Before
Rewind to January 2020, the year of our 40th wedding anniversary, a wonderful trip set up and paid for to go to Guadeloupe in the Caribbean for two weeks in October. I need to lose weight and get healthier real bad!!!! No excuses this time, get a gym membership and GO, start a diet plan called Slimlife health and wellness and DO IT, lose enough to start going to Yoga classes again from Beth Graham and really GO every week! And then came Covid-19…. SCREECH…… And it all comes to a dead stop. Gym closes down, Anniversary trip canceled, life closes down and a stress eater is starting to look at all the bad stuff that always gave me comfort but in the end made me miserable… I am not sure how it happened, it was all a fog but somehow Beth Graham Wellness website pops up on my computer screen… huh.. what do you know.
I can do yoga at home by zoom.. huh, I can meditate and get my head right… huh… I can do this if I really kick my self in the back side…huh? Hell YES! Beth sent me meditation videos, her voice got in my head and really plugged in the good thoughts and the strong mindset I needed. The first couple of Yoga classes on zoom were crazy, squeeze my right glut?? Are you kidding? Where the heck is that muscle cause I don’t feel a thing, tilt my pelvic floor?? Really I can do that? I listened, I worked hard, I sweated and groaned and cursed because on Zoom I was muted no one could hear me. And then it was clicking, the hard work, the mind that wouldn’t let the chips and cookies creep into my mouth it was starting to work!!! I can’t believe it. With every pound I lost I got stronger in my practice, I was doing kitchen yoga (practicing while cooking dinner 😉) When things at work were getting me stressed or depressed I sat and would put on a Beth video and close my eyes… I let her words get in and straighten me out, I was not going to quit! I am strong! I am a warrior and yes I can do warrior I II and III and feel my right glut when I squeeeeeeze it tight! I found it! Haha
49 lbs lighter and still going I feel strong and happy, I know I can do it and I can keep doing it. Having my Yoga friends every Saturday morning with Beth’s guiding voice steering me to continue to be healthy, happy and never give up… Covid Smovid…I got this!
Thanks Beth… you mean a lot to me and so happy Rachel [Beth’s daughter, also a yoga teacher] told me not to fear going to yoga, do what you can do and don’t worry about it.
After (March 2021)
