Karate/Weight Loss: Day 7

My steady winter job ends this week. This typically means I go back to my hardware store job and, luckily, it means I can tell them the times I need off for karate! I'm quite excited about that prospect, especially since I will be running around and lifting things all day with only one opportunity to really eat; Summer time is when I loose my weight. Winter I'm in an office setting, on the phone and typing the entire time.

I'm not sure why I'm getting so excited over the simple things like cleaning, exercise, and eating better. A few years back, I completely mocked these things, counted them as 'hippie' things or someone trying to be too green or preppy. Since then, I've started to use a menstrual cup - what the heck is more hippie and green than THAT!?

Now, I wake up, take my vitamins almost immediately. They include a high dose of B12 complex, two green tea extracts twice a day, and (when I can FIND it again) a once-a-day womans vitamin with some Gaurana mixed in there somewhere. Tea consists of natural sugars and soy milk with pure black teas except on the rare days I feel fancy, then it's hinted with peppermint.

Junk food is more of a habit and convenient food than anything I honestly crave. Sometimes I get hit with the overwhelming need to consume large amounts of Starburst Jellybeans because those things are so good it kills me (literally). everything else is all because of cheap and easy texture, something to eat at night when I cannot have any more tea (caffine content, sadly) and fruits just don't seem right. Other than that, things are okay.

The bad part is that I either misread my scale or I gained six pounds since last week. I'm choosing to believe I misread the scale. :) It's better for us all that way.

Karate is going wonderfully! I'm enjoying my kata and I'm learning the godawful long names. All the sempai are horribly helpful and put up with my clumsy mistakes. Bella has nothing on my butt when it comes to tripping over my own feet in turns and just trying to keep balance. My knuckles are becoming tougher, a surprising fact that pleases me. My right toe still has the blister, it's gotten bigger and has begun to toughen into what i hope is a callous. My left toe though... It's the foot I spin on the most. The blister burst but the skin under is quickly becoming stronger than the previous layer.

HA! My body is beginning to triumph!

I have never felt so motivated to be a part of an activity such as Karate. Tae Kwon Do when I was a kid was fun but that was in the mindset that I was about to go kick some other kids behind with my 'skills'. Karate, at least to me now, is about control of my body and what I tell it to do. It's becoming stronger! An adult! It's living up to my and other peoples expectations - Sensei, Y-Sensei, and the sempai are all trying so hard to help me that if I do badly, I feel I would be letting them down.

They are lovely people. I will NOT let them down! I will do my turns and keep my wrists straight, keep my shoulders squared and legs further apart. I will be able to go into the deep stance, the signature move of my dojo. In the famous words of Queen Victoria: I will be good.

Now, I'm going to do laundry and tidy my room before getting ready for class. I need to iron my gi before class tonight.

Until next time!