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muck_a_luckSo, Lent is all done. I'm 12 pounds lighter. All the clothes that I bought that pre-Barbarian summer now fit fantastically again. Current weight is 153, which is almost as low as I have been in a decade. I think pre-Barbarian summer I had gotten down to 150. Journal may say 140, but that was on this stupid work scale that is 10 pounds light, so should have been 150.
I'm splurging this week, and already have made myself so sick on sugar (thanks, Costco cinnamon buns!) that I am contemplating going back to stricter dieting TOMORROW instead of Monday. :D
Considering how bouncy I am today, I am also thinking that because Lent occurs in the very dark heart of SAD season, I will NOT be giving up caffiene for Lent ever again. Instead, though, I may consider quitting caffiene around Thanksgiving and starting drinking it again on New Year's Day. The extra kick today has been shocking, and that might actually be something useful caffiene could do for me in the dark months. Also, I think I will be alternating weeks of caffiene-no caffiene so that I don't restart the addiction, which was pretty bad this past year, based on the severity of withdrawal symptoms.
Gah. SAD was horrendous this year. So bad that I might seriously have to consider doing something pharaceutical next year.
If I have achieved my weight-loss goals by my birthday (target weight, 135, which is what I weighed in undergrad and which is in my healthy weight zone of 132-145), I think next Lent I will also not try strict dieting. I think the loss of sugar during the dark months was not helpful, either.
All that said, I did remarkably well during Lent this year. And doing that serious fasting does bring your mind back to God and Christ a lot, even if sometimes it is to think "Stupid Lent." And it was good to reset, and good to remember that in many ways, a calorie restricted diet does make me feel better and more healthy. Even through the depression I could feel that.
My other by-my-birthday goal - handstand. I know it's a stunt, and it is not very zen to desire SO BADLY to be able to do it, but I have never been a very zen person, so... I think I will be able to do it pretty quickly. I have been watching Shiva Rea's instruction on it, and I found Sadie Nardini's great wall routine. I'm sure I am strong enough already to do it, just need to figure out how to get my feet up there. And with the coming of the warm months, I will be able to use the deck, with the huge, blank outside wall of the next house, and nothing for me to fall on.
I'm splurging this week, and already have made myself so sick on sugar (thanks, Costco cinnamon buns!) that I am contemplating going back to stricter dieting TOMORROW instead of Monday. :D
Considering how bouncy I am today, I am also thinking that because Lent occurs in the very dark heart of SAD season, I will NOT be giving up caffiene for Lent ever again. Instead, though, I may consider quitting caffiene around Thanksgiving and starting drinking it again on New Year's Day. The extra kick today has been shocking, and that might actually be something useful caffiene could do for me in the dark months. Also, I think I will be alternating weeks of caffiene-no caffiene so that I don't restart the addiction, which was pretty bad this past year, based on the severity of withdrawal symptoms.
Gah. SAD was horrendous this year. So bad that I might seriously have to consider doing something pharaceutical next year.
If I have achieved my weight-loss goals by my birthday (target weight, 135, which is what I weighed in undergrad and which is in my healthy weight zone of 132-145), I think next Lent I will also not try strict dieting. I think the loss of sugar during the dark months was not helpful, either.
All that said, I did remarkably well during Lent this year. And doing that serious fasting does bring your mind back to God and Christ a lot, even if sometimes it is to think "Stupid Lent." And it was good to reset, and good to remember that in many ways, a calorie restricted diet does make me feel better and more healthy. Even through the depression I could feel that.
My other by-my-birthday goal - handstand. I know it's a stunt, and it is not very zen to desire SO BADLY to be able to do it, but I have never been a very zen person, so... I think I will be able to do it pretty quickly. I have been watching Shiva Rea's instruction on it, and I found Sadie Nardini's great wall routine. I'm sure I am strong enough already to do it, just need to figure out how to get my feet up there. And with the coming of the warm months, I will be able to use the deck, with the huge, blank outside wall of the next house, and nothing for me to fall on.
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Date: 2010-04-24 11:21 am (UTC)Hmmmm. Which raises the question of yoga fan fic links in
*is still yoga stalking*
Date: 2010-04-24 03:06 pm (UTC)There was hot yoga femslash in the emergency fic drive for
http://azurelunatic.dreamwidth.org/6390992.html?thread=11650000#cmt11650000
(NSFW, obviously.)
Also, handstand YES. WANT WANT WANT. Total failure of Zen *g*.