Oh man.
I don't even know where to start. This has been the busiest semester of my life! I am gone from 7:30am until (most days) 8pm. I have never been more busy in my life. However, this semester hasn't been bad. It's actually been pretty good. I'm enjoying all of my classes, even though they're slowly killing me. Little tender mercies are what get me by.
This semester I have three personal trainers to help me attain my goal. How this happened was my friend Kara texted me at the beginning of the semester explaining that her husband, Tate, was in a class that he had to be someone's personal trainer and help them with their diet. I was game! My plan for this semester was to do the Insanity workouts again and do my 20 minute a day runs, but I thought this training would be better and would keep me on track more. It has been the biggest blessing ever! Not only am I almost to my 30lbs goal for this semester, I'll probably exceed it! I am to my smallest weight I've been since probably the 6th grade, and I'm still getting smaller. I am incredibly excited and motivated! It hasn't been easy though. My roommates this semester make cookies almost EVERY day, it's kind of ridiculous. But now that I'm over half way through the semester, it's not a temptation anymore. I know that those cookies/brownies/cake/ice cream/candy wont get me to my goal, and anything that wont get me to my goal, isn't worth my time.
Another struggle has been sleep. Most semesters I'm used to going to bed at 1 or 2 am (EVERY NIGHT) and getting up at 7. This is not a healthy habit and my goal this semester was to get sleep. Sleep is essential for weight loss and since that's something that is important to me, I've been making it a priority. So I go to bed at 10pm every night and get up between 6 and 6:30 every morning. This hasn't been hard, what's been hard is getting everything I need to get done BEFORE I go to sleep, it's very difficult, but so far I've been able to manage it.
This has definitely been a different semester.... One full of time management, sweat, tears, homework and practically no fun at all.
I have two things I look forward to: My shopping trips with Brianna and my hour long workouts with Tate, Katie and Liz (My trainers). Those two things have been getting me by and I am so grateful for them!
I'll try to write more often, wont make any promises though!
