I am a doctoral student, teaching fellow, was an adjunct last year, and an asst. track coach (pole vault).

My program is sport and exercise psychology (in the exercise science department, not psychology department).

My research specialty is parental influence on pa behaviors of children. Being in the exercise field, I find I sometimes have too much info to help myself and not enough time to sort my brain for myself.

My lifestyle is incredibly active and I know what to do and what to eat but am human and have issues with portion and probably used to under eat.

Anyway, a fun tidbit...at dinner the other night with friends, we were all plugging our stuff into mfp...kinda fun.

Once the semester starts back up, I'm going to start posting sport psych stuff for everyone

Hello All,

I teach reading at a community college, and I am frequently grading papers etc. I make sure I stay on my feet all sessions of my classes. I only sit when I'm in my office. It is a challenge everyday to stay active.

Please share exercise ideas. Thanks.

Hi, all!

I am an instructor in Medieval Studies at a midwest university. I am working towards my phd, and my specialty is fourteenth century literature and religious authority.

I began grad school at 49, and I've been working on my health for ten years. I've lost 110 pounds, and I have 90 more to go before I can have knee surgery. Part of my problem is that I have both psoriatic arthritis in my back, feet and hands, and reactive arthritis in my left knee from a torn meniscus.

I exercise when I can, but when the legs flare up, it's difficult. Dcraton, I am very interested in those chair exercises.

Greekstress, I am definitely getting me an exercise ball for the office. That's a great idea.

MFP was suggested by a colleague, and I'm really glad she did.

:glasses:

Hello, I'm Leina (not my real name, but it's what I prefer to be called), and I teach American Media and Culture for an online university (I'm an adjunct, so my position isn't as glamorous). I've been there for two years, and I will start my third year in November. I can't believe it's been that long since it feels like I just started! I cannot complain; the work is constant, but I do wish the pay was better for what I do. :grumble: I am currently looking for another teaching job, but finding an English teaching position is quite difficult since there are hundreds jockeying for the same positions as well.

I have to sit for long hours almost every day due to grading papers and responding to forum posts and student questions (I teach two-to-three classes every nine weeks). Along with this, a bout of depression and a sluggish thyroid assisted in my 104-pound weight gain since college (in college, seven classes per semester, tons of homework, and a tutoring job didn't help). To be honest, my studies and helping my students were way more important than my health. Now I wish I balanced both.

I need to lose 100 pounds. Currently, I am switching off every day between Taebo and Zumba. As soon as I can get some money together, I plan on getting a gym membership so I can incorporate weight training. This time next year, I will be in Disney World for my honeymoon (a year and a half later!), so I don't want to be a fatty like I was during my last trip. Disney World is my main motivation, as well as fitting into a dress for my church wedding (as insisted by my family). I also want a belly-button piercing! :laugh:

I hope I didn't bore anybody. Good luck, everyone, and give it your best!

I'm Danielle, I'm an advisor and social science/humanities instructor at a technical college. I have been on a frustrating plateau just 15 pounds outside of my goal for close to 3 years. In that time I learned to love the high of working out! I run fun races around my State for cool swag as my motivators! I've been doing plyometric "boot camp" style fitness classes that I've just become absolutely addicted to and I've recently fell in love with boxing! While my plateau is frustrating, life is good!

Those all sound like great strategies. I try to go to the gym a couple of times a week after work for boot camp and spin, but that's becoming harder and harder to do. I still work out on Saturdays and Sundays regularly. I pack healthy snacks to bring to work and avoid our campus cafeteria as much as possible. I find that having lots of low calorie snacks throughout the day keeps me from eating sugar and junk, but it's still hard to resist when someone brings cookies or other treats to share.

Hello all,

I teach in the music department at our local community college. I am adjunct and love everything that I do there. I've been teaching at the college for 34 years. I am retired from teaching music in public schools (30 years). So no, I am not 80 years old! There were many years that I taught both places concurrently. After retiring from public schools, it allowed me to transition from nights and weekend teaching to daytime teaching through the week at the college.

I joined My Fitness Pal back in 2012, but until now, did not do anything very seriously about losing my extra weight. I have been a yo-yo dieter all my life with many gains and losses of weight. I have found that as I get older, it is definitely slower to lose the weight. But I have a new determination and am being successful. I like how this web site charts your progress that you can readily view.

I wish much success for everyone!