Hey all!
I did a weigh-in this morning, about 2 weeks after the end of the program and am proud to report that I haven't gained back any weight despite definitely getting off the bandwagon in every way! (not proud about the latter half of that sentence.. lol)
Anyways, I've definitely been afraid that going back to my former ways would result in definite weight-gain, but frankly -- you do something for 3 months and shit starts to get internalized! I'm having tea for snack and opting away from cheese (about half of the time, that is..) and consistently doing half portions of dessert-y type things.
I know it's just a little report, but I figured I'd share for folks considering joining the Jan 1 crew.
Best of luck to all who continue to be on this journey! :)
Hugs,
Nathaly
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Day 95, Nathaly: Then & Now
So, it's been 5 days and I still don't exactly know what to say... I've kind of be avoiding this post because -- what can I share that is of any use of any of you out there?? This whole journey has been so personal and in-my-head that I struggle with crafting a "final" post. I'm honestly still processing and feel I've probably learned just as much in this last week post-PCP or so as I did the first 5 days of the program. Sooooooo.....
Before and after pictures is what you're after, right? lol That's a simple measure of progress. This first set you'll likely be familiar with from our PCP Flickr stream:
In the 90 days of the Peak Condition Project, I:
But these numbers are meaningless, really.. So much of the benefits I've derived from these last 90 days has been in terms of increased self-confidence, self-appreciation, and a slowly increasing sense of the value of self-care (still working on that last one!). In the 90 days of the Peak Condition project, I:
There's so much more to say (about setting good priorities and truly living healthily), but I think I'll try to capture that in another post.. Maybe the words to express my heartfelt appreciation for Patrick and Team Fantastic-Carrots-who-eat-LAGs-for-breakfast will come to me sometime soon. Keep posted, if you wish. And thank you, thank you, thank you for believing in us!
Heart hugs,
Nathaly
Well, and just for fun -- a Halloween family shot!
Before and after pictures is what you're after, right? lol That's a simple measure of progress. This first set you'll likely be familiar with from our PCP Flickr stream:
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| Day 1 ...................................................................................................... & Day 90 |
- Lost 10 kilos (22 lbs)!!
- Lost 9 cms off my waistline, 8 cms off my thigh, and 2.5 cms off my bicep (I started measuring on Day 22, actually -- so these numbers only reflect 68 days of fat loss)
- Returned to a bra-line width of 34 inches
- Went down 2 full pant sizes (from a 12 to an 8 -- and maybe 3 if you consider that I really should've been rocking 14s but refused to accept it)
But these numbers are meaningless, really.. So much of the benefits I've derived from these last 90 days has been in terms of increased self-confidence, self-appreciation, and a slowly increasing sense of the value of self-care (still working on that last one!). In the 90 days of the Peak Condition project, I:
- Began to feel sexy again (enough to recently return a small collection of thongs Ramiro has probably completely forgotten about back to my undies dresser from a box at the bottom of the closet)
- Realized how little of me I dedicated to me in the past
- Learned I actually enjoy jumping rope -- I think I've been getting lots of those happy-chemicals to the brain b/c of it!
- Collected a small toolkit of easy-to-make, delicious, balanced and good-for-you meals (if you've got more, send them my way!)
And this next set of pictures, offers a slightly longer historical timeline. "Then" was October of 2009, when I decided I'd had enough of my chubbiness and decided to once again attempt to take control of my weight & body image issues.. I did this by eating smaller portions (of whatever I wanted), taking the dog on longer walks, and going to university fitness classes 1 or 2 times a week. A couple months later, I realized this approach wasn't terribly productive and I decided to up the ante -- I started counting calories and publishing my weight on Facebook once a week as a status update. I learned that the community accountability piece was something I really benefited from and started to lose about .5 lbs per week on average, but did some definite yo-yo'ing and lots of stress eating (2nd year of grad school...) and was still feeling frustrated.
By the time Ramiro mentioned this cool thing one of his co-worker's was doing (have you all met Mr. Will Awesome?), I was again ready to take another small step forward, but the hubster seemed to think I was better off taking a leap instead and urged me to consider doing the PCP. And, frankly, he was RIGHT. (So nice to have that sort of vote of confidence from my better half). Doing it as a couple was by far my the biggest source of strength for getting through this all, and well -- here're the pics to prove it was a good move!
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| Then............................................... & Now (I tried to re-create the shot as best I could, but I can't find that sweater anywhere.. ) |
Heart hugs,
Nathaly
Well, and just for fun -- a Halloween family shot!
