[Tweety]

Awesome Sarah. I remember orientation. All the fear and anxiety and excite. Sigh..............I hope you continue to share.

I went to yoga last night and to the gym today. Did weights, worked on abs and 40 minutes of aerobics.

[wonka]

Hi all - sounds like everyone is doing well...hurray! I ended up picking up a bag or two of the chips made with sunflower oil to try them out and yum - good as ever and I even managed to eat just a bit at a time! Healthy junkfood, indeed

Walked a ton outside over the weekend and am on a new exercise kick (just wrote about it in the other thread). This weather really perks me up!

[Tweety]

Way to go Wonka! Keep up the good work!

[sddlnscp]

Will do Tweety - just tell me when you get sick of hearing about it My first actual 'class' is tonight - yeay!

Wonka - great job! I have a hard time with the junk food temptations too - yesterday our power was out county-wide and naturally, the house we all congregated at for lunch (all restauraunts were closed and I don't live here in town) only had chips and sandwich stuff, so I had that for lunch. Oh well - didn't eat a ton of it, so I guess it wasn't too bad. Had a protein bar for breakfast this morning

I was walking for exercise too, but now I don't have time again. Oh well - I've decided I will park at the far end of the parking lots and that will help some - especially on campus!

[arciedee]

Hey everyone... guess I'll join in here. Been absent for a while.

Healthy living is going okay here. Weight somehow got back into a range where I'm more comfortable, so trying to maintain that. Been pretty good about the exercise this week. And just ordered a new yoga DVD a couple days ago. Can't wait to try it.

One thing I'd like to work on is cooking! For some reason it seems that we haven't been preparing many meals at home lately and I'd like to get back into that because otherwise it's way too tempting to order pizza or other unhealthy stuff. But of course that means that I need to make menus, shopping lists, actually DO the shopping. It's frustrating. I really really wish that I lived closer to home... the 2-3 hours spent commuting each day could be put to much better use, such as taking care of our health!

Sarah, so glad that you're enjoying nursing school so far. I cannot wait to get in. Keeping my fingers crossed that I'll be admitted for January. I've finished up pre-reqs, so now I'm kinda bored.

Anyway, just thought I'd pop in on the not-so-new-anymore thread and say hi!

[sddlnscp]

Thanks Arciedee - good to see you again! Glad weight is going well for you, that is always a struggle. I hope I don't get into bad habits while I'm in school and gain some back - then I'd have to buy different scrubs - yikes! Will try really hard to avoid that! I was so happy though - XLs fit me with room to spare - that has not be possible for me for years and years - WooHoo!!! I'm on the right track at least. Hope everybody has a fun weekend - my first lab is on Sunday - yeay!

[Tweety]

O.K. Sarah, we'll let you know when we tire of you. LOL Like that is really gonna happen.

Arciedee, it's good to hear from you. Good luck. It's so hard to eat healthy while eating out isn't it?

I'm o.k. I took my BP yesterday and it was 117/75 which is excellent for me. It's running a bit high lately for some reason. I think stress, sleep distrubance, coffee and salt are my culprits and need to get all that under control. sigh..........

[sddlnscp]

Thanks Tweety. I had my first lab yesterday - it was bedmaking - it was a blast! Who would have thought I could get so excited over making a bed - lol! We took turns being the person in bed and being the person making the bed around that person. I have a wonderful lab group, so it was so much fun!

That's great about your BP tweety - I really should check mine, I haven't checked it for a while. I think stress has a lot to do with it, yours is still pretty decent though. Still doing your yoga classes regularly? I did go for a walk with my little boy after I got home last night - that was nice.

[Tweety]

Awesome Sarah.

I'm still doing yoga, but I had to skip this Sunday because I slept in. I followed a friend who is an ARNP, as part of my Assessment class, and she works late hours in the ER. It was interesting, but I'm a total day shifter now and don't stay up late.

My diet has been crappy, so I'm recommitting myself to a healthy diet, by starting with six days of 100% healthy foods, and on the 7th day I rest and eat what I want. Hopefully, this will jump start me back into eating well.

I need to cut back on the coffee.

I guess it's good to have goals and to be human.

[sddlnscp]

LOL! Definitely Tweety!

I have a similar plan going. I have decided that eating healthy Monday - Saturday works well for me and then I allow myself to eat whatever I want on Sunday, that way I don't feel deprived and end up binging on the bad stuff and going completely off-track. It seems to be working for maintaining my weight, but I suppose I'm going to have to change it around a little bit if I want to lose some more - which I really need to - just need to re-find that will power again. Oh well, I am really happy I haven't gained it back at least, that is a huge step for me!

Lecture tonight - WooHoo!!!