I was going to call this the Jackie Chan rotation, but I may change the name...
1 Kundalini Ultimate Stretch Workout 60 min 2 Cathe Kick, Punch and Crunch 50 min premix 3 Kundalini Yoga Bliss Hips 4 Cathe Kick Max 42 min premix 5 Kundalini Yoga Journey through the Chakras 60 min 6 Cathe Kick, Punch and Crunch 42 min premix 7 Rodney Yee Power Yoga Total Body 80 min 8 Kundalini Yoga for Beginners and Beyond 75 min 9 Cathe Kick, Punch and Crunch 41 min premix 10 Eoin Finn Power Yoga for Happiness, Magical Hips 50 min 11 Cathe KPC 50 min premix 12 Holiday 13 Holiday 14 Holiday 15 Kundalini Warrior Workout 75 min 16 Cathe KPC 68 min full workout 17 Rodney Yee Yoga Burn 60 min 18 Budokon Beginning Practice, full workout including martial arts segment 45 min 19 Firm Power Yoga 37 min 20 Cathe KPC 21 Holiday 22 Holiday 23 Holiday 24 Holiday 25 Cathe Kick Max OR Firm Bootcamp MCB (figure I might be tired of kickboxing by now!) 26 Kundalini Ultimate Stretch Workout 60 min 27 Cathe KPC 42 min premix 28 Cathe KPC workout blender premix 29 Power Yoga for Happiness premix 30 Kundalini Yoga Journey through the Chakras 60 min
133.0 this morning. Pleasant weigh-in! How long has it been since that happened?
You probably know that conventional wisdom dictates 200 minutes of cardio per week for weight loss and overall fitness. I've been looking at my September rotation and considering doing a kickbox and yoga rotation for the month. I'm going to call it the Jackie Chan rotation. The plan is to do three 50 minute kickbox sessions, one 50-60 minute power yoga or weight lifting, and on remaining days kundalini yoga. I'm so eager to get started on this that I might ditch my current August rotation and start doing it right away. Don't know yet.
My August rotation has undergone continuous revision and substitutions. I will post what I ended up doing this month and you can compare it to what I had originally planned, if you're interested in that sort of thing.
We had a great time in London over the weekend. On Friday, we visited a shop called Yogamatters and I bought two new Ana & Ravi DVDs (thus my eagerness to do more kundalini workouts!) And then we used a great little book called 'Eccentric London' and went for a long walk around Kensington. On Saturday, we went to our friend Julie's wedding. Sunday we went around Covent Garden with our friend Mike who was visiting from America, then to the Star Wars exhibit at County Hall on the South Bank. Doesn't sound too strenuous, but I was knackered by the time we got home on Sunday night!
Yesterday I had dry toast and black coffee for breakfast, a bowl of meusli, plain vegetable salad (no oil) and a cereal bar for lunch, a pear, then for dinner veggie tofu stirfry with brown rice. During the day I drank lots of water and three cups of yogi tea. This morning I weighed 134.2.
Thank goodness for that! 138 really freaked me out yesterday!
Hoping to catch you up on my London trip tonight--must have photos developed soon!
Horrible food situations in London, TOM arrived 12 days early and this morning I weigh 138.2.
I have no idea what is going on, feel like a perimenopausal hippo and have put myself on a sort of detox for the week. (Even though I don't believe in detoxes per se...yes I know I know, but I am a bit freaked out by it all). So it's nothing but whole fruits, vegetables, brown rice and other whole foods all week this week.
I swear I feel like flab is hanging over the top of my trousers in floury, stretchmarked sheets this morning.
Weird weird weird about the TOM, too. It was totally unexpected and there I was in my hotel with nothing at all with me because why would I expect this 13 days after first day of my last cycle?? Thank goodness we were in central London and there was a shop two doors down, and not in the middle of mid-Wales on a 14 mile walk through sheep pastures!
Okay, for the last couple of weeks I have been taking daily supplements of maca root. I feel lots better and am sleeping better at night. I started out drinking the powdered whole root as a tea or in a smoothie, but the taste is a bit overwhelming, so I ordered a bottle of 4:1 maca root extract. We took our first capsules today and I felt great all day. Only now feeling tired, and it's 7.15 and I've done a workout during which I lifted heavier weights than I've ever used for some exercises. (Hope I'm not too sore tomorrow!)
Here's a link to a little article about what maca root is:
I first learned about maca root in Brendan Brazier's book Thrive.
We're off to London Friday to Sunday for a friend's wedding and to see the Star Wars Exhibit in County Hall just off Westminster Bridge. (Same building where we took Ethan to play video games!) I'll post photos. I plan for us to go to a shop in North London called Yogamatters. Hope to pick up some interested gewgaws there.
I have been totally stressed out lately and I'm sure it's all in my head because nothing is really that different around here. I have been insufferably bitchy to my poor husband and have gone around feeling like there's a thundercloud over my head.
It's time to make a list. What's going on here?
1. I had a visit with my family and that's always wrenching. I've been fretting about it a lot lately.
2. I recently got my UK passport and that was both a milestone and a bit anti-climactic.
3. I read a book about buying a flat in the UK because house prices are simply beyond our means. Leasehold seems a like a big swizz so I guess I'm going to be a lifelong tenant. Fretting about that.
