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I have been a terrible tumblr friend!

As most of you who read my blog regularly should know, I just started a new job 2 weeks ago. And let me tell you what: It has Owned. My. Life.

But in a good way.

A work my brain, can’t wait to get to bed at night, exhausting myself, type of way. But again, it has been great. I work with an amazing group of people, I am learning a lot, and there is so much room for growth. It is really very exciting.

With that being said, I have almost completely taken September off…from everything. I have only run a handful of times, I have only been to the gym once or twice, and since I was offered my new job and started panicking, I have been eating my feelings (terrible, I know). But then, I just took eating and losing weight off of my list of stressors. I just stopped restricting myself and ate whatever I wanted.

It has felt great!

I haven’t let myself go completely, but I just haven’t worried about Paul and me ordering pizza for dinner and then eating dessert, or me having fries with dinner. Today while I was shaving my legs in the shower, I noticed that I have a stomach roll that wasn’t there about a month ago… but I didn’t freak out.

Tomorrow starts a new month, and now that I am into my routine with work I can head back to the gym, and my play time is over. My body deserves to go back to the great food I was feeding it before and start treating myself better. October is going to be “processed free food” month, as well as goal setting time (eg. next marathon, half marathon, tri, crossfit competition). Oh, and no weigh ins allowed.

Again, it is not like I have completely let myself go, it was just a stress free month on that front. It was also a little bit of a mental check, and it was good to realize that I can still love myself after gaining a few pounds (note that I haven’t actually stepped on the scale, but it is probably 5 or so)… but at the end of the day, I still love myself, and I haven’t lost any worth.

And that is a big step for me.

Hope you are all doing well, and happy October!

I have been terrible lately!

I have haven’t been posting, I haven’t been lifting, at least I have been running and doing my squats every day (which really doesn’t sound like a lot).

In all honesty, I have kind of been freaking out about my new job that starts a week from Monday. I have this terrible habit of over-thinking some things and this is one of them, just because so much about it is unknown.

This is a huge opportunity for me and it will open so many doors but also challenge me on many levels I am sure. I try to live my life never backing down from a challenge and have tried to make a point to not let fear steer my direction (which can be really hard), so I flip between SUPER excited to petrified. Either way, I am going to make it great and run with this opportunity.

I am hoping this new routine will give me an opportunity to change up my schedule a bit and get my runs or workouts done in the morning. It will be weird to not be part of the fitness community as a professional for the time being, because I LOVE being surrounded by so much knowledge. I have been so blessed to be here at State of Fitness. I am still studying for my personal training exam (which has also deterred me from updating) and still aim to get my masters in Sports and Health Psychology, but instead of now having my day job being in the health industry and my “side job” being a writer, it will be reversed.

Here’s to diving into the future!

Just had a decent run. It got hot fast, even though when I started it was a perfect 66 degrees. I set out to do 7 and starting walking around 5.

Paul was riding his bike with me and as we going through campus, I noticed people walking in the Red Cedar. Having been here 10 years and never doing that, I decided we had to stop.

But after that, I was just really enjoying walking and talking with him, so I ended up walking until we got home.

So the bigger news: I accepted a new position with the Michigan Association of Counties as their Communications Coordinator. It is a very exciting opportunity for me and I am so honored that I was chosen for the position. It will be a lot of work, and I am so nervous about it, but things that are worth it are a little scary, right?

I am so sad to be leaving my job at State of Fitness. I love being a professional part of the fitness community and impacting peoples’ lives the way that SoF does. I will still be training there (as in working out there) and am still studying for my personal training certificate, but it will just be a change. They are such a great group of people who genuinely care about their members and they have changed my life in ways they will never understand.

But, here is to a new adventure! Wish me luck!