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| A bumble bee, Marge Simpson & Bat-dog |
Monday, October 11, 2010
Day 72, Nathaly: Here we go again!
Hey all!
Hope you haven't missed me too much. I've been doing the crazy climate organizing thing and have had so much fun and such a re-invigoration of energy and momentum to fight this crisis. Thanks for your understanding my absences lately.
All the great organizing unfortunately meant that I took a bit of a step back on the PCP. I kept generally PCP-compliant as far as the food rules are concerned (except for yesterday, 10/10/10, when I was stationed in Burlington's Battery park from 6:30am to 7:30pm and had to eat what was around), but definitely not in terms of gramage/allotments. It meant that I vastly under-ate, usually getting in two quick meals a day (grossly lacking in vegetable content) and I wasn't exercising at all.
So I got back into the jumping this morning and thought I would fall apart after just a couple minutes. I was glad to find that the worst of it was the boredom. The workout was also fairly do-able, but definitely resulted in some painful moments, especially the breakage of a friggin' resistance band, slapping my thigh on the way to the kitchen floor. That's gonna be a pretty welt..
What else to share? I guess I just hope I can keep it up. I have a dangerous love of convenience and a penchant for loading too much on my (rhetorical) plate, which can very easily lead me back down the path of easy cheese and greasy carbs. So, have I thrown all that effort from day 1 to day 60 away? I really don't think so, but I also acknowledge that the likelihood of me reaching a "peak condition" -- even if I kept up with the regime beyond Day 90-- is pretty low.
In all honesty, what's the real danger in feeling like I've done pretty good thus far? I've lost 20 lbs and I like how I look. I wouldn't mind having more definition in my arms and mid-section, but I also like that I feel like I can sustain where I'm at, versus reaching some chiseled look and then losing it... Am I again letting a fear of failure get in the way of me giving this my all? Am I being realistic here or just plain lazy? These questions are more for me than for you all, but I appreciate you being an audience out there to read my words.
I'm tired. It's late. I'm going to bed.
Hope you haven't missed me too much. I've been doing the crazy climate organizing thing and have had so much fun and such a re-invigoration of energy and momentum to fight this crisis. Thanks for your understanding my absences lately.
All the great organizing unfortunately meant that I took a bit of a step back on the PCP. I kept generally PCP-compliant as far as the food rules are concerned (except for yesterday, 10/10/10, when I was stationed in Burlington's Battery park from 6:30am to 7:30pm and had to eat what was around), but definitely not in terms of gramage/allotments. It meant that I vastly under-ate, usually getting in two quick meals a day (grossly lacking in vegetable content) and I wasn't exercising at all.
So I got back into the jumping this morning and thought I would fall apart after just a couple minutes. I was glad to find that the worst of it was the boredom. The workout was also fairly do-able, but definitely resulted in some painful moments, especially the breakage of a friggin' resistance band, slapping my thigh on the way to the kitchen floor. That's gonna be a pretty welt..
What else to share? I guess I just hope I can keep it up. I have a dangerous love of convenience and a penchant for loading too much on my (rhetorical) plate, which can very easily lead me back down the path of easy cheese and greasy carbs. So, have I thrown all that effort from day 1 to day 60 away? I really don't think so, but I also acknowledge that the likelihood of me reaching a "peak condition" -- even if I kept up with the regime beyond Day 90-- is pretty low.
In all honesty, what's the real danger in feeling like I've done pretty good thus far? I've lost 20 lbs and I like how I look. I wouldn't mind having more definition in my arms and mid-section, but I also like that I feel like I can sustain where I'm at, versus reaching some chiseled look and then losing it... Am I again letting a fear of failure get in the way of me giving this my all? Am I being realistic here or just plain lazy? These questions are more for me than for you all, but I appreciate you being an audience out there to read my words.
I'm tired. It's late. I'm going to bed.
Friday, September 17, 2010
Day 48, Nathaly: Slacking with the updates DOESN'T mean we're slacking!!
Hey all,
SOOOO sorry to be slackers this week. I actually have had several personal ah-HAH moments and I'm a loser for not sharing it with you all, but I wanna send a shout out to Kim, especially for reaching out to check in on us via email. (Funny to think we don't really use email in Team Mango -- when did we choose that name? lol -- given how much I rely on it for my day to day communication).
