Take Care of Yourself

The fall semester is here to stay. Lectures, quizzes, assignments, readings, projects and exams are about to happen to all of us and we need to be ready to face them. Don't let the semester and your schoolwork stop you from taking care of yourself the way you're supposed to.

Be Happy!

       Last weekend, I went to North Park Mall while visiting my boyfriend for his birthday weekend. He was nice enough to actually attempt to go shopping with me that afternoon. Since I got a gift card from H&M for Christmas, we decided that since I'm a broke college student we can get my shopping fix there and still not spend too much money.
       We got there and of course it's the weekend and it was CROWDED and I mean wow... the line for the dressing room alone was starting to wrap around the store. So bless his heart, he was in there with me picking out clothes... ya he lasted maybe 25 minutes, but I have to hand it to him, that was longer than I expected him to stay.
          So of COURSE I checked out the clothes that were on sale. I was in need of new pants, so I looked for some. I usually am either a size 2 or 4 depending on the designer. So I picked up pants that we're around that size and also found a pair that was a size 6.
         Hey, I am not a size snob, whatever fits and what works I'm cool with. So I go get in line and waited.. and waited... and waited some more to get a fitting room. So I try the size 2's, didn't even get pass my upper thighs, tried the 4's then the 6 and the same problem...

Beating the Freshman 15... So Worth it!

When we enter college for the first time we are given many types of new freedom. We no longer have our parents telling us what to do, when to do it, and how we should do it. In many ways this is AMAZING, that is until you miss your first homework assignment, or you realize just how tired you really are after only three hours of sleep, or you gain your freshman fifteen. For those of you are currently thinking to yourself, “self, what is the freshman fifteen?” let me enlighten you. The freshman fifteen is a wonderful little thing which many freshman in college fall victim to. After high school many people are, for the first time in 6 plus years, no longer participating in competitive sports nor eating meals with their parents. This means that many freshmen no longer work out and begin eating more of what they want, which in some cases is that person’s favorite food repetitiously until they become sick or fat. The fat part is what is known as the infamous “freshman fifteen”. This extra weight comes from eating unhealthy food and failing to live an active lifestyle. Unhealthy food includes all that stuff that your mom always avoided cooking because it was ‘bad for you’, so foods which are fried, high in sugar, greasy, and or covered in cheese. An active lifestyle does not include your walk across campus to your class either (although sometimes the hills at UT Tyler make me feel like it should). Instead an active lifestyle includes actively choosing to participate in physical activity. Don’t get me wrong, I love all of those wonderful foods and sometimes I would much rather sit at home than go to the gym. But, once I started realizing my own weight gain in my freshman year I decided I should probably put down the microwavable brownie and take a step back to look at what kind of decisions I was making in regards to food and exercise