No weight loss this week but I'm confident my healthy eating habits and yoga practice helped me stay healthy during the winter flu and cold season. Knock on wood, I didn't get a cold, flu or sinus infection, even though everyone around me at work and home were sick several times. I'm thinking the lemon water, the orange I eat every day for snack, all the healthy greens in my diet, plus the stress relieving daily yoga, have boosted my immune system. I also take probiotics, magnesium, potassium, and vitamin D daily, and research shows my two cups of black coffee have likely helped me stay well. Now if only I could get enough sleep.
I felt great at my parents' birthday party last weekend (even with the double chin in this photo), much better than I felt at my step-daughter's wedding last July. I really wanted to crop much of myself out of that photo. I didn't mind seeing my pictures from this event at all.
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| Singing to my sweet niece Isla last weekend. |
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| Dancing with my father-in-law Don last summer. |
March 15, 2017
I finally showed another weight loss, after being discouraged because I didn't show a loss last week. At this moment the scale tells me I have lost almost 17 pounds since Jan 2. However, I know tomorrow or the next day I will go up a pound or 2 and likely stay there for a week, before showing another 2 or 3 pound loss. So the pattern seems to be lose 3, gain 2, sit on a plateau, then lose 3, gain two, etc. However, the pants that I had to suck in my gut to button are now very loose on me, and I'm wearing some of my old size 14 pants again.
Another frustration for me is that although I've been practicing yoga
every day since Feb 1, I'm not progressing as I think I should be. I get
frustrated that I can't do some poses, or I can't quite get into the
pose the way I think I should be doing it by now. The other night, as I
was finishing up with stretches, I noticed that I can almost touch my
chest to my legs when I sit on the floor and bend forward. However, with
all the practice I've done I feel like I should bend more easily, so I
wrapped my hands around my feet and started pulling myself further down.
Then it hit me. I'm wrapping my hands around my feet. I'm also reaching
over the tops of my toes, down toward my heels, and pulling myself
forward. Early in February I couldn't even touch my toes. Now when I do a
standing bend I can place my hands flat on the ground in front of me,
where just over a month ago I could barely touch my ankles.
I know I need to be patient and pay less attention to what I'm NOT doing and pay much more attention to what I AM doing. I am progressing, slow and steady.
March 1, 2017
15 pounds down since January 2! This last month was difficult because I didn't have any weight loss for 3 weeks, but I kept plugging away with Weight Watchers and yoga, then this week showed a 3-5 pound drop. WW works if you follow it!
I know I need to be patient and pay less attention to what I'm NOT doing and pay much more attention to what I AM doing. I am progressing, slow and steady.
March 1, 2017
15 pounds down since January 2! This last month was difficult because I didn't have any weight loss for 3 weeks, but I kept plugging away with Weight Watchers and yoga, then this week showed a 3-5 pound drop. WW works if you follow it!
