Back to School!

It's Friday...finally! It's amazing how the first week of school can seem soooo long! The first week of classes should never last five days...remember when school would start on a Wednesday and you would get to slowly re-acclimated to the routine of the new school year? I always forget how exhausting the first week of school is, but I figured out in the shower this morning why I am so tired: I am getting up three hours earlier, but only going to bed 1 hour earlier! My circadian rhythms are all off...and that's about the only rhythm I have. And Dr. Oz said something the other day about circadian rhythms and diet, something about if your circadian rhythm is off this can affect your eating patterns...and I thought "That's it! It's not me! I'm not off; it's my rhythm!"

Honestly, though, I get home, get supper on the table and sit down, and then it happens: I become almost instantly zombie-like! My arms and legs feel as though they are lead weights, and my energy is completely zapped! And you may have guessed, though my eating patterns once I get home aren't bad (it's hard to be tempted when your napping in your chair!), the patterns at school with all the stress of the first week back and a new prep and taking care of my responsibilities there keep me from making wise choices! I have definitely let me determination slide, and I am not happy about this at all. But I don't want to beat myself up either--perhaps starting a new lifestyle challenge when my day-to-day was about to get crazy was not the best plan.

Time to regroup...can lifestyle challenges have do-overs? Other aspects of life do, and I really need one here. I need to get back on that gazelle and continue to track my challenge to live a healthy lifestyle and get my act together! A do-over is not admitting defeat...I am not defeated, in fact, I have not gained a pound from my starting weight on Day 1 of the challenge. Time for a deep cleansing breath and a fresh focus. Let the games begin...