OK -- so how to sum up the last 5 days? There's been frustration and there's been moments of real, deeply-entrenched strength. I'll try to go day by day. The veggie post was done on Sunday night, so this is gonna be a long one. APOLOGIES FOLKS -- we both PROMISE to be better!
MONDAY
The new form of jumps has meant re-acceptance of my abilities with the rope (I took to it naturally from the beginning). I love love love getting thumbs up from cars driving by smiling at me jumping my little heart out in front of my house every morning. I think my fave moment so far though, as certainly been from a little girl who was obviously impressed by also really shy and still managed to give me a double thumbs-up. SO cute.
So, what had happened was that I was chugging along from Day 1 (50 jumps in a row) to somewhere around the end of month 1 (up to 200 in a row) and I realized that b/c it was so difficult to maintain, my breaks in btwn sets were going for too long (and therefore, I was taking too long getting jumps done). So I went back down to sets of 100, but when the 2-min sets started, I worried I would tank. Turns out that because I also re-committed to doing jumps in the morning (based on Patrick's email about how that's when they've got the greatest fat-burning effect), they've been totally manageable.
TUESDAY
Definitely fell off the bandwagon this evening. It was a SUPER long day starting with a morning 350 organizers mtg (I'm helping to plan a huge local day of action around climate solutions on 10/10/10 as part of the 350.org campaign's climate movement building -- if you've never heard of 350, def check it out and sign up!) and followed by a full day of work and then running up to campus for a grad school gathering and some work on my grad thesis and culminating with a two hours rehearsal with the Burlington Choral Society for our upcoming concert of the Duruflé Requeim and Britten Te Deum Festival. LONG LONG day. Anyways, I was perfectly PCP-compliant all day with the diet, but by the time I got home at 9:30pm, I just needed to sit (the wrong choice, I knew even as I made it..) We popped in our latest Dexter netflix arrival which was interrupted by a friend stopping by and before I knew it, it was 11pm. I was absolutely exhausted and knew that I was just not going to make it. Ramiro got a little pissed that night (as he had waited for me to do them with him, like I promised) but was a total champ and proceeded to do his workout even at that super late hour.
WEDNESDAY
I knew that Tuesday had been bad and made sure to get up early enough to do my jumps before work. I had my 2nd choir day of the week (I also sing with the choir at the Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington), but I planned my day around it and did just fine. It helped to have gotten a really good night of sleep in, of course. Victory for the day: a guy stopped by the office with a tray of assorted Lake Champlain Chocolates. he offered each of us one and I grabbed my favorite flavor (dark chocolate mint) as i didn't wanna go into the i'm-on-a-diet spiel. I set it on my things and gave it to one of the interns the following morning without too much mental struggle (felt very much like bilbo baggins asking himself in the 1st LOTR why he shouldn't keep the ring, "it's such a little thing, what harm could it do?" lol. YAY NATHALY.
THURSDAY
A friend came in from California late Wednesday night and I was really worried about waking him up in the morning, so after getting ramiro his breakfast and a cup o' joe (those guys stayed up pretty late catching up and playing video games), I stayed in bed til 9am (NICE) and then took Tiggs out for a nice long walk and did my jumps outside. It was a slow morning and I realized that in order to get everything done (walk, jumps, shower, bfast) and feel comfortable getting to work without feeling rushed, I need a full two hours. DANG. I honestly can't imagine how you all who ALSO do the workout in the mornings handle it. More power to ya!
That evening we decided to call the day our "saturday" (the 7th day of our PCP week which would normally be only jumps) in order to enjoy some time with the folks from out of town and some other friends. The host made a spaghetti dinner and I had some salad and a bite of carby-loveliness and did a great job of resisting the homemade chocolate cake, but the red wine and Long Trail Ales had my mouth watering.. In a small dip in my rock solid sweets resistance record, as I was helping to clean up, I decided to let Tigger have a nibble at a spoonful of cake someone left on their plate and gave my finger a lick. WOW was that yummy. Made seeing that half-eaten tray soo much harder to resist. lol. And, knowing our indulgence was around the corner, gave my mind plenty of fodder for going back and forth with questions and such..
