My new full-time job

Both kids are in school - ALL day, Monday through Friday. So it was obvious why my sister recently asked me, "So what do you do all day?" I rattled off random duties that must be completed like laundry, dishes, vacuuming, grocery shopping, dropping off/picking up necessities (birth certificate as of late), meal planning and cooking. Fun stuff. Then one day I heard Dr. Oz say that losing weight is like a full-time job and I thought - "Heck yeah that's what I do and that's JUST what it feels like! A JOB!"

As of August of last year I have been working my tail off, quite literally, to lose weight and get to a place where I am comfortable in my own skin and also very healthy. In blogs past I mentioned using the site My Fitness Pal to help in this endeavor. On any given day, among the usual must-do list, I am online planning what I will eat for the day, or at least logging whatever it was I just ate. Exercising for at least 30 minutes. Grocery shopping for my new meal plan, thanks to Melissa the Trainer - and this meal plan requires a lot of almond milk, apples, and lettuce so I'm shopping far more often than I care to! I'm online supporting my MFP friends in their goals to lose weight because I owe them that much! And I'm trying to find ways to just get this DONE in as rapid a fashion as I can! I'm not sure how I would do this if I were a full-time employed mother!

So I figure, for the first full year without kids home Monday through Friday, I need to get ME back in order. I poured all of me into the kids up to this point, and now they are old enough to do more for themselves while I put ME back on the list of priorities. I don't think my goal will take a full school year, but by summer I will definitely be very close to what I want to look and feel like! This is a day-in day-out kind of job, my body isn't very forgiving if I let my healthy eating or workouts slip, so I have to stay diligent!

So what do I do all day? I take care of home, even make dinner most nights (which is something I didn't do before), and I'm working on getting Natalie in the best shape of her life. Find a person who has ever battled their weight who will tell you that THAT isn't a full-time job and I'll show you someone who has never fully committed to the goal themselves. This is one school year I will never forget!