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Monday 6 April 2020, day 11 of a 21-day lockdown

butttermilkrusks’s 100 Days of Exercise Challenge

so... I decided to make this challenge a few days ago, but then I found the “100 days of sweat” challenge. Why am I not doing that one? It’s very focused on looks and weight and encourages you to take before pictures and measure your waist, which is just not in line with my goals. 100doe was going to be focused more on what I manage to do in a day at the beginning of the challenge vs the end, and is aimed more at the chronically ill (including chronic mental illnesses such as Depression and Maladaptive Daydreaming Disorder.) My aim is not to lose weight, but to be able to function normally in society by doing a more normal amount of work without getting exhausted. I’m not against getting fit to look skinnier, because I get that the media can make people want to do that, but I don’t want to continue spreading the idea that fat or unfit bodies are ugly, or that fat and unfit are the same thing.

So, what’s the challenge?

Exercise for 100 days in a row

Aim to work parts of your body that need the most work (cough cough my core cough cough), and aim to do a reasonable amount of exercise each day

On days when you’re sick, sore or having a flare-up, don’t let the prospect of an intense exercise session cause you to fail the challenge. Rather do something easier, but for longer

Make a post every day or every few days, specifying how much exercise you did, what you got done that day work-wise, and how tired you are at the end of the day. You may also want to include other factors that lead to you feeling more/less tired that day

If you’d like to do the before/after pic thing, you do you. Alternatively, don’t take it as a before/after thing and just make it a “Look at my cool gym outfit I’m so ready!” thing

There’s no hard rules with this challenge, other than the exercising for 100 days thing, so if there’s some changes you want to make that suit your needs better, feel free :)

I was tagged by @artskyde <3 thanks, I love tag games!

rules: answer 17 questions and tag 20 people

nickname: Kid :) some people like to go deep into the psychology of this when I tell them to call me Kid but I just really like the sound of the word Kid okay??? and it fits my personality. and it kinda makes me feel like The Dude from the big labowski. it just works okay. Also my dad calls me R which is an epic nickname imo but it belongs to my dad

star sign: Virgo, Taurus moon

height: 5′4 or something

last film I watched: I generally watch series rather than movies, but I think it was 13 going on 30? (I guess that’s why I have’t watched another one since…)

favourite musician: at the moment it’s MARINA

song stuck in my head: Durban Skies - Bastille (probably my least favourite of their songs but it was playing in the car just now and hey it’s about South Africa I have to like it)

other blogs: @buttermilkbiscotti (I have more but I don’t like to associate them all with each other)

do I get asks: occasionally, not that many though. Send me more asks guys! Don’t worry about sounding invasive, I like connecting on a personal level :)

blogs following: I’m currently following 3.5k blogs

what am I wearing: high waisted tracksuit pants and a pale yellow crop top

dream job: youtuber, musician, filmmaker and model. Basically I want to be famous because that gives me the power to change the world and educate people, and something like a youtuber gives my audience the opportunity to better understand who I am and the actual motives behind what I do, rather than just being a mysterious rich person. And I’d prefer to have multiple ways of earning money to avoid creative dry spells.

dream trip: skiing in/near Tokyo!

play any instruments: I play the piano and the violin, and I sing. I’ve had a guitar now for 2 years and I still can’t play it (it’s an Alvarez parlour guitar and it’s beautiful)

languages: I pretty much just speak English. In school we learn Afrikaans for all 12 years but I’m still on an “understanding but not speaking” level, also we did Xhosa in junior school but I probably know more Italian than I do Xhosa and I never even learnt Italian,, plus I did French for 2 years in hs but I’m bad at it.

favourite food: this is so hard but uhh those cling peaches that are firm and fluffy and are actually solid peach colour rather than red/pink/yellow

favourite song: I don’t think I can pick a favourite but one that comes to mind is Walking in the Garden - Alice Phoebe Lou

random fact: I really like milkshakes and I can down a double thick in like 10 seconds flat

I tag: @paleblackdot @emilynonsense @studying1hourbeforetheexam @dreamglowstudies @koshechkakv @tremendouslysuperphilosopher​ @hadesboyfriend @gstudiesstuff @blackgrad @holliesarch​ @ellelimp​ @studyingatdawn​ @uppercase-disgrace​ @depressed-studying​ @lovingiseasy​ @legilimenstudies​ @bstudies​ @bla3klove​ @pindropmeadow​ @pumpkinstudylatte​

“Research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing”