30 Day Yoga Challenge

What do you get when you combine two friends who are terrified of the winter weight gain? A 30 day yoga/vegetarian challenge! It is really quite simple:

1. Have a friend who has intermediate-hard level knowledge in yoga.
2. Do serious yoga everyday for 30 days.
3. Eat lots of grains, fruits, and veggies... but no meat. No alcohol. No smokes. For 30 days.

2 October 2014

Illy's POV : Day 1... aka Doomsday

Sept 30, 2014 - Captains log...

For the first 5 minutes this morning, I lay in bed and blissfully forgot about the challenge. And do you know what my first thought was once I remembered?

"Aw man, I have to make something for breakfast."

And as I made breakfast (plain yogurt with granola and honey... Look out world!), I couldn't stop thinking about how much I didn't want to eat it. Why don't I ever eat breakfast? You always hear it is the most important meal of the day (gray area, in my opinion).

I took my first mouthful and had a difficult time swallowing it. My inner Dawson came out. I feel like it would have been amusing to watch me struggle with this food.  But I ate it, for the good of the challenge. Yet, as the day progressed, I started to really want something carb-ish.

Sorry, let me be more specific. By 3pm, I would have stolen bread from a homeless person, or ninja'd some carbs from the trash. The feeling has been overwhelming, and a little freaky. I'm going to write this sentence, just once:

I was craving carbs more then I was craving cigarettes.

And then, just because... life... I started really wanting a drink. Especially later in the evening. And especially after yoga. Now, keep in mind that my friend and I went to a wine festival on the weekend where we proceeded to drink our way through the entire park. So I says to myself, I says, "It's ok Iliana. You are just detoxing."

And then I had a thought. Maybe I'm drinking TOO MUCH if I'm still detoxing 3 days later.

I'm really grumpy and want to punch someone. It is probably best if I sign off here.

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