The last two years have been pretty difficult for me, mentally and physically. I've felt a big mixture of being incomplete and temporary in many different ways. While living in a college dorm and spending many weekends home in New Jersey, it's just felt as if I live in two different places at once. I spend half of my time with one group of people, and the other half with another, but it's as if they never coincide. This journey through the rest of my college career has certainly taken its toll on my mental and physical health. While I'm at school I always feel bogged down with work, and since I'm not working at an actual job I don't have money to pay for a gym membership. Anyway, like I said, I spend much of my time going from New York to New Jersey, and vice versa. I'm never in one place.
So lately I've been telling myself: get in shape before your vacation in July! That means that I have 10 weeks to get in shape (wow, scary when you look at it like that!) and that's not much time. So, I've been really dedicating as much free time as I have to exercising, and restricting my diet to healthy (and more importantly, home made) food.
This week I've jogged each day, and I plan to keep it up at this rate. It's funny how sometimes you can immediately start to feel the effects of healthy eating and exercise, I feel much less bloated already (though my skin is breaking out, what's up with that?!).
Though last night I did get an intensive craving for ice cream or cookies or cake or sweet of any type because those are my vice. I nearly bought something too, but instead of buying food I went for a jog. And afterwards, the craving was gone!
Now if only I could apply this "setting goals" thing to my school work...graduating in a few weeks has me procrastinating on the big things I should be getting started on! Oops...
Melissa.
