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• Back at It Again!

  November 17, 2012 at 7:43pm

  It's been awhile since I last posted anything, but I'm going to try at this again.

  I have been working out M-F with my roommate in the mornings before work. We've been doing it for about 8 weeks now and it is great!!

  At first we were doing one of the Insanity workouts a week and the rest a mix of yoga, pilates and Zumba. Now we have found we are doing yoga from MyYogaOnline and Blogilates. Today I also had my first Hot Yoga class in a studio. I've been feeling great and am seeing small changes in my body, but that just means I need to keep it up.

  My greatest challenge now is eating enough during the day and not overeating at night. I seem to barely eat anything for breakfast, a good size lunch and no snacks. When I get home I seem to just eat and eat and eat. I need to eat more throughout the day and I must stop the mindless grazing.

  My future challenge is to keep up this work out motivation when my roommate moves out this winter!

  Later :)

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• Good Starts

  November 27, 2011 at 3:09pm

  I just had my menstrual cycle that started last Monday. The best one I've had since I can remember. I have a very rough time with craps, bloating, and anxiety during my time. I've tried birth control and pain pills but nothing has made difference for the good. This time I had found the Yoga for PMS video from this site and performed it every morning and evening after work throughout the week and didn't suffer through it. I felt the flow lighter, the cramping mostly curbed with over the counter medicine. My emotions and thoughts were cleared. What a relief it was.

  Then today I had a great Yin Yoga set for 55 minutes. I found my problem, my emotion I have not yet faced, what had been holding me back. The feeling of abandonment. Just throughout my life I've had a lot of loved ones leave. I have always made myself not make it an issue or laugh life off, not realizing I've been pushing this emotion deeper and deeper. The emotion filled me at the end of corpse pose at the end of the practice. Now I just have to work on that. I feel I have found a great peace right now. Just a small victory I know, but one I am happy to have.

  Good Starts!

  MM,
  Andrea

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• Here and Now

  November 21, 2011 at 4:39pm

  So I've been wondering for a while now (maybe even a few years) were all my energy has gone? I have been stressed by different situations at work but never felt like I really brought that stress home. I would try to talk about it and laugh it off. However I would still feel sleepy by 8:00pm every night and fighting to stay awake by 9:00pm. What was going on?

  For awhile I've been looking at the past; "I used to do this, I used to do that." I have just started doing yoga and breathing exercises in the morning and right after work. It is awesome! I am finally in the present, the here, the now! I have also learned that I am in charge of energy, I own it. I learned that even when you think the outside world is not effecting you and that you've left your stresses at the door, it can stay in the back of your mind pulling at you, keeping you at that fight or flight level. I am finding out that through yoga and pranayama practice I am able to let my stresses go and relax my body and mind. Ah, what a great find!

  I'm excited to continue my journey!

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• The beginning...again.

  November 17, 2011 at 3:49pm

  

  It's crazy, life it. I'm 27 now, when I was 21 I was in the best shape of my life. That was seven years ago. I can't believe that was seven years ago. I keep trying to go back to what I was doing, what I was thinking, but that isn't helping anything. Then I start feeling down, feeling like I lost something. I feel like I'm full of toxic thoughts and habits. I want to change I really do, but when it comes down to make that change a consistent change, I always give in to my laziness.

  I try to think, is it stress? I don't feel stressed. I'm I running away from anything? I'm pretty straight forward. I mean I have my troubles and worries don't get me wrong, but I just don't think any of them really get to me. But that's also part of the problem.

  I need to live in the present, and move forward. Take my focus off the past and on to the now. What am I doing now to treat my body like a temple, keep loved ones in my heart, and empower my soul? That is the question I need to focus on. Perhaps I've found my mantra. :)

  BB,
  Andrea

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