Yoga Doesn't Equal Weight Loss (duh)

Excuse me while I interrupt your irregular blog expectations to complain about my weight. When I say "my weight" I mean the 135lbs of my 5 foot, 6ish-inches frame that is considered "normal" and maybe even "healthy". It's seriously making me nuts.

Let me explain. Back in the days of being 18, stressed out with college and training for a marathon I was oh... 120lbs. I'd like that again. Thanks. The reality is, though, that no matter how much yoga I do I've noticed two things:

1. Yoga is really great for strength training but unless I'm doing hot yoga/bikrim I'm not getting enough cardio to burn the calories I need to drop weight.

2. My diet fluxes between "good job" and "Oh hello there alcohol, thin mints, and excessive amounts of bread."

So yoga is basically keeping my weight consistent. Which is fine, I guess. I mean considering the amount of junk I've been consuming this month it is actually doing a good job. But because of all this, I'm looking forward to getting back into double digit runs again. Not because I want to be 120lbs again. Ok, maybe a little but that's unreasonable and I look like Skeletor.

This is all to say that I can totally do a headstand, but that's not going to help me lose weight. (duh)

Well

I'm totally bored writing about yoga. I think that's pretty obvious by now. Maybe I should make this into a smut-tastic blog. Thoughts?

Wait, it's over?

After spending 4 hours on homework this week, I am almost all caught up. Really. Saturday is my last class in the training program. I have two classes to make up, which I've already scheduled and I'm starting my 15 weeks of assisting tonight. That's right, I will actually finish this.

Woah.

I started this in May of last year. Looking back, that may have been the wrong time in my life to start anything else. I was still in graduate school, working, producing, and trying to avoid a relationship I was totally and completely over months prior to me ending it.

Finishing this program within the next few months, I am finishing in a much better place. I can actually touch my toes on some poses, I am running irregularly but at least once a week, and my personal life is pretty solid.

Oh and I can do headstand. Rock.