Hey guys, welcome back to Thicken Thin with me, Katie Bullatti.

This week has been quite something we had Monday off here in America for Labor Day holiday,

the Labor Day holiday, rather, and although it was Labor Day, I ended up laboring on Labor Day.

I was working, I was like on my computer, Colby and I, my friend Colby, we went home to

my hometown in Maryland and we hung out there, had kind of like a married couple weekend

to get felt kind of like we were a married couple, like an old married couple, because

we just like, we full on just relaxed, we sunned out in the backyard, we got really awesome

food, just really relaxed, you know, got some R and R in, which was really nice. But then Monday,

we took the train back to the city and while on the train, I was just typing away and Colby's

like, Katie, it's Labor Day, you're not supposed to be working and yet I was working because I have

found recently there's very little boundaries and this is a personal thing like that I need to

work on, I think, because I am my own boss, I feel like I have very blurry boundaries when it comes

to work and life, don't have a great work life balance right now, so I have to work on that,

literally work on it. So basically where I'm going with this is I've been feeling stressed recently,

I have been on edge, I've been kind of overwhelmed with a lot of things and I know it's not super

apparent all the time from social media that I feel this way, but I do definitely feel on the

stress, not only from work and from balancing my social life and whatever, but also comparison,

I have been ruthlessly comparing myself to other people recently and it's something that I'm

aware of, so I think the first step is becoming aware of this thing that you do and then obviously

figuring out a way to create balance with it, make it subside, figure out why you do it, you know what I

mean? So I will admit I've been comparing myself to other people, I have been poking and prodding

and wondering why my body looks a certain way and why after six months of personal training,

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