I have a new love in my life.
It's name is Bikram yoga. This is yoga in a 'hot room'.
Tomorrow I will start my 30-day bikram challenge. 30-classes (AKA 45 hours) of bikram yoga in 30 days.
Before I start I thought it would make sense to explain a bit how I came to love Bikram.
I have worked out quite a lot until about I was approximately 15 years old (dancing/ running). When I hit puberty I started to give preference to alcohol, junk food and nicotine and unfortunately gave up on all exercise. This is also when I started to gain weight. Fail.....
At 23 years old I got engaged. A wedding is the perfect way to get back in shape and with weightwatchers and exercise I lost 20 kilo's to fit into a pretty dress! My husband loves food just as much as me and so I gained 25 kilo's again over the next 3years...
Moving to Australia when I was 27 has changed me. After about 4 months of settling in my new country I decided 'enough was enough', as I felt awful most days and was unhappy with myself. After all it's kind of hard to hide all the fatty bits when it's this good weather almost all year round.
I put myself on a successful diet and pushed myself to to gym almost every day of each week. After losing about 10 kilo's I wanted to; 1.Loose more weight (15kg) and 2.Tone up. With these 2 reasons in mind I tried a Bikram Yoga class and got hooked immediately. I easily lost the additional 15 kilo's and slowly but surely I felt improvement in my whole wellbeing. I have now quit the gym and on my way to become a yogi superstar.
Obviously there are also times as well that I hate being in that hot room, asking myself why I had to put myself through this 1,5 hour of torture that day. But afterwards I always feel great and I am always still excited for my new found love!
Goals that I have set for myself till April 30:
* -/- 7 kilo's before April 30.
* Push myself to the next level (and row) in classes
* Become 'Front row yogi good' by April 30
* Stick to my diet
* Feel awesome
Ready....... set..............
you're so front row already.. no way can i do bow like you, once you get into toe stand you're there :)
ReplyDeleteOh Gosh, I am super nervous about doing this challenge now. I think that it may kill me and my fat body. Jacqui is so right, you are front row already, but you are not allowed to leave me lol, only joking you go girl. Bring on April or should I say May, when we are allowed to eat food again.
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