Journal de Paige E, 05 janv. 09

I have been so busy - so FS gets put on the back burner a little. I have one week before school starts and a ton of stuff to do to get ready. Plus I'm working a lot this week - almost 40 hours a week bartending and I have three proposals for my own business to write and complete before Friday. Each of those takes about 10-15 hours to compose. And once school starts next week, I guess I'll just get busier!!

Having said all of that, I have some personal goals for FS that I'm going to try to keep up with. Since I officially started back on Induction today, I want to do the things that I know help me. I will weigh in every day. I will journal my food each day. I want to participate in the Boot Camp Challenge and do the weekly challenges. But I may not be able to do a lot of writing back and forth with my fellow team members...and I may not be able to give a lot of responses to others journals. I hope this won't be offensive to anyone. I suddenly am feeling a lot of FS pressure!!! And I only have so much time!!

Today, I'll change my pic and post my picture on the challenge page...if I can figure out how to do that!!! ha! I'm sometimes challenged about that - and I don't have any pictures of myself on my computer. So I gotta figure that one out. Its amazing that something like that can be so hard for me!!!

All of the changes that I wanted in my life are moving in on me very quickly. I wanted to return to school and that's beginning. So that's a job itself. I have to figure out how to pay for that without borrowing too much (I have a very low amount left to pay on my student loans and don't want to build it up too much - although I know I will need to borrow a little). I also have to devote myself to it because I haven't been in school for awhile - so I know that the actual studying and work will be a challenge in itself.

I wanted more hours at work because I have three financial goals this year. 1 - to pay for some of my schooling, 2 - to get a good chunk of my debt paid off and 3 - to take my niece to Disney World before her 6th birthday next December.

I also wanted to build my own consulting business. Just in the last two weeks I'm suddenly overwhelmed with requests for info and proposals. If my proposals get accepted, I can cut back my hours bartending. So that's a good thing. The consulting business allows me some flexibility in scheduling and I make better money.

And finally, I want to refocus on my weight loss and get some more of this weight off.

I have so much going on. So, I should stop writing and go get some stuff done!!!

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"garbage" omlette - 2 egg scrambled with pork sausage, onion, tomato, mushrooms and cheese = 3C
1 cup of decaf with cream = 0C

1 beef stick = 0C
1 slice of jalepeno cheese = 1C

2 cups of romaine lettuce = 2C
ranch dressing = 2C

2 cups of iceberg lettuce = 2C
1/2 cup tuna salad = 5C

1 Atkins bar = 2C

2 beef sticks = 0C

2 sticks of celery with no sugar peanut butter = 4C

TOTAL = 21C