Starting the Day off Right!

Today I finally got up and did a Yoga Live dvd. I did the one entitled Yoga Express. It contains three ten minute work outs. I did them all. If felt pretty good for a long time. By mid afternoon I felt all sorts of odd aches here and there. I guess disused muscles were awaken! Tomorrow I intend to do the same. I need to get active.

You can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it. But if you sit quietly in the grass it will come and sit on your shoulder.
~~Unknown~~

Scrounging For Lunch

Well. Today I did not even have time to get lunch. Yesterday it was sushi and crackers with goat cheese. Today I did not really feel like going out for lunch. There is nothing around by greasy Bojangles. Yuck. Instead I ate a can of tuna that one of my coworkers had in the breakroom. She says she cannot eat plain tuna or any tuna without lots of mayo. Me? I hate mayo. I cannot eat very much of it at all. I think I was turned off permanently by one of my friends who eats grits and mayonnaise. Daily. She cannot eat grtis without mayonnaise. That was it. I could never eat mayo again. So. I had that can of tuna with raspberry pecan salad dressing. Just a little. I then had a few crackers with goat cheese. It was good.

Breakfast was organic yogurt and blueberry/apple granola mixed together. That was yummy. So far so good.

You can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it. But if you sit quietly in the grass it will come and sit on your shoulder.
~~Unknown~~

The Fat Medusa

There is a girl who I work with who is extremely obese. I know she weighs over 300 pounds. Maybe even 350. Happy as can be. Ghetto as can be. Today she came in with her weave looking like something only Medusa could love. Some crazy braids sticking up all over her head like something I have never seen before. It was so extreme that we all had to say something to her, both white and black employees. She looked scary! She did go to the bathroom and try to do something with it. That hair coupled with the skin tight knit pants she always wears with too tight Baby Phat tops.....can we say tore up from the floor up?!!!

Well, for the past 6 months I have been trying to get her to eat better. Not to eat so much fried, greasy foods. She has resisted most things I have brought in for her to eat. I have been bringing enough salads and fruits for 2 and offering things to her. She turns her nose up at most. I have even encouraged her to walk. Nothing on her end. I have talked to her about low carb eating. She did do that for about 2 days. She is not ready to make any sort of change in her lifestyle right now, so I think I will give up trying. I will put the focus on me. Maybe if she sees me consistently loosing, she may take an interest in herself.

Her eating habits are deplorable. She eats too fast and puts way too much in her mouth. It is gross to eat around her. Then after eating she spends most of the afternoon burping and belching very loudly. I thank God I do not have to share an office with her. As soon as any kind of food smell eminates from the breakroom, she is literally running from her cubby to see what kind of food someone else has. Then she begs for it. Only the unhealthy things. A vegetable will kill her!

I realize that you cannot get others to diet or make changes unless they want to. You can only encourage but if they do not want to do it, they will not.

You can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it. But if you sit quietly in the grass it will come and sit on your shoulder.
~~Unknown~~

Music to Loose Calories By!

You can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it. But if you sit quietly in the grass it will come and sit on your shoulder.
~~Unknown~~

Goal Suit Revisted!

Back on May 5, 2005, I posted that this lovely swin siut was my goal suit. Well. Since that time it has just sat in the drawer. I wonder if the elastic is dry rot. It is STILL my goal suit. It is lovely, so cute and has never been worn. I pulled it out again today and dreamed of strutting my stuff in it on the beach. I then got on the scale. Even thought I was outdone by Little Debbie Cakes earlier today, I lost 5 pounds.

You can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it. But if you sit quietly in the grass it will come and sit on your shoulder.
~~Unknown~~

Why is this Man Blue?

This is what happens when you self medicate. Apparently this man had some skin problems and decided years ago that he had the cure. It was all due to stress that he developed dermatitis

When it got so bad that the skin on his face began to peel and crack he started using a substance called colloidal silver. Now What is that? I have never heard of it. It is made by extracting silver from metal into water with an electrical current and it is then taken as a drink. He took it a step farther. He decided to rub it into his skin and that was when he turned blue. There is no turning back. He is permantly discolored.

You can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it. But if you sit quietly in the grass it will come and sit on your shoulder.
~~Unknown~~

Bright , Shiny Things

All that glitters is not gold. It might just be silver... silver coins that is! Silver has been a precious commodity that really has not had the fame of gold. It really has had an industrial use because of it's strength and conductivity. I normally do not think of silver this way or even in the form of coins or ingots or bars as an investment. The U.S. used to have stockpiles of silver. Now we don't. We have to buy it.

What is issued today is American Silver Eagle coins. They are .999 in purity and you can even get the Canadian Maple Leaf silver coins if you want. Silver is an investment now and it is easy to purchase as such through Monex. All it takes is a phone call. Once you decide how much you want to invest, call Monex and a representative will handle your transaction on the phone. Money is confirmed, bank wired are done and then your purchase is shipped to you or your bank. Reselling is easy too.

