Sometimes I think I am my own worst critic and that I tend to guilt trip myself over minuscule offenses. I guess this is probably a good thing and a bad thing.  I’ve been feeling guilty that I haven’t really either had the time to work out or the impetus to work out very much this week. Its been off and on like this since November.  Its not to say that I’ve been hibernating in a cave by any means. I’ve just wavered from sticking to a 20-90 minute daily workout.

I made it out to an Align & Flow yoga class on Tuesday at Dhyana Yoga in Olde City.  I got my usual daily walking quote in Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. I was under the weather on Thursday so I took a sick day for my yearly internal server maintenance. My body demanded to be taken offline for 24  hours and I obeyed. This week promises to be a little more enterprising. I have the potential to take yoga classes Wednesday and Thursday, in addition to the arm balance clinic I signed up for at the Mainline Dhyana Yoga.

In comparison to my activity levels prior to  January 2009, even at my most epic slacking these days, I am still leaps and bounds more active than I was back then. I just end up feeling guilty when I am not constantly pushing myself. I wasn’t feeling overly energetic this evening, but managed to squeeze out an hour long yin yoga / restorative yoga session at home. I think I needed it more mentally than physically, but that is one of the great thing about yoga — heals the body, mind and spirit and depending on your needs you can focus on the area most deficient.

I guess I wouldn’t feel so bad with the fluctuations in my fitness regime had my weight and appetite not also been in flux. My weight has been fluctuating around for the past few weeks. I’ve gone anywhere from 157 to 165. I weigh myself daily and its up and down and up and down. My appetite has been elevated lately, but I think that is because of the time of year and that it is cold. I’m trying to reign it in a little. I adjusted my Weight Watcher’s maintenance points down to 25 from 26 since I was burning through most of my flex points for the week, at least this will hopefully keep me in line and I will level out back around 160.

Following up to my last blog post about the problems I had been having with my hips… I am happy to report that those issues have seemingly resolved a bit. I found the perfect hip strengthening DVD: Yoga Link: Hip Helpers with Jill Miller. I’m trying to schedule in the practice once or twice a week since it takes time to strengthen the hips. The constant nagging pain has been gone for a couple weeks now.