Up Before the Dawn

Today was my first day back at work (I work in a college office part time as a graduate assistant) and I have to say that I'm glad to be back.  I work with some really amazing colleagues and I'm excited for our students to return.  I'm also truly looking forward to having a set schedule again.  I tend to not do so well when I have days upon days of nothing to do.  All that said though, I don't enjoy leaving for work before my boyfriend is even awake!  I woke up at 5:30 this morning so I could get my workout in before I left for work at 7:40 (which is earlier than usual but there's construction on my road right now and that added about 15 minutes to my commute).

But hey, I got my workout done!  It felt really good to get home from work and know that I'd already taken care of my fitness for the day.  I succeeded at work nutritionally as well.  I packed enough food for the hours I was scheduled to work and was able to eat every three hours like usual.  It was a very successful day, and I even got a lot of "work" work done, too!  It is going to be a productive year in that position and with my health and fitness, too.  I know it!

The working out without eating first went better today.  And luckily, after this week, I should only need to get up at 6 AM instead of 5:30, which will be better.  I was also worried that the blender would wake up my partner, but he slept through it (hurray!).  Now I don't have to worry about waking him up when I blend together my post-workout protein shake.

There's not too much else to report today, other than I'm super excited to continue my fitness journey.  I planning to do INSANITY in January and then Asylum in March, and I am so excited to do those!  I know I have a long way to go before I'm physically ready so I'll keep pushing hard during TurboFire until then.

Oh, in other news, I achieved my first rank advancement as a coach today.  Now, I'm an Emerald Coach!  As an Emerald Coach, when someone calls into an informercial to buy a Beachbody product, I can be assigned as their coach.  It also means that I'm eligible for team cycle bonuses, but I won't get into all that.  If you're interested in coaching you can message me, I'm not going to write about it on here too much, since this place is really about my health and fitness journey.  And with that in mind...

Stay tuned for my month one weigh-in on Sunday!