Day 10

Thanks to you all for nice words and suggestions of what to eat on a sour stomach. I slept much of the day on Saturday, and recovered enough to go to my friend's birthday party, where I ate very carefully. I'm thinking it was some kind of food poisoning that got me on Saturday morning, because it was brief and violent, then it was over.

Yesterday, got back on the horse, so to speak, with diet & exercise. The workouts are a little bit longer now so I'm getting up 10 minutes earlier -- it feels bad when I set the alarm but that extra 10 minutes doesn't really matter in the morning. It's worth it to me to be able to get up and do my workout in peace, plus have a few minutes to sit quietly with some coffee before my day really begins.

I'm having a lot of trouble just figuring out how to coordinate everything on the side kicks. Patrick's video was super-helpful, but still not sure how to move my body that way. I know this is part of what we're supposed to learn, so I'm okay with being bad at it right now. I think there's a word for the sense of your body moving in space -- whatever it is, I don't have much of it. I love to dance, just jump around however the music moves me, but try and teach me actual steps and I struggle with getting it right. And moving arms and legs together -- that's some funny stuff. So yeah, this is a challenge for me.

I work out in the basement on carpet, and pivoting my foot is kind of impossible, so I think I'm going to get a big piece of cardboard and kick it b-boy style, see if that helps.

Just enjoyed a big beautiful plate of shrimp, avocado, tomato and couscous for lunch. I haven't been eating these kinds of lunches lately because of the cleanup involved, but it was really delicious, and it'll only take me a few minutes to do the dishes. Nice to be reminded of how I should be eating.

Really sore shoulders today, also sore calves and butt. I guess I did something!