Intuitive Movement...

[Guest guest]

I had a crazy movement day yesterday...unexpectedly. I was planning to

go for nice walk in a park that I hadn't yet visited as my movement

practice for the day. Before leaving for my walk, I spoke with a

friend who lives close to the park and she invited me to go to the

YMCA with her as a guest and then we would take a walk in the park

afterwards. Well, we did 30 minutes of strength training and decided

to check out the Zumba class. Zumba's a 60-minute program that

incorporates footwork and body movements from flamenco, salsa and

other dances. We didn't realize that it was 60 minutes...and I really

did get a work out. Afterwards, we walked a half a block to her house

to get her dog to go for a relaxing walk in the park...another 30

minutes.

So, I got a total of over 2 hours of pretty vigorous movement in

yesterday...and it was way too much. I was buzzed for the rest of the

night...I couldn't sit still...I was laughing hysterically...I was

ravenous when I got home and ate way to fast and I wanted to keep

eating cause it helped calm me a bit. I've had a similar experience

before when I moved alot in a day and I had a realization about the

extremes of movement/exercise. There is a threshold of optimal

movement for me and I passed it yesterday and going over my movement

threshold made intuitive eating much more difficult.

My friend that I went to the Y with shared that it's been difficult

for her to go to the " Y " consistently and that she really gets a " work-

out " when she does...it sounds like she really pushes herself...and I

wonder if she pushes her self past her body's intuitive movement

threshold in a way, which results in her skipping days. I see more

clearly how I'd rather be consistent with my walking or movement over

time then to " work " myself out and then want to skip days or weeks or

months or years... Another result was that, I was really stiff this

morning and didn't want to get up and go for my walk. I decided to go

out anyway and saw two rainbows in the morning sky...nature was

showing off!