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OK... here is my reporting in......
My BMR = 2385 + I burned 484 calories 90 minutes Hot Yoga

- 1272 less calories to get to my goal = 1907 calorie food budget.

Bikram Method, often referred to as "Hot Yoga"
Bikram yoga is an incredible workout that not only works your body, but your mind and your soul. Bikram yoga is a form of hatha yoga designed by Bikram Choudhury. It is "a twenty-six asana series designed to scientifically warm and stretch muscles, ligaments and tendons in the order in which they should be stretched." Bikram yoga is practiced in a heated room, usually up to 105 degrees Fahrenheit. The heated room allows your muscles to warm up quickly and stretch safely. So, even if you don't think you're very flexible, you'll be amazed how quickly your body will become more flexible and stronger with the heat and the postures. Your progress in Bikram yoga "will depend entirely on you -- upon your natural ability to a small extent, but mostly upon the honest time and effort you give to Yoga. It will have little to do with how 'perfectly' you can do the poses. (Few of us ever do the poses 'perfectly.') Instead, it will have to do with how well you understand what you are trying to accomplish in each pose, how honestly you try to accomplish your goal, and how supple your muscles and joints have become in comparison to the point at which you began. In Yoga there is no standard of comparison except yourself. Perfect is the best you can do that day."

Here is what I wrote on the Yoga for IBS Board

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Hot Yoga - I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT
OMG... that was just the coolest (well really pretty darn hot....105 degrees to be exact....) It was like doing Yoga in a Sauna... and every inch of my clothes were SOAKED.... I will do it again in a heartbeat!! Well, I say that now.... I'll see how I feel tomorrow.... I'm told, you better come back and do it the next day right after your first time or you will NEVER go back... cuz you will hurt all over...even your organs...so, this could be an interesting weekend.... I might be doing Hot Yoga in the morning instead of STEP & weight training.... as of now... one hour, 16 minutes and a hot shower and 2-1/2 bottles of water...I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT!!

Breakfast: 180 calories Chocolate Peppermint Stick Luna Bar & Water

Lunch : 352 calories Brought lunch from home today....Tuna in water w/RF Mayo and Pickle, 1 Mini ADB Bite & Water

Snacks during the day not in any order : 458 calories 6 Rice Sembei Snacks - Tamari (soy sauce), Toasted Nutz N Cranberry Luna Bar, 4 roll Smarties, 4 UFO's & Water

Dinner: 555 calories 2 peices of "Banquet Chicken"

with most of the skin pulled off... this was NOT what was planned for dinner but the change in the plans to go to Yoga ended up getting me home later so Shane just threw these in the oven & Water

Fiber Pills: 2.25 calories total

Without any more snacks at all....(subject to change) = 1547.25 calories

Total Water intake

= 128 oz

I DID have UFO w/water. That DID added 250 calories for a total of 1797.25. Over my food budget

by 200.25!

And for those of you following my weight loss..........

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NO LOSS NO GAIN (So that is still a total of 70 lost since May 28th)

I have already reached my FIRST goal that was to lose 40 pounds by Fall Sprawl! My SECOND goal was to lose an additional 20 for a total of 60 by Fall Sprawl.... which I did. My THIRD goal was lose another 20 for a total of 80 by January 31, 2005...but that did not happen....

So, I now have a NEW goal... I want to lose an additional 23 for a total of 90 pounds by April 30, 2005.....

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