Week One - Checking In

Hi All -

This has been an interesting week for me — lots of questions are coming up. Like a lot of you that I’ve talked to, the most difficult thing to do this week has been to sit still for five minutes in the mornings and evenings. The monkey in my mind is on an adrenaline surge, I think — bouncing all over the place. I’m having faith that this condition will pass with practice!

The eating awareness has been interesting, too. Writing everything down is no change for me — I’ve been doing that for awhile now — but I’ve also been tracking calories for quite awhile and I find myself wondering if that kind of diet-police mentality doesn’t go against the spirit of this exercise. I’ve also really started to view “diet” foods in a different light and have been steering clear of those. Ironically, I’ve actually ended up eating fewer calories every day in spite of that but I think that’s due to being so busy cramming in a yoga practice every day. My best friend and I joke that our gravestones are going to say “She often mistook boredom for hunger” and that problem has been alleviated by having so much more to do.

My favorite thing this week has been my time on the mat. It’s been a little challenging to schedule the rest of my life so I can make it to the studio but I’ve gotten so much satisfaction out of it that it’s definitely been worth it. I think I owe my son an extra trip to the pool (and maybe a movie) over the weekend in exchange for his patience with my absence though!

See you all on Monday night!