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rest. ice.(20 min on, 20 min off, for until it feels better.) compression .elevation.advil. all the stuff Mitch and Cyndi said. Personally, i would lay off the poses that hurt, and aviod car accidents. Edited by anya sharvani 2005-09-22 11:26 PM | |||
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Expert Yogi Posts: 8442    | Gil - I am so sorry to hear that you had a crash! BTDT and it is not nice in so many ways. However, if you'll permit me to become a bit motherly and new age-y for a moment, there is no such thing as an accident. These things happen for a reason. While I very much admire your enthusiasm and courage and I really think you are inspiring with the work you have been doing, I have been concerned about the possibility that you are working so intensely that you were heading for a "crash" of one sort or another. And while I think it is incredibly sweet, selfless and kind that you rescued the dog (was it a dog?) at the scene of the crash, it is REALLY important for you to learn to take care of yourself, especially during a crisis. (no, you dog lovers, I am not suggesting that he shouldn't have rescued the pup, just saying it is symbolic of him putting himself in harm's way without considering first whether or not he was up to the task. Like diving in to "rescue" someone drowning without stopping to consider whether or not he knows how to swim...) It would be a good idea to spend some time thinking about this crash, why it happened and how this will impact your whole life - beyond the mat as well as on it. Have you considered what your life will look like after you reach your weight and fitness goals? Have you thought what you will be doing when you are back to eating real food and not meal replacements? What about if you CAN'T do Bikram for a week/month/year? OK, end of lecture  Hope your knee is better soon! | ||
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tourist - 2005-09-23 8:03 AM Gil - I am so sorry to hear that you had a crash! BTDT and it is not nice in so many ways. However, if you'll permit me to become a bit motherly and new age-y for a moment, there is no such thing as an accident. These things happen for a reason. While I very much admire your enthusiasm and courage and I really think you are inspiring with the work you have been doing, I have been concerned about the possibility that you are working so intensely that you were heading for a "crash" of one sort or another. And while I think it is incredibly sweet, selfless and kind that you rescued the dog (was it a dog?) at the scene of the crash, it is REALLY important for you to learn to take care of yourself, especially during a crisis. (no, you dog lovers, I am not suggesting that he shouldn't have rescued the pup, just saying it is symbolic of him putting himself in harm's way without considering first whether or not he was up to the task. Like diving in to "rescue" someone drowning without stopping to consider whether or not he knows how to swim...) It would be a good idea to spend some time thinking about this crash, why it happened and how this will impact your whole life - beyond the mat as well as on it. Have you considered what your life will look like after you reach your weight and fitness goals? Have you thought what you will be doing when you are back to eating real food and not meal replacements? What about if you CAN'T do Bikram for a week/month/year? OK, end of lecture Hope your knee is better soon!Hi Glenda, I was just about to go do my cardio... although your post was interesting enough to answer right now. I expect and welcome these 'crashes'. They give me an incredible opportunity to grow very quickly. I was definitely on a roll, and it was just a matter of time. There's this quote I picked up somewhere, "Nothing has any meaning except for the meaning I give it." I live by that philosophy because it makes me responsible to give empowering meanings to what happens in my life. This process allows my internal world to influence my external world. It used to be the other way around for me. I used to only feel happy, loved, if I had an external reason to do so. There are four emotional states (energies) I spin inside and outside my body on a consistent basis... love, joy, compassion, and gratitude. My life really sucked when I needed my external world to meet certain rules/conditions before I allowed myself to feel certain things as important as love. This reminds me of another quote, "Be the change you want to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi. That and... "There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up." - John Andrew Holmes are the two quotes that give a good summary of the direction I'm going in my life at the moment. Now you have me thinking... We currently have a guest teacher named Connie here teaching at our home (bikram studio). After class I was sitting down massaging my knee. BTW, this woman is absolutely beautiful in a way that a physical body by itself couldn't show. There was this older gentleman walk through the door and greet another instructor at the counter. The instructor asked him how his class was so I assumed it was his first time. I talked to him and it turned out he was a Yogi! He was also Connie's boyfriend! He told me his name was John like the toilet. It took me about 15 seconds to understand what he meant, lol. It's so funny because when I introduce myself I use a similar approach. I say my name is Gil, like a fish gill (then I do a hand movement on the side of my neck). We then had an awesome conversation. He's 72 with the internal joy/beauty of a child and the heart of a father. He said a few things I really remember... "People look for God in all the wrong places, when they could be looking at other people's faces." "Attitude and gratitude is for this dude. (pointed at himself)" "The mind becomes silent when there's laughter." "Laughter is what God's after." This man was amazing. I couldn't believe he