4. I told my supervisor at work that I've started a job search, that I intend to take my time about it, but that I didn't want it to be a surprise to her if I announced suddenly that I've got another job.
5. I decided not to pursue the post-graduate diploma in information management because frankly I don't want to be a librarian.
6. I just got my provisional driving licence and the next step is theory test, lesson, practical, then car ownership!
Okay, so those are the only issues I can think of that are causing me anxiety. Can I see the truth behind them?
1. I wanted to be here and I am. He wanted to be there and he is. In three or four years, he's going to be moving out on his own, anyway.
2. I worked hard for my citizenship and I prize it. Britain has problems, but so does the US!
3. We can't afford a house and that is that. I don't have to decide right now if I want to take out a leasehold. If I never buy a house, it won't be the end of the world. That's the truth.
4. The reality is that I do have a job. My job is secure. I am not in danger of losing it. If I choose to leave it, that's my choice. Any pressure I put on myself to find a new job and leave this one is not coming from anyone at work. It's all me. I don't have to rush. I never have to leave at all, in fact. Just because I told her I was looking doesn't mean I ever have to leave!
5. I'm not letting anyone down my changing my mind. It's my right to decide if something's for me.
6. Driving lessons may be a little stressful, but I already know how to physically drive and that's half the battle. And I never have to buy a car even after I get my licence. Owning a car is a decision that I will make when I'm ready. Having the licence is handy for applying for work that is attractive but limited to licenced drivers.
So why am I stressing? What is wrong with me? I need to find a way to let go of all this nonsense and get to reality.
My overthinking has been flogged the bejesus out of me for the last few weeks.
I really need to apologize to hubby and learn to keep my fat flapping mouth shut the rest of the time. It's all vain imaginings anyway.
At least I hope so. 134.6 this morning. I've lost the two pounds that I gained while the family were visiting.
Now to get back down to 133.0. I want to be lingering in the 131-133 zone instead of the 135-137 zone. 129 would be even better, but that's getting into the realm of fantasy with my cookie habit!
I get off work at 3.35 today. I'm doing Cathe's Kick Punch & Crunch again, and hope to write a nice long catch-up post and visit around other people's blogs. I haven't left many comments lately, but I have been checking in on lots of you!
Yeah, I'm a bit tired and bored. I'm going to go and do my workout in a second but thought I'd post first. Work is weird lately. We're chronically short-staffed, Tits-Almighty is now my supervisor (gag) and I've been doing a LOT of nibbling lately. More like scarfing. Most of it goes on at work, but I've started doing it more at home. I'll even make toast and eat that. I can turn anything into a binge. Must be stress-eating. Plus I'm not sleeping too well. Right now I'd rather have a nap than do a workout, but I've got to work off those stupid extra calories I've been consuming. Stupid TOM. Stupid chocolate. Stupid work! Grrr.
Well, that's enough of that. You may have noticed that there's no July retrospective and fitness test. I didn't do it because the last day of July I was bawling my eyes out because DS went back to America. Since then I've been sort of in a daze. I will do one for August for sure, though.
I weighed 135.4 this morning, so all hope is not lost.
Right. Time for Jari Love to kick my flabby hind end all over my living room.
Cathe rocks--as usual! I did the entire workout, Kick, Punch & Crunch (click then scroll down the page to find the link to a video clip) for the first time today. It is 68 minutes of kicking, punching, cardio kickbox intensity training drills and stability ball abs. Whew! I'm telling you, if that workout didn't pay for those rice crackers in full, there's no hope for any of us!
Weighed 136.4 today and realised it's day 25 of my cycle. That explains SOO much--my moodiness, grazing on carbs and feeling so edgy that it's like the skin on the backs of arms is crawling off. Eww!
I feel better having done a tough workout and am going to town with the hubster to look around and take in some of the lovely day.
Altogether a bad eating day. It's 10 PM and I am stuffed, queasy and grossed out by myself. I might have bought a size 8 skirt today, but I've got a lot of mess to deal with still. Here's a full confession, if I can remember it all.
1 and a half slices wholemeal toast with coconut oil and strawberry jam half bowl of muesli with soy milk and dried fruit half a cup of black coffee a can of chickpea dahl 10 or 12 pringles 2 mini chocolate chip muffins another half bowl of muesli a dark chocolate KitKat dinner of brown rice, tofu and cabbage half a package of Japanese rice crackers 3 lowfat raisin biscuits
Have you ever eaten so much that you seriously consider going and making yourself sick just to relieve some of the pressure and nausea?
Today was a bad eating day, no two ways about it. But that's not as bad as how I feel physically. I am actually quite ill right now, having eaten half a package of Japanese rice crackers just because DH brought them home. I actually had to give him the package and tell him to either hide them or throw them out. I was not able to stop on my own. This is sick, sick, sick.
I think I will always have seriously weird food issues and lack of self control where junky foods are concerned. If it is in the house, I cannot help myself. I eat it, and I don't mean just a little bit of it. I eat it until I feel sick or it is gone, whichever comes first. Wow, I haven't felt this queasy after a binge in a long time. Maybe this will put me off Japanese rice crackers for life. I hope so!
Heavy sigh. Pulling myself up by the bootstraps here. I can't undo the damage I've just done. All I can do is try to maintain more self control tomorrow by not allowing any more junk in the house and by sticking to my exercise.
