Moving Forward

It's been awhile since I've posted, much to the chagrin of my bored cousin Karen. So what has been happening in my life you may ask? Well, when I originally started this post, not much, but over the last few days, I've had quite a bit happen. I've started working again!!! Huzzah!! It may only be about 10-12 hours a week, but it's a heck of a lot better than the 0 hours that I have been working all summer. I've actually switched stores too. I now work at Catherine's, which is next to Lane Bryant and is owned by the same umbrella company. The merchandise, however, is nothing like Lane Bryant. It's designed for older ladies and when I say older, I mean like 70 year old ladies who have given up on style. I told my mom that if I ever caught her dressing like that that I would smack her. You don't need to be young or skinny to have style. You just have to work with what you've got and, as Tim Gunn would say, "Make it work". I suppose that most of the stuff in Catherine's could work if you paired it with classic pieces like jeans or mixed in the right accessories like a belt, but the way that most people wear the stuff is just plain crazy. I mean, wearing a matching shirt and skirt in leopard print? Where are we, New Jersey? It's just too much! Not to mention all the shirts with shoulder pads....... *shudders*

So the exercise has lessened of late, mostly because of work. I'm still trying to figure out how to work it all in. It's just going to get worse in two weeks when I'm working and going to school. I thought about exercising in the morning before school, so I don't have to worry about it during the day, but I'm definitely not a morning person. Plus, on Mondays and Wednesdays, I have my practicum at 8:30am, so I have to get up at 6am just to get ready and drive there. No way am I getting up earlier than that to work out. I know myself, and I just won't do it. So the plan as of now if to work out before my classes on Tuesday/Thursdays. I'll still have to get up early, but at least the sun will be up when I am. Fridays are also fine for exercising because I don't have any classes. I'll hopefully be tourguiding, which will count as part of my work out, and then going to work. But I have a bit more flexibility on Fridays, so it should work fine.

The eating has been going well, other than two days. The first was during Laura's shower. I ate way too many cookies. It's my weakness. I have a ridiculous sweet tooth. And I can control it somewhat with ice cream, because I'll have a bowl and that will be enough, but with cookies, if there are some on the table, I'll go up several times to take a couple. Suddenly, my two cookie treat has turned into a 10 cookie binge. It's bad! The other day was yesterday. Colleen, Peter, and I went to the Montgomery County fair. It was so much fun! We haven't been to it since we were little. I didn't eat as horribly as I have in the past, but I did have about a 20 oz bottle of lemonade, which seemed to have a lot of sugar in it, half of a funnel cake, and a corn dog. Then for dinner, I went to Wendy's and got a 1/4 pounder burger meal. I ended the day with a bowl of Edy's slow churned chocolate ice cream. Normally, it's not a bad ice cream because it's low fat, but compiled with everything else that I ate that day, it was bad. So I'm back on my program again today. It's an everyday thing with me. Gotta take it one day at a time.