Yoga is the new cheese...

This is just a short post so that those of you in the blogosphere who care, will know that I am alive and doing well here in Toronto, where normal winter weather has finally arrived. I say short because it occurs to me that this blog is really NOT about running a marathon or doing a triathalon. SHOCKING, I KNOW. In fact, I am almost certain that running a marathon is not in the cards for this life.

BUT WAIT... before you all start in at me for not selling myself short, and never say never.... I DO plan on running... and playing tennis.... and doing yoga. I just don't (at least at the moment) believe that my body will ever be sound enough or injury free enough to be able to withstand the physical strain of the marathon, nor will the reality of my professional life allow for a consistent training/diet schedule. And more on this later, but I just don't see myself losing enough weight to make the marathon possible.

Sometimes, one just has to accept that a ship has sailed.

But what I do want to tell all of you, and a great big thanks to Runner Susan for inspiring this, the birth of this blog has led me closer to achieving a goal that has the potential to be even more life affirming than running a marathon: loving my body exactly the way it is.

Now, as this is going to be just a short post, and because this is so HUGE, I am not going to be able to cover what is sure to be a lot of ground in this post. It is however, what I am going to be writing about in this blog - at least as much as is possible or appropriate. I have suffered my whole life from weight and body image issues and I say ENOUGH.

This epiphany came in a recent yoga class during the week after Susan wrote about her own weight and body image issues when the instructor asked all of us to dedicate our practice that evening to a cherished goal that seemed impossible or elusive. Let me tell you, in all of my years, I have never seen something more clearly. In that moment, I knew and understood on a very deep level that it was time to let go and to surrender that part of me that has caused me so much pain and misery throughout my life.

And this is where I need to leave it for today - yoga is the new cheese.

It is quite extraordinary and almost beyond explanation how I feel after doing a yoga class. I feel whole and complete in a way that I have just never known.

And I wonder, how could have spent so many years being so mean and cruel to myself?

So, there it is folks. I said at the beginning that I am going to run, play tennis and do yoga - but I am going to do it for my health and because it is fun and it gives me life. I am going to try to lose weight by eating healthy because I will probably live longer - AND NOT BECAUSE I WANT TO LOOK HOT... oh please, vanity thy name is Scott!

I am NOT going to be a slave to working out to lose weight. Big difference.

In closing, I have a multi-gazillion dollar publishing idea and I'm going to let you all in on the ground floor. It's called the Scott Plan. It's really very simple. All you have to do is eat healthful, nutritious food and workout out and you will lose weight. I cannot believe that nobody has thought about it before now. I swear it is going to make me rich.

Eat that you South Beach, carb hating freaks.

Be well all! Oh btw, just because I'm not writing a running blog doesn't mean that I'm not going to keep following your running/tri blogs.

OK so, maybe it's not all that short.