Wow. It has been over a year since I have been here, but now I am back. It is my goal to blog at least once a month to try and get myself back on track with so many things.
The things I need to work on:
1. Health and weight loss - I have had major regain. There I have said it. Yes, it is obvious in my looks and clothes. The positive is I have only regained about 55 pounds of the 125 that I lost. Reasons for my regain vary. I have found that the stuff that is good for you to eat is very difficult to eat and can be painful at times. The bad stuff is quite easy to eat. I had 2 miscarriages last year and regained about 15-20 pounds with each one. After the 2nd one, I completely quit focusing on exercising.
I currently have a membership to LA Fitness and need to actually use it. I also have equipment in the basement that I should be utilizing.
So here is my plan. My first goal is to workout at least 3 times a week for the next 3 weeks. Once I hit that goal, I will move it up to four times a week for four weeks, etc. For healthy eating, my plan is to just start writing everything down.
2. Removing stress - My major stress factor is my career, teaching. I am currently teaching a very difficult group of students in a grade level that I never really enjoyed teaching when I taught it 12 years ago. My administrators felt it necessary to move me for reasons that are unknown. However, this is not an isolated incident, and staff morale is low. I need to refocus on my students and find a way to enjoy teaching again.
My plan: I have actually already started this part. I have been looking online for different teaching techniques for difficult children. When I say difficult, I do not mean in the learning sense. These students have difficulty respecting others and their learning environment. Do not get me wrong, I do have a good number of good students. And all of my students have good traits. There is a group of 7 or 8 students that make things a little difficult to teach the way I like to teach. And with 7 or 8, it is quite difficult to separate them from the rest of the class. I have some ideas to try when we return after the new year.
3. Getting back to my business - Because of the stress coming from my workplace, I decided to close up shop temporarily. Trying to build and decorate beautiful cakes for people is stressful enough. Add in the stress from school, and I was a ticking time bomb. The good thing that has happened? Georgia now has a Cottage Food Law. This means I could potentially bake and decorate from home without having a separate kitchen, as the previous law stated. There is a hurdle. My county still requires a grease trap for the sewer. We, however, are on a septic. I am hoping that this will allow an exception to the grease trap rule. I will find out after the new year. Being able to run my business from my home will take a lot of stress off of running my company. I would not have to pay rent to the commercial kitchen. I would not have to leave my family for hours on end to complete a project. I would not have to carry all of my supplies back and forth from home to kitchen. I would not have to clean up behind others.
Okay, I think this is a good start to becoming accountable to myself and the things that I need to do. There is now a sticky note attached to my monitor that says "Blog by Sunday Jan 5." Let's see if the visual reminder works!
The things I need to work on:
1. Health and weight loss - I have had major regain. There I have said it. Yes, it is obvious in my looks and clothes. The positive is I have only regained about 55 pounds of the 125 that I lost. Reasons for my regain vary. I have found that the stuff that is good for you to eat is very difficult to eat and can be painful at times. The bad stuff is quite easy to eat. I had 2 miscarriages last year and regained about 15-20 pounds with each one. After the 2nd one, I completely quit focusing on exercising.
I currently have a membership to LA Fitness and need to actually use it. I also have equipment in the basement that I should be utilizing.
So here is my plan. My first goal is to workout at least 3 times a week for the next 3 weeks. Once I hit that goal, I will move it up to four times a week for four weeks, etc. For healthy eating, my plan is to just start writing everything down.
2. Removing stress - My major stress factor is my career, teaching. I am currently teaching a very difficult group of students in a grade level that I never really enjoyed teaching when I taught it 12 years ago. My administrators felt it necessary to move me for reasons that are unknown. However, this is not an isolated incident, and staff morale is low. I need to refocus on my students and find a way to enjoy teaching again.
My plan: I have actually already started this part. I have been looking online for different teaching techniques for difficult children. When I say difficult, I do not mean in the learning sense. These students have difficulty respecting others and their learning environment. Do not get me wrong, I do have a good number of good students. And all of my students have good traits. There is a group of 7 or 8 students that make things a little difficult to teach the way I like to teach. And with 7 or 8, it is quite difficult to separate them from the rest of the class. I have some ideas to try when we return after the new year.
3. Getting back to my business - Because of the stress coming from my workplace, I decided to close up shop temporarily. Trying to build and decorate beautiful cakes for people is stressful enough. Add in the stress from school, and I was a ticking time bomb. The good thing that has happened? Georgia now has a Cottage Food Law. This means I could potentially bake and decorate from home without having a separate kitchen, as the previous law stated. There is a hurdle. My county still requires a grease trap for the sewer. We, however, are on a septic. I am hoping that this will allow an exception to the grease trap rule. I will find out after the new year. Being able to run my business from my home will take a lot of stress off of running my company. I would not have to pay rent to the commercial kitchen. I would not have to leave my family for hours on end to complete a project. I would not have to carry all of my supplies back and forth from home to kitchen. I would not have to clean up behind others.
Okay, I think this is a good start to becoming accountable to myself and the things that I need to do. There is now a sticky note attached to my monitor that says "Blog by Sunday Jan 5." Let's see if the visual reminder works!
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| Me and my little man, Christmas Eve |
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| Me and my great nephew, Christmas Eve |
