Wednesday 21 August 2013

Hump in the road

This past weekend was quite the setback and a great reminder of where I was coming from and where I want to get to.

Since Sunday, I have been a little 'off.'  My mood, my attitude, my workouts, my outlook, everything was the old me.  It was my first 'bad' day (more like bad 4 days) since the Kyle Cease Event in mid-July, so about a month ago. 

I went from feeling like I was on top of my game, to feeling the weight of the world on my shoulders.  Just frustrated but I did not know why.  So for the meditation that night it was really hard to clear my mind.  I physically felt uncomfortable sitting to do my meditation, as if my body did not want me to.  I did some deep breathing but was getting more angry with myself.  More impatient, more frustrated.  I ended up sitting there for an hour pissed off.  Then tossed and turned myself to sleep in bed. 

The next morning, I was feeling a bit better.  But I was attracting some MAJOR negativity around me!  It felt like it was the day of, me versus EVERY ASSHOLE ON THE ROAD!  Some guy changing lanes on the highway without indicating, not even looking in his blind-spot and I had to hit the breaks... and the horn like a pissed off ass! Then another guy, did not even stop at the stop sign, in a parking lot, at the same time I am making a left turn right in front of him! Then almost getting run over by a guy talking on his cell phone while driving and decided to roll through the stop sign.  Of course, I slammed my hand on the hood of his car (as if that would save me!) and yelled at him for being an idiot! 

And we all know what happens!  That the person gets the glare-stare-down, that shows I am pissed off with you, but I will do nothing and not let it go either, except look at you with my face all contorted and disfigured from being pissed off and my eye-brows nearly touching!  So they drive off and forget about me within 2 seconds whereas I remain pissed off for the whole day!

Thankfully, I realized what was going on with me and that I was attracting these events.  I stopped in a parking lot, turned off my vehicle and did some deep breathing and told myself, I need to do an emergency meditation session RIGHT NOW, before I drive off, because I need to let this go NOW in order to enjoy the rest of my day. 

So I did the meditation and felt better afterwards.  Not 100% better, but enough to not attract bad drivers!  During the meditation, I sat down with my inner voice 'Gary' and asked him, what was going on and he said,  ''Hey, don't look at me, this was all you!'' And I realised he was right.  I chose to be pissed off and let things and circumstances effect me.

It is now Wednesday night and I decided tomorrow morning is a reboot of sorts.  I started the workouts for the DDP Yoga certification, but I need to drop back to basics and hit out a workout from the dvd set instead, for now.  Also, my mindset needs to be reset!  The leaping that is in the process, of moving soon to a location where the rent is more than double of what I pay now AND leaving the security of my family grocery store without even having another job lined up, well, it scares me.  Also, most people, with the exception of my wife and parents, all think I am either stupid or crazy.  But in the end, their opinion do not matter anyway.  What the hell have they ever done for me except hold me down with their negativity?  My wife and parents are the ones who tell me to move forward! I need more people like them in my life!

And I do!  The great people at www.teamddpyoga.com and on the Kylego groups on Facebook!  You guys are all so awesome! 

So I took 4 days to be in the 'poor me' attitude and mentality!  I think I needed that reminder in order to push harder.

I am off to start it now!  I am doing a kylego session with myself a year from now and then meditation! 

Oh, one last thing, there is nothing like doing a meditation session in the middle of the morning then listening to music blearing loud in the car while I drive at 100km/hr on the open highway! 

LOVE IT!

Eye brows almost touching!

Wednesday 14 August 2013

Gonna Get Certified!!!!!

Man-o-man do I feel great!

With DDP Yoga, my wife being my health coach AND my new mind-set, thanks to everyone at the Kyle Cease Event, I feel UNSTOPPABLE!!!!

I got the support from teamddpyoga.com and from the kylego group on Facebook. 

I put in my application to get DDP Yoga certified this past Sunday night and I feel so good about my decision! 

Monday I was feeling so tired and drained by the time I got home from work.  I was planning to skip my workout.  It was also my second day on my raw foods detox liquid day (Green smoothies and green juices only!).  I sat down to do my meditation and planned after that I would go to bed.

BUT!

During my meditation, it struck me.  I just signed up the night before to get certified and now I am slacking off already?

This question came to me: Do you want to be certified on July 13 2014? 

With my eyes closed, I smiled and said yes! I got up, washed my face and hit my yoga mat!  What ended up happening was, THE BEST DAMN WORKOUT I EVER HAD! I was drenched in sweat!
My heart-rate was in the zone!  And I felt so alive and great! 

As soon as I was done, I took these pics:


As you can see, my vest was soaked!  AND my heart-rate was JACKED! The 137 is my current heart-rate when I took the pic and the A-139 is my average heart-rate during the workout! 


 
After these pics, I remembered what inspired me to get my ass off the couch, so I wrote it down and taped it up, opposite the couch so I can see it everyday, every time I sit down:


Tonight I had another great workout and ready to MOVE FORWARD!!!!

My wife took pics of me while I did the workout, cause I think she never seen me sweat so much!  I would share them here, but I can't, I was overheating so I lost the shorts and continued in my undies!!! Tee-hee!!!!

 

Thursday 8 August 2013

My discussion with Gary

A 'sit down' talk with Gary.

The vid ends kind of abruptly at the end, my mobile ran out of space, but I was done anyways! 

Was just saying at the end, that I might not do a video tomorrow but I will see and go with the flow!

Wednesday 7 August 2013

The day 'Gary' kicked my ass!

My confrontation with Gary!

Who is Gary?  Gary is the voice in your head that tells you that you cannot do something and puts doubt into your mind!

Right after doing this video, I realised that Gary is trying to protect me from failure in his own unique way! So Thank you Gary for being so caring, but it is ok.  I got this!

Monday 5 August 2013

DDPYOGA Workout Update!!!


I did my weigh-in for August last week on the first and I went to 297 pounds!!!

That is 10 pounds in 1 month!!! I am so happy and thrilled to have lost the weight. 

At first, I was beating myself up and saying, I only lost 10 pounds. Because I was comparing myself to others out there, that have done and are doing, ddpyoga. They kicked ass with it, lost up to and more than 30 pounds.  And all I lost was 10 pounds. 

But then I realized that I was taking away my win!  Yes, I lost 10 pounds! When was the last time that happened?  10 pounds lost is 10 pounds lost! I should be thrilled about that and not compare myself to someone else!  I should feel happy for the person who lost 30 pounds in 30 days and be motivated by their story to push harder! And now I am pushing harder.

Tonight I was dead tired. But I knew I had my workout to get done. So I washed my face and acted like it was later in the evening and said out loud to myself:

''I had such a great workout! The best one so far for the month! My heart rate was in the perfect zone and I did the full hour!  After the workout I felt so good, I posted a blog about my workout update!  I had a fulfilling meditation for an hour and felt so inspired by my thoughts, I had such clarity!''

And I did push myself in my workout, I did Diamond Cutter.  It was actually one of the better workouts because I was focused on making it a great workout!  My meditation opened my mind to see myself as limiting my thoughts as well.  The certification is up and running for the ddpyoga workouts and instead of just signing up, I emailed them and said that I am 300 pounds and even though I cannot do the workouts perfectly right now, if they think I would be able to do the routine properly and be certified by the time of the ddpyoga retreat next July.

What the hell!?!

How would they know? It all matters on how hard I push myself!  Only I know if I can do it!  So I am signing up!  Also by signing up, I know I have a deadline and a commitment to meet. So here is my declaration:

At the ddpyoga retreat in July 2014, I am a certified ddpyoga instructor!

See you then DDP! cause I'm coming!!!