FRIDAY (today)
I've been exhausted lately. We were up late last night and ramiro got crazy allergies from the bunnies at our friends house, so we all slept in. A morning without the alarm makes for a very difficult time waging the hour, however, and I was in bed until 11:34am. Wow. So, I made Tito some coffee and took Tigger out and was only done with jumps at 12:35pm. Which meant breakfast and lunch kinda collided a bit. We went to a local Jewish diner to spend a last couple hours with our friend from out of town and had to be really creative to stay within PCP. To be honest, neither of us ate enough probably, but at least everything was within bounds, except for a couple bites I had of latke (fried potato pancakes) before giving it away. We went to the market to pick up more milk and eggs and when I got home, I did a little reading and felt that exhaustion coming in again DESPITE the frigging 10.5 hrs of sleep! I was also a little cold, so I used that as an excuse to curl up in bed ("I'm not napping -- really!") and proceeded to sleep the afternoon away, only to get woken up by a VERY exciting message from Ramiro -- our PCP indulgence is of 500-700 calories! WOOHOOOOOOOO I was so excited (and thankfully ready to be up again), I flung my arms all around the air and hit the hubster in the face. LOL. So, obviously, not a good day, but INDULGENCE, here we come!!
OK -- last two things, i've been saving to share:
1. At some point last weekend, I think (or maybe Tuesday.. possible why i was so wiped out that night), I made the mistake of skipping BOTH my breakfast carbs and lunch carbs. Never before would I have known how incredibly important they are to functionality. How do those atkins ppl function?!? I mean, honestly, I ended up having to add a slice of toast to my dinner meal that day.
2. How could it have taken this long to learn to do push-ups effectively?? I guess, my arms have been too high this whole time. It was only Wednesday of this week that I actually did push ups correctly and i've been feeling it ever since. I really hope my boobs don't shrink too much!!
OOH -- last thing, i promise (SORRY for the long post!!): YUMMERS BFAST SANDWICH IDEA: Smear half and avocado all over your breakfast bread carb portion and layer an egg onto THAT. LOVELY!!
OK -- DONE
SOOOO sorry to be slackers this week. I actually have had several personal ah-HAH moments and I'm a loser for not sharing it with you all, but I wanna send a shout out to Kim, especially for reaching out to check in on us via email. (Funny to think we don't really use email in Team Mango -- when did we choose that name? lol -- given how much I rely on it for my day to day communication).
OK -- so how to sum up the last 5 days? There's been frustration and there's been moments of real, deeply-entrenched strength. I'll try to go day by day. The veggie post was done on Sunday night, so this is gonna be a long one. APOLOGIES FOLKS -- we both PROMISE to be better!
MONDAY
The new form of jumps has meant re-acceptance of my abilities with the rope (I took to it naturally from the beginning). I love love love getting thumbs up from cars driving by smiling at me jumping my little heart out in front of my house every morning. I think my fave moment so far though, as certainly been from a little girl who was obviously impressed by also really shy and still managed to give me a double thumbs-up. SO cute.
So, what had happened was that I was chugging along from Day 1 (50 jumps in a row) to somewhere around the end of month 1 (up to 200 in a row) and I realized that b/c it was so difficult to maintain, my breaks in btwn sets were going for too long (and therefore, I was taking too long getting jumps done). So I went back down to sets of 100, but when the 2-min sets started, I worried I would tank. Turns out that because I also re-committed to doing jumps in the morning (based on Patrick's email about how that's when they've got the greatest fat-burning effect), they've been totally manageable.
TUESDAY
Definitely fell off the bandwagon this evening. It was a SUPER long day starting with a morning 350 organizers mtg (I'm helping to plan a huge local day of action around climate solutions on 10/10/10 as part of the 350.org campaign's climate movement building -- if you've never heard of 350, def check it out and sign up!) and followed by a full day of work and then running up to campus for a grad school gathering and some work on my grad thesis and culminating with a two hours rehearsal with the Burlington Choral Society for our upcoming concert of the Duruflé Requeim and Britten Te Deum Festival. LONG LONG day. Anyways, I was perfectly PCP-compliant all day with the diet, but by the time I got home at 9:30pm, I just needed to sit (the wrong choice, I knew even as I made it..) We popped in our latest Dexter netflix arrival which was interrupted by a friend stopping by and before I knew it, it was 11pm. I was absolutely exhausted and knew that I was just not going to make it. Ramiro got a little pissed that night (as he had waited for me to do them with him, like I promised) but was a total champ and proceeded to do his workout even at that super late hour.
