PMS costs! Researchers at UCLA’s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center calculate that PMS costs $4,392 per year in direct medical costs, missed workdays, and lost productivity. In the 2005 study, researchers collected data 374 women aged eighteen to forty-five. Administrative health claims data showed that PMS cost $59 in direct costs each year and $4,333 indirect costs, such as missed workdays and lost productivity.
Think about how many days women are affected with PMS in a month. Let’s say 5 days a cycle you are feeling “off” . In a one year span that is 65 days a year of feeling less than stellar. That’s over 2 months!!! No way am I going to give away 2 months of my life per year to something that I can improve with healthy habits such as fitness and clean nutrition! Wait, think about that over the course of your life … THAT’S 6 YEARS over the course of your life!!! NO FREAKING WAY!
Today’s Workout
30 min walk in love
60 min yoga class
Playing on the rip stik with Alex & Meg 🙂
Today was an absolutely gorgeous day outside and I wanted to play around with the kids! I have always found fun ways to stay active with having kids. When my children were babies I used them as my “weight” and did resistance training with them! They loved it. I’d get really creative and we had fun bonding! As they got a little bigger I would use them to do acro-yoga poses and play around with balancing them. They even helped me recover from a back injury. Just check out this video below that I posted of how Meg helped me with Low Back Pain in a yoga pose a few years ago.
Note: To see how Meg helped out start the video at 3:12. Otherwise, if you have low back pain watch the whole thing!
Note: I was really suffering with low back pain in this video and I am happy to say that I no longer have any low back pain. I attribute it to a healthy diet (I found a sluggish digestive track plays a role on low back pain) and yoga!
If you are a mother and you are wondering how you are going to get a workout in with babies and kiddos tugging on your pant legs I KNOW what you are going through! Been there and done that! I encourage you do be active with them. You are unlimited with ideas and options. Being a healthy mom and role model to our children is what this world needs. Other moms need that encouragement too! It seems very easy to hide behind the mommy excuse. Shine for them too! At the kids sports practice I would go for a run or do laps on the field. Soon other mothers would join in rather than just sitting around. In my neighborhood I would put on roller skates and GO…after a month or so I started seeing other mothers and even dads out skating with their kids. What a feeling of satisfaction!
Calling all you moms out there who are keeping it real and healthy… THANK YOU!!!!
Today’s Workout
60 min pilates class
30 min stair master
If you are doing this 30 day fitness challenge, I want to encourage you to keep going! Think of this more like a daily practice and act of self love rather than asking yourself ,”When will I see results?” Moving your body is a privilege. I have had the honor of working with people who just beg for the ability to walk again.
To give you some perspective, I wrote a blog titled: “MEET DREMA“. It’s a story about me helping a woman walk again after being bed ridden for over 28 years. After reading that it seems strange that we take our able bodies for granted.
21 miles of walking, 2- 90 min yoga sessions, and 1 circuit training session
Week 2 20 miles- Walk/Run, 2- 90 min Yoga Sessions, 1- pool cardio exercise class, 1- 45 min easy stretch yoga, 96 oz H20 daily!
Week 3 23 mles total run/walk, 1 – 90 min power yoga session, 3 hour acro-yoga workshop, I messed up on water tracking and I ate past 6 most days of the week.
Week 4 Walk- 32 miles WOW! That’s 12 miles more than I planned on getting in! I felt that I had to add more walking to make up for the fact that I wasn’t running this week. Yoga-3 1/2 hours, H20- 96 0z everyday! I felt best when I had 48 oz before I even had breakfast, maybe that will be a new goal soon. No food past 6 pm every day.
Last 2 Days
Day 29 2 mile walk- I took it easy w/ all the fires that are going on right now, the air is pretty smoky. I still wanted to honor my challenge and did a simple walk. This is the day of the co-op, which means I am up at 5 AM to pick up organic produce for our members,so it’s nice to take it easy on Saturdays. 96 oz H20 No food past 6 pm- I was in the mood for something sweet, salty, and fattening. I realize I get like this about once a month for 2-3 days. Ladies, I know you can understand. 😉 I would love to go through a cycle and not feel hungrier than normal. In addition, I feel like resting more too. If I give in to cravings it usually takes me a week to recover from the damage. I have to remember it’s not worth it. How’s that saying go, “A moment on the lips, forever on the hips”
Day 30 I hit up Power Yoga again. It felt much easier today, not as intense, but still pretty darn good! I took at little stroll to the trail that overlooks the ocean, then had Juliano’s Planet RAW again. I shared a No Chickpea Falafel Burrito & A Bacon Double Western w/ Fries with my yoga buddy. We shared dessert which was a cinnamon roll and again that amazing strawberry parfait! I don’t know how the heck these recipes are made, but it would make it very easy for anyone to transition into raw with this menu. Completed 5 miles of walking 96 oz H20 No food past 6 pm! YAY! This is really becoming easier. It just takes a few days to get the feel for it.
GRAND TOTAL AFTER 30 DAYS Completed 103 Miles walking or running (53 miles over goal) Completed 14 hours & 45 min of yoga (2 hours and 45 min over), plus I added in 1 circuit training & pool cardio workout 96 oz H20- I may have missed 1 or 2 days since I forgot to log it a couple times, but besides that I did it. I don’t think I need to drink that much water, but it is summer time here and the weather is really hot and dry so I went with it. No food past 6 pm for 15 days- I completed 10 days
Side Benefits Low back pain is GONE!!! I am feeling more muscle tone & less spongy! I lost 4.75 inches! I lost 4.5 lbs! (technically I lost 8 because I weighed in @ 137.6 on Aug 1 & the fit test was done in July) I gained confidence to keep going!
What’s next? I am going to continue daily exercise. I would love to think that fitness will just naturally always be a part of my daily routine just like brushing my teeth, but honestly I have lapsed so many times in my life that I just don’t want to assume that I’ll keep going, I have to make it a priority to keep it happening. Someday I dream of it being such a habit that I don’t even need to put much effort into making it happen.
A new 30 day challenge: Nutrition & Purification! Stay tuned for my next post for more details!
If you are running through life feeling overwhelmed and not really making the impact you know you want, or wishing you felt alive and filled with passion then you are going to LOVE me!
