MotherOf2
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You're doing great, most people don't even try!
When I was chubbier, I had a hard time bending over a spread leg to touch my toes in a wide leg seated position, because my love handle was like an obstacle in my way Also, I don't think my neck would like it if I was much heavier, standing on my head. But progress in Yoga is to be looked at like this: you are perfect the way you are. Within that perfection, you have prana or the breath, which is the vital, life-sustaining force of living beings and vital energy. Like Qi in Chinese philosophy, connecting with the breath and the vital force, you can gently push yourself beyond your seeming edges. With increased strength and a more firm mind/body/spirit connection, comes a healthier body. Yoga can give you the courage to develop a positive, nurturing relationship with your body in a way that no motivational speaker, magazine, or heck, ANY outside influences can--because the deeper capacity for self love comes from WITHIN. And when you finally love yourself with all your heart from within, the beautiful body just follows suit, even if it doesn't even change physically. Although it probably will, with a healthy diet and exercise.
And also, UC Berkeley released info that women who did Yoga had a better body image than women who did cardio and weights alone. So there! Keep it up, woman! GO WII FITT!!!
I can completely understand what your describing... i dont think my body composition has changed a whole lot yet somehow I have come to love myself just the way I am... whats funny is I didn't even really care to try to lose weight until i started loving myself just the way I was. Just the awsome feeling I have on the inside is all the motivation I seem to need.
And though this is my first time trying to lose weight I don't feel like i'll have the same problem most people have because I don't really want to live any other way anymore... I don't find it an inconvenience, i dont feel i'm deprived in any way... but yeah lol anyway it feels awsome