30 Day Challenge: Week One Update

Hello all!

The 30 Day Challenge is going great so far! We're on Day 5, and I've practiced every day! Most days, Ed and I have been practicing at SIX THIRTY IN THE MORNING!!!!! Today there is no early class, so I'm taking Ed's 3pm instead (yay boyfriend instructor!).

This week was insanely hot outside. As you'll recall, Tuesday and Wednesday peaked at somewhere around, oh, a billion degrees or so. The first day (Tuesday) we went to an evening class at 6:30pm. Now, hot yoga is hot anyway, obviously. But when it's a million degrees outside, it's three million degrees inside. It was so hot, I was nauseous (and I've been practicing for years!). I became so nauseous that I almost puked. So, lesson learned --- practice in the early morning! It isn't as hot out that early in the morning (it's still been like 20 degrees each day...) and the studio isn't as busy, so the humidity doesn't build up as high as it could. Besides, in teacher training we will be practicing twice a day every day, including practices at 6:30am, so I might as well get used to this whole waking-up-at-5-to-practice-yoga thing.

The studio director extended a related challenge to the participants as well - a Media Challenge. The idea is to reduce or eliminate your excess media usage (e.g. stop mindlessly surfing the net, or turn off the TV for a few hours). Most people were like "No way!!!". I liked it. I've mentioned before about TV and how I tend to get lazy when it's on. Now that most of my favourite shows have entered re-run mode anyway, I decided to take part in the Media Challenge. I'm not only turning my TV off - I SOLD IT!!! My home is now TV free for the month until Ed's TV gets moved in at the end of June! WHOOOAAAAA!!!!! I sold it on Wednesday, and since then I still walk by the TV stand thinking that I can turn it on for background noise. Nope!!! lol... This has really made me realize how much TV I actually did watch, or at least how often it was on without my watching (e.g. washing dishes, but TV was background noise). Ed still has a TV, so I'll still have a little bit of TV watching available to me a couple times a week, but I still count this towards the Media Challenge as it's a drastic reduction in the amount of TV in my home!

Next week will begin Week 2 of the challenge, in which I will start eliminating things. Starting tomorrow, alcohol consumption will be ZERO for the remainder of the challenge, and I will reduce my caffeine down to 3c of coffee or less this week. Wish me luck!