The Other Disney Princess: Muscle Up Buttercup!

Yeah yeah, Maui, I'm working on it...

And stop giving me that look. It's been a rough few weeks.

So, this week's weigh in....306.0 lbs. Down another 2.4 lbs from last week (which I hadn't posted, sorry about that).

I'm slowly reversing all of the damage I did during finals week. I ended up dropping Weight Watchers. They're a great organization, but it was starting to get really aggravating when we ate out. Prince Steve and Smee (how I'm referring to our sidekick from now on), would be ready to order and I'm still hunting through the app or the bowels of the internet trying to find out if what I want is something I can actually eat.

This was, more often than not, my reaction when I finally found the points count after 20 minutes of searching.

Plus, it was hard cooking for both me and the prince. What was 'healthy' by one diet's standards wasn't for the other. So, since dieting is, at its base, calories in vs calories out, I switched to his.

He calls it 'Paleo-ish'. High protein, high fat, low carb. He's been using a phone app called Cronometer to track everything, and honestly I'm liking it too. You have to pay for it, its not a free app, but $3 for what we get is worth it. It syncs with my Pebble via Google Fit, so its a lot easier to keep track of steps, workout times, heart rate, etc.

Now its a matter of getting my stress eating back under control. And unfortunately...there has been a LOT of that. And temptation is highly likely over the next few weeks.

As I mentioned in a previous post, I was waiting to see if either of my professors curved my grade in order for me to stay in the program.

They didn't. I officially got the 'academic probation' letter last week.
For those of you that aren't sure what that means...here's a breakdown when your grades aren't up to snuff in college.
First semester below the GPA threshold: Academic Warning - nothing happens other than a slap upside the head.
Second semester below GPA threshold: Academic Probation - financial aid is cut off, so any classes you take are coming out of your pocket. You have one more semester to fix it before...

I was gonna say 'Expulsion'...but that's about what it feels like to me. Thanks, Tuleo.

So now I'm left with a choice, and most of it relies on waiting for other people to get back to me before it can be made.

One option is to puppy eye, pouty lip, and otherwise beg friends and family for the money needed to pay for a single class and bust my butt for an 'A' to get off of Academic Probation and continue with the program.

Or...

I start looking for a job that makes use of my Communications degree and maybe re-approach the Master's at a later date.

On the one hand, I WANT to finish this degree. I love the challenge, and despite the semi-constant beating my head against a wall, I enjoy programming and business. Although as a result of a group project this past semester, I never want to hear the word 'Uber' again.

On the other...I'm turning 29 in two months. The Prince and I want to eventually get married, start a family, etc. As it currently stands, I'd have at LEAST another year and a half to two years before I'd be graduating. And given that I wanted to take at least a year or two of being comfortably settled into a job before I go on any kind of maternity leave...I'm looking at being 34-35 by the time we'd be ready to start a family. Conception rates start to drastically drop by then, and risk of health issues for mom and baby start to increase around age 30.

Not to mention I'm about $60,000 in school debt right now...and would be looking at another 40k by the time this is all over.

Talk about drowning in debt...

I feel really bad for the prince...he's been the one putting up with my psychotic butt for the past few weeks.

I've been all...