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Monday, May 2, 2011

Month of May Personal Challenge

I had every intention of challenging myself with three things this month, 20 minutes a day of yoga, 30 minutes daily hooping, and going sugar free. However, I am a firm believer you must embrace flexibility in order to fully live your life of abundance. A few things happened:

Two weeks ago in a fit of yuck, I gave up sugar early. I had intended for this to be only for the month of May but I have quickly refined my focus to incorporating it into my lifestyle. I did not realize the horrible grip sugar had on me. I feel incredible and I didn't feel that bad before. This is immendsely better. My sleeping issues just left. I am sleeping so soundly now and waking refreshed and ready for the day. Whole foods taste amazing. Finally, when the bloating in my abdomen left I was shocked. I did not understand at all the effect sugar had on me.

We have figuratively moved to Ireland. We have had so much rain I believe a displaced group of Irish refugee fairies have taken up residence in my now verdant and lush perennial garden. Although I am in pure love with my only two year old flowers, I can barely find enough dryness to hoop. Hooping inside is just not possible, so that challenge will wait. I will still hoop any day I can but I will not hold myself to a particular goal.

I did start my yoga challenge and it is lovely. I keep it to only 20 minutes as a goal because I am unable to truly practice with the children. I know, I know I can do yoga with the kids but it isn't the same. But I will probably be able to practice many days for much longer periods of time. I love yoga. It balances me in so many ways, physically and emotionally. When I practice regularly, I maintain a centered and content mind. It is amazing.

I am increasing my running because as I said last post, I am going for the full marathon. I am very excited about the training and the challenge it will be to my committment, determination, mental strength, and physical ability. I love reaching for goals that I am not quite sure I can make. It makes life...sweeter.

2 comments:

  1. I want Irish fairies in my yard! Please let me know which poses you're doing for your 20 minutes of yoga. I really miss my yoga, and would love to get a little back into it.

    And congrats about the sugar! I'm not there, but it sounds amazing.

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  2. The fairies are a wonderful addition. It depends from day to day for yoga. Saturday I ran 13 miles so it was all about gentle stretching and restorative yoga. Yesterday was much more power with some sun salutations. I highly recommend any Rodney Yee yoga dvds. They are clear, well explained, and contain a wide variety of poses.

    Thank you about the sugar. Yesterday I went to Breadco and unthinkingly order a BBQ Chicken salad. I didn't think about the bbq sauce. I am happy to say, it tasted disgusting to me. I could taste the chemical yuckiness.

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