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Saturday, November 16, 2013
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
No weight loss and even more sore and less motivated after 60 day Bikram challenge
Hi Becky
You are such a good friend! 
Let me see if we can get the ball rolling.
You have given me some clues straight away in your post.
>> 1. Your friend is doing Bikram yoga every day and has done so for the past 2 months. He hasn’t had a break.
>> 2. Without a break your friend’s body is tired and lacking ANY chance of recovery. He really needs to take a few days off and do no yoga.
>> 3. You mention he has pain, is sore, achy has stiff joints. This is OH SO TYPICAL for 2 reasons.
a) the first reason for the pain? He needs to LISTEN to his body and rest. Yoga is really about being present with what’s going on. Pushing past whatever barrier he’s up against is really counter-productive. Every BODY needs time to regenerate tissues and take time to rest. Yes, some people do practise for days and months at a time. But the forced schedule does not allow for your friend’s very common scenario.
b) the second reason? It is highly likely, given what you describe that (despite how wonderful an environment it is to practise) your friend may not be using the best yoga techniques to support the opening up, the pain-free, wonderfully challenging yoga poses he is doing. To work hard and to be challenged is the goal. The goal is NEVER, ever to struggle. Your friend is struggling.
So Becky, the scenario is very typical - unfortunately. There are actually a lot of threads on the forum that talk about people unable to lose weight. It could be a nutritional change. It could be salt intake (sea salt of course) and it could be water habits.
But it also has something to do with the way he’s doing his poses. I can guarantee that.
Would you be willing to ask your friend to come to the forum? I have too many questions that would make this process unwieldy! You being the 3rd wheel and all. 
In the meantime, if your friend is continuing to go to yoga, he really MUST start ONLY going as far into any pose as he can with EXCELLENT alignment.
There are resources I can point him to to make his practice satisfying and fun and pain-free again. But I really think I need to talk with him (write 
) directly.
Thanks for the good background
Namaste
Gabrielle 
Experiencing extreme water retention after first hot yoga class
I went to my first Bikram yoga class yesterday. I felt great afterwards and the long-term pain/discomfort in my right knee has noticeably decreased since taking the class, so I am definitely going to continue going regularly.
However, this morning I have noticed that my body is retaining a lot of fluid and I feel quite puffy and bloated all over my body. My weight is (and always has been!) very consistent but when I woke up this morning and felt like I was retaining a lot of water I decided to weigh myself to confirm this, and I am almost 4 pounds heavier than I usually am due to the water retention! I can’t help but be slightly alarmed by this and therefore am wondering whether this is normal for a beginner to experience and whether it will go away as my body gets used to exercising in the heat? I tried to drink a lot of water before and after the class and also had a couple of rehydration sachets to replenish lost salts. Is this water retention normal for people who are new to hot yoga? Will it go away quickly? I aim to practice 3-4 times a week in order to not put too much stress on my injured knee and to give my muscles time to recover in between classes - I haven’t done any exercise (other than walking which I do a lot of) in well over a year due to the problem with my knee so I need to ease myself into it slowly.
I would really appreciate some advice on this if you have a spare few moments.
It may be worth adding that I am naturally very slim (5ft 7in and 110 lbs) and am not starting Bikram to lose weight! But I don’t want to gain weight, either (unless its muscle of course!).
Many thanks.
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