I started the summer so well. Woke up, went to my beatboxing class, then headed to Starbucks to pound out some words before heading home for a tasty salad and a fun beach read.
The schedule was working. It was working, dangit!
And then, well... life.
We went camping at Devil's Rock in Arkansas, where we hiked and tie-dyed t-shirts and sat around the pool every day. I ate s'mores and spaghetti and cinnamon rolls.
I gained weight.
My dad got married on a boat in Okoboji. I made fruit salsa, guacamole, and chocolate chip cookie dough dip. Shane grudgingly carved a fruit shark (which turned out to be fabulous). We went swimming at an indoor water park, and I did about 30 rounds on the lazy river. The lazy river ain't called that for nothing. I was lazy, y'all.
And I gained weight.
There were a few work days at school for teachers to map out curriculum. I spent eight hours each day sitting in front of the computer, chomping on chocolate, figuring out my essential learning targets and prerequisite skills and unit benchmark assessments.
Aaaaaaand I gained weight.
You can see where this is going.
It's terrifying to me, almost hitting a 100 pound loss, then watching the weight creep back up again. Of course I know the answer is to stop eating everything in sight and get my butt back to the gym. But somehow it doesn't seem that simple. Something is always coming up. An impromptu trip to the movies (with candy and popcorn, of course). An evening playing board games with the in-laws (which obviously calls for pizza). The farmers' market with its fresh donuts, breakfast burritos, and PBJ rangoons.
So, here I am, 10 pounds heavier than when the summer began. I've gotta put on the brakes. Figure out my strategy. Reset my attitude and reframe my thinking about all of this. Maybe I can do the summer things but do them more reasonably. Next week I'm going to a Dave Matthews concert with Shane. Instead of going out for a calorically (and financially) insane dinner, maybe we could eat at Subway and then bike to the concert. Or I could make one of those eggplant recipes I've been pinning like crazy. Maybe for the 4th of July I could make a fun red, white, and blue fruit platter. I need to do something because we've got quite a lot of summer left (bet you've never heard a teacher complain about that before!).
The other thing is that I haven't been writing as much as I should, but that's a whole other post.
So tell me, how has your summer been going? Am I the only one struggling with the lack of structure?
