Day Fifty-Eight: Trying Out Some Yoga

Today it rained. Again. We've now officially broken all recent records for the number of rainy days in a row in North Carolina, and I am so over it, I can't tell you. It's supposed to be sunny tomorrow, and I think if it's not, I will stage some sort of weather-related revolt. I am not cut out for this many grey days in a row.

My food today was good and on track. I made all of it myself, which is always a good feeling. And I resisted the temptation to abandon my leftovers for lunch, which were actually quite good, and go out to lunch, where I would have spent money to eat lesser quality food. I am a little proud of that small triumph.

To combat my slug-like feelings, I went and tried out a yoga class at the gym. The timing of it worked surprisingly well between dinner and the boys' bedtime, so it might actually become a thing. The last time I tried doing yoga was about a year and a half ago when I had actually found a yoga teacher I liked, and before said teacher quit teaching at my gym and moved away (still sad). I only did it a couple of times then, and it was terribly frustrating to me because my core was so weak that I literally couldn't do half the exercises. Tonight was so much better! My core is so much stronger from all the ab work i have done since august and the strength classes I have been taking--I was actually able to hold a plank when she said to, and I was able to get my body into the majority of the positions requested of me. This class is designed to be basic, and I am grateful for that--it's been hard to find one where everyone there wasn't already a full-on yogi, which is more than a little bit intimidating. It was refreshing to have good instruction, low pressure, and a pace that I could follow. I hope I can make this work and add it to the overall schedule.

I got a little bit overheated in yoga class, and I could NOT get cooled off. It stopped raining this evening, and it was breezy and cool outside, so I did manage to squeeze in a tiny little walk after the kids were in bed. It was short, barely a mile, but so worth it. I am finally cooled down, and I feel slightly less sluggish. Now, I am wiped out, and I am heading to bed in the hopes that I can make it up at 5am for the barbell class!

Log:

Exercise:

• Hatha Yoga class at the Apex gym with Beth
• Quick evening walk:1.02 miles

Nutrition:

• Breakfast: spinach and mushroom frittata, a pile of little tomaotes from the garden, 2 cups of tea with milk and sugar
• Lunch: leftover roasted chicken breast with carrots and potatoes, green beans cooked with onions in tomato sauce and bacon fat, red seedless grapes
• Dinner: radish top pasta from The French Market Cookbook, by Clotilde Dusoulier, but made with spinach, as it's what I had on hand (Note: Both this cookbook and this recipe are fantastic--I can't recommend this strongly enough!)
• Snacks: N/A

Stats:

• Steps:6195--not enough! stupid rain.
• Calories: 1246 consumed,  354 burned
• Weight: 196.5 on the home scale