Yoga Superstar!

Let's not talk about how I had to go back to work today and how I would rather have jumped off the highest cliff I could find, and instead let's talk about how I was a yoga superstar today!

Let me start by saying that it has been FOREVER since I went to yoga! For awhile there I was going at least two days a week, religiously. Then, my favorite instructor had to leave. I was so distraught about the situation that I stopped going. I wasn't willing to give the new lady a chance. The thing is, Monday is always a super long work day. There is very little motivation to do much after school on Monday, and without knowing if the new lady was good or not, I wasn't willing to give up the time.

Anyway, tonight I decided to go try out this new lady. Turns out, I really liked her. The class was very similar to what the Monday class used to be ... challenging, but not too difficult. So, toward the end of class the instructor tells us we are going to practice crow pose. For those that don't know what it is, it looks like this:

It's not that easy. I've been working on it for a long time and I've gotten to a point where I am decent ... I mean, I can get my feet up and balance for a few seconds, but then I always topple (I can't even tell you how many times I have literally fallen loudly on my face). Last year I had made it a personal goal for myself to master this pose before the year was over, but, I had sort of forgotten about it, as I hadn't done crow pose in months. So today, the instructor starts explaining what to do for those who don't know, but since I already did, I just went ahead and got started while she was still talking. All of a sudden I realized I was completely balanced; I wasn't toppling over at all! Then I heard the instructor say, "I'm still working on perfecting my crow, I'm not very good at it, but I know some people in this room can do it. Oh! Everyone look at the girl in the pink, she's got it!" and I was thinking in my head "oh crap everyone is staring at me now I'm going to fall flat on my face" but I DIDN'T FALL! Everyone watched me in my awesome crow pose and I didn't ever fall over! It was amazing! When I let myself down people were looking at me and nodding their heads like, "wow, good job". My face probably turned red, but that's okay. I totally got it! I totally met the goal I set for myself! I'm sort of super proud :) yay me!

Walking Advertisement

When I was in college I had this friend who was a walking advertisement for a certain place on campus. No need to go into details, but the two of us used to joke that they should literally pay her because she was such a strong advocate of their service and pushed others to go there too. She would talk about it all the time, and rave about how great it had been for her. Like I said, walking advertisement.

I have decided that Jillian Michaels should pay me for being her walking advertisement. Seriously, my new job could be to promote her 30 day shred workout video. I'm obsessed with it! I feel like I have been talking about it all week at work. Every day someone else asks me what I have been doing to lose weight and I go into my spiel about this video. I have it down pat. Every time I include key points about what makes the video great, easy to do, and effective. I am a total nerd! haha If you click in the comments of the post before this you can see I even gave my little spiel there. I'm weird, I know.

30 Day Shred

Some of you know that I have been doing the 30 day shred workout this summer. I started to try it at the beginning of the summer, but when I went out of town I missed a few days, and when I came back I never did it again. Well, about a month ago when I got back from Vegas, I decided to try it again. I figured I had 26 days until school started so it was the perfect time as I would be just about done by the time I was back to work. This time around I PROMISED myself that I was going to do it for 30 straight days. I told myself that if I didn't do it every day for 30 days then I was going to have to start over at day 1. I am happy to report that today was day 30, and I did not miss one single day! I am super proud of myself for sticking with it!

I hadn't weighed myself pretty much all summer. When I gain weight I am extremely hesitant to step on the scale, because it sort of really freaks me out (and weight gain seems to have been the trend for the past 2 years since leaving college ... not good). I knew what I weighed at the beginning of the summer, and I didn't want to weigh myself again until I was pretty sure I had lost a good amount of weight, like 10 pounds or so. After starting back to work this week, I had a number of people comment that I looked great, like I had lost a good amount of weight. I don't really see it; but I guess I see myself every day. (although, if you follow me on twitter you know that a week or so ago I tried on some old clothes that haven't fit in a year or so and they all fit, so I guess I had at least toned up a little bit). Today, at the end of my 30 day shred workout, I weighed myself.

GUESS WHO LOST 16 POUNDS?!?

YAY! YAY! YAY! YAY! YAY!

Guess who has a whole closet of clothes that fit her again, and thus does not need to buy new clothes for the fall? Double YAY!

Today is a marvelous day! :)