The traveling teacher

I have been back in Canada for 2 weeks now, and I am finally feeling relaxed and like I am finally on vacation. But it is a double edged sword! Now I am trying to find ways to combat boredom. I have gotten into the bad habit of watching a lot of TV... I am back at my parents house, and they have many more channels on cable than I had before (even if I no longer have Netflix)! Being back has been good, although I don't yet feel settled in. It is hard to adjust to the idea of not being abroad. I think my biggest concern is feeling like I have settled, which has always been a fear of mine. Today, I had a chance to talk with one of my friends from Colombia, who is also moving on, and she verbalized what I was feeling. If we were going back, we would be back now, and getting ready to start the next school year. But we are not, and now it is sort of like a "limbo" period, where we feel like we should be doing stuff (and I feel a bit out of the loop, because I want to know wha...

A milestone has been reached! I have now lost 10 lbs (and on good days, more) and have been at this level for a little more than a week. I am almost done my second month at the clinic (next week is my last with them), and I have been successful. It has been 2 years since I was at this weight. My next goal is to try to lose 5-10 more pounds over the coming months. I know the doctor here would like me to lose more, as I am still overweight, but I think that is going to have to be a longer (6 months to a year) plan. My goal is to maintain this current weight loss and then try to lose more. I am very afraid of the "yo-yo" effect, and I know from my personal history that I gain weight easily. Like I mentioned in an earlier post, a lot of my weight loss journey has been mental. I like exercise, so other than convincing myself to do it even on days when I am exhausted, that part was not hard to readjust to. The diet was harder, and this is the mental part. I have known for a while...