Actual quote: "It's not yoga, it's weight loss yoga"

I have managed to utterly shock my wife.  For over a week now, I have been exercising every morning to a workout video.  There were about 50 exercise DVD's at my local library, and I checked out the only one that had some males on the cover.  (I was NOT going to spend the first 30 minutes of my every day focusing on women in leotards...)  If you must know, the title is "The Biggest Loser: The Workout: Weight Loss Yoga."

Exercising for the first time in my life has been about four months in the making.  You see, over the last Christmas holiday, I gained close to ten pounds--probably ten pounds in chocolate.  No problem, I've always lost weight pretty easily as a matter of course.  But for some reason (aging) that didn't happen this time.  What's more, I didn't start shedding any weight once I began my new role as an administrator-in-training either, and that was a real surprise.

As a teacher, I was fairly sedentary, spending a lot of time teaching from my desk, or at most rotating around my classroom space.  Once I became an administrator type in January, however, I was required to walk almost constantly:  up and down the halls, to and from various classrooms, even eating lunch standing up as I supervised lunch duty!  I was convinced that a return to my former weight would occur in the blink of an eye under these circumstances, and yet it didn't happen.  Apparently my extra Christmas weight has a personality of its own, and it is stubborn.

After one week, I still don't get the "weight loss" part of the "Weight Loss Yoga" title.  But I have to say that I am actually appreciating this addition to my morning routine.  My wife didn't think I would actually even pop the DVD into our machine, much less continue for any consecutive days, but I've shown her wrong.  And best of all, just today she was inspired by me enough to revisit the yoga DVD that she actually owns and used to use regularly.  Only leotards in her version, so I'll just stick with my own.