Hi FitFeat friends!
It’s the last day to enter the contest giveaway if you haven’t done so yet. Today is the day for LURKERS to come out of the shadows 
(you know who you are!) The stats info in my admin area tells me that there are way more readers than there are contest entries! Swing by to leave a comment and say hello – you might get a GIFT out of it!
Are you willing to DE-lurk for food? Mary’s Gone Crackers, Chocolate Fudge Gluten-Free Cookies, Larabars, Tea, a fun coffee mug, Organic Dark Chocolate… mmmm treats!
Well it snowed like crazy here yesterday. ALL DAY LONG. According to the news we got 4″ to 5″ of accumulation. Luckily the ground was warm enough that some of it turned to water before it started to pile up otherwise I think it would have added up to a lot more. Here’s what it looks like today. My cousins are coming to visit this weekend (one from California and one from Ohio) so I’m praying this stuff melts before they arrive. I’m always gushing about how great the weather is here… they won’t believe me if they see this when they get here:
And you all know that I run on solar power… and there was NO sun to be seen which meant PJs ALL DAY! Lazy bones day! Wahoo! Yep, that’s right. I was a complete bum all day. I didn’t even break out the blender for a green smoothie or the cutting board for a salad. (…GASP…) Yeah, I know. Hard to believe!
Every once in awhile you just need to treat your soul to a day like that. I can’t remember the last time I did it and it felt great.
As such, food was random and not my healthiest example for you.
Breakfast was a piece of toasted Ezekial with raw almond butter, raw honey and a date on the side.
Breakfast #2 later in the morning was an unpictured waffle (with sweet potato puree and 1/2 a banana in the batter). I will be adding sweet potato puree to waffles again. They were SO fluffy!
Lunch (I use that term loosely) was a crazy navy bean dip creation that I threw together. It actually didn’t turn out half bad!! I was craving hummus but thought I’d try a different bean. Served with some raw goat cheddar and Mary’s Gone Crackers. I am out of baby carrots or they would have been dipped in there too!
Afternoon popcorn with a BUBBLY (mmmy bubbly I love you!)
Dinner was leftover Amy’s Organic Black Bean Soup for me and leftover sneaky turkey tacos for MSP. And Halloween TWIX – um, kind of a lot. It was a pretty “acid-forming” kind of day, as opposed to the more alkaline side I prefer to be on, but it was fun and I had a great time so there will be no guilt from me! Unhappy tummy maybe, but no guilt!
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So I’m going to commit here and now to you all that TODAY I WILL DO SOME YOGA. I keep meaning to do it and then doing cardio or weights instead. We gravitate toward things we like and are good at… yoga is something I find incredibly challenging. Mostly from a ‘being still of mind’ standpoint because I’m kind of a spaz! So if I put it out here on the blog, I will be accountable to myself and to you!
I have a couple of yoga options from which to select my torture session:
- P90X Yoga X DVD
- Iron Yoga DVD
- Rodney Yee Yoga for Athletes DVD
- Bikram Yoga via iTunes
I’m leaning toward checking out the Iron Yoga because it’s been so long since I’ve seen the DVD that I don’t remember what it”s like.
I know a few of you readers that practice yoga regularly. Today’s discussion questions: If you practice yoga, what is your favorite type? Hot Yoga? Ashtanga? Power? How long have you been practicing? What benefits have you personally experienced? Drop a comment so we can all learn from you!
Have a peaceful Thursday! Namaste…! 
I’ll be back tonight shortly after 8:00 PM MST to announce the CONTEST winner!
– Shari B. =)
#1 by Joan on October 22, 2009 - 7:36 pm
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Wow, I like Cindy’s ‘wake up with the earth’ comment. I’d like to be like that. Sorry, I don’t do yoga but came this close to trying Bikram hot yoga. Instead I make feeble attemtps at tai-chi. I say attempts because I find the coreography difficult but the toning, firming and balance building awesome! My goal is to some day, when I find myself back at that Laguna beach boardwalk, to be able to do it from memory, out there on the beach, in the sun! wonderful! well one can dream can’t one?
#2 by Cindy on October 22, 2009 - 9:04 am
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oh boy.
YOGA TALK
I don’t actually KNOW what kind of yoga I do.
I do ME yoga.
I have never been to a studio.. i began renting yoga videos (let’s just say in the late 80′s) and they were very UN COOL but I was hooked
it’s been an on and off again passion but every time I get into it I wonder why I stopped.
This was for sure the year where I am making the changes that I plan on making LAST. Yoga is one of them.
benefits?: calm (i am a hyper gal) returning flexability that I miss …there is something about losing your flexabilty that equates to feeling OLD. I am not ready to throw in that towel.
improved balance. I think it’s my ear issues but I seem to tumble a lot and yoga is helping me hone in on those areas too…
I do yoga RIGHT out of bed each morning ( I shoot for each am) sleep in my eyes and no lights on but the moon. (cuz now it’s dark) it’s a little like waking up wtih the Earth…sorta hippie dippie sorry but I actually like it.
my weekend yoga sessions are more intense and it’s when I try and expand and do poses that are more challenging…but this week I added to my M-F flow some of the harder poses and did them well…BIG HAPPY smiles.
plus I feel much more awake at 6 am as I head out the door and my back is now loose and I feel like i twisted that stale night air out of my lungs
NOW if I could just get some lunges in after my JOGS…PERFECTO!
I am so so so happy you are COMMITING to doing some! let us know how it goes!
It’s MY Friday!!! yipeeeeeee
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