Give them a call. Monex is committed to customer service and being the most trusted name in precious metal investments. So get on the phone and invest in silver. Expand your portfolio. all that glitters is not gold. It just might be silver.

You can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it. But if you sit quietly in the grass it will come and sit on your shoulder.
~~Unknown~~

Undone by Little Debbie Cakes

Today was such a good day. I had eaten all the right things today. Then I remembered I had bought my child a box of her favorite Little Debbie Cakes: Swiss Cake Rolls. I thought of them and how they would taste. Now mind you I have not had one of these since college. I tried to think of other things. I went to look in the box. There was only one package left. Could I really eat the last package meant for my child? I went away. Several hours later I was thinking about that chocolately goodness and thought I would have to eat them. No! I tried to stop myself. I got up and drank 33 ounces of water. I was full. No room for Swiss Cake Rolls.

I noticed later on that my child was taking a nap. I got up and looked in the box again. Still the one package left. I know she was saving that for tomorrow. I picked it up. I put it back. I went to another room. Then........I went back to the kitchen and ate those Little Debbie Cakes right up. 270 calories they were. Undone by Little Debbie Cakes!

You can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it. But if you sit quietly in the grass it will come and sit on your shoulder.
~~Unknown~~

Baptiste Power Yoga

Baptiste Power Yoga is something I have always been intrigued with. I would love to attend one of the yoga boot camps one day. I first became aware of him when one of the ladies from Survivor Africa attended one of his camps when she got back. It was on a Survivor follow up show. I think that I would like to go for a week and hve that be my vacation. I think it would be something I would have to wait about a year to go on. I would have to do a little yoga on my own and build up. Bootcamp does not play.

They say it is much more than a vacation. You will experience a sanctuary for your body and soul. Natural, spontaneous healing and physical transformation can happen when you put your usual habits on hold, and focus on training, meditating and eating to balance and strengthen. the bootcamp yogic process can create a wave of power that courses through your body and your spirit. Now that sounds like a winner for me.

You can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it. But if you sit quietly in the grass it will come and sit on your shoulder.
~~Unknown~~

Yoga Booty Ballet

I have been seeing infomercials for Yoga Booty Ballet in the past year. It was more expensive than what the dvd's cost on amazon now. The price is coming down. I might have to get this as well as it has more movement. This makes me believe that it is more aerobic. I need that as well. The movement. I tend to be sedentary now. Check this out. It might be worth it. I have alwasy been a fan of an aerobic class. I remember the days in the 70's and 80's of high impact. That was when i was a spa member///gym members in those days and spandex was all the rage. I still have lots of spandex workout suits from that era. To me, they never go out of style. Like disco. Disco lives forever and so does all my spandex workout suits with matching headbands. Now if I could only find my missing legwarmers!

You can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it. But if you sit quietly in the grass it will come and sit on your shoulder.
~~Unknown~~

Benefits of Yoga

AS I begin the yoga avenue, I wanted to see exactly what the benefits were of doing it. There are many and here are just a few.

• Increasing Flexibility – yoga has positions that limber the various joints of the body
• Massaging of ALL Organs of the Body – Yoga is perhaps the only form of activity which massages all the internal glands and organs of the body
• Excellent toning of the muscles – Muscles that have become flaccid, weak or slothy are stimulated repeatedly to shed excess flab and flaccidity.
• Detoxification – By gently stretching muscles and joints as well as massaging the various organs, yoga ensures the optimum blood supply to various parts of the body. This helps in the flushing out of toxins.
• Reduced Stress: Yoga, which derives its name from the word, “yoke”—to bring together—does just that, bringing together the mind, body and spirit.
• Increasing lubrication of the joints, ligaments and tendons – likewise, the well-researched yoga positions exercise the different tendons and ligaments of the body

You can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it. But if you sit quietly in the grass it will come and sit on your shoulder.
~~Unknown~~

Yoga Live

I ordered the Yoga Live dvd's online that are endorsed by Russel Simmons. I thought he was the originator of the yoga but he is not. He just backed it. I watched one for stretching and flexibility last night. It was good. I watched. I did not do. I was way too tired after work to do anything last night. I plan to DO something today. I have a big trip planned for out of the country in about 3 months and I have to get ready for that experience. Now is the time.

The Yoga Live series has 4 in the set. I was lucky to get all 4 as they are out of print now....ahhhh!! The wonders of EBAY. The thing that I noticed the most is that it was so slow. Slow in my mind means hard as there is a lot of breathing that is controlled and a lot of controlled muscle work as well. Be kind to yourself when you practice yoga. Go slowly, especially in the beginning, and listen to your body. It knows what it can do. If it says "stop," stop. Don't push it. Yoga is not a competitive sport. In fact is looks difficult. The poses will take a little bit of time for me to master. There involves some balance and I seem to have none right now. I took ballet as a child, so I have some grace. Is there really any left?

The yoga combined with walking should do the trick I think. I am ready for a change. A real one. Not all this stopping and starting I have been doing. I think I am ready to finally make the real commitment.

You can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it. But if you sit quietly in the grass it will come and sit on your shoulder.
~~Unknown~~