It's been a long (really, really long) and arduous journey, but I am thrilled to be able to share that I have completed my Master's thesis, and will be graduating next month. The last six weeks have been intense, stressful, and incredibly busy, which is why I ended up dropping off 3FC during that time.
I am really proud of myself for finishing this, because there were times when I seriously considered giving up. But I think you chicks can understand the other thing I'm really proud of: I made it through the whole thing without stress eating. The amazing part is that, most of the time, I wasn't even fighting with myself over it - it's like the impulse to stress eat isn't really there anymore. Sure, there were a couple of times when I wanted chocolate chocolate chocolate, but it wasn't the uncontrollable stress eating that I would have done two years ago. It was even relatively easy to deal with those chocolate cravings (yay Skinny Cow).
So now for the accountability: When I realized how insane my life was going to be, I decided not to worry about losing and just aim for maintaining. And I did. Even with the holiday in there, I'm still at the same weight as I was the last time I officially weighed in, and it didn't vary more than two pounds the whole time. That's the plus side. On the minus side, I pretty much completely stopped exercising. I was never all that dedicated to it anyway, and I admit that it was actually a bit of a relief not to have to deal with it. But now that I have what feels like unlimited free time, I'm going to have to get another routine going. It feels like I have unlimited free time these days, so I imagine it will be easier to hold to a routine now.
All in all, I'm feeling pretty awesome right now, though I have no idea what to do with myself. Once upon a time, pre-thesis, didn't I used to do stuff at nights? I have no idea what I even want to do anymore, but I sure am looking forward to finding out.
Lisa
