I think challenging yourself while being comfortable and enjoying yourself is always a fine line to walk. On one hand, you have to keep pushing yourself to a point where your body is adapting and even straining a little...I've accepted soreness as a badge of honour. But its also so important to listen to your body and avoid discomfort of the pain variety. I'm cheering for ya, and your goal of learning harder yoga poses. I'm horribly inflexible, so I admire your dedication to the workout
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hey there! i've been meaning to shout out a big congrats to you and mz. em and your new and improved closer living sitch. yay for that.
i think the primary reason i am not more fit is because i'm big. certainly one could argue for the other way around. but i know i (and i'd go so far as to say many others) stop myself from exercising because i'm not fit already (i.e. i'm usually the biggest one in the yoga room. it takes concerted and specific work on my part to feel like i belong there). that's a mindset that obviously deserves countering. i'm not saying i'm meant to be big, i'm just saying i am and i have been for a long time so that's what i have to work with.
"what if the desire for fitness (still i so hesitate with that word) was to spring from self love, as an outgrowth of feeling good right now rather than an indication of present-day failure?"
yipee! don't you love it when these things suddenly click? i'm glad you wrote it down, too, because sometimes you can forget stuff like this, revelations. it's not like a chick in a shell where once the shell's cracked, there's no hiding it. it's all too easy to forget.
said the girl who noticed a new weird part of her body (or weird about her body) this am. and decided she had to just stop thinking about her stomach for a while. yeah.
disclosure: i haven't read your other post yet, nor the other comments on this post...
yup--love those small revelations. may have to add that as an interest.
how's this for a crazy one? (have not come to believe this one fully, i assure): if it's part of your body, it can't be ugly because it's a part of you? even the funkiest fraggliest toenail or misplaced stretchiest dimple.
and you know what? it's an everyday work on, it's not one of those where you get to a point and just stop. :] kissers
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i think the primary reason i am not more fit is because i'm big. certainly one could argue for the other way around. but i know i (and i'd go so far as to say many others) stop myself from exercising because i'm not fit already (i.e. i'm usually the biggest one in the yoga room. it takes concerted and specific work on my part to feel like i belong there). that's a mindset that obviously deserves countering. i'm not saying i'm meant to be big, i'm just saying i am and i have been for a long time so that's what i have to work with.
thanks for the feedback, fiendy.
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yipee! don't you love it when these things suddenly click? i'm glad you wrote it down, too, because sometimes you can forget stuff like this, revelations. it's not like a chick in a shell where once the shell's cracked, there's no hiding it. it's all too easy to forget.
said the girl who noticed a new weird part of her body (or weird about her body) this am. and decided she had to just stop thinking about her stomach for a while. yeah.
disclosure: i haven't read your other post yet, nor the other comments on this post...
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how's this for a crazy one? (have not come to believe this one fully, i assure): if it's part of your body, it can't be ugly because it's a part of you? even the funkiest fraggliest toenail or misplaced stretchiest dimple.
and you know what? it's an everyday work on, it's not one of those where you get to a point and just stop. :] kissers
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