I'm ready!

Maybe it's just my mindset but I feel different already.  I've been reading up on yoga and found a whole bunch of routines and even some Ipod apps.  I was reading an article on MSN about anxiety and treating it without medication and it mentioned that doing yoga can help release the same brain chemicals that medication does.  That's all I needed to hear!  I suffer from crazy bad anxiety at times and hearing that made this seem like yoga's really the way to go for me.  I'm going to  do my first routine tonight, even if I only do a few poses I'll feel better knowing that I've started.

Let's see if this sticks!

I've tried to lose weight so many times in the past and it never sticks.  I'll do great for a day or two and then I flop.  A few months back my boyfriend at the time suggested I try Weight Watchers, it worked ok but it was more failure on my part than the program's.  I got all freaked out about points and became obsessive about earning activity points.  This sounds like it would be a great problem to have, until you end up with stress fractures in each foot and end up hobbling around for two months while they heal.  While my feet healed up I got really laid back about my diet and while I tried other forms of exercise it just wasn't working for me.  Thankfully I haven't gained any of the weight back but I haven't lost anymore either.  It's time to start over!  I've found a couple great articles online and I've been checking out yoga and have found some poses that don't look too contortionist.  So here's to a fresh start!  I'll be checking in daily with the days exercise and progress and posting anything else I find that I think might be helpful.  If you're interested this is the article I found that really inspired me to get started again, The non-calorie counting diet.  I've also got Hungry Girl's cookbook 300 under 300.  It's full of tons of great recipes for slimming down all your favorite foods.