Yoga 5X a Week

I’ve decided to challenge myself. And I’ve decided to do it publicly so my human weaknesses won’t win out and make me a failure.

You see the other day I was walking along when someone (who had been walking behind me for awhile) asked me if I was still doing yoga every day.

First of all, I’ve never been doing yoga every day, at best maybe three times a week, but never once a day, and most consistently twice a week for a very long time.

Anyway, I was all of a sudden consciously aware of my love handles that I desperately tried to pull my jean waist over in order to diminish their appearance, and my inner thighs shamelessly brushing together as I continued to walk.

Was I still doing yoga every day?

No.

Over the past six months I’ve been lucky to get in five times a month. So after months of wanting and wishing I were more active, I’ve finally deciding to start the doing of it. Now despite the obvious benefit of being a yogi, there are several reasons for this challenge, as follows:

1. Inner yoga peace?
2. A goal, any goal to get me out of my daily feeling sorry for myself that I pick up vomit all day, live with my mother and have no education slump.
3. I’ve thought long and hard that this “slump” might just be depression, and I’m so not ready to be beaten by it, and exercise always helps me with mental wellness.
4. To stop the consistent migraines and headaches that have come to plague me since my yoga absence.
5. To tone my thighs. Just had to throw that in, because seriously there has to be some physical benefit, right?

Anyway, the challenge officially starts this Monday, the 18th. It continues on until scheduled bunion surgery, which is not scheduled, but will mostly likely be in a couple of months? Hopefully Paul can hang in with yoga 5x a week until then. Paul being my bunion’s name. (Amy named it, thought my bunion needed a serious name, except it’s my Grandfathers name as well, so that doesn’t really work. So if anyone has any other bunion name suggestions, I’m all ears, but it must be a serious name, until then, said bunion will be referred to as Paul.) Paul doesn’t hurt today and I think he’s just as excited to start on Monday as I am. Woo hoo. Right?