Reevaluating

Happy Friday! Today is inspired by Lindsay’s post on priorities. I was thinking last night that I’ve been getting a little sidetracked lately in a few of the most important aspects of my current life. I just haven’t been feeling good recently and I think I need to reevaluate my priorities:

“Me time” – when I first got back to Boston I was so intent on doing anything I wanted, whenever I wanted. I could do whatever I wanted with that time and the only rule was that I wasn’t allowed to feel guilty about it. I think this is what really pulled me through the post-Jonas depression I was in, and I need to get back to making me (and my happiness) the #1 priority.

Getting healthy – this mostly has to do with my food intake which has been seriously upped in the past few weeks. I need to get back in control when I go out to restaurants or am around people who are eating badly when I’m out.

Running/Exercise – this is most definitely still a priority! I am itching to get back into my normal exercise routine. I’m slightly nervous about my foot because it’s just not getting better. I’ve been reading that it’s actually pretty easy to break the bones in your foot…what?! I think that if this is not feeling better by the time the weekend’s over I may need to suck it up and go to a doctor for some x-rays.

Finding a job/post-college plans – this is not a top top priority right now, but will be soon. It’s something that I’ve definitely been letting slide further down the ladder of importance, when it should really be going in the opposite direction.

Watching Lost - Haha. Yes, for real.

Cooking new healthy recipes – this was another one of the things that helped me through the broken heart. Planning a delicious healthy meal, buying the ingredients, then spending the time to cook it and put love into it was really the highlight of many of my nights the past few months. I haven’t been cooking too many meals (healthy or not) lately and I want to get back into it.

Sleep – Self explanatory. I need to sleep more. Period.

Enjoying senior year of college – this is a tough one, because “enjoying” in college often translates to “go out, get drunk, stay out late, eat crappy food, don’t sleep, and repeat”. I had lain off the drinking for a few months, but recently have gotten sucked back in to not only the drinking, but the drunk eating as well. I’m going to try to have a weekend without drinking and keep in mind how great it felt to not wake up with a hangover.

So I think it’s only appropriate to follow up with some weekend goals:

1. Drink socially when out (for me this means 1-2 drinks)
2. Eat during the weekend the way I eat during the week
3. Do some form of exercise, even if it’s not hardcore cardio
4. Watch a few episodes of Lost :)
5. Sleep late!
6. Cook something new and healthy

I hope that writing these priorities/goals down here will really help me stick with them. Have a great weekend!