Cinco de Maio

Hello May!

Lots of fun things happening ... I'm in my one week trial of hot yoga and finding it to be a rejuvenating (although continually sweaty) experience. My skin feels good, I have not experienced much in the way of bloating, and I hurt in strange places. Yesterday I attended the low key class. We started with floor work and moved to standing. Some of the poses were the same as the original class, but now I see the advantage of warming up. Without the intensity of doing all the postures in a hot room leading up to some of the harder ones I found I was not so "bendy". This lets me know that when I try it on my own (without the heat) to not expect I can take my body as far as I do in the classes. I'm still walking with the neighbors and am back to twice a week walks in the afternoon with a friend too.

My nutrition remains about the same. I make pretty good choices but overall I ignore caloric intake and I think it may be time that I begin to pay attention. In no way am I saying that I want to diet, but I do need to reduce some pounds so some change must occur. Not sure of the plan yet but will let you know.

I continue to make good strides with my dissertation and am now trying to figure out how to have enough power to make a controlled experiment design worth doing (aka publishable) as I am not comfortable with other methodologies at this point.