Walking and Yoga is a Winning Combination

Priya is now walking pretty well on her own with no walker. She's frustrated and I don't blame her. Holy crap that girl has thrown some tantrums this week. She doesn't like to not be able to do things on her own and she is more stubborn then Mirinda. That will serve her well in a lot of areas in her life but come on kid. It's all about patience. I often say that is the benefit of being an older parent with young kids. You have a lot more patience then you do when you're in your 20's. The drawback is you have no energy to keep up with these weirdos. Between the two of them they have enough energy to power a mission to Mars.
We started doing a lot of yoga this week. Diamond Dallas Page was a wrestler in the 90's. He's the one who had a tag team match with Karl Malone against Hulk Hogan and Dennis Rodman. After wrestling his body was so messed up he could barely move. He started doing yoga and it brought his body back. He has a yoga program now called DDP Yoga and it is really excellent. The girls love to do it. I really like the exercise and it's really helped with the sciatica. It will be 3 years in May that I've had sciatica and man it sucks. I'm hoping dropping 120 pounds will help as well. Or just cut my leg off. Either way.
It is so fun to see these girls start to understand things. Mirinda is really starting to be able to read and I love to see it. We always knew she would be developmentally behind. She's been in early initiative programs pretty much since she came to the US. Now with the adderall it has really helped her to be able to focus and learn things. I love to see how happy she gets when she does something on her own. The girls want to try out tee-ball this spring. They both have really good arms and I think they'll love playing.
I started strength training this week. My chiropractor has arms as big as tree trunks. The last time I saw him he notice I had been losing weight and asked what I was doing. I told him intermittent fasting and exercise and he asked if I was doing strength training. I told him I was only doing cardio and he spent the next 5 minutes explaining why strength training was important. I started this week and I really agree with him. I feel like I'm getting a better workout in a shorter amount of time.
It's another thing that convinces me that the key to weight loss is small changes over time focused on a health lifestyle. I have always hated weight lifting. Sophomore year of high school I decided I wanted to play football for some reason. The issue is I was absolutely awful at football. Just horrible. I didn't have the killer instinct and I just didn't care. I'd go to weight lifting and think, "Man there are a lot of jerks in here." It's not that anyone who lifts weights is a jerk. It's just in that situation that was the case. I remember someone telling me at practice that their opponent is their enemy on and off the field. I remember at 16 thinking that was incredibly stupid.
Because of that I've never been one who likes to lift weights. This week though I was surprised by how much I am enjoying it. It's already starting to get a little easier each day. If I had started with weight lifting last January I wouldn't have kept it up. I've been focusing on what I could do until it became habit and I love doing it. Then it became my decision to start the next thing so I owned the solution instead of someone telling me I should do this or that. When you own the solution you're motivated to get it done. I am really digging this whole thing.
I'm also really loving how much the girls like doing the exercising. I so much do not want them to go through the same things I have with weight issues. As I've said before no one told me to eat those cheeseburgers or the entire sleeve of cookies. I chose to eat that. I just want to help them make better choices early so they don't get to this point. It's amazing when they tell me we need to exercise.
As always thanks for reading! Thanks for all the support and love for Priya and Mirinda as well!