was 72 and jumping around like that. This is why Yoga is going to be a part of my life forever. As I was driving home I started to cry. I was so thrilled to have met someone else that had their inward game so highly evolved where they could now focus outward and simply enjoy this amazing gift called life with the people around them. I spent maybe 20 minutes talking to him. I don't know if I'll ever meet him again. Those 20 minutes will most definitely last a lifetime. I never stopped to notice that maybe he was what brought balance to this recent accident. Napolean Hill said, "Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit." Wow, it's really interesting how life works out. Hehe, you remember the meal replacements huh? I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do without them. I might have to learn to cook! Yes, I've considered what my life will look like after I reach my fitness goals. I started to live it before it happened. I immediately bought a new wardrobe, learned to enjoy exercise, learning to dance, etc. I was taught that the quickest way to manifest a thought into reality is to create it internally first. Considering we have about 50,000 to 70,000 thoughts a day, and 98% of those thoughts are exactly the same as the day before... it only made sense to change my daily 'routine' to something similar to what I would have in the future 'after' meeting my fitness goals. It ties in with the concept of people being creatures of habit. I had to recreate my identity. Being consistent with our identity is one of the greatest human motivators. I also organized my values/virtues and created new beliefs. Hehe.. I can go on forever here... If I CAN'T do Bikram...? I think I'll explore that question when I have to.  I do have plans to check out other Yoga styles in the near future. Oh.. I almost forgot.. about the dog. I do realize I could have made a mistake going after that dog. I didn't stop to think that I could have created a worse scenerio. I'm still looking for a balance here. I used to be logical and linear about everything. A close friend of mine really pushed me to start from my heart first. My life has been a lot better when I come from there than my mind. I have done nothing I've regretted. I know to some people a dog is a dog. To that woman, that dog was part of her family, like a child. It was obvious from the terrified look on her face. I didn't want to make a judgement solely based on my model of the world. I will spend some time meditating on it. If anyone has any advice on helping achieve a good balance between heart/mind/spirit... it's more than welcomed! Thanks Glenda... now I will go sweat. | |||
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| Hi Gil, Sorry about the accident ... you WILL be ok  I don't think anyone has mentioned this yet & I didn't see you mention any doctor: Even though this is an injury you would normally start out self-treating, you should probably see an MD asap if either you or the person who hit you has insurance. If anything turns out to be really wrong, you need to have the paper trail to show it was a result of the accident and that's much easier if you go sooner. And hey ... thanks for saving the dog!! | |||
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Expert Yogi Posts: 8442 | Gil - thanks so much for your reply. I wouldn't have made those comments to just anyone. I knew you probably were doing some work around those issues already. Just wanted to make sure. Big car accidents (and small ones like flat &*%$ tires) can be real awakening times. I think mine, although it was 10 or so years after it that I got back to yoga, was a catalyst for change for me also. I am so glad you are feeling better and REALLY glad to hear you are swing dancing! I don't East Coast yet but looooove West Coast with the blues - yummy. We are standard dancers at heart - waltz, quickstep and slow fox are our favourites. But I find "cross training" with dance is awesome. Have fun! Andy - sorry to hear about your crash as well! You really need to organize things better though, and total the old car right after the warranty expires.... Take care. | ||
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| gil: i'm so sorry to hear about your accident. I'm glad that you're ok though. I would definately talk to your teacher before or after class to talk about what specifically hurts and where and when it hurts and in which poses so that you can talk about modifications and adjustments or skipping postures if needed. and, it seems to me that yoga would be helpful, unless you have a major injury that might also need physical therapy. | |||
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Miabella704 - 2005-10-04 5:10 PM Hi Gil!! I know, I could have IM'd you. I thought I'd address a "problem" of yours I'm concerned about on here so others could benefit. You have told me, and others, about these "meal replacements" you're taking. That is a good short term diet aid or to be used to replace maybe one meal a day. However, these are not intended to replace food altogether. Sooner or later you are going to hit a wall with your metabolism and you'll have difficulty losing weight even with meal replacements. What will you do then? Just eat celery and drink water? I'm concerned about you. You have told me in the past you hardly have to work. You are obviously financially comfortable. Why don't you make an appointment with a nutritionist? Sooner or later you will have to learn how to purchase and prepare real food. This is an investment in your future and your health. You can start making healthy food choices that you will enjoy more than a meal replacement drink. I think you could really benefit from some nutritional counseling. The way you're "dieting" is borderline eating disorder. You can't take care of anyone else until you take care of yourself. Tourist was very right about that. See? You're bringing out the mother instinct in all of us here. Hehe, well thank you for your concern. I think I'm doing okay. I have met many nutritionists and had personal trainers come to my house to kick my ass out of my bed (literally, I gave them a key) and work me out. I don't do that anymore because I have since learned that change has to happen in the inside first. Here's a simple breakdown of how I eat... 8:00 a.m. wake up. drink 1 liter of water, 1 serving udo's oil, 1 multivitamin 8:00-8:30 day preparation. o.p.a. planning 8:30-9:30 cardio (10 min warm up, 40 min around 140-150 bpm, 10 min cool down/stretching). 