YOGA MIRACLE

There is a woman in my yoga teacher training who is a little older than I am. 55. She has a remarkable story the teachers like to tell. She came in two years ago, 70 pounds heavier than she is now and had suffered a heart attack, had high blood pressure and borderline diabetic. She was taking the meds the western doc had prescribed and was basically a walking time bomb. She said she had battled weight all her life and the little heart attack scared her enough so she knew she had to do something. For some reason she walked in the studio, got through the first week of Bikram HELL and now two years later is one of the studios total transformation studies. She practices regularly 5-6 times a week, has lost 70 pounds, is off her meds, and is a future yoga teacher leader goddess who can help others.
Yesterday she told us she had been to her doctor and her blood pressure was like 100/60. She is off all meds, has kept her weight off and she said she is just a calmer person. She quit a stressful job she hated and is embarking on a new career in the medical field. She looks great and bought herself a convertible. In other words, she transformed her life 180 degrees.
She contributes most of her success to finding Bikrams. Then she told us about her friends who are skeptical. To even try it. Because THEY HATE HEAT! Or they don’t have time. Or they just don’t believe, in the face of a prime example of it WORKING, that it can work and do all of that.
Of course you would think her doctor is a believer, but no. The yo yo said she needs to check with the other dumb dumb doctor specialist to make sure she should not be on the meds. Those docs believe in the meds the pharmaceutical companies get them to sell and that the insurance companies cover with money from our premiums. They back those up. I guess the yo yo must believe that the meds are better than yoga, which is weird. And a fad.
I asked what she did to change her eating habits and she said after the yoga started, her eating habits changed sort of gradually and naturally.
She knows she was on the path to deadsville. She got scared straight after the heart attack. Most people are scared when it happens. They might go through surgery and rehab, but chances are, they forget about being scared and almost dying and go back to what go them there.
Did you know during bypass surgery that they actually have to stop your heart and the biggest risk of the surgery is that they can’t start it back again, which the risk of is even larger if you compound it with obesity and other related problems?The sad thing is most of our society would think the doctor is right. Going off meds they prescribe is dangerous! My fiance’s 14 year old son was ‘diagnosed’ with ADD last year and this year still takes a sleeping pill at night to sleep and then pops a pill to wake up. My fiancé is really against drugs. He thinks drugs are evil, if they are not prescribed by a doctor and he trusts the whacko therapist who prescribed this, because now the kid seems ‘better’. This kid lives on the following foods: orange soda, chips, hot dogs, bologna, white pasta occasionally, white bread, and occasionally some beef or chicken. He eats no fruits or vegetables. I totally believe his emotional health, which they diagnose as add, is due to a chemical imbalance. It is believed the preservatives in hot dogs and other processed meats can cause add symptoms and these things are a mainstay in his diet. But fiancé believes the food companies are to be trusted as the doctors are. After much major lecturing on my part, fiancé is finally turning into a believer though and now the kid will occasionally drink a protein drink that I concocted and fiancé withholds sweets. Of course the kid finds a way to get them on his own, but at least something is being done.
I hate to think of this kid addicted to the sleeping pills and speed he is on, but hey he isn’t my kid. Not much I can say.
It is all I can do myself to restrain myself from indulging in bad foods myself.