post on reddit ✔
• Read ✔
• Draw ✔

Review

Today was a pretty good day! I woke up late (again, sigh...) and while I was planning on going for a run, it was a torrential downpour most of the day. So instead I stayed in and did an abs workout and an HIIT workout from darebee.com which has free online workouts/exercise plans/etc. that you can mostly do at home. It's a pretty cool site, I would recommend checking it out. I was proud of myself that I worked out despite the weather and I did the workout on the hardest level!

Eating-wise I was really good today, had very healthy meals. I also had time to read a ton of my book. I drew for a little while, though I wasn't feeling super inspired today. But I still did it! No ballroom practice this weekend because my partner is away, but that gives me more time to spend with my parent's kitties that I'm petsitting. :) Plus my mom brought me some raspberries I'm super excited to eat!

Setbacks

There was my one mental flub the other day after weighing myself and freaking out about my weight and feeling really down. Still haven't decided if I'll go by tape measurements alone (according to that I have lost 1/2 an inch to an inch here and there!), or stick to weighing myself and work on the mental side as well... which is probably good for the long run...

I also have not been doing well with my wake-ups this week, but I did them well last week, so I know I can get back to it! It will happen.

Just signed up for my first 90 day goal. I have been following the [/r/keto](/r/keto) forum for a couple of months and really started seriously following the plan in early January. I am Male, 39 Years old, 5'9" and 194 lbs. I have lost 16 lbs so far from my earlier off and on with keto. I look forward to reducing my fat percentage and falling out of my clothes in 90 days. I am on myfitnesspal as tdhlawyer

I have a goal of 20 additional lbs lost and 6% lost of bodyfat (currently at 28.20% body fat). I want to at least get into the "acceptable" range.

Oh: 42" waist. 17.5" neck (down from 44 & 18) Currently wearing size 38 pants.

2 bars is 90g of carbohydrates! Cut those out and you're down to the levels you want to be at.

Found some more nutrition information online, these are not the sweetest by any means, but here we go:

• One bar: 68g
• 250 calories
• Fat 6g
• Carbs 43g (of which sugar 20g)
• Protein 11g

Lets compare to a mars bar:

• One bar: 52g
• 240 calories
• Fat 9g
• Carbs 36g (of which sugar 30g)
• Protein 2g

I know these are marketed as "healthy", but when the values are pretty close to a chocolate bar, they are not healthy if you're trying to lose weight. If you're an athlete getting through thousands of calories a day in exercise, then they're good for recovery. But then again, so would a mars bar!

These are pretty much treats, and they're boosting your calorie and sugar intake. Hopefully you'll be able to treat them as such and eat them a lot less often :)

Hey everyone,

Today marks the start of my first ever round in this subreddit. To say that I'm experiencing a mix of emotions would be an understatement.

Firstly, I'm excited as hell to get started. I'm looking forward to finally making some positive changes in my life and start working towards a better me. And not just physically (although a better looking me is always a good thing), but mentally.

Secondly, I'm a bit scared. Goal setting and completing has always been a bit of a challenge for me. The desire is always there, but something always holds me back, be it a lack of desire, or lack of motivation. That's something I'm still trying to figure out.

I like to consider myself an avid cyclist, but one look at my Strava Profile, and I dispel that myth pretty quickly. I spent the majority of last year making every excuse in the book to not ride. Now, I can't ride for more than 10-15 miles before I want to give up, and that makes me sad. This is the year that I change that, though.

Begining Stats

• 36 M, 230lbs, 32.06% Body fat

Today's Goals

• Start eating healthy
• Track my meals on MFP
• Start my workout routine (decided to start with P90x3 this round)
• Make more calls about jobs
• Prep blog posts for the upcoming week

Weekly Goals

• Find and start a new job
• No skip days on food tracking
• No skip days for workout routine
• Three blog posts uploaded and live

Sprint Goals

• Get caught up on bills
• Finish first block of P90x3
• Three to 5 blog posts a week for a full month

Round Goals

• Weigh in at 200 lbs
• Body fat between 20 - 25%
• Start riding 3-5 days/wk averaging 10 miles per ride
• Write in blog consistently
• Start savings again

I can be found from both my Strava Profile (linked above) and on MFP: Same as my reddit username.

To quote Joe Swanson; "LET'S DO THIS!!"

I watched 3 different videos on how to do reverse crunches, and they were basically 3 different exercises and techniques! I'm very wary of doing the wrong thing and messing up my back, so if there is no consensus on what is a safe way to do them, I'll avoid it.

The most sensible looking I saw was this: http://www.ehow.com/video_4433370_do-reverse-crunch.html

That would be awesome!

Here's the raw data with usernames removed: http://www.filedropper.com/r3data

Anyone is welcome to play around with it. When you post your results, please tag it with [STATS] and I'll sticky it to the sidebar.

Thanks!

Missed yesterday, but probably for the best.

Since it's the weekend, I'll have time to make up for this past week. Better food, exercise, all that fun stuff. :) I just have to make it through lovely ad production Friday, but it's looking good. I love the nice Fridays, where I get to stay busy but not 'so busy I want to tear my hair out and cry' busy.

