Return

It's been a long, strange almost-year.  A lot has changed about my life; I'm now living with family.  Still doing yoga, occasionally.  I found a studio that offers a morning Mysore-style class where you don't have to commit to 3-4 days a week in the studio.  I keep hoping that this will translate into getting back into a home practice, but now I'm even having trouble getting out to class on Sunday mornings.  I'm going again tomorrow.  I'm training for a half marathon, which is a week from Sunday.

And I've gained 10 lbs. since last I wrote.  Intuitive eating isn't working so well because I'm not sticking to healthy foods.  I'm torn because I know that CRON triggers my OCD tendencies (or enables them? I'm not sure), but something has to change.  I'm less than a year from 30 and I feel like my body is starting to show it.

I have a new friend, too.  A special friend.  And yoga is one of the things we do together.  And running.  And a lot of dancing.  I think that's good for me, just physically, but he's also good for me emotionally.  So I'm going to try to improve myself, and I think that improving my body will help my mental state, at least a little.  So maybe I'll start just logging my calories.  I won't be fanatical about it (I don't have a scale here), but I'll just try to get an idea of what I eat and try to make it a little healthier.  I've already started taking a food-sourced multivitamin and a vitamin D3 supplement, so maybe I won't have as many issues with hunger since I'm already getting decent micronutrients.  We'll see.

This Is a Test

This is a personal experiment.  While I don't think I shall ever adhere to the strictest definitions of CRON (calorie restriction with optimal nutrition), I think I shall try to play with my calorie levels and see how I feel.  This blog will chronicle that, by way of accountability.

A bit about myself:

I am in my late 20s, female, a yoga practitioner, a runner, and a scientist.  Right now, my calorie goal is 2000/day, which is approximately 10% CR, based on the Calorie Restriction calculator at Scientific Psychic.  However, when I enter my specific daily activities, averaged over a week, into a "calories burned" calculator set to my ad lib weight, I get that I burn about 2500 cal/day, so that would make me 20% CRed from ad lib.  Interpret this as you may.  Right now my weight is dropping, having gone down almost 10 lbs. since I returned from a trip in mid-June.

I'll try to post back most days at the end of the day with how my day went and what my nutrition totals were, along with biomarkers.