Busy times ahead!!
This coming week is my last week off... Been a L O N G break this summer! Its been good in many ways even if I was bored quite a lot! :) But it has given me 2 months to get use to my new life post op....
I do have to say its not been as big of a challenge as I thought it would! I consider myself lucky that I can get in my protein and fluids so easily... And I still worry a tiny bit that it's too easy for me to eat... I don't dump (as of yet) and I had a little bit of pasta the other day more of a test to see how my pouch would do than anything else... and it was fine. In fact, I could have ate lots more! I didn't... but it scares me that I can! I am confident that I will continue to lose.... But I also hope that my old ways continue to change and that I can KEEP it off! I remind myself often that I am a work in progress :) And progress is the key, not perfection :)
So... back to the subject of this post... Busy days ahead!! Classes start the 30th. And this is my senior year... grad school just around the corner and I feel like everythings happening so fast now! I have my 12 credits... Not a big deal on its own. But this year I will be working too, part time 12 + hrs per week at the co-op daycare center (taking care of babies! woot! woot!)... and volunteering more hours 8 or so a week, and SASS (Sexual Assault Survivors Services). I will continue to work the crisis line, but also will be learning this term how to lead the survivors support group. I am also planning to become a Research Assistant in one of the research projects going on for another 6 hrs a week or so... And of course I have to get all my homework done as well!
On top of all of this I will be working out at the gym several days per week and taking a Pilates class 2 days a week (tired yet? ha ha!).
Plus, as if this is not enough! I am in the process of jumping hoops for grad school! I am studying for the GRE... however am unsure if I am even going to need to take it as the two main schools I am applying at don't require it. But the application process for grad school is nothing to take lightly.... The application for the school I want the most, Oregon State University (the rival college to University of Oregon, where I am going now! LOL!), the application is due I think November (I will have it done long before then!). I have it all done but the personal statement part, and am working on it. My brothers are helping me with it, bless their hearts! :) I have an open house to attend Nov. 2nd (another month-ish to lose more #'s before I go!)... and then interviews next February 2014... then will get the final word April.... Classes start the middle of June... just as I am finishing up here for my BS! No messing around! Graduate from undergrad, then off to grad school!! Crazy exciting! If I don't get OSU acceptance, then my back up is PSU (Portland State). My only issue with my back up is that we REALLY don't want to move up towards Portland... And would REALLY rather move back to Bend Oregon (where we lived for 5ish years before moving over here so I could go to UO)... But I cannot put all my eggs into one basket in regards to grad school.
So... as I babble on and on... and try to get back to my theme... I am going to be B U S Y and this is good! A bit worrisome that I can stay on top of everything school related AND my eating AND my vitamins AND my exercise... but it will be good practice for grad school next year!
As for exercise, on Wednesdays I will be walking almost 2 miles from work to SASS... (this is good!) And on Mondays and Fridays I'll be walking from work to the college, which is about a mile.... I have Pilates Tue and Thrus AM's... And depending on how the rest of my schedule works out... I will be in the weight room 2 days a week too and hit the pool on occasion. This will all be helpful in my journey!!
I do have to say its not been as big of a challenge as I thought it would! I consider myself lucky that I can get in my protein and fluids so easily... And I still worry a tiny bit that it's too easy for me to eat... I don't dump (as of yet) and I had a little bit of pasta the other day more of a test to see how my pouch would do than anything else... and it was fine. In fact, I could have ate lots more! I didn't... but it scares me that I can! I am confident that I will continue to lose.... But I also hope that my old ways continue to change and that I can KEEP it off! I remind myself often that I am a work in progress :) And progress is the key, not perfection :)
So... back to the subject of this post... Busy days ahead!! Classes start the 30th. And this is my senior year... grad school just around the corner and I feel like everythings happening so fast now! I have my 12 credits... Not a big deal on its own. But this year I will be working too, part time 12 + hrs per week at the co-op daycare center (taking care of babies! woot! woot!)... and volunteering more hours 8 or so a week, and SASS (Sexual Assault Survivors Services). I will continue to work the crisis line, but also will be learning this term how to lead the survivors support group. I am also planning to become a Research Assistant in one of the research projects going on for another 6 hrs a week or so... And of course I have to get all my homework done as well!
On top of all of this I will be working out at the gym several days per week and taking a Pilates class 2 days a week (tired yet? ha ha!).
Plus, as if this is not enough! I am in the process of jumping hoops for grad school! I am studying for the GRE... however am unsure if I am even going to need to take it as the two main schools I am applying at don't require it. But the application process for grad school is nothing to take lightly.... The application for the school I want the most, Oregon State University (the rival college to University of Oregon, where I am going now! LOL!), the application is due I think November (I will have it done long before then!). I have it all done but the personal statement part, and am working on it. My brothers are helping me with it, bless their hearts! :) I have an open house to attend Nov. 2nd (another month-ish to lose more #'s before I go!)... and then interviews next February 2014... then will get the final word April.... Classes start the middle of June... just as I am finishing up here for my BS! No messing around! Graduate from undergrad, then off to grad school!! Crazy exciting! If I don't get OSU acceptance, then my back up is PSU (Portland State). My only issue with my back up is that we REALLY don't want to move up towards Portland... And would REALLY rather move back to Bend Oregon (where we lived for 5ish years before moving over here so I could go to UO)... But I cannot put all my eggs into one basket in regards to grad school.
So... as I babble on and on... and try to get back to my theme... I am going to be B U S Y and this is good! A bit worrisome that I can stay on top of everything school related AND my eating AND my vitamins AND my exercise... but it will be good practice for grad school next year!
As for exercise, on Wednesdays I will be walking almost 2 miles from work to SASS... (this is good!) And on Mondays and Fridays I'll be walking from work to the college, which is about a mile.... I have Pilates Tue and Thrus AM's... And depending on how the rest of my schedule works out... I will be in the weight room 2 days a week too and hit the pool on occasion. This will all be helpful in my journey!!
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I am pretty worn out just reading your post. :) So glad you have all of this ahead of you.