I think I'll sign up for at least one of the fitocracy challenges. I have no hope of winning, but that's not really the point, is it? ;) I just realized how much I miss my bike, which is in my parent's garage collecting dust. I'll work on running for the time being, since the last time I went for a bike ride, I walked funny for a week.

Today:

• ~~go grocery shopping~~ (on a friday night, i should know better!)
• cook something fabulous for dinner (i'm thinking these wings)
• daily challenge
• write 750 words

If you're interested, I found a site HackerRank yesterday that looks like it's mostly challenges to renforce things you already know, but they have a section on Ruby. I think I'm going to do their 30 day coding challenge to strengthen my skills a bit.

I just found a site called HackerRank that I think I might do to keep fresh on some programming stuff if you're interested. I know there are some people here that are still in school for computers or just learning programming on their own, it's a good looking resource!

The chains are how many days in a row I have completed a daily task/goal. It's based upon the "Don't Break the Chain" productivity method that Jerry Seinfeld supposedly used. The idea is that you track your goals daily, and train yourself to not want to "break the chain". It really works, and I've been doing it for years. I use a website called Joe's Goals to track everything.

And I'll take maintaining over gaining any week. :-)

So far, so good. I'm right on track for calories and protein today, for the third day in a row. For exercise, I did the hundred pushups, two hundred situps, and two hundred crunches routines this morning, forced myself to take some walks, and I'm doing the daily challenge. I reset my Joe's Goals after falling off a while back. I have fewer goals this time, so hopefully it's easier to keep track of them this time. I started tracking again on Sunday and I've got one 3-day streak built up already. Annnd after I post this (one of my goals), I'll have finished all of my (tracked) goals for today :)

One technique that I was for staying on track is "Don't Break the Chain", which I read about on Lifehacker years ago. The trick is to set daily goals for yourself, and track them (via software, a wall calendar, etc). Every day that you do that goal is another link in the chain. You need to train yourself to hate the idea of breaking the chain.

I've been using a website called Joe's Goals to track my daily goals. The site does a great job telling you how long your chain is, as well as how long it has been since you did a specific goal. Great stuff.

So, reflecting on the past three months... I did really well in the beginning, passing up my 90days goal by about mid round. But then I started steadily increasing for the past few weeks, and my body fat percentage has been increasing too. I'm now right back to my starting weight. I know I've let my diet habits slip up lately, too many sweets and starches, too many late night snacks, too much grazing in general. Yesterday I added some new negative Joe's Goals for specific sweets and I'm going to aim to have at least a two month gap in between treating myself to them. I'm hoping this helps some since my problem is usually that I forget or lie to myself about how long it's been since my last splurge. This way I'll know exactly how long ago I had ice cream, cake, whatever. We'll see how that goes.

For today, I've been pretty good. I had a veggie egg white scramble and soy milk for breakfast, coffee with cream for a morning snack, pb&j and mixed fruit for lunch, coffee, cottage cheese, and raisins/almonds/cashews/soynuts for an afternoon snack, black bean pasta with alfredo and a sweet potato with greek yogurt will be for dinner.

I chose extra sleep over running this morning. I've done some body weight exercises at work and I'm going to go for a long run in the beautiful cool weather before dinner. If it's raining by the time I get home, I'm going to head down to the treadmill instead.

Here's to getting back on track. :)

I'm in the same boat. I've been really struggling to talk myself into running for the last few weeks. I just started getting back into the swing of things in the middle of last week after Mr_Nox told me about Joe's Goals. I set a running goal for tuesdays, thursdays, and saturdays, and a goal to do some form of exercise every day. Since I set it up, I haven't missed a run because I don't want to break my chain. I don't know if that'd help you, but thought I'd mention it just in case.

> only once this week, and I'll make up a second saturday or sunday, still a chance at three, but i doubt it

I'll do it if you do it. I was planning on running either Saturday or Sunday too, but I'll do both days if you do too :)

As far as restarting c25k goes, it seems like it would be a good plan. If you turn it into jog/run intervals instead of walk/jog, then it seems like it would help with your time. Not speaking from experience or anything, just seems like a reasonable plan.

I want to thank you all for your ongoing participation in the study.

Filling the surveys required as much determination as working toward your personal goals and I have to congratulate you all for that.

For those who have yet to complete the second follow-up survey, here is your chance before we close it!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TwoMonthsLater

Thank you very much,

Pier-Eric

Here's another reminder to fill the second follow-up survey , your input is welcome even if you are behind in your goals or if you have stopped pursuing them. thanks!

Pier-Eric and Laurence

Please take advantage of the break to fill the follow-up survey !

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TwoMonthsLater

If you have not filled the first follow-up survey and wish to participate, click on the included link ; you are still welcome and your comeback is greatly appreciated.

We wanted to remind you that as a token of our appreciation, 3 prizes of 25$ US will be drawn among the participants !

Thank you very much for your involvement.

Pier-Eric

As for this month's goal, I can't say I did as good as last month : I had to decrease the duration of my runs because of my busy schedule... Hopefully the next marathon is in september!

Sorry to spam this thread again. . .

