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Are you wearing any pants?
Jan. 23rd, 2013 09:59 amThree weeks of the AIP down and things are going well. I'm getting used to the bland food. It helps that the pastured beef is delicious.
My energy levels are pretty good, but I don't have a lot of oomph left by the end of the workday. I'm going to bed early (no later than 9:30), sleeping great, still dreaming occasionally (more frequently than I used to, anyway), and I wake up feeling rested if not exactly enthusiastic about getting out of bed. A lot of that is feeling grumpy about work and weather, though. Overall, my chronic fatigue issues are pretty minimal. My left hip has been grouchy, but I think that's simply due to lack of squats.
I'm in my second week of morning yoga. I'm doing the ten-week series included in Mira Mehta's How to Use Yoga book, which I just discovered has been reprinted--Hurray! That and the companion volume Yoga: The Iyengar Way are my two favorite instructional books for yoga (I'm partial to Iyengar) and I was very happy to see that How to Use was back in print. Anyway. I'm in my second week of morning yoga, to which I add Willow Ryan's hip opening series (part 1 here, part 2 here) every day in hopes of improving my squat. Yesterday I found this article on squat therapy at Breaking Muscle and I'm going to add those in once a week, probably during Saturday morning yoga, when I'm not pressed for time.
Walking every hour on the hour is going well, and starting today I'm adding ten body-weight squats at the end of each walk-about. Alas, I do not have the energy to exercise after work like I'd hoped. It's not a good idea to push my body when it's tired, so I haven't been doing any resistance training. When I finish this ten-week home yoga course, I'll start morning resistance training with yoga in the evenings.
My waist circumference isn't budging, which is disappointing. And I'm still swelling (approximately two inches) when I eat. The only other possible thing to cut at this point is fruit. Once I finish the fruit on hand, I won't purchase any more. I'm up four inches around my waist and five inches around my hips. NOT ACCEPTABLE.
Now, for something lighthearted but serious. Ladies. Are You Wearing Pants?
And (related to pants-wearing) a fantastic (if short) Sherlock vid. SFW except for maybe the two seconds of gasping at the end.
My energy levels are pretty good, but I don't have a lot of oomph left by the end of the workday. I'm going to bed early (no later than 9:30), sleeping great, still dreaming occasionally (more frequently than I used to, anyway), and I wake up feeling rested if not exactly enthusiastic about getting out of bed. A lot of that is feeling grumpy about work and weather, though. Overall, my chronic fatigue issues are pretty minimal. My left hip has been grouchy, but I think that's simply due to lack of squats.
I'm in my second week of morning yoga. I'm doing the ten-week series included in Mira Mehta's How to Use Yoga book, which I just discovered has been reprinted--Hurray! That and the companion volume Yoga: The Iyengar Way are my two favorite instructional books for yoga (I'm partial to Iyengar) and I was very happy to see that How to Use was back in print. Anyway. I'm in my second week of morning yoga, to which I add Willow Ryan's hip opening series (part 1 here, part 2 here) every day in hopes of improving my squat. Yesterday I found this article on squat therapy at Breaking Muscle and I'm going to add those in once a week, probably during Saturday morning yoga, when I'm not pressed for time.
Walking every hour on the hour is going well, and starting today I'm adding ten body-weight squats at the end of each walk-about. Alas, I do not have the energy to exercise after work like I'd hoped. It's not a good idea to push my body when it's tired, so I haven't been doing any resistance training. When I finish this ten-week home yoga course, I'll start morning resistance training with yoga in the evenings.
My waist circumference isn't budging, which is disappointing. And I'm still swelling (approximately two inches) when I eat. The only other possible thing to cut at this point is fruit. Once I finish the fruit on hand, I won't purchase any more. I'm up four inches around my waist and five inches around my hips. NOT ACCEPTABLE.
Now, for something lighthearted but serious. Ladies. Are You Wearing Pants?
And (related to pants-wearing) a fantastic (if short) Sherlock vid. SFW except for maybe the two seconds of gasping at the end.