My blog is off to a slow start...

When I started this blog I had high hopes of doing yoga every day and eating healthy and so would begin my transformation into living vibrantly and healthfully! Well, the intention is still there, but somehow the crazy crap in my life seems to always get the drivers seat. I have begun to make changes that will allow this transformation to move from the back of the bus to the front and that is working from home which will allow me the freedom to decide when to go to yoga and be home to make most of my meals here. Yay! I am very excited about this change. I feel like this is the starting point I need in order to do what I really want to do which is create a healthy, vibrant, joy filled existence from which I can be of service to others from a full cup instead of the depleted one that I sometimes walk around with. I'm excited about getting to do two types of yoga simultaneously which I have wanted to do for a long time. I want to practice Bikram and Baptiste yoga each every other day and see what happens in a years time. Doing any yoga lately has been hard so I will get there when I can get rid of the stuck job. Which will also free me up to travel more and visit my mother and family more.

Good news is tomorrow I'm driving down to Cambridge to practice at the Baptiste studio with Gregor and the awesome Kellie Lin! I can't wait. I haven't had any time for a me day very often so it feels good to go! Then on Monday I will practice Bikram yoga in he morning. So, it is a start right?

Day 4 - Success, next 5 days bad to disaster and counting!

I went down to Boston to take a class at Baptiste Power Yoga last Tuesday and it was a great decision! It was challenging, but I felt so great after. It was so much fun to go down there and take the class and then have dinner with Kellie and Debbie after. I felt like I was on the right track and I was on my way to accomplish anything I set my mind to. Then, I had busy days at work and I skipped yoga and by Saturday I had so much to do and skipped Sunday. I did get back to it on Monday going to a Bikram class which felt great and I thought I would have a hard time getting through class, but I got through it without any problems. Today is Wednesday, September 2, 2009 and I ate a bad dinner (buffalo chicken sandwich and fries) and then joined Weight Watchers! Haha! The Weight Watchers was a good thing, but did I have to go eat that junk before going? No, but I did it anyway. I was a little dicouraged because I have gained 11 pounds back since starting the "regular" job in April I had gone 4 months without gaining any of the 20 pounds back that I lost and then sit me down and make me feel lethargic after doing so all day, skip yoga and get out of the habit, become disorganzied and eat on the run and this equals disaster for me. Ok, enough, I'm back on track! From now on I will be on my way to success. I realize this entire posting is a jumbled mess, but that is how I've been feeling this summer. One messy girl! It is 7 weeks until Bootcamp so the goal is to lose 14 by then an average of 2 pounds a week is a respectable goal. I will keep you posted literally!

Day 2 and 3

Here is my current excuse for why I skipped yoga for Sunday and Monday. Work. I chose to work this evening (Monday) instead of doing yoga thinking that if I got ahead on work it would make me feel better. It is true, I am caught up, but now I feel like shit physically and I wish I had gone. So on it goes my struggle with doing my favorite thing. How do I fit it in and work for a living? That is the question I am constantly wrestling with. For anyone who has never tried yoga, I can only say that it just makes me deal with life better. I feel more grounded and capable when I am practicing yoga. I know that if I could ever work it in more than 2-3 days I would completely transform both physically and mentally. So I guess that is what this blog is about. My struggle with getting a consistent practice into my "regular" life. The goal on Sunday was to practice at home, no, didn't happen either.

Moving forward - tonight (Tuesday) I am driving down to Cambridge to practice Baptiste Power Yoga with two of my favorite people, Kellie and Debbie.

Day 1

I started my Day 1 on Saturday, August 22nd. I went to my yoga class that I hadn't been to in over two weeks because of my vacation. OMG was it hard! It was probably the first time since I began practicing that I had to leave the room! That's ok though, I was there. It is yoga practice not perfect right? So far today I haven't practiced. I could practice at home this evening and I will make that my goal. I have to get to a party for a friend and there is a lot of work to do. Always a lot of work to do. A million reasons to skip my yoga and eat poorly! My sister in-law and I have decided to join Weight Watchers this week. I usually have success on that - I lost 20 pounds from September to December last year, but haven't been able to get back in the swing since Christmas. It is August...enough of a break? Weight Watchers is great for portions, but you have to be careful to eat whole foods and not the "low fat" processed junk. I do like the accountability of having to weigh in and I think that is why it is good for me.