Hey I'm Trish!

Im in long island area and struggling to find a secure teaching position while going to grad school, subbing and being a TA.
Ive had crazy schedules and have been eating to the go and put on 15 lbs this past year and a half. I need some motivation and inspiration.

Good luck to all

Hi everyone.
My name is Ariana and I work in California. This is my second year teaching high school.
I would love to make some new friends here and help anyone get motivated.
I hope you are all having a good day.

- Ariana

Hi!

I've just joined this group, I'm Gemma and I'm from New Zealand, I am about to start teaching my own class this year - we call it Year 5 & 6 (composite class of mostly 9 and 10 year olds). I got a job at one of the schools I had placement at and I absolutely love it, cannot wait.

I have a bunch of weight to lose before my besties wedding in Feb and it's only 6 weeks away! I feel like 2012 was so good for me in terms of finding my niche and succeeding but health wise I just let myself go and didn't make healthy choices a consistent thing and thus I've ended up with 15.8 kilos to lose, I've lost 5.6 so far, so I'm on the way!!!

Looking forward to meeting some new people and sharing.

Gem.

Hi I'm Jessica,
I am in my first year of teaching and am currently a first grade assistant teacher in a G&T school in Manhattan. I am also working on my Masters in Childhood Ed. with an extension in Math and Science.
This is my first year working full time while going to school and I am shocked at how quickly I put on weight from September to January and also how exhausted I've felt the first couple of months teaching.
I was so excited to see this group! I am excited to meet people in the teaching community who are looking to live a healthier lifestyle like I am.

Hello everyone. My name is Ronda and I am a first year health science teacher (10th-12th grade) in north texas. I am a mother and wife and have the same struggles as a lot of you in that I have a hard time fitting in the activity. I have been up and down with my weight my whole life and I am a dietitian to boot! This should be easy for me but it is easier to tell others than to do it myself. After having my daughter, I entered a whole new world of needing to be home to spend every minute I can with her. Working out was always how I maintained my weight and my hips are showing that it is not happening right now. I look forward to hearing how to maybe get some good workouts in at lunch and mainly just to steal some inspiration from some awesome fellow teachers!

Hello, my name is Kate! I just graduated from West Virginia University with a Masters in Education and a Bachelors in English, and my goal is to find a full-time teaching position as a secondary education English teacher. Because I have dedicated the last 5 years to a dual degree program, I have had less time to focus on myself. I am nearly sixty pounds heavier than I was when I graduated from high school, and believe me it has been a very self-deprecating and stressful road trying to get myself back to the size I used to be. I wish I could go back in time and slap my senior year self for thinking I was fat then, when really I was at a healthy body weight and looking great!

Now that I am no longer the student, and I am trying to focus my energy on developing a healthy lifestyle so that the weight will come off and stay off. I've been working out almost every day since I graduated, and I'm trying to focus on only buying groceries from the perimeter of the store (not in the aisles, where all of the processed food is) but it's really tough and I find myself constantly searching through my kitchen for less healthy snacks.

I am hoping that by joining this group I can find a little more motivation to get my eating habits and body back on track. God knows I will all of the energy I can get when I finally get a classroom of my own!

Hello all!

I'm very excited to have joined this group. My name is Sam and I just completed my first year teaching! (Celebrate!) I teach English at a Catholic high school and feel so fortunate to be working there during a time where teaching jobs are so hard to find (I applied to over 40 schools before landing this job last summer).

My issue is that during the school year and being a track coach during the spring semester I had no time left! I would even contemplate about working out at 4 in the morning, but I needed to wake up at 4 in order to lesson plan, prepare, or grade for my 3 preps.

My goal this summer is to make exercising and cooking meals habitual. Many nights during the week during the school year I would be on my way from work at 5 pm, or on my way home from a track meet at 10 pm that I would swing by any local fast food place to pick up something really easy. I want to implement daily exercise and meal planning so that when the next school year starts it won't seem as difficult to "change" since the "changes" will already be implemented.

I would love any input you all may have! Especially fast, healthy recipes for dinners. My husband is diabetic; therefore, I would like to cook things that would be great for the both of us!

And a question for those teachers that have been in the field longer than me-- does the 2nd and 3rd year get a little easier? I love my job, but I it was VERY tiring come the end of the school year.

Please feel free to add me as a friend! Positive reinforcement is always the best route to take! :-)

Jaceface27, if I am lucky enough to find a teaching position I will be entering my first year of teaching (not counting 3 years of student teaching.) First, kudos to you for tackling track too. Here's one way that you can kill two birds with one stone. During track practice, run with your team when you get the chance. I know that the track coach at my student teaching placement did that, and he always seemed to stay in shape because he ran just as much as the team.

As far as meals go, I remember when I was student teaching I would always come home exhausted with a huge pile of homework from my students. Is there any chance that your husband can chip in for making dinner? It would give you a little extra time to relax and a little more time to get some of your grading and planning done that you normally have to do at 4 AM.

Hello! My name is Emily and I am blessed to be starting my first year teaching after 4 years of working retail while searching for a job. I know the pain, stress, and dissapointment of not being able to find a full time teaching job. IT SUCKS! I know I am lucky because I worked a job I loved the past four years while waiting, but I started becoming depressed about not teaching. My new teaching job is a PERFECT FIT though, and now all of those "no's" I heard for years finally make sense because I have heard the perfect "yes". My heart reaches out to all of you struggling with finding a teaching job.

Starting in August I will be teaching 6th geography, 7th world history, and 8th U.S. history at an Illinois Catholic grade school. We are implementing Understanding by Design (which I actually learned in college) and starting Standard Based Grading (which is new to me) so lots of newness and stress. Also, I am going through a painful divorce. I weigh more now than I ever have in my life, and I'd like to weigh about 30 pounds less soon.

Hi, my name is Heather. I am working on my masters in education, and start my internship in January. I will be teaching high school English once I am finished with my program. My weight loss goal is to lose close to 100 lbs and then to also tone, and maintain healthy eating and living habits.
I am looking for people who can be weight loss buddies through MFP, and solutions for "snacks" and meals on the go. Since I am a student, and work a full time job, its hard to pack a lunch that wont go bad, and I find I turn to fast food WAY more often than I should between work and school.