BlogByMary @femtomboy15 - Tumblr Blog

I'm 5"2 and I understand your pain! But you are still beautiful no matter what. I would recommend walking 30-40 minutes a day and cutting out one healthy item of food you indulge in regularly (mine was pop) they are small changes but I promise over time it will give you results :) once you get comfortable with that you can move onto even healthier steps and it won't seem like a massive/scary adjustment !

Thank you :) I have been thinking lately about coming up with a regular schedule for going on walks/hikes. I'm not comfortable walking around my town but I have a few places that would work good for me, I just have to work it into my schedule/ routine.

Body Image

For a while now I’ve been doing really good working on being comfortable in my own skin and accepting/ learning to love my body the way it is. I’ve just begun accepting the change (weight gain) my body has gone through within the last several years. When I hit my teen years I began gaining weight. I stayed between 115 and 125 pounds for my early teen years but then I began to gain weight. Before I knew it I was weighing in at 150-155lbs, and I stayed at that weight for roughly 2 years. The past year I’ve been trying to accept the extra weight I have and I’ve been doing as good as I can. Lately I’ve been discouraged though because I’ve been seeing the numbers on the scale going all slowly again. I keep asking myself “why me?” And “what am I doing wrong? Why am I gaining weight again?”. I don’t over eat or eat tons of unhealthy food. I’ll admit that I don’t exercise as much as I should, but still, I haven’t changed my lifestyle at all and maintained my weight for 2 years. I just don’t know what happening other than I actually started feeling good about myself again. Then BOOM hello to another 12-15lbs. Being 160+ lbs when your a 5 foot and 2 inch tall woman is a bit much. But as of right now, despite feeling a bit defeated and discouraged, I’m going to keep working on my self image. I’m not going to let this get me too down in the dumps.

#body positive #effyourbeautystandards

Registration!

Today I went to my school to take my placement tests, make my schedule, and get my student id. I did as good on my placement tests as I could do considering I dropped out of high school half way through my freshman year. I placed at a college level in everything except math, which didn’t surprise me at all since on my HiSET I scored at a college level on everything, again, except for math.

This fall semester I will be taking Algebra 1, Bio 1 (with a lab), and English Comp 1. I spoke to an academic advisor and have decided that I’m going to be getting all of my prerequisites and non-nursing nursing program courses out of the way before I apply for the nursing program. Doing things this way will allow me to become a stronger applicant in the eyes of whoever is in charge of picking students for the program. It will also make it so I don’t have to kill myself to get all my prerequisites done before Feb 1st, 2016 which is the deadline for applying for the nursing program for fall of 2016. Also, by doing this once I am finally in the nursing program I will be able to really focus on the nursing classes and clinicals!

Having gotten my schedule done for this coming semester and getting my school id has really been kind of a wake up call to me. Things are finally starting to seem real to me, I’m actually going to college! It feels weird to say it because I almost still can’t believe it, but I am, I’m officially a college student and am going to be attending school in the fall!

#college #college student #prehealthmajor #futurenursingstudent