Today did not quite kick my butt as much as the last two days. Don't know if it is because I ate dinner later or woke up earlier and drank water so I didn't obsess about having to pee the entire time we were on the floor!! I hate leaving the room and yesterday it would have benefitted me to just get up and go instead of mentally thinking over and over again how much I had to pee!
Young guy probably just around 30 took his first class today and was so much fun to have there. He had a great outlook on it and the few exasperated comments that came from him ( a few OMG, ughhhh, and sighs) made me smile. He had an already healthy body so It was kind of cool that it was so hard for him and makes me kind of pat myself on the back for going to class. It did remind me of a class I took in Bloomington, MN, a studio that is now not Bikram, but was a beautiful place to go a couple years ago. I was in a back corner with one older gentleman between me and the wall. He was probably in his late 60's and did a great class but as he moved into positions and back for savasana, he would mutter and it wasn't until we were on the floor that I heard him better. He was saying "fuckfuckfuckfuck". I almost laughed out loud, it was so great! It hurt but he was just going to get himself moving into that next asana!!
I have taken class in San Francisco with a woman turning 80 and at that same Bloomington, MN studio with a man in his 90's. It is so inspiring to me to see people who haven't given up and planted themselves in a chair to eat and watch TV. There is so much more out there in life to do whether just walking around the block or running a 5K!
I was talking about the Obesity problem in the US with some of the people from New Smyrna today and we were bemoaing the fact that parents either don't want to, don't have time to, or don't have the energy to spend outdoor time with their kids. I am among the generation that was safe enough to go out and play and stay out until Mom yelled to "Come in the streetlights are on!" What do we have to do to get kids to play together? First stop spending money on video games for them and spend that money to take a day off and go to a state park? Find a schedule where one parent in the area can watch over the kids playing at their yard? Everyone can spare a couple hours a day for their kids, can't they? Why HAVE the children if you aren't going to have time to spend with them? If having a child means you have to work longer hours so you are exhausted all the time is it really worth it? I think more people should think about the quality of the life they are contemplating having instead of thinking of their own wants. Don't have a child because he or she will love you forever or take care of you in your old age, have a child because you seriously love your partner and want to share your LIFE with another being. And you aren't sharing your life if you are working 14 hours a day.
More data on obesity is on the Center for Disease Control, http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/trends.html.
The program I watched on CNBC was pretty eye opening but worrisome to me in that it spend a half hour talking about surgery and pills that help to lose weight. When are we going to take responsibility for our own problem and eat less and exercise more? Catch yourself before you become morbidly obese and turn yourself around. This is YOUR body, not the governments or the insurance agencies.
I know it is all so "easy" for me. I don't have kids, I have a kind of active job. But I have fought some battles with addictions and want people to keep in mind that food is an addiction to and if you allow it consume your life, it WILL kill you. So step up and take care of yourself and recognize that you are the most important thing you have going for you. It is hard but espcially in Bikram Yoga, when you are standing in front of that mirror, you think, I just have to breathe, this is all I have, and I just need to breathe.
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