Cold here, manduka chilly on the feet in the morning.Struck me that I've got all these little projects that I introduced but haven't updated on, so here goes.
This has stalled a little, the week is running Thursday to Thursday on this one. First week was cutting down to two meals a day, nothing, between breakfast and dinner, no snacking. That bit went well but the second week,the one just gone, I'd planned on cutting down the portion size by a half. The idea being to have the stomach half full, then a quarter for water and the other quarter left empty for 'air to circulate'. Hard to cut down though, breakfast is OK just half a cup of muesli instead of a full cup but once you throw on some berries and a banana it still feels a substantial breakfast and probably more than I need. I'm eating a little less in the evening but I wouldn't say half as much. It's not that I feel hungry but just that I find it hard to prepare so little.
The engine seems to be running well on it though, felt a little hungry around 4pm the first week but don't even think about it now, feels like a comfortable way to eat. This week I was planning on cutting down to one meal a day but with the holidays coming it seems a bad idea. Bound to eat more over Christmas and it doesn't seem healthy to go from eating so little to a eating more than usual before the experiment. Will stick with the twice a day thing and pick it up again in the new year.
Re weight
pretty much the same as the first week
Fri 76.2 kilo
Sat 75.8
Sun 75.9
Mon 76.4
Tues 76.2
Weds 76.2
Thurs 75.7
No sudden weight loss and feeling strong in the practice so this don't seem to be showing any adverse effects. Did notice this morning that I was 74.8 but that might just be a blip.
* the weighing myself everyday is just for the sake of the experiment, you get that right.
What else ...
This stalled a little because of the inflamed coccyx, need to be able to roll back a little to lift the feet up to the chest. Coccyx is a little better but it's slow going so I've mostly just been working on opening the hips and ankles more and just basically feeling more comfortable in the first part of the pose. Sometimes I'll work on bringing the legs around and down while lying on my back. Here it is from this morning. Looks OK head on but from the side the ankles are still a way from the chest.
This is something I've been working on in the evenings as part of my Vinyasa Krama practice, it's kind of my own extension of the lotus sequence. The idea of the evening asana practice is to make it vigorous because it is so short, just twenty minutes, basically just prep for pranayama and meditation. I'm getting more twist here and that's feeling comfortable but the landing is a little less controlled.
This was on hold for a while because I had some stitches in my head and hate to wait for them to come out, need to get back to it.
Back problem : Primary without the forward bends.
Back seems to be pretty much fine again now, laid off the forward bending in Primary and practiced a lot of 2nd series without doing the Leg behind head postures, just generally taking it easy. Friday it felt fine enough to do a full primary, felt good so I did the same Saturday. This morning I practiced full intermediate with the LBH poses back in and again felt fine. Did my first Karandavasana for about a month too and it felt very smooth and controlled 'though couldn't remember for the life of me how to flip out of it, too three goes before I got it right.
Still waiting myself, hoping it'll arrive before Christmas. the thought of it has made me consider exploring Advanced A and B more in the new year.
And that's it all caught up, phew. Happy holidays.
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For some reason since you started this "experiment" with food I have felt like eating less... and what you say here about feeling strong in the practice is also happening to me... very interesting, oh and by the way, I so want to enroll on the workshop on lifting the block with the foot, love that trick, hee hee
I'm surprised my weight has stayed pretty constant, wasn't looking to lose any but was expecting it. Curious how cutting out the snacking has resulted in more energy not less, don't get that, surely sugar gives you energy, less sugar less energy....you'd think.
Sorry have cancelled the triyoga workshop am holding out for Bali if i get enough interest in the block vinyasa, will reserve you a place.
HA ha, please do!... the cutting of the snacking is the hardest part for me... need to try it really commit to it...
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Thanks Anon, I saw that (actually they wrote and let me know). nice to find some blogs I hadn't come across before.
Hi all! Hi Grimmly!
OMG ppl, I just did a kind of jump back! "A kind of" means I did touch floor with my legs, so not perfect, but I did pull my legs back through with my own force. Before this try my legs just stopped half way (hampered to the floor)!
The reason is that I understood how to do another asana (I'll post it's name if I find it), and I just applied same idea to jump back! Amazing, I am so happy:)))
Ah here it is:
http://yayog.ru/uploads/images/8/6/9/3/1/05b3319ff2.jpg
Congratulations Evgeniy, nice where you find out it is possible FOR YOU, now you just have to do it twenty odd times a morning ; )
That's Kukkutasana, you found it helped, I can see that, interesting. Perhaps i'll do a post on it and see if it works for anyone else.
hehe yea it's nice:)
If you are interested in details - what helped me (well except core strength increase, and your posts about pushing down and other posts), from that asana specifically:
If you do this asana, at first you will only get to this http://yayog.ru/uploads/images/d/6/c/8/1/ebca6954ba.jpg
And I really couldnt advance to finishing stage
http://yayog.ru/uploads/images/0/e/7/7/1/2750cda775.jpg
The "thingy" as I now know is to put your hands on the ground in a way that your elbows look back when you bend them, not to the sides as I did it earlier. I hope las sentense makes sense.
It is harder to balance out the asana when hands are in position I described, but I finally could bring my legs together in a kind of lock, without any help from ground :))
So moving on to jump back - I set up same hand position and apply everything else I know about jump back (like really strong pulling of legs to your chest, strong push down with hands right from back muscles, etc) and it just works.
As it seems for me - other elements of it were in place except hand position:)
Grimmly,
How did this, the diet, go? I currently somehow convinced my body to eat once a day--mornings are kind of hard? Did you move done to once a day? Where are you now? Just, interested.
I can't remember how this panned out Chris, seem to remember it was fine though. got quite used to it. I tend to eat twice a day, breakfast and lunch or breakfast and a light dinner. been a but undisciplined lately, people bringing in biscuits at work etc. Funny enough I've been thinking about switching to once a day, a proper lunch and then eat nothing after 1pm or perhaps a little fruit.
My weight at the moment still floats around 77 kilo
I think my is panning out to be that I eat between 11 and 1 but I still get pretty hungry at 8 pm. I think I will try it out for a month and then maybe decide to fall back to a two meal a day. Eating discipline is kind of a weird thing for most people.
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