The Adventures of the Little Indian Girl

It's been ten days since I deleted FB on my smartphone. I wondered how I would do. And I don't miss it one bit. I log in twice a day and scroll through. And that's that. Life is going on fine without it! Who would have thought!? ;)

But it's also been ten days since I last exercised. Ok, 6 days. And that's not good. The weather was an excuse. And I needed the little time to catch up on work piled up from the holiday! Now that is all past us, the sun is shining and it's forecasted to be a balmy 40F (who would have thought I would think 40F is balmy!!!?! ha!), it's back to the exercise world! 

Just a year ago, I was so much fitter. I keep wondering what changed. Two things.. A car and lack of an India trip in fall.

Up until we got a car, I walked everywhere, even in the cold. I pushed a stroller that was probably 25-30lbs and so my arms were also strong. I actually had biceps I could call biceps and not some flab pretending to be that is today. I would walk to the store to get small groceries - milk, eggs, fruit with the bob stroller and kid in tow. The store is a little less than a mile and half away. I would walk to the yoga class - which is also a mile away. We would go to DC a lot and that was always by metro and day at the museum - on the feet. So, that averaged 4 days of walking at least 2 miles.

India is a walking city, at least Mumbai is. My in-laws live on the 3rd floor without an elevator. So, just basic daily activity included at least a bit of movement.

Here, I used to climb up the 10 floors every now and then. Now I have gotten lazy.

I can't blame the car completely. After all the stroller is still around and the store hasn't moved. But what's changed is the child no longer sits in the stroller. So, a walk to the groceries is no longer a workout. I have to walk at D's pace. She loves to walk but her pace is obviously slow. And she likes to help push the stroller, which was ok. Now she wants to do it all by herself and with the bob revolution I am just afraid it will whisk her away!

So, today in a few minutes I am walking to yoga class after a long time! The weather is beautiful! Fine, it's very overcast and looks like it will rain. But heck it's 55F now and said to head up to 70F! Warmth…going to savor every moment of it! Thursday the temps are going to drop again and will enjoy the cold too. That's funny thing about spring I guess.

Found my gloves! yay! Found in the one bag I ignored that had been sitting in my own very closet! Just in time.

Outside was 10F when I headed to my yoga place. It's just a mile away and yet I took the car. It didn't feel so bad the first three minutes walking. oh dear me!

My heart and prayers go out to those who are homeless. Arlington opened up its Winter Shelter. Hope there was enough room for those who needed/need it!

D is in school. They opened two hours late.

and oh.. I have cold water rag on my chin as I scaled it as I spilt the hot water. Maybe a good thing none of it actually went in my mouth. sigh. how stupid of me!

Yoga class was wonderful! Didn't realize I had all the little muscles in me! I had found several free sites to do yoga at home. But I knew I needed more live teaching as am sure there are a ton of stuff I was doing wrong! It was really refreshing and a workout in itself! woot!

went to the gym again today while N came home for lunch. I just weighed myself after over a month - mostly to see D's weight. She is a healthy 15ish pounds (it doesn't show ounces). As for me, I am lighter than even my prepregnancy weight. But what is this pouch doing around my waistline? My hips feel like they are 1.5 times the size. I guess I should focus on toning exercises more as well. And also come to accept that my body will look different now.

I am not sure why i was thinking i put on weight... i sure feel like i did though...

anyhow, D loves when i do yoga poses with her and in front of her. She thinks it's hilarious!! before she starts crawling want to make it to a class just to see if i am doing things well. With one income, we really need to watch our spending. So, am splurging on an awesome haircut! I am planning to chop it all off. I am sick of the ponytail and half my hair has fallen out. looks sick really. sigh.

It's been forever since I have posted non-baby related thoughts! But that's been my life so far!

