Tag: ddpyoga

Coming into week 8

This week is week 8 of our DDPYoga program. On Thursday we’ll do our pics and take our weight. I have to admit I’m still a bit nervous. What is the scale going to have for me? I’m trying not to make a big fuss over how much weight I’ll lose come Thursday morning but I’m really hoping for a solid 10 pound loss. I know I’m already seeing some slimming going on. My pants fit better as do some of my shirts. My goal is to get back into all the 34 inch waist jeans I bought when I had lost all that weight during Whole30.

What I can say for certain is that I have a greater range of flexibility and the pain in my back and my knees are gone. I can even get down on my knees for work without being in excruciating pain!

One of the things I really enjoy about the DDPY app are all of the great resources it offers. Motivational Mondays are a must watch for me and my wife. This time DDP was talking about people who inspired him, guys like Tony Robbins, Jake “the Snake” Roberts, and Dusty Rhodes. What made them great, especially the ones in his choice profession of wrestling, was the fact that they came into whatever they did believing no one was going to out work them. Who are you gonna say that to? Who are you going to look at and say, “you can’t out work me!”

With the hebrew month of Elul beginning and heading toward the Jewish High Holidays I feel like the answer to that has to be myself. We have to always be striving to be better than who we were, reaching for those new heights and milestone and never giving up. I hope everyone has a great week!

Small set backs but staying focused

As I mentioned, this past week was the birthday week and I got a little off the rails over the weekend with snacking and drinks, but I was having a good time with my wife so I REGRET NOTHING!! But it’s been a new week and it’s been back to clean eating and we’ve bumped up our DDPY to 4 times a week. Next week we’ll go to 5 a week and the weeks after will be 6.

Whether you say you can or you can’t, you’re right

I know I’ve talked about DDPYoga before in my old blog but this is the first time I’ve been this consistent with it and I’m almost at the week 8 mark. The thing that has helped me the most in sticking with it is that my wife is on this journey with me. Seeing her grow in strength and endurance and her own surprise at what she can do has been a huge motivator for me as well to keep up. I believe she has an even more difficult journey because her goal is getting healthy and for her that means putting on weight, which is only done through increased caloric intake. Basically she has to eat like a hobbit.

So she’s doing weight gaining shakes, all plant based powders, in order to up her calories. Of course, our doctor has told her she doesn’t HAVE to, she’s healthy by every way he can measure. But to have her with me has meant everything. Our workouts have become our own personal time together, everyday. That has been an unexpected bonus in all of this and it is something we look forward to. If that’s not a NSV (Non Scale Victory), I don’t know what is.