Personal Challenges

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Originally Posted by Christmas

My challenge is to become NANNY MANUS new best friend. :bigsmile:

But it is too hard. :(

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The constant orders for submission just isn't working for me.

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Originally Posted by Old Manus

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Originally Posted by Christmas

My challenge is to become NANNY MANUS new best friend. :bigsmile:

But it is too hard. :(

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The constant orders for submission just isn't working for me.

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NANNY MANUS is always so paranoid. It is so hard to be best friend with such a person. :(

But I will overcome this CHALLENGE. :bigsmile:

Moving out of the projects! I did it! I'm not in a nice place to live and it's freaking awsome. also hopefully will be starting community college soon. Going to take some classes and then maybe get a reall job.

anger control:
both zodiac and horoscope clearly points the sign at me with "prone to anger". it's very true. i'm trying not to lash out abruptly at simple things.

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So, what challenges (stupid or not) have you set yourself lately and have you stuck to them?

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I am in constant struggle against stupidity. :(

Good luck with losing the weight. I hope nothing bad happens to you due to the methods you're using, though (but you don't need me to tell you that, and I'm sure you know what you're doing). =/

I did the same thing a couple of years ago and become quite ill. I lasted for nearly 12 days and then started to pass out. I then stopped being stupid, started to eat healthy foods and exercise, and lost the weight via conventional dieting methods.

My personal challenge was to eat healthy and maintain the lifestyle. I became more active and began to eat properly. I also started to lift weights and exercise, and it's made me feel like a different person. Eighteen months later, and I've never gone back to my unhealthy previous lifestyle. :)

I've done the no eating challenge. I think I made almost 3 days? I used to do it whenever I felt really miserable. I guess it may have been a way to punish myself when I felt disgusted with myself? I don't know. I haven't done it in a while. So I can understand your feelings if that's the context in which you're doing it.

Lately, my challenge is to get a job (which I might have just gotten) and save up for a professional digital camera and a good lens which would be about... 1,500 dollars?

I'm trying to find a happy medium between motherhood and working. I want nothing more than to stay at home with my sons and raise them in the best way I can. On the other hand, I like the independence and the monetary lifestyle that working gives me. I'm sure I'll work it out, but it really sucks right now...

Mine is to not kick annoying small children in the face. I keep failing. :(

you and me both..

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Originally Posted by Jimsour

You can indeed survive on liquids, but you'll ruin your digestive system. the human body was not made to drink strawberries and bananas, it was made to eat them. Protein shakes are great, I use to take them all the time, but they are only protein. There are no carbohydrates (something the brain uses a lot) or any healthy fats whatsoever.. and the protein is whey so its absorbed very fast by the body. Protein shakes are designed to be taken after weight training sessions where the body is gagging for protein to rebuilt and regrow its muscle fibres which have been ribbed to shreds.

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I was sure there were carbohydrates in many types of liquids? Meh maybe not. As for the fats that is something I almost always overlook(not hard to find something with fats in it to eat, but on liquids what about milk? thick creamy milk(I love creamy milk)).

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Originally Posted by Jimsour

Drinking meals is fine if you still eat solid food, because liquid meals lack something very important: fiber, and roughage. you will get a lot more benefit eating a steak dinner then in liquid form, its digested differently.

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I knew I had to be missing something. Fiber. Of course that explains the bits of foods that I usually have cravings for. They tend to be high in carbs, protein, and/or fiber.

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Originally Posted by Jimsour

Also your illness's could be a reaction to food you are eating, or you just arent eating enough.. the workouts should help it though if you are eating enough to handle working out.

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Well as weird as it is, my health is less when I eat more and drink less(no way am I stupid enough to double up on it, that would be WAY too many calories). This occurs even in the long term(I think I did it for about 6 months before). My health just died, caught the worst illness I ever had during that time(bronchitis for around 5'ish months is absolute hell, particually since the doctor said it may have been some sort of bronchitis-pnuemonia mix, god awful, I never want to repeat that). It may not have been because of what I was eating, but what I was eating didn't help either, I was weaker than usual when fighting the disease and much of other things. I think my body is just so used to the high liquid diet that I now NEED that extra amount of liquids in my body.

