After reading Poonapalooza

Feeling better...able to ramble!

I finished reading the past journey of Leigh - Poonapalooza and Punchapalooza  - it is truly inspiring for me what is wrote.  It really helped me to remind me that I will need to completely let go of sugar/wheat/grains.  I needed to sit for weeks and hours and read her complete journey.  Now I also follow her FaceBook page.

Ironically reading her story is similar to going to an AA or OA meeting and listening to someone share their life experience.  I guess that's why I found her blog so enlightening, I can relate.  She writes of understanding that she binge eats and learns her limits, of what motivated her and the whats of life.

I have moved on to other blogs, but they aren't as lasting as Poonapalooza or as ...delightful.... it's about the only word I can currently think of.   They are helpful as I can see where they are coming off the rails in some ways (from my own understanding and limited knowledge - so much easier to see in others then in self!!!!)   They write one day being excited of starting and that's it.  Came across some that also mention Leigh but then...  Just one day, or a few days and they are gone.  A few are a little longer.  At least I will have something to remind me of the journey if I run into challenges.  Well, that and hopefully Dr Poon's Facebook group.

I don't think I will be able to do the exercises as Leigh does.  It does cause me to WANT to as I read what she's doing, but I hear my body screaming no! Not in a way that says no exercise, but more in a way that says I can't do that much, too extreme for my body.  I don't see me even wanting! to run long distance in the rain, snow, sleet, freezing cold or even on a nice day.  Maybe a nice day little sprint would be fine - as in a few houses while walking.   Did that before in my years of exercising for hours, and some backwards walking - but not hours of running, it's just not in me.

When I think of the VON smart exercise program - I get a thumbs up from my body, when I think of my rebounder - thumbs up, I remembered a DVD I have from a wrestler - Diamond Dallas Page's DDP Yoga (This Aint Your Mama's Yoga) - thumbs up, Kellogg's DVD Core Strength and Flexibility DVD (from AJ - years ago when Kellogg's was giving them away, before we even met) - thumbs up, and my Beginner's Yoga DVD - that get's an eh: a limpy thumb.  Funny how DDP Yoga is oh yeah, and regular Yoga is limpy.  I think because DDP has that core strength workout.  I've had those DVD's for 3 years - saw it one night late, and said to AJ: I'm ordering that.  Then promptly put it away.  (Hopefully for this time!)    Walking, gardening and light snow shoveling also get thumbs up.  Heavy snow shoveling requires me calling Jason to come help me. So in the end I do have some very good exercise programs to come home to.  There is also the gym if need be.

Leigh is now training for boxing.  That sounds.... sorta sexy to me.  I'd like to do that, but there are kettle bells to lift and my previous teared shoulders yell - H*ll no way!!!

I don't mind the sweating.  The whole idea though, - which I already did know is - just do what works for you.  Same as she's able to eat tomatoes and eggplants, I just burn for hours if I eat those.  It's following your own path.  Do what gets you to your own goals and dreams.  Enjoy the journey of it, live all out.  I think Leigh would agree with that.