Head Lice & Weight Loss!

I'm not quite sure head lice has anything to do with motivation, inspiration, and weight loss, but it's what I seem to be dealing with full force these days. NO, I DON'T have head lice BUT I work at an elementary school and we've had a terrible lice epidemic. It's been SO bad that they closed school yesterday and we even made the local news! (Not sure that's something to be proud of but of course had to share.) I can't seem to keep up with numbers as people keep dropping like flies, but there has been close to 60 kiddos and 14 adults who have come in contact with these nasty bugs. Yuck! It's actually very sad and quite frustrating for many. Not to mention an expensive project.  I've spent my share of time not only trying to keep my own family lice-free by taking all the necessary precautions, spending hours cleaning and doing laundry but have also spent countless hours picking nits and lice out of co-workers hair so they too can hopefully soon be lice-free. 

One thing I do know is that my eating has not been what it should. Not in a way that I'm eating the wrong things or making bad choices and pigging out. Actually it's quite the opposite. I'm hardly eating at all. I haven't gotten a lunch break at work for days and I end up bringing my lunch back home with good intentions of eating it as a snack.  Honestly, by the time I get home, jump right in the shower, and get to feeling clean again, my stomach is still unsettled from thinking and dealing with BUGS all day.  I find myself neglecting to eat except for maybe a snack later in the evening before bed. Not good I know. How can my body do what I want if I'm not fueling it properly?

This whole nightmare has been a very stressful, time consuming, and somewhat emotional to deal with. I know for myself I'm emotionally spent and SO looking forward to the four-day weekend we have coming up. I'm planning on getting my eating back on track as well as my water intake so that I can feel like a normal person again. I also might need to take some time for myself. I'm feeling a little out of sorts and maybe suffering a little from compassion fatigue. (Something I hadn't thought of until my friend said she read it somewhere and mentioned it to me today.)


Regardless of my crazy week, I'm so looking forward to things getting back to normal and living in a bug-free Environment!