Hello everyone! My name is Annalee. I am new to this group, but thought I would drop in here to introduce myself. I have just rejoined myfitnesspal to try to lose weight before my husband and I try to conceive our first child. I am a grad school student and work full-time. After going to my Ob Gyn last week and realizing just how much weight I had gained in the past year, I decided to rejoin MFP. I had great success with it about five years ago and lost around 30 lbs which was my goal at the time. Right now, I have a goal of around 50 lbs in one year, as we plan on beginning trying to conceive around this time next year. My doc largely thinks my weight gain has been from stress and hormonal changes, so she has changed up my bc pills and am hoping some exercise will help my stress level, and improving my eating habits to help weight loss. I came across this group and just dropped into join as it seemed like a very inspiring, motivational group. I look forward to keeping up with you all!

Hi @adunbar93. Welcome to the group!

Grad school and working are both difficult, and doing them together is certainly stressful. I blamed a lot of my weight gain the last couple years on moving in with my husband, but I increasingly think it was actually going to grad school and working at the same time that was the bigger culprit. We are here for support and encouragement any time you need it!

Thank you @puffbrat and @VeryKatie ! On a side note, I had a big life change this week- On Tuesday I was offered a full-time teaching job teaching Health Services to high school students and health and wellness enrichment to middle schoolers. I started Wednesday! I left my full-time job as an x-ray tech and my part time adjunct instructor position at a community college for this position. I am definitely nervous about the big changes but excited! I think this will be good for my career, my health, my marriage, and this is a profession I'm very excited about. As we are planning on trying to conceive next year, I believe the more regular schedule and more time off will be great benefits as well. So, I will soon be teaching a nutrition section to my middle schoolers which will include food pyramids and food journal, so I hope to set an example to them and participate too!

I am ready for Friday already haha. Anyone else?

So... I had a really awkward morning at work.
Let's start with - got my period this morning so definitely not pregnant.

My boss comes into the office I'm borrowing at camp and say he has work for me to do.
Me: Ok, what is it?

Him: You have to come back to camp on the 15th

Me: (thinking: you said I only have to travel for work once every 3 months) So I'm supposed to fly back home on the 13th, if I'm supposed to be back on the 15th should I just stay here? (and thinking noooo but I am ovulating that week!!)

Him: Right.. so come back on the 20th instead

Me: (Panicking.. I wear my heart on my sleeve so I'm sure I look upset) I will need to check with Chris (thinking: boss man usually lets me check with home)

Him: You'll have to come on the 20th since I wanted you to start on the 15th but that doesn't make sense.

Me: (doing the math, I ovulate on the 21st so if I came on the 20th it would be a month wasted, thus putting my life on hold for a month for a job I've really struggled to be even a little happy at the whole time I've been here). (out loud now) "Maybe I could fly up on the 22nd? I have an important thing at home on the 20th.

Him: You should be jumping at this opportunity. You'll come up on the 20th - and then walked out of the room.

Me... a little stunned and.. then.. oh gosh... the tears came! And then I got embarrassed for crying which made me cry more. An hour later and my boss noticed I was crying (because I can't control myself... and finding out I'm for sure not pregnant and won't be able to get pregnant this cycle on the same day also really upset me) and that was super awkward. But at least he agreed to let me fly up on the 21st so now the chances are higher again. I think I ended up crying/trying not to cry for about 2 hours today. Ugh. Emotions. My boss probably feels really bad though. He doesn't usually act like that.

@computerfox82 I'm looking forward to... Friday the 16th which will be the day before the next weekend I get. Yay for working 11 hours a day straight from the 6th-13th then my 8 hours a day form the 14-16.

And then working from the 19-30 straight again.

I will post again later tonight after dinner to answer all the other posts! Needed to vent but also really need to work hard now.

@WifiresGettingFit Wow! That's a lot in one week.

@puffbrat I hope everyone feels better.

@VeryKatie I'm sorry to hear about your awful day! That sounds like multiple stressors hit you all at once. I also tend to wear my heart on my sleeve, and I've cried one time each at my last two jobs. It's a horrible feeling and awkward to recover from, but your boss was being a jerk and going back on his promise to you about the required level of travel.

The dog is doing much better but now my husband is probably the sickest I've ever seen him (still not horrible but he never gets sick so it's really taken him down). It's unfortunate timing since today is supposedly the day I ovulate according to app I'm using without doing much tracking. I didn't really expect to get pregnant this month since I just stopped taking BC a couple weeks ago, but still....