The Life of the “Girl Pastor”

Getting Fit!

Hey all! So I’ve almost been at it for a couple of months now! I started doing pilates with my friend Wendy on Mondays at the end of September, and am now doing hot yoga once a week for almost a month now. I think once pilates is done, I will do hot yoga twice a week. I am really feeling great these days!

Exercise seems to always make me in a good mood. I have especially noticed a big change in 2 areas: 1- my back. Before I could barely do any types of exercises in pilates without my instructor asking me if i had a bad back. I suppose it’s from being hunched of my computer like igor every day.. yeah that might have something to do with it! But every time I come home from pilates or yoga, I feel stronger. each week, I can reach a little further! I actually had a breakthrough last week while doing “standing separate leg head to knee pose” (what a gay name!)… I can actually bend over with my legs 4 feet apart, lock my knees and grab the outsides of my feet without wanting to scream! how awesome is that!

the second thing i’ve noticed is that my ability to balance is getting a lot better. I did both sets of balancing stick pose in yoga last week without falling down! SOOO awesome.

Yoga seems to kick my butt every time I do it, but I feel so great afterwards (and sleep like a rock that night) that I can’t help but go back. I’ve heard you can burn as many as 1200 calories doing hot yoga as well.. almost twice as much if I were killing myself on a treadmill once a week. They’re also very encouraging whenever I go, which is so great, since I have a tendancy to go “well that sucked” and quit on the spot (I think it runs in the family…. we all seem to be allergic to exercise, minus Calan).

Anyway… I think once the new year comes if my yoga place offers a 30 day challenge or something I will definitely take part, and do before/after pictures, the whole lot!

Hope you’re all doing well.

Work is fine.. home is awesome (Brett just got his Christmas pressie yesterday… an Xbox!). Only about a month until Christmas holidays kick in! Can’t wait to come home and see the fam!

T

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