It’s all up to me

It’s amazing how the logical and emotional parts of our brains don’t work together.  Logically, I know that it’s going to take time to fit into smaller clothes but emotionally I think that after 2 days of great exercise and diet that I should drop sizes.  Recognizing where I’m headed I hid my scale so that if I hop on and don’t like what  I see I don’t let it derail me.  Since we have been back home I have found it fairly easy to stay on plan and I don’t want to have any excuses to veer away from my goals.

I couldn’t believe it when I looked at the calendar today and realized that we’re already in the middle of June.  For most people that wouldn’t be a big deal but for teachers it sometimes feels like the summer is slipping away already.  I’m taking a class next week and then it’s basically July which is impossible to believe.  I think the reason I feel like summer is slipping by so quickly this year is because we haven’t really had any lazy days.  Since school has been out we have been running here, there and everywhere.  I know, I know…if I wasn’t I’d be saying I was bored but I need to make things slow down a bit.  I have a “to do” list a mile long and I’m getting anxious b/c I’m not crossing things off as quickly as I would like but I need to make sure that I take time to smell the roses.  Today, for instance, I was very tired and wanted to take a nap.  Our nurse was here so I actually COULD take a nap but instead I sorted through 4 boxes of junk in our bedroom.  In all honesty, I don’t know if I could have slept knowing those boxes were waiting for me, almost as if they were staring at me, waiting for me to wake up and take care of them.  Plus, I was washing our sheets so I would have had to sleep on the mattress pad.  Clearly, I’m crazy

Tonight I’m veering from the safety of pre-packaged, frozen meals and I’m a little nervous.   But the rest of the family is having chicken breasts so I’m going to chime in.  Plus, yesterday I stumbled upon a 3-pound bag of broccoli and cauliflower that is already cleaned and cut for only $4.50 so I’ll have some yummy veggies, add a tomato and cottage cheese.  I just have to make sure I limit myself to 1 chicken breast and then go to town on the veggies.