9:30 meal replacement, piece of fruit (usually an apple, orange, or kiwi) or oats 12:00 salad with some protein source like brocolli, a glass of soy or rice milk 3:00-4:30 bikram yoga class 4:30 glass of some fruit juice 5:00 meal replacement with some raw almonds 8:00 some beans, bread, soup + udo's oil 10:00 or 11:00 I'll have some snack.. maybe some fruit or celery with a little almond butter, banans, etc. 2:00 sleep I'll eat like that maybe 5-6 days in a row then I'll have a day with many calories (about 3,000). The day after that calorie surplus I'll do some anaerobic type exercise like HITT (high intensity interval training). It keeps my metabolism up. I know there are added benefits of eating more 'real' food because my digestive system burns up more calories digesting the food. I'd rather use the energy saved from digesting all those foods and use it out on the dance floor. I take about 4-5 private dance lessons a week and go out dancing from 10-7 a.m. on the weekends. The way I'm eating now is meant to give me a small calorie deficit. After all, my goal here is to burn the fat. I will adjust as I go and I will most certainly adjust if my body starts to adapt to any pattern of eating and/or exercise. I will get into weight training in about another month or two. I will obviously eat differently when I get into maintenance mode. | |||
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| Gil, Reading your daily schedule has left me hungry and tired.  | |||
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| Me too! Obviously you have done a lot of research and worked with a lot of pros, and you know your body very well by now. MY body would collapse after a few days of that! Whatever you're doing, it certainly must give you plenty of energy. Dancing from 10-7am? Geez dude! I remember being able to stay out late like that - back when I needed a fake ID to get into clubs! Now I'm lucky if I can stay awake until the end of Law & Order.  | |||
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| Brings back memories for me too! Well, now a days if my husband and I have a late night with friends....it takes a bit to recover. I am not sure I would be able to do it every weekend. Hey Gil, I just noticed the new picture...where was it taken? The setting is just beautiful...made me want to escape the city and go on vacation! Edited by tinyone 2005-10-05 2:20 PM | |||
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Expert Yogi Posts: 8442 | Gil - great to hear from you again! What is the latest as far as statistics go? How many pounds? I so wish we could dance that long. Some of the really old folks stay at dances longer than we do.... maybe when we retire we can aim for that  | ||
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Slightly of topic, but my friend's husband's 94 year old great-grandmother out-danced all us 20 somethings at their wedding. We're talking a booty-shaking, swing dancing, no holds barred granny. It was awesome. She didn't remember it the next day though....   | |||
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tinyone - 2005-10-05 11:20 AM Brings back memories for me too! Well, now a days if my husband and I have a late night with friends....it takes a bit to recover. I am not sure I would be able to do it every weekend. Hey Gil, I just noticed the new picture...where was it taken? The setting is just beautiful...made me want to escape the city and go on vacation!Hi tinyone. The picture was taken in my back yard. Living in Vegas (desert), I just had to be by the water. I used to get some exercise on the lake on a little row boat I had. The problem was that I have a few neighbors that like to walk around their house naked. It was just too 'weird' for me. Oh well! | |||
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tourist - 2005-10-05 4:21 PM Gil - great to hear from you again! What is the latest as far as statistics go? How many pounds? I so wish we could dance that long. Some of the really old folks stay at dances longer than we do.... maybe when we retire we can aim for that Thanks! I'm 286 as of today. I started at 352 on May 3rd of this year. The progress has been slow and steady. I've been conditioning my body to handle being out that long this past month. I didn't know how to dance about 4 weeks ago. I went out on the dance floor with some buddies and started dancing by myself. I started to copy some of the people and just went crazy by unleashing those cool energies. As soon as I did I noticed that the people around me began to smile really big! I was hooked! We were all high fiving each other and having a great time. Considering I can whip up love and compassion pretty quickly (they're amongst my highest virtues), I knew I would be a deadly force if I actually had some moves. Maybe the smiles came from my pee wee herman dance. I bet that looked pretty funny. I've been a musician for many years so I have the whole rhythm thing down. I remember you mentioned you did the west coast swing. I saw that for the first time a few days ago. I asked my teacher about it. It looks really neat, and lots of fun! I just finished learning a few steps in the cha cha. I'm starting salsa next week. I'll jump into west coast swing right after that. Every weekend I've been out has been progressively more exciting. Hehe... I'm just so happy I have yoga to help my body recover from all the cardio and dancing. | |||
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