Sorry About the Break

Unlike most colleges, WGU runs on six-month terms.  Since I started school in November, my terms go from November 1 to April 30 and May 1 to October 31.

It's kind of nice because all you have is to finish twelve credit hours within that six months.

Unfortunately, I am a procrastinator.

Well, it's not even that.  I'm just lazy.  And it doesn't help that I have a voice inside my head that sounds a little like Elvis that says stuff like, "Relax!  You have six months to do this class.  Why not take a break from homework between Thanksgiving and Groundhog Day?"

So then the final month comes up and I'm scrambling to get my credits done, all the while promising myself  that I will not do this to myself next term.  ("I am going to finish all my credits in the first three months next term and work ahead," I tell myself twice a year.)

With the end of April and yet another term coming to an end, I am scrambling and promising.  All of my free time and mental capacity is focused on school.

Unfortunately, the first thing that gets put on hold is exercise.  I don't know why this is.

Well, actually I do.  It's not like I can give up any more sleep.  I barely get enough to begin with.

I can't give up my job or put my church calling on hold.

I can't avoid my wife and kids.

I can't stop eating. (In fact, some days it seems that I literally can't stop eating.)

Which brings me to my next point.  Being an emotional eater, I tend to eat more when I'm stressed.  And it doesn't help that I usually will gravitate towards less-than-healthy foods when I'm stressed.  For some reason, I can't imagine myself ever saying, "I was so stressed today that I downed an entire bag of baby carrots."

Doritos, on the other hand...

Fortunately, even with my lack of exercise and my overindulgence of discounted Cadbury Easter candy, I haven't gained a lot of weight.  I'm still hovering around 230.  (230.4 this morning).

Granted, I still drink a lot of water and try to eat healthy meals, so that has helped out.

I plan to jump back into this with full force on or about May 1.

Until then, don't expect a lot of updates, but know that I'm still mostly on track.

Thanks again for your support.