I am a priority
I watched my recorded copy of Oprah's show last night; my God! Instead of talking about herself, it felt as if she was talking about me! It brought me to tears. 
If you can find a copy of it online, I encourage you to watch it.
It made me realize how horribly I have been treating myself since I went back to school a few years ago. Especially this last semester. My grades are extremely important to me, and when school is in session, school is my life. I kid around and say that Nursing school owns me, but it really, really does. The expectations I have set for myself are way too high -- yea, I get awesome grades, but those grades are digging my grave. My tombstone will have on it my name and my GPA. How utterly riduculous. I need to have balance in my life in order to lose weight, and more importantly, be healthy.
Oprah talked about loving your body. Embracing your body, was the words she used I think. Not loving it in the shallow sense of Wow, I have magnificent boobs, but in the sense of loving it for the wondrous things it can do. Even though I have treated my body horribly over the last 3 years, it still functions for me. It continues to plug along doing what it was meant to do, while I abuse it. It's like a loyal dog. I need to appreciate my body and treat it with respect.
School starts again this coming Monday. In the next few days I am going to map out a plan on how this semester there will be balance in my life. I am adding myself back to my priority list. 
