Today yoga felt great! The yoga seemed to go by so fast that it almost seemed like I should have done it again. That is when you know you are really enjoying something and similarly to driving in your neighborhood, you are kind of on autopilot and don't even have to concentrate on the moves. That is exactly how I felt today. It was like muscle memory, poor balance muscle memory, but still the same affect. This just affirms to me that yoga should be a daily routine. I do remember one moment during the yoga that I was feeling the sweat bead up on my forehead. I was doing a vinyasa and thinking about how many calories I was burning and how funny it was that I was barely moving and just starting to get a sweat on. I may not be a yoga master, but I have a new found love of it. I have mini goals to get more flexible and do some of the moves that I really can't even think about. The only way to get there is to do it more often. I can't wait to do the 21 Day Fix yoga to get my first example of some yoga not P90X related.
Between day 30 and day 60 I stopped checking out my weight on the scale. All I did was try to eat like I was supposed to do and get those workouts in. When I finally weighed, I was happy but not completely ecstatic. I was losing weight, but not to the degree I thought I was. Let's be honest. I am using a scale that is rated to 300 lbs. It is one of those spring dial scales and the wheel keeps going over the 300 lb mark, but how accurate is it? I first got on the scale and it registered in the 350 area if you keep marching out the marks equally with the same value as if it were from 0 then it would be 350 to 355. I really thought I was more than that, and I could have been, but I can't make up numbers. All I can do is take the numbers that I see and hope that they actually do reflect the true numbers that I am living with. Just to help me think that this would be the way it is, I went to Walmart and there was a scale that was top end of 330 lbs. It was a dial scale as well. It actually did go around a second time and had the upper numbers over 300 in red on the dial while the numbers under were in black. It was exactly equal on that scale by numbers, so if you were 30 lbs it would be in black and if you were 330 lbs it would be under the 30 in red, and exactly on the same line where 30 was. This gave me the affirmation that I was close to accurate based on my scale. It still might be off, but hey I only have so much to work with.
Today, I stepped on the scale and the reading was between 296 and 298. I got off and on the scale like 10 times to check and recheck the weight. Everyone of the weights were under 300 and all about that 297 to 298 range. I have 2 days until my official weight for the 90 days. I will be glad it is under 300 and it will be a step closer to what my real goals are, but my goal for this round of X3 was to get under 300. I think I can say mission accomplished, but I will wait for the official weight. I know that I have been able to get into smaller jeans that I have and have not been able to wear for a while. I have had to add holes into the belt I use and even trim off the end as it was like 18 inches just flopping around that I don't use any longer. I ran in a 5k last Saturday and haven't done anything like that since the early 90's.
I am achieving goals, not all of them just yet, but some. I will be setting some new goals and adjusting others. I still have my big goals for this year of being 235 lbs by my birthday in November. I also have a goal of competing in a Tough Mudder in early November in Houston. I am not dead set on that goal, but if I don't do that this year, next year I will be doing it and a Spartan Run etc. Those are goals I have. I also want to achieve $1000.00 per week in my BB business. That may or may not happen, it is up to me. A long term goal of mine much farther out than this year is to become a physical trainer or a wellness coach. The mother of all goals is to buy some land here in this small town and create a mud run/spartan/warrior dash training facility. There is a ton of places around here that would easily accommodate such an undertaking. That will take money, planning and some credentialing and at some point I will see that through. You heard it here first. I think this area is suited for such a place both due to the climate and the terrain. While it does snow here and it gets cold here, it could facilitate training year round. It's a lofty goal and one that I will undoubtedly need a lot of support and outside influence in achieving.
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