It's LAST CALL for entering the second part of the study with last week's questionnaire ! New participants are welcome.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OneMonthLater

****** Survey link closes tomorrow **********

Thanks to those who lived up to their enrollment !

Here is a reminder to fill this week's survey for the study!
Many people have yet to do it ( are they still alive? did they abandon their goal?)

The link is going to be available only a few more days! Participants enter for a prize draw !

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OneMonthLater

This is important! The more people stay in the study, to more conclusions we will be able to draw. No matter how close or far you are from your goal, your experience is as important as the others!

... And those who want to try the survey but did not fill the first one, no problem, you are welcome!

• Pier-Eric

https://habitica.com/

It's a gamified to-do list manager. You set up daily tasks, you earn XP and pets and mounts and....stuff. You can put together groups to do quests (or do them solo, which is what I'm doing now)

Hello, I'm new here. My 90-day goal is to get my house clean & organized, while maintaining good work and exercise habits.

My Sprint 1 will be to get the common areas of my home organized and set up with our new roommate.

My Sprint 2 will be to get my home office culled and organized (although depending on how Sprint 1 goes I'm hoping to start this early, and planning for it to go late).

My Sprint 3 will be to get my bedroom space organized.

All of these have smaller tasks that I've broken down into Todoist projects. The good work habits are to improve typing skills and use a pom-timer to remember to take breaks, while working to balance my budget (I do piecework, so the daily amount of work I do will be a balance of what's available and what I need). My exercise routine is daily yoga/bodyweight training and cardio. All of these will be Dailies in my Habitica with checklists.

Thanks and good luck everyone!

Thank you.

Looks like in my phone icons it says productivity. I had it for a while and forgot it was called Goodtime before current app name which is long.

I'm not sure if it is in the apple store, I assume yes, but I use an android.

In play store it can be found as "Minimalist Pomodoro Timer - Goodtime Productivity"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apps.adrcotfas.goodtime

Hope that helps. :)

So, here's a story about Stubby (me), I bought this ridiculous contraption on amazon that like, "makes sushi" for you because I wanted to make healthy vegetarian sushi at home instead of spending all my coin on fried sushi rolls (because let's be real, if I am going out for sushi, I am going ALL OUT, you know what I mean?)

Anyway, it's hilarious but got the job done. I did make a sacrilegious "BLAT" sushi roll. And it was pretty tasty.

Day 1...I just found this sub =D

I'm reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and so far it's captivating.

Have you read Shogun by James Clavel? It's enthralling.

Week is splendid! Lots of room for improvement, but plenty of forward momentum.

Day 1 goal:

1 mile

6-5-4-3-2-1

Chest to Bar Pullup*

Body Squat

Toes to Bar*

HSPU

*Progressing to full movement

Also some personal goals. =)

I'm not super excited to get back to work this week. I still need to figure out my next steps after the bad news on Friday and I sometimes struggle to deal with things like this without being emotional. If nothing else, it's a good opportunity to work on dealing with this kind of stress, so I'll choose to view it as a chance for self improvement.

Today:
* Get list of remaining contingency database tasks
* Check marathon info and print out any necessary forms
* Stretching routine
* At least one load of laundry

BQ: Stupid puns and clever wordplay. My wife gave me the weirdest look the other day when I laughed out loud from a line I found funny while reading "The Intelligent Investor".

You might enjoy the book So Good They Can't Ignore You - which basically says forget finding your passion and find what skill you can leverage that you already have. I think it's all part of a bigger picture but it's worth a read.

Lurker here but I made a goal this year to read at least 5 career development books and didn't really know where to start. Picked up "So Good They Can't Ignore You" and it's been a wonderful kick in the butt!

Fitness Goals this round are simple. Go to the gym 3 days a week. Starting Strength for the foreseeable future. Stick to the damn plan. That's all. Just keep going.

<strong>Yesterday</strong> I accomplished 4 of my 6 goals. I did a good amount of reading and writing in my journal at work, drank the entirety of my 32 oz. water bottle, set up new higher quality reminders on my phone, and spent a little over half an hour picking up the house last night. I did not see my neighbor, so couldn't do much there, but I left the tools at home to help when I see him next. I did whiff on creating a new budget last night, as I was entirely too wrapped up in the new Destiny expansion. It was a lot of fun, but I didn't need to spend 2 1/2 hours playing it. Tonight i will make sure to allocate time to creating a budget.

Daily Goals

• ~~Continue re-reading "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People". Take notes in my journal. Motivational/Discipline reading helps me to stay focused at work and after.~~

• ~~Drink 2 bottles worth of water. Couldn't fit my 32 oz. bottle into my lunch box this morning, so it was left at home. Need to drink and refill a regular plastic bottle at least once while i'm at work, and then take the 32 oz. bottle with me to the gym.~~

• ~~Gym session after work. Starting Strength. Spartan in 11 days, so I need to make sure I give myself 2-3 days of rest before it. That still gives me 3 more workouts to push myself a bit, though.~~

• ~~Create a budget in YNAB for the rest of September. This should only take maybe 20 minutes or so. I'll do it right when I get home, before going to the gym.~~