Altoids

My back and shoulders are sufficiently sore which means yoga did the trick! It was challenging, that’s for sure…. I’ve clearly lost a LOT of my skillz. I had gone pretty much 2-3 times a week for two months back in February/March, and had become pretty knowledgeable, enough to go to level II classes. Now, not so much. Last night I went to a level I-II class and half the time I was like, “Wait, what??” Thank god there were yogis galore around me so I just took little peeks at them every once in awhile to know what I was doing. For the most part, though, it was good.

And holy Planksy McPlanksalot…. she had us doing so many planks and variations of planks I thought my arms were going to fall off. No wonder my back and shoulders are sore.

This is going to be great, because I haven’t had any sort of strengthening exercise for my arms since, well, last time I did yoga.

Soccer (?? WHY am I doing soccer) starts January 2nd, which will be great cardio/running, and with the yoga, dudettes/dudes, I will be in fine shape for Hawaii in February.

I am still 10 pounds lighter than I was at my heaviest not that long ago. The weight I’m at now is my normal, but I’d like to be 10 pounds lighter. Who wouldn’t, really, but I REALLY would.

I asked my mom if she would like to stay in Maui with me for a couple days in February. She sounded noncommittal and I’m like, WHY wouldn’t you want to do that?! It’s a vacation that’s already been planned and all you need is a plane ticket. DO IT. She would be awesome to have with me. She drinks, she relaxes at the pool, she’ll go for walks on the beach with me and maybe a hike…. plus she would pay for meals. I’m not sure how this isn’t a win/win for her. I will put the pressure on, pretty soon. Because even though I do want a few days to myself, it would be great to have someone there to do non-solo activities with. Like drink. There. I said it.

Yesterday I ate (yes we’re back to this):

Breakfast – Whole Grain english muffin w/butter (193 cals)

Lunch – Salad w/carrot, broccoli, tomatoes, sunflower seeds and light champagne vinaigrette (gotta get champagne in where i can) (149 cals)

Snacks – Peanut butter chocolate bar from Tully’s (160 cals); 6 altoids (20 cals)
Dinner – whole grain english muffin w/butter, 2 fried eggs

Exercise:

40 minute walk during lunch, 3.5 mph – 181 cals burned

90 minutes hatha flow yoga – 246 cals burned

Total: 900 food calories minus 427 exercise calories = net 473 calories. Not enough, but I seriously couldn’t have eaten more if I wanted to. Three meals, all substantial and made of whole foods (butter is a whole food, same with peanut butter chocolate bars, right?! ALTOIDS?!).

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Today I’m going to yoga again. at 7p. I’m going to walk at lunch too in the 30 degree weather (brrrr).

I left my pack of cigarettes at home because I was getting in the habit of having a cigarette during lunch and I CAN’T DO THAT. Smoking is sick and it smells bad. Yucky.

Mmmmmkie dokie artichokies, I’m outtie.