Hallo Füsters . . . GG apologizes for the late Week 5 update but sometimes there’s just not enough hours in the day, ya know? Anyways, here goes . . .

Week 5 is the centerpoint of Winterfüste with the actual halfway point of the game hitting this Wednesday, Feb. 1st. This is known as the “Halbzeit” and is the true mid point of Winterfüste 23. Traditionally this day is also your Cheat Day. What’s a Cheat Day? It’s the one day during the game where you cannot earn your daily points and therefore anything goes. You can return to your terrible food habits, get black out drunk, and laze around the house in your pajamas if that’s what you really want to do! But be warned, Füsters who go all in and fill their mouth hole full of sweets and breads and cakes and alcohol have a tendency to have a terrible following day. But given that a Cheat Day doesn’t really fit a Wednesday vibe, GG has designated Saturday, Feb. 4th as the official Cheat Day for WF23. So you can do what you will this Saturday and on Sunday YOU WILL NOT REPORT your three daily points (food/drink/exercise) . . . and yes, you can still complete a bonus on Saturday if you want, but you will not be able to earn any other points to be crystal clear!
This week also shows January coming to a close and as a result the “Dry January” bonus has arrived! Basically, if you completely avoided alcohol from the Startenfüste on Jan. 2nd through Jan. 31st, you can score yourself the +3p Dry January bonus when you report out on Wednesday morning (the option will show up on the DRT when you choose Jan. 31st as your reporting date). GG commends anyone who had the fortitude of spirit to hold it together through the rain and cold of a particularly brutal January without sneaking a little nip of something to take the edge off!
This week is particularly busy with a couple of extra bonuses so be ready and keep your phone handy cause GG will be texting out the details (if you’ve Füsted before then you probably know what’s coming)!
New Periode II bonuses have been released for Week 5 so head on over to the bonus page here to find out how you’re earning extra punkte this week! And GG realized last night that he never sent out the Periode II tracking sheet so he’ll see if he can get that out to you tonight! Sorry, as usual, GG is compromised by not being able to clone himself (but someday, some glorious day, GG’s everywhere . . . that’s the dream).
Homework, blah blah. You know the drill. 2nd Midterm in two weeks so keep it up!
The Halbzeit on Wednesday is also a great day for a weight in to check your progress. You should definitely have lost some weight . . . if not, you need to take a hard look at how you’re playing the game as we start the back half of WF23!

That’s it for now. Sorry for the late update! Have a great Week 5 and even better Cheat Day this Saturday!