1/6th of the way through Hot Yoga yeah!!!!

 Yesterday was Day 10 of Hot Yoga. It was a stressful day of work and dealing with the car insurance company so I was very thankful to have this to go to. It's funny how good it can feel to get there and just get in my zone. Yesterday was also a good yoga day for me. I had better balance, I was calm and I was able to keep distractions out of the way.  I was so happy to have a good day because the day before and even the past few days were pretty crummy yoga days. But TODAY was my day and it was a good one. I'm 1/6th of the way through.  Nice!!!

 

Ok friends. Tonight we're gonna see The Civil Wars and I am so so so excited!!!

 

xo, Steph

Making an Action Plan | Workouts and Hot Yoga

I know. It's January. All I'm thinking about it working out, eating healthy, and not caring about how my hair looks after I do Hot Yoga in the morning before work.

Messy Messy Hair.

Tell me I am not the only one? Right? Cause I wanna talk fashion and clothes and what not but its January. I'm on one of those, "Hey we can't spend money on fun stuff like clothes" budget months so I'm not really chatting about that. You've seen all my clothes, I wore them for 30 days in my photo a day challenge I did. So what am I going to talk about nowadays? Well in all honesty... this blog is my blog to write about what I want to write about. You may not like what I write about some days (even though secretly I hope you do), but I want to be able to write about the things I find neat, rad or cool, or dorky - whatevs. I JUST WANT TO WRITE (that should be said like the I just want to dance!!!! phrase) So I am. I'm writing.

So ya, like I said earlier, it's January and I'm back to this working out and clean eating thing. Is it fun? Yes, right now it is! Will it be in a few weeks? Maybe... Probably not. But will I stick with it? Yes!!! Why? Because my goal is to have 1 ab poke through that stomach of mine. I only need 1, I mean it might look strange, but I want to have for the first time in my entire life an ab that I can see when I'm wearing my bathing suit.

It's easy to make goals, like I want to lose weight. But where is your action plan? How are you going to get to point B? Well I make mini points into my Point B, so my Point B is actually Point H or P or Z... enough you get it. I want to get to Point Z but I realize that to get there I have to go through point B, C, D, E, F, etc... So those of you who read my blog keep that in mind when you work towards your goals, any of them, doesn't have to be weightloss related.

So whats my action plan? Here we go. For the next 60 days I am doing 2 different programs. I talked about them briefly yesterday but here they are.

Hot Yoga at Hot Yoga Nashville for 60 days STRAIGHT. What do I want to get out of this? I want to feel better mentally, and stretch my body, to melt some fat and to get great workouts.

 Jamie Eason Live Fit Trainer - Stick in Phase 1 for 2 months then move to the 2 other phases. Why am I doing that instead of the normal 4 weeks of Phase 1? Well honestly... because I have the 60 days of Hot Yoga that I'm doing and since I've already done the program once I know I wont be able to get my Hot Yoga in once I move into Phase 2. So I'm doing 2 months of Phase 1, building muscle and gaining some muscle that I lost with those 2 months I took off in Nov and Dec. I wouldn't recomend doing this if its your first time through the 12 weeks program but since I've done it before I'm making modifications to work for me.

But what am I going to do after those 60 days? Glad you asked internet friends. I plan to move into the 2nd and 3rd phase of the program. I am still undecided on if I want to do the Carb cycling or not in that last phase. I struggled with this part of it, and I'm certain that is why I had a total binge after I finished it. Ok... that and the fact that it was Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas and I had already been in my best friends wedding and honestly... I'm still that fat girl who likes to eat bad food.

So thats another thing. Know yourself. Know what you can and cant do. I know me. I know how I am. I know that I can't cheat on my diet or my program. If I do I will not stop and I will keep eating bad. Just plain and simple. I can't do it. Some people can, good for them and lucky for them. I am just not one of them. But I know myself and my limitations, and for me I just cant go to Wendy's and have that Frosty and Chili with a French Fry. I just can't because tomorrow I will want it again and I will give in and that is how you gain 10 pounds between Nov and Dec. So I didnt really eat that, it was an example of what I want right now, but I'm not. I'm eating chicken, and a salad, and oatmeal (because I ate my bread for breakfast and forgot it was for lunch).

So ya. This will take me in to June, where I will go from there I am not sure, but for now I have an action plan that gets me till then. I'll figure June and beyond after that.

Wow this is a wordy post. I'm like my dad, I can talk for hours to a brick wall. Which is kinda what this is like sometimes. :)

Hope you have a great day! I'm done with Hot yoga for today so its a rest night, then back at it tomorrow.

xo, Steph

I did it | Diary of 60 days of Hot Yoga

So I haven't actually finished Hot Yoga but I have started it. Last summer I did the 30 day challenge which was 30 days straight and I had great results. So I know I'm going to see awesome results this time too.

Day 1 was on Monday. Actually I'm not just doing Hot Yoga, I'm also doing the 12 week Jamie Eason LiveFit trainer. I did that last year and had great result but I super cheated in November and December and didn't work out so I feel like I lost what results I made. It's a 3 phase program where you don't do cardio in the first phase. I'm changing it up for me. I'm doing 2 month in phase 1 while I do my Hot yoga. I'm pretty excited.

So today I'm on both my 4th day in Hot Yoga and on my LiveFit and I'm crazy sore. CRAZY SORE!!! So far I'm really enjoying it, again. I feel soo out of practice. I'm all wibble wobbly. I have bad balance so I find yoga to be difficult anyway and when you add all that sweat and hotness it's like I can't even stand up. One thing I try to do when we first start is to make an expression of what I want my practice to be. Over the past few days it was Acceptance. Accepting that I can't always do the "tree pose" without falling. Accepting that I'm not always going to be able to get my arms and legs low enough for the "Eagle Pose" and it's ok. Tomorrow is another day and it could be better. Today's word was Distractions. Do not allow the other people who are distracting affect my practice. Did it work? Kinda. But then it goes back to accepting that it was only half way effective. Which means that I only let people distract me a little and then I remembered my word and all was better.

Anyway... I wanted to tell you about how the Hot Yoga is going. Hope you're having a great week!

xo, Steph

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