Week 3, Day 2

It's the first day of school here!  For my family this year, that meant Nathan started kindergarten and I started my teaching internship.  Talk about a busy day.  Nathan had a great first day!  They only go every second day to kindergarten here and tonight when I was tucking Nathan in, he asked if he could please go to school tomorrow because he liked it so much.  Too cute!

I think I had a good first day teaching.  It was all a blur once I was in front of the classroom, but overall no major disasters.  My cooperating teacher said it went well.  One thing I found was I could do a lot more in an hour than I thought!  I thought I might be rushing, but my CT (cooperating teacher) said the speed was good.  So, I had to come home tonight and rearrange my day for tomorrow.  I only have to teach one class tomorrow - yay!

I'm finding that these changes are affecting my ability to eat when I should.  I haven't eaten anything off-plan, but I've missed 4 snacks since Sunday.  I hate doing it, but I just can't necessarily eat when I want these days.  I also didn't get my water in today at all - I only finished two bottles instead of 5. 

Final confession: I had three cans of Diet Coke yesterday and two cans today.   And I don't even feel that bad about it!  I'm doing so well with my eating part, and the extra ones were how I dealt with this ridiculously stressful couple of days.  I know, I shouldn't need to 'treat' myself with something to eat / drink when I'm stressed, but that's the honest truth.  Planning to get back on the water wagon tomorrow. 

I'm going to ask Cory about switching out my afternoon snack with my lunch.  So, my day would look like this:

Breakfast
Snack
Snack
Lunch
Supper
Snack

Then I could eat lunch around 4 when I get home.  I know that sounds ridiculous, but it would make things simpler for me.

Tonight I just did some simple body weight exercises - push-ups, lunges, and squats.  Since I didn't finish prepping for tomorrow until 10 pm I consider that to be pretty good.  Planning to do an Insanity DVD tomorrow.  My goal for the semester is to do something workout-related just after the kids go to bed Monday - Friday.  I'm hoping that will pump up my brain to work for the evening.  That's how I timed it tonight and it didn't seem too bad.

(So, I weighed myself this morning after my measly one pound loss yesterday, and I was down another .8 lbs!  Yippee!  I know, I know, it can go up and down, etc ...but it still feels good to be in the 136 range.)

1 day down, 75 to go (for the internship)!  I enjoy the teaching part, it's just arranging life around the teaching that's the pits.