Work and Graduation

I have not posted in a very long while and I have not weighed myself at WW in a very long while. I need to get back to the meetings and weighing in every week. The last month has been pure hell. I had a deadline this last Thursday that I keep pushing towards and it was stressing me out something fierce. I have spent the last couple of months working at least 6 days a week and sometimes working 12-14 hour days in a row. I have to say it has taken a serious toll on me physically, mentally and emotionally. When I got really busy, everything just fell apart. I haven't been working out and I haven't been eating well. I need to re-focus and get back on it. I need to plan better in the future and have more contingency plans for everything going awry (because it usually does). I am going to try really, really hard to establish some semblance of a routine.

I recently talked to a couple of friends of mine about doing the couch to 5K and I think I am going to try and do that so that I can do the Turkey Trot this year. I have never been much of a runner so this should be REAL interesting. Now that I am not at a point where I need to have had my data done last week I can try to do something about working in some exercise regularly. I have decided to try working out in the morning and go into lab later in the day. There should only be a couple of days in the month where I absolutely have to be in early but I should be able to do that. I think that is the best option for me to regularly get in exercise. More often than not my days turn into ridiculously long days. I think I will be done at 4 and then a variety of things happen throughout the day and I am now leaving at 8 pm. Such is the life of a grad student.

I recently had my family out for my master's graduation. Yay! It felt weird being in the graduation ceremony though because everyone kept talking about moving on from the school and an end to things and all I thought about was what time I needed to go into lab the next day. I have eaten very, very badly while my family was here and if my scale is correct, gained almost 5 lbs!!! Yikes!!!! So, time to re-focus, show some dedication to myself not just my work and take it week by week. We will see what next week holds.