The Bittersweet Four Months: Part One

It has been almost exactly four months since my last posting. A lot has happened. Well, for starters my eating habits have only recently gotten worse. My life has changed in the past three months and I suppose my body has gone in to lazy mode. I had to quit my full time job in order to be able to complete my internship hours for graduate school this upcoming academic year. I was able to get a job with a small family business handling their social media networking and doing some marketing. Around this time my dance classes that I teach and also my Zumba class were winding down and came to an end in June. Though I continued to teach this summer the classes were not as rigorous or as often as I have been use to teaching. Working 15 hour weeks has its pros and cons. I love having the off time to do as a please though there isn’t that much I can do since my finances are low due to working part time. It is as though I am a college student again (except I don’t remember being this broke in college, oh that’s right! I have more responsibilities now).  My stress levels have gotten high but with my new schedule that is approaching this fall I have succeeded in ‘letting things go’ so that I am mentally, emotionally, and hopefully energetically ready for when the school year begins! This summer television has become a dear friend of mine and so have reruns of my favorite shows. I have also been catching up on some books I have wanted to read. The days seem to go slow. I get bored, and this leads to my bad habits of eating. I absolutely LOVE to snack! It is a weakness, and one of my favorite things. Unfortunately, I choose to eat unhealthy things instead of healthy ones. Well today that changes!! (is this my third attempt?) I will admit I ate a brownie as a sweet and indulgent “good-bye” before I worked out today. I feel great after my work out. I hope to be able to start taking exercise classes to help get me back on track. I have one month, well more like three weeks, to get back in to a healthy diet until my crazy schedule goes in to effect. It is going to be hard to maintain a healthy diet being constantly on the go but if I did it this past spring I can definitely do it again this fall.