Happy Weekend! (chat thread)

anna.oskar · March 2012

Totally get that jaridds! School + trying to stay on a workout/eating schedule is a big old pain. It would be so easy to use my downtime to study or just veg in front of the tv and to eat all the bad for you convenience food i can get on campus.

it'll all be worth it though right?

Jaridds68 · March 2012

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[QUOTE]Totally get that jaridds! School + trying to stay on a workout/eating schedule is a big old pain. It would be so easy to use my downtime to study or just veg in front of the tv and to eat all the bad for you convenience food i can get on campus. <strong>it'll all be worth it though right?</strong>
Posted by anna.oskar[/QUOTE]

<div>Heck yes :) </div><div>
</div><div>What are you studying? I'm doing a post-bac (science courses) so I can apply to dental school. This is my last semester, so close!</div>

anna.oskar · March 2012

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Happy Weekend! (chat thread) : Heck yes :) What are you studying? I'm doing a post-bac (science courses) so I can apply to dental school. This is my last semester, so close!
Posted by Jaridds68[/QUOTE]

I'm unemployable right now as a biomedical researcher in my area (grants dried up, laid off, hiring freeze at research hospitals) So I'm just taking classes for fun but I am doing a full 12 load. Art, Anthropology, Calc..

Jaridds68 · March 2012

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Happy Weekend! (chat thread) : I'm unemployable right now as a biomedical researcher in my area (grants dried up, laid off, hiring freeze at research hospitals) So I'm just taking classes for fun but I am doing a full 12 load. Art, Anthropology, Calc..
Posted by anna.oskar[/QUOTE]

<div>I'm sorry :/ I'm currently working in research (COLIV whatup!), but my university has a freeze right now and one of my PI's grants isn't getting renewed. Thankfully I'm leaving soon anyways - FI and I are moving for his new job. I hope something comes up for you! Those sound like fun classes....well besides the calc.</div>

anna.oskar · March 2012

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Happy Weekend! (chat thread) : I'm sorry :/ I'm currently working in research (COLIV whatup!), but <strong>my university has a freeze right now and one of my PI's grants isn't getting renewed</strong>. Thankfully I'm leaving soon anyways - FI and I are moving for his new job. I hope something comes up for you! Those sound like fun classes....well besides the calc.
Posted by Jaridds68[/QUOTE]

Yep. It's going around. Hopefully the whole field will pick up again soon. i know there are some great opportunities in other cities but we just can't move right now. My H has a job with a really great start up company that might go big time. He'd be in on the ground floor when it does. Maybe then we can talk about it. I'd love to get out to the DC area where the NIH grants flow a little smoother.

francesmartinez06 · March 2012

Great idea for a thread!

Well things here this past week have been great in the professional/academic sense. I passed my dissertation defense and am now Dr. (pending formality of filing all necessary paperwork and uploading my doctoral dissertation for online publication). It was so great to have my fiancee there on Thursday to see me present and we went out to celebrate afterwards. I will admit there has been a part of me that has been experiencing a sense of loss... I've been a professional student and full time teacher for a long time and after 8 years of schooling I'm now faced with the question of "now what?" There is no more. This is the pinacle. No more school. It's a slightly hard pill to swallow.

We also had our bachelor/bachelorette weekend and our friends were amazing in planning it all! I highly recommend a competitive sightseeing tour. We did one called "The Amazing LA Race" here we started in Hollywood and took the metro to Downtown Los Angeles (as a Socal native I was shocked to see we really did have a metro/subway...). We had 7 puzzles to complete and competed against 7 other groups. The finish line ending at a bowling alley (Lucky Strike) where they had beer and food for us. It was soooooooooooooo fun!!!!! We then went back to our hotels in Santa Monica and had a late night dinner and bar hopped. It was really great.

Weight loss has been a long and arduous road for me. As a former college soccer player and swimmer, I was so used to having trainers tell me what to do. I also ate whatever I wanted and knowledge on nutrition played a small role in my training as an athlete. When I stopped playing sports to work full time to pay for tuition at the 40K a year private school I attended, I stopped working out partly because in my eyes there was nothing to "train for." It was a challenge to switch my mindset from working out to compete to working out to live healthfully. I gained a great deal of weight in college since my diet remained the same (lots of pizza and burgers and fries) but I was incredibly inactive. Within the past 3 years I've really worked to teach myself about nutrition and working out and have lost 30 pounds prior to joining MFP. It's been a struggle to lose more, but I had to keep telling myself that I didn't put the weight on overnight so it's not going to come off overnight either. However it is still a little daunting at time because while I've lost 30 pounds... I still have another 50 to go to hit my goal of 140... 10 pounds more than what I weighed playing college sports. While I'm not sure I'll ever get back to what I looked like as a college athlete, I do know that now the goal is to feel good about myself, feel and live healthfully, and maintain a lifestyle that will keep me around for my future husband and family for many years to come.

Like some of the other posts, body image has been a big hurdle for me. In fact, just this past week my best friend (and MOH) went shopping with me since I wanted to look for a dress for our bachelor/bachelorette dinner last night. I have ot worn a dress in a LONG time and had a hard time seeing the "slimmer me." Having bought the dress at the encouragement of my best friend, I was still having a hard time seeing me as "thinner" even though my friend said I looked "amazing". It's hard to know when that moment happens when we realize that our bodies have in fact changed. But seeing that dress two sizes smaller than what I used to wears; seeing my calve muscles show while in my glittery heels last night; trying on a slim fitting black dress pants in a 12 at a store where I could barely fit into their pants 8 months ago; seeing my engagement ring is fitting more loosely on my finger; and... seeing the look on my FH's face when he saw me walk out of the hotel bathroom in the new dress and say "you look so beautiful" made me realize that, perhaps, I do look different and the hard work is paying off. Sometimes, we can be our worst critics; it's important to recognize that we shouldn't undervalue or underestimate the success of our accomplishments. We've all made some great strides and while we may not always recognize the differences, others are definitely seeing it and it's those moments I look to (along with the memories of how unhealthy I felt in the past) to confirm that I'm on the right track.

Keep up all the amazing work! Each day we take a step forward - no matter how big or small - is a step leading to continued progress and... ultimately... bringing us all closer to our goals.

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