If you've been following my Twitter or reading any of the recent Meditation posts you will know that my yoga confidence was pretty much at an all time low. I was still going everyday but I kept getting destroyed. By the time we hit the floor I had no energy and it was such a struggle just to get through the entire class. I've had to sit out sets of standing bow or triangle in the past, but usually I was fine once we hit the floor. During this down period, I had to sit out multiple sets in the floor series which pretty much never happens.
Well my confidence is back now and I think I know why it left in the first place.
1. The heat wave is over.
I came back from Toronto and it was over 95 degrees here everyday for the last two weeks. I thought it was just the pasadena heat but I think we were going thru a bit of a heat wave. The heat is my weakness. It makes my mind weak.
2. We had a couple of barbeques and dinners with the family.
This lead to them bringing over watermelons. See below.
3. I was trying to eat healthier but this hurt my practice.
I have been juicing (i.e. using a juicer to make fruit and vegetable juice, not shooting roids) because I do so much Bikram that I sweat out a lot of good stuff as well as bad stuff. In addition to the multiple watermelons people brought over I also had a watermelon I had bought earlier, as well as a canteloupe.
4. Eating too many melons leads to low energy.
I was consuming a lot of watermelon juice and cantaloupe juice.
5. All the foods I was consuming were high-glycemic foods.
Which meant I burned through the food really quickly and then crashed during floor series. The heat in combination with the high-glycemic foods conspired to work together. One weakened my body while the other weakened the mind which lead to total distruction. I adjusted the diet - ate some more nuts, ate some more complex carbs and it's going a lot better.
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