• So a question - lot of people say when baby reaches 6 weeks, some routine will be formed. So, does the baby magically wake up on the 6 week mark and say, "I am done with my vacation, better start a routine!"? If that is the case, then Hungry Lion has 1 week of vacation left! And I am counting down days! ;)
• Yesterday N so sweetly offered a back massage. I immediately laid down on my side ready for back rub. After a while I realised I could sleep on my tummy. I so hesitatingly moved to my stomach and the world didn't crumbling down. It's been forever since I laid on my stomach! wow..what a feeling!
• I went on a walk this morning after feeding baby. My first outing on my own! And my thoughts still stayed with HL. But oh dear how my body has become stiff! Need to do this more often. What would have taken me 15 minutes took me nearly half hour to walk! ooof...

Baby calls...my time is up!

Taken from tulipchica 

I slacked off on exercise all this past week. It was always, "tomorrow, I will go tomorrow". And that tomorrow finally arrived this morning. Finally the rains stopped and I decided to go out on the 3.5 miles trail. Beautiful weather for it! And I jogged almost all the way through!!!! I was so schocked! I remember having the need to stop every few minutes of jogging! Only the last half mile I walked it off as cooling off. But it was impressive and it felt so invigorating! I should take my watch to see how long I actually jogged. But I noticed at a nice pace I didn't have to stop to walk as much as before and I even cut the time down by 10 minutes.   Very happy! And I am also not feeling like I am going to fall over and die!

Now I have been also procrastinating on cleaning the bathroom and better go face the music and clean it up. Usually hubby does it but he wants a break and he is cleaning the kitchen instead of me. sigh. Did I say, I hate cleaning bathrooms?! sigh....

As predicted, exercise has taken a backseat. I went for a jog/walk today for the first time in almost 6 weeks! Something or the other came up as an excuse that has kept me away from it - health, travel, friends visiting, laziness, weather, new work schedule. And because of the above reasons, I have also been eating nicely.

sigh.. the usual saga and the usual cycle. But this has been the longest break before I caught myself. Again for the next week I won't be able to exercise. But at least the next week there will be a lot of physical running around. Something better than nothing.

I jogged today 2 miles (3.2km) in 30 minutes! Last time I jotted it down I barely made 1.5mi in half hour. The half hour includes 5 minutes of warm up walking, about 2 two minute walks and the rest jogging. I was happy.

I need to work on keeping it regular. I was quite good the last two weeks. Hope it continues.

I ran jogged 1.5 miles (2.25km) today with just one 3 minute break (brisk walk) in the middle! yay! Alright, this also shows I haven't been too regular at the gym. :X But it's still feels good to be able to do that. I need to work on the pace though. My goal is to keep up with hubby when we go jogging out in the park when the weather gets better.

I am hungry.

The weather is getting warmer and some evenings just before the night cools down, it gets unbearably warm. So we bought a fan last week! It was just in time! We have air-con unit that's just the heater emitting cold air. Neither of us is a fan of AC anyhow! And I saw the amount of dust that has collected in the unit when the maintenance guys came to change filters, I am now afraid to use it!

Yesterday was Earth Day at the National Mall. But it poured so heavily, I did not go. Tomorrow is the actual day celebrating the Earth or mourning its slow demise*, whichever way you look at it.

The trees are even more abundant with leaves this week. It's amazing to see the change each day!

I am hungry.

There is so much to do. I must get on with things!


* I don't actually think it's dying, but it's changing, which is perfectly fine for the planet. It has seen drastic changes for many millions of years. It's human survival with the changes that's the issue at hand.

How does someone run up a flight of stairs? I imagine it takes a lot of bravery on one part to be able to ignore the fact that you could easily slip and fall. But it also takes a lot of agility, I assume. I always stand in awe as I see people run up and down the flight of stairs. Some even skipping 2 or 3 at a time.

I walk up the flight of stairs in our building instead of taking the elevator. Usually after the gym I try to run up the stairs. I can go kind of fast but not like i have seen others do. And not holding the railings?! whoa..... But am getting there. But really what is the secret?! :P