of Bikram yoga, the biggest change I have noticed is in my blood sugar level and food intake. For 10 years, working out 3-4 times a week, this was my eating pattern:
7am – oatmeal, coffee or tea
9am- granola bar, coffee
11:30am- peanutbutter sandwich, apple, coffee
2pm- crackers /cheese/peanutbutter/pear/, coffee
5:30pm – huge dinner
8:30pm- low fat ice-cream
12am- cereal w/milk
Now I eat:
7am- small whole grain toaster waffle w peanutbutter – tea
1:30pm- half whole grain pita w brie cheese & cucumber
6pm- chicken or fish, veg, little pasta
Now my blood sugar never plummets, I never get that sick hungry feeling, and I for the first time in 10 years I don’t have to travel around all day with a bag of food! My insulin level stays perfectly level for 24 hrs. To me, this is incredible freedom. Even my husband notices because of how many times on a trip we HAD to stop NOW and get SOMETHING or I’d get really sick to my stomach. It was almost like having a baby! Our lives revolved around when Linda had to eat next. Really. When were getting ready to leave for the day, he’d have to lay out our itinerary so I could plan my food!
It’s really really true – every system in my body has been cleansed and “fixed”. My emotions have leveled out. Anxiety is much easier to rationalize and handle. Hot flashes are gone. Feelings of fatigue and sadness are few and far between. Every week during class, my body pops or moves in new and different way and I feel things being squeezed and moved into their rightful places. My weight is being redistributed and I feel overall straighter and stronger.
It’s been an incredible ride and I have definitely decided to give up my gym membership and do this the rest of my life. I wanted something I could do when I’m 70 and this is it.
And so, another day goes by, I have made a life changing decision, and…I have written.
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