Well, hello there, top teachers. We are your hosts, Michelle Emerson and Bridget Spackman,

and we are here to make your life easier by helping you master your time, organization,

and productivity as a teacher. We've done a lot of behind-the-scenes episodes here on

teaching to the top where we take you through a week in our lives. But today's episode is

going to be a little different.

We are going to chat about our best strategies for managing all the aspects of your life

outside of the classroom, including your nutrition, your schedule management, and personal

wellness.

But before that, we're going to listen to a TSA from Tessa. Tessa says, my TSA is meal

prepping. I am a new teacher with this school year and longtime athlete. I had convenient food habits.

I paused there. I apologize. I had convenient food habits that worked for me before I started teaching,

but now going to the gym and staying consistent on eating habits has become a real struggle.

I find myself binge eating late at night as well as completely burning out to the point where I can't

make healthy dinner and just end up ordering takeout, which impacts my

strength for the gym. Whereas before, I had a solid grocery list. I now find that a lot of the

food is wasted and I am completely lost in my meal prepping. Any tips on regaining my old

healthy eating habits and getting back on track? Okay. I'm excited about this one because this is

my jam. This is you. So the first thing I want to say, Tessa, is that give yourself grace because I

know from my personal experience, there are just seasons of life that you go through, especially

if you're like a new teacher, where you just have to

accept that your nutrition might be off. Okay. When I was in grad school, that was me. I was getting

Chick-fil-A like three times a week and constantly just, I would go to the gym after school,

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