WEDNESDAY
I knew that Tuesday had been bad and made sure to get up early enough to do my jumps before work. I had my 2nd choir day of the week (I also sing with the choir at the Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington), but I planned my day around it and did just fine. It helped to have gotten a really good night of sleep in, of course. Victory for the day: a guy stopped by the office with a tray of assorted Lake Champlain Chocolates. he offered each of us one and I grabbed my favorite flavor (dark chocolate mint) as i didn't wanna go into the i'm-on-a-diet spiel. I set it on my things and gave it to one of the interns the following morning without too much mental struggle (felt very much like bilbo baggins asking himself in the 1st LOTR why he shouldn't keep the ring, "it's such a little thing, what harm could it do?" lol. YAY NATHALY.
THURSDAY
A friend came in from California late Wednesday night and I was really worried about waking him up in the morning, so after getting ramiro his breakfast and a cup o' joe (those guys stayed up pretty late catching up and playing video games), I stayed in bed til 9am (NICE) and then took Tiggs out for a nice long walk and did my jumps outside. It was a slow morning and I realized that in order to get everything done (walk, jumps, shower, bfast) and feel comfortable getting to work without feeling rushed, I need a full two hours. DANG. I honestly can't imagine how you all who ALSO do the workout in the mornings handle it. More power to ya!
That evening we decided to call the day our "saturday" (the 7th day of our PCP week which would normally be only jumps) in order to enjoy some time with the folks from out of town and some other friends. The host made a spaghetti dinner and I had some salad and a bite of carby-loveliness and did a great job of resisting the homemade chocolate cake, but the red wine and Long Trail Ales had my mouth watering.. In a small dip in my rock solid sweets resistance record, as I was helping to clean up, I decided to let Tigger have a nibble at a spoonful of cake someone left on their plate and gave my finger a lick. WOW was that yummy. Made seeing that half-eaten tray soo much harder to resist. lol. And, knowing our indulgence was around the corner, gave my mind plenty of fodder for going back and forth with questions and such..
FRIDAY (today)
I've been exhausted lately. We were up late last night and ramiro got crazy allergies from the bunnies at our friends house, so we all slept in. A morning without the alarm makes for a very difficult time waging the hour, however, and I was in bed until 11:34am. Wow. So, I made Tito some coffee and took Tigger out and was only done with jumps at 12:35pm. Which meant breakfast and lunch kinda collided a bit. We went to a local Jewish diner to spend a last couple hours with our friend from out of town and had to be really creative to stay within PCP. To be honest, neither of us ate enough probably, but at least everything was within bounds, except for a couple bites I had of latke (fried potato pancakes) before giving it away. We went to the market to pick up more milk and eggs and when I got home, I did a little reading and felt that exhaustion coming in again DESPITE the frigging 10.5 hrs of sleep! I was also a little cold, so I used that as an excuse to curl up in bed ("I'm not napping -- really!") and proceeded to sleep the afternoon away, only to get woken up by a VERY exciting message from Ramiro -- our PCP indulgence is of 500-700 calories! WOOHOOOOOOOO I was so excited (and thankfully ready to be up again), I flung my arms all around the air and hit the hubster in the face. LOL. So, obviously, not a good day, but INDULGENCE, here we come!!
OK -- last two things, i've been saving to share:
1. At some point last weekend, I think (or maybe Tuesday.. possible why i was so wiped out that night), I made the mistake of skipping BOTH my breakfast carbs and lunch carbs. Never before would I have known how incredibly important they are to functionality. How do those atkins ppl function?!? I mean, honestly, I ended up having to add a slice of toast to my dinner meal that day.
2. How could it have taken this long to learn to do push-ups effectively?? I guess, my arms have been too high this whole time. It was only Wednesday of this week that I actually did push ups correctly and i've been feeling it ever since. I really hope my boobs don't shrink too much!!
OOH -- last thing, i promise (SORRY for the long post!!): YUMMERS BFAST SANDWICH IDEA: Smear half and avocado all over your breakfast bread carb portion and layer an egg onto THAT. LOVELY!!
OK -- DONE
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Day 39, Nathaly: Finally getting used to the diet
So, I realized today that I've got this diet under my belt. It's kinda boring sometimes and I still miss cheese & butter, but most of the strong cravings are gone and it's really not all that hard to say no to the non-PCP-compliant stuff.
On the other hand, when lunch gets inconvenient (which has happened 3 or 4 times since the start of the program), I don't bat an eye at the thought of grabbing a veggie sandwich or a shrimp salad. It doesn't feel like breaking the rules since it's all the right stuff (no fats, sugar or salt), but it's obviously not perfectly weighed, so it's kinda lame and Ramiro (who's really into playing the perfect gram-age game) is not really a fan. In essence, there's little of that guilty feeling that we all know equals cheating, but it means it's not a perfect PCP day.
