Yeah, I'm still around.
I've been struggling a lot and I've gained 10 lbs back. Yuck. It sucks too, because I was just at the weight where I start to feel "normal" and was able to shop in regular stores.
A couple months ago my boyfriend of 3 years broke up with me. I won't get into the details, but basically it was over a fundamental relationship issue that we've been disussing for our entire relationship, but we had started fighting more frequently about it and he felt like we wouldn't be able to work it out. On the day he broke up with me, I weighed in at 169 lbs (my low weight). We stayed living together because he is moving to a different city in a few months, and it didn't really make sense for us financially to find different places to live for that short time. On top of that, I started my nursing consolidation (where I work full time with an RN, 12 hour shifts, days and nights), which stressed me out and completely messed up my eating and sleeping schedules. So yeah, at first I didn't gain any weight, mainly because I had no appetite. When it came back, I mainly ate junk and binged. I stopped exercising (though, I did start swimming in my apartment's pool a bit so I'd get some exercise and could clear my head). I also closed my Weight Watchers Online account because I wasn't really using it and I wasn't sure how my financial situation would be since I was planning on living on my own.
Since then, we've gotten back together and things have been really great, but my eating and sleeping schedules are still messed up and I haven't had much motivation to get back on track. I bought myself a nifty little food tracking journal.. used it for about a week, dropped 5 lbs (probably mainly water weight from eating junk and being stressed).. but then fell off track again. This morning I weighed 179.4 lbs.
I only have about 2.5 weeks left of my consolidation, and in that time, I only work 4 more shifts. Then I have a month off before we move and I start working (in good news, I received a job offer yesterday!). So, I guess the plan is to get back on track as best I can during these next two weeks or so, and then really get back on track during my month off so that I can hopefully be back to my low weight by the time I move.
I didn't eat the most healthy brunch today, but I did write down my calories, so that's a start. Now I'm trying to find the motivation to work out, but I'd rather just be lazy and take a nap because I work from 7 until 7 tonight.
I've been struggling a lot and I've gained 10 lbs back. Yuck. It sucks too, because I was just at the weight where I start to feel "normal" and was able to shop in regular stores.
A couple months ago my boyfriend of 3 years broke up with me. I won't get into the details, but basically it was over a fundamental relationship issue that we've been disussing for our entire relationship, but we had started fighting more frequently about it and he felt like we wouldn't be able to work it out. On the day he broke up with me, I weighed in at 169 lbs (my low weight). We stayed living together because he is moving to a different city in a few months, and it didn't really make sense for us financially to find different places to live for that short time. On top of that, I started my nursing consolidation (where I work full time with an RN, 12 hour shifts, days and nights), which stressed me out and completely messed up my eating and sleeping schedules. So yeah, at first I didn't gain any weight, mainly because I had no appetite. When it came back, I mainly ate junk and binged. I stopped exercising (though, I did start swimming in my apartment's pool a bit so I'd get some exercise and could clear my head). I also closed my Weight Watchers Online account because I wasn't really using it and I wasn't sure how my financial situation would be since I was planning on living on my own.
Since then, we've gotten back together and things have been really great, but my eating and sleeping schedules are still messed up and I haven't had much motivation to get back on track. I bought myself a nifty little food tracking journal.. used it for about a week, dropped 5 lbs (probably mainly water weight from eating junk and being stressed).. but then fell off track again. This morning I weighed 179.4 lbs.
I only have about 2.5 weeks left of my consolidation, and in that time, I only work 4 more shifts. Then I have a month off before we move and I start working (in good news, I received a job offer yesterday!). So, I guess the plan is to get back on track as best I can during these next two weeks or so, and then really get back on track during my month off so that I can hopefully be back to my low weight by the time I move.
I didn't eat the most healthy brunch today, but I did write down my calories, so that's a start. Now I'm trying to find the motivation to work out, but I'd rather just be lazy and take a nap because I work from 7 until 7 tonight.
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