TGIF!

I love, love, LOVE Fridays.  I love the anticipation of the weekend together with the family.  Relaxing, playing, running late to the basketball games (because we didn't set an alarm and the boys were so sweet to let us sleep in,) big breakfasts on Sundays, movies, pjs all day - love!  This Friday is even better because my husband & I are celebrating Valentine's Day at The Melting Pot tonight.  And just so you know, I'll be eating whatever I want.  I deserve it.  According to the scale from Sunday to today I've lost about 5 pounds.  Those first 4-5 are usually gone within a week as soon as I start correcting my eating habits, and adding excercise just makes it better.  I'm not rewarding myself at The Melting Pot because I lost a few pounds, I'd eat whatever I wanted there regardless.  You want to know why?  It's amazing.  It's CHEESE, CHOCOLATE, WINE, and we only go once a year.  We go every winter to celebrate when we began dating, now 17 years ago.  This winter we were on vacation during the holidays so we moved it to our Valentine's date night, which is perfect.  After eating well all week it's going to be that much more of a treat.

So about the excercise.. Yesterday was YOGA!  It is a 90 minute DVD.  I stuck Jackson in bed at a decent time for his nap, dimmed the lights & lit a new vanilla candle.  I was pretty shaky at first, it has been so long and it is really rough on your wrists.  I was about 15 minutes in and decided that I had done a pretty good job getting through just that much.  I decided if I did 20 minutes TOTAL, I'd be really happy with myself.  I thought about forwarding through a position (is that what they call the moves?) a number of times, and I kept telling myself, "after this one, I'm quitting."  I literally did that throughout the first 45 minutes.  All of the sudden, I was done with the "hardest" stuff, and I actually held a couple of the positions better than ever before!  After the first half the rest is a lot easier for me, so there was no point in stopping.  I did the entire video!  I really don't know what kept me motivated, I honestly was going to quit all along but I just kept on going.  Being able to share that here is fun, but I don't think that's what motivated me.  Imagining stopping early didn't make me feel like a failure or like I was giving up, I kept telling myself "I haven't done this in so long, anything that I can do is progress and I'm going to be fine with it."  But, I did it all anyway, so yay for me!

I think because it is such deep stretching, I'm also a lot less sore today because of the yoga.  Which is nice!

Quick question--for anyone that has done regular yoga (like a class) vs P90X yoga.. is that what yoga is?  I've only done P90X yoga and I'm just curious, if I took a yoga class somewhere (doubtful) is that what to expect?  If so, I can say I will probably NEVER do that in public!  :-D

Happy Friday!