The last couple days have been super busy (and super awesome!) and house chores have sort of fallen to the side lines so, as a result, creativity in the kitchen has reduced considerably (especially given the weird assemblage of uncooked veggies mocking me in the fridge). The newest rendition of the diet makes it kinda difficult to make anything that will produce leftovers unless you wanna eat the same lunch everyday, so it's a constant battle to make something I know I will enjoy. Ramiro doesn't mind mixing together weird combinations of carb/veggie/protein, but I like meals that feel like a meal. Please share ideas, folks!
Anyways, enough rambling for now and off to make some late-night meatballs!
PS: went back to jumping rope in the morning and realized it's not that much earlier out of bed and it makes it so much easier to split up the work out. Yay for morning jumping!
On the other hand, when lunch gets inconvenient (which has happened 3 or 4 times since the start of the program), I don't bat an eye at the thought of grabbing a veggie sandwich or a shrimp salad. It doesn't feel like breaking the rules since it's all the right stuff (no fats, sugar or salt), but it's obviously not perfectly weighed, so it's kinda lame and Ramiro (who's really into playing the perfect gram-age game) is not really a fan. In essence, there's little of that guilty feeling that we all know equals cheating, but it means it's not a perfect PCP day.
The last couple days have been super busy (and super awesome!) and house chores have sort of fallen to the side lines so, as a result, creativity in the kitchen has reduced considerably (especially given the weird assemblage of uncooked veggies mocking me in the fridge). The newest rendition of the diet makes it kinda difficult to make anything that will produce leftovers unless you wanna eat the same lunch everyday, so it's a constant battle to make something I know I will enjoy. Ramiro doesn't mind mixing together weird combinations of carb/veggie/protein, but I like meals that feel like a meal. Please share ideas, folks!
Anyways, enough rambling for now and off to make some late-night meatballs!
PS: went back to jumping rope in the morning and realized it's not that much earlier out of bed and it makes it so much easier to split up the work out. Yay for morning jumping!
Monday, August 30, 2010
Day 30, Nathaly: I PASSED MY DEFENSE!!
OK -- non-PCP topic today, but REALLY big news in my personal life: I PASSED!!!!!
I had been super worried about this because I hadn't given my graduation studies committee much by way of progress reports. Pretty much, every time I emailed them this summer, it was to ask to re-schedule my defense (literally 3 times..).
Anyways, not only did I give a really good presentation, I impressed them enough for one committee member to suggest strongly that I consider publishing my work!! I mean, for realz?! I was floored, I have been all day. I allowed myself one non-PCP treat (a Mexican wedding cake cookie), and was again surprised by how un-fulfilling it was. I mean, for someone who has always associated reward and celebration with food treats, this is HUGE (hmm.. maybe there are some PCP lessons to be learned from this blog post, afterall!).
Anyways, I've got until September 17th to institute their revisions (including some additional stakeholder analysis -- UGH) and then, i'm officially a MASTER. Of what?, you may ask. Well.. that remains to be seen, I guess. lol The degree will read Master of Science in Natural Resources (concentration in Ecological Planning). And, for the first time, I'm thinking I may just be able to live up to the title..
Now to try to have one last week of summer before starting an internship after Labor Day!
Lake Champlain: here I come!
I had been super worried about this because I hadn't given my graduation studies committee much by way of progress reports. Pretty much, every time I emailed them this summer, it was to ask to re-schedule my defense (literally 3 times..).
Anyways, not only did I give a really good presentation, I impressed them enough for one committee member to suggest strongly that I consider publishing my work!! I mean, for realz?! I was floored, I have been all day. I allowed myself one non-PCP treat (a Mexican wedding cake cookie), and was again surprised by how un-fulfilling it was. I mean, for someone who has always associated reward and celebration with food treats, this is HUGE (hmm.. maybe there are some PCP lessons to be learned from this blog post, afterall!).
Anyways, I've got until September 17th to institute their revisions (including some additional stakeholder analysis -- UGH) and then, i'm officially a MASTER. Of what?, you may ask. Well.. that remains to be seen, I guess. lol The degree will read Master of Science in Natural Resources (concentration in Ecological Planning). And, for the first time, I'm thinking I may just be able to live up to the title..
Now to try to have one last week of summer before starting an internship after Labor Day!
Lake Champlain: here I come!
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