Months Later..

While helping my boyfriend's dad work with his webpage, I remembered that I haven't updated this blog in... forever! It has been what, 7 months now? WOW time has flown!

Just to let everyone know what is going on, I have successfully finished college and moved out of my parents' house and in with my boyfriend and his family. There are many upsides and downsides to this move and let me just say... stress is getting the best of me!

I have been struggling to find a job in the area and now I am in the process of officially moving information over so that the Cherokee will be in my name and other adult stuff that needs to be done when you move from one location to another (especially different states!)

Of course with moving, I no longer have my parents paying for things such as food. While I am grateful and realize just how much my parents have helped me by letting me live with them, paying for food, house payments and other things.... I am also really happy that now I have a little more control over what I eat.

My ''hobby'' lately is browsing around on a website affiliated with Facebook and Twitter, called Pinterest. This website is like a digital board where you can pin up pictures that have an attached link to another website. My favorites are under the Food & Drinks where people like to share their favorite recipes. I'm a new cook so when I see something that looks good, I am able to check out the recipe and view the ingredients needed to make it and if I really like them... I pin it up on my own board for later use!

I've been trying to find healthier recipes and alternatives to food and for the past month my boyfriend and I have cut the amount of times we had fast food for dinner in half. I try to make PB&J sandwiches for him for lunches when he goes to work but there are times where he doesn't want them, we don't have bread (because it doesn't look like we'll ever run out of peanut butter or jelly), or I simply forgot to make them or didn't feel like it.

Exercise has for the most part been to the minimum. I've been more active inside the house as far as cleaning the house or just trying to keep moving around. Because it is technically winter right now I just haven't felt like moving around, although this is the best time of year (in my opinion) to try to get in the habit of walking and starting the long trek to train myself how to run.

As far as losing weight... it is still finding its way back to my hips. I'll lose 5-10lbs and then the next month it will find it's way back on the scale. I believe it is because I am constantly changing things... where I live, what I'm eating, how much exercise I have been doing. I haven't been keeping up things nearly as much as I should. Hopefully before spring rolls around I will be doing much better about remaining constant in some things and able to adapt better to changes.

Not sure what else to update here with for now! I will be updating a lot more often, I hope :)
Sometimes taking a step back and reviewing what has happened in the past months is a good way to make more positive changes. If you don't like what is going on, just look at what you're doing, what you're eating, who you have been around.... and change those things for the better. One thing I want to change is getting out of the house and doing more with my boyfriend, even if it is walking around in the yard a few times when he gets home from work, or go to a park on his day off and walk a few laps around the lake.

Hopefully I'll get back on track soon!