Some other odd things that have been attributed to what I eat from coaches and freinds are:
A) My metablolism is insanely fast. Ex. I was ill. I ate a foot-long subway sub. About 30 mins-45mins at most later I threw up. Nothing but bile came up. I had nothing left in my stomache at that point. Surprised the daylights out of everyone who witnessed it. I keep telling them my metabolism was fast, but they didn't believe it til then.

B) I seem to heal from sunburns, scraps, and other surface wounds rather quickly compared to others. I know for sunburns the extra liquids is real useful, and that extra liquids for just about any injury tends to be helpful.

C)My body just sponges hits. Got called the sponge in wrestling a couple times, because my body just asorbs whatever you throw at me. I also sweeted far more than anyone else did in wrestling, nearly impossible to grip me once I start to exercise.

D) I am stronger than I should be. I am lazy and sit on my butt all day, but yet I am nearly as strong as people who work out at least fairly frequently. Some think it is genes but no one else in my family seems to be like that(brother is just a bit stronger then me, but he works out fairly often and is 50+lbs heavier). Some did wonder if my high liquid intake had anything to do with it. I don't see why it would but, meh.

E) I put on muscle fast. My strength could noticable increase between workouts in wrestling(on monday someone would be stronger than me, but the next day I would shove them around like a tow). I just figured my body operated quicker on the muscle tearing and growing(also after every practice I gained strength like that I was usually really really sore but by morning the pain was gone usually).

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Originally Posted by Quin 'n' Tonic

Mine is to not kick annoying small children in the face. I keep failing.

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That is always a hard thing to do... stupid children

Current goal? Get the hell outta college.

Also, Jimsour speaks the truth. Shaun, a better, healthier, and more effective way to lose weight, show determination, etc, would be to eat the right food, exercise and lose weight the healthy way. Going without food accomplishes nothing. Why make your goal be something that is so unhealthy? You want to lose weight? There are ways to do that without putting yourself in serious risk for a whole bunch of medical problems.

On another forum I visit we're having the Challenge [your name here] Week. My challenge is three healthy meals a day and less snacking on junk.

I'd like to reply to each one of you personally but I've just made one hell of a large post on another forum and my arms are aching a bit, so apologies for that. In a news update, I gave in and ate some stuff last night. At almost five days going, I saw my parents eating in the evening and couldn't keep going. I simply lost my guard. First having the chicken soup wasn't bad as it's healthy, but then I started eating loads. I made sandwiches, had crisps, ate savoury foods, got some chocolate.

Today I've been feeling extremely depressed. I don't know, it seems somehow eating food has made me depressed. I want to go back onto my starvation diet and go much longer than five days, but if you guys are so convinced I won't lose an ounce of weight by doing it, I'll stop. I personally think I'd be better off doing it than eating everything in the house. :/ Rye, you're right, I guess that is why I've been doing it. I think I've pretty much sinned by letting my body get into bad condition and my punishment was to have no food whatsoever...

You all say I should go to the gym, et cetera. "Get some exercise," you say. I can see where you're all coming from, and that's good advice for most people. However, I like to be alone. I couldn't stand being in a gym. I'm not very good with people. As for exercise in general, there's only so much I can really do. My co-ordination is not the best. :( I'm not really fat now. Just a little overweight. My fear is that it's going to get worse and worse though...

Too bad you don't go to my college. Our fitness center is usually just about empty if not empty. I am going there, they got some nice equipment for it rarely being used.

Anyways it doesn't matter what you eat as long as you get the nutrients you need.


and to add on. I don't know if this holds true for others, but for me exercise reduces my appetite. SO that may help.