After great feedback from fellow classmates, I decided to go with the fitness blog option. The purpose of this fitness blog is to come from the perspective of a teacher. Its about the everyday grind of teaching and how we pour into others while forget about ourselves. As I walk around campus and as we get together in the teachers lounge, I observe and listen to teachers talk about their struggles with weight. Many times it's blamed on the busy-ness of teaching and the constant snacking at school. At our school, we have many potlucks and ways to get teachers together through eating. We have taco Thursdays every week-teachers rotate and bring either beef or chicken to make tacos. Friday feast is every month where every grade level has a turn providing food and sweets throughout the year. There are days when someone out of the kindness of their heart supplies the teachers with doughnuts in the teachers lounge. Trust me, I'm not complaining but it can be very tough to stay healthy and feel good about ourselves when we're surrounded by all this frosted goodness. This is in addition to whatever is stored in our cabinets at home, holidays and family festivities where we tend to over do it.
I plan on sharing my journey with photos, blogs, videos and any tools I find that will assist me in reaching my personal goals, which is to be fit and healthy so I can be at my best during the day to day grind of teaching. I will be sharing my struggles, successes and hopefully a transformation by the end of week 5 but importantly tools I can share with others. Since we're currently off for the summer, I'm hoping this is the start of a health committee that can be incorporated into our school for the upcoming 2015-2016 school year as I truly feel the health of teachers is a priority. I can't wait to get started.
I plan on sharing my journey with photos, blogs, videos and any tools I find that will assist me in reaching my personal goals, which is to be fit and healthy so I can be at my best during the day to day grind of teaching. I will be sharing my struggles, successes and hopefully a transformation by the end of week 5 but importantly tools I can share with others. Since we're currently off for the summer, I'm hoping this is the start of a health committee that can be incorporated into our school for the upcoming 2015-2016 school year as I truly feel the health of teachers is a priority. I can't wait to get started.