The beginning of lent, which means only one thing...huge promises. Every year I give up different foods, since I was wee it has always been chocolate, then when I was in year 7 I started giving up all sweets, now by the time I’m 22 I give up everything that's bad for me. But do I ever lose weight? No. And before you start saying that’s not the point, all you judgemental people in my head, it is an indicator as to what I have done not-so-smashingly in the past.
Thing is, I over compensate with a different food, and really what's the point in abstinence if you fill the void with something else rather similar? I want to stare at that void, at that aggravation that I can’t have exactly what I want and meet it head on. So this year I am doing something I have never done before – I am taking up things – Yoga and meditation, daily. Yeah, I know surely the lesson was, 'be a little gentler and you won’t rebel so much', but aaaiiihhhh think I could benefit from it.
So today like a reluctant trooper I did my 25 mins of yoga, which I love, but today it did not love me. I have let my ‘Canadian’ body slip, the body that could climb mountains, work 11 hour days, 6 days a week. The body that could cycle uphill for an hour has been shooed away by my English life of pies and lies and French fries. Crikey.
So today I could barely manage a downward dog. Having been absent from Yoga and the strength in my body, attempting to return to it didn’t come with a ‘prodigal son’ welcome but a ‘where the hell have you been?!’
Will let you know how my progress goes – what about ya’ll? Any Lent?
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I had the same trouble cycling to work again after just a two week break. It doesn't take long tho, and you will feel that strength again in no time.
ReplyDeleteSweet things, sweet thing. And I'm trying not to eat between meals. I love Lent, it's the most self-indulgent, me-focussed time of year. Rock and Roll.
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