Yoga Stress and Other Conundrums

I've talked before about how satisfied I've been with the Pill (none of the side effects some people dread from it, nice weight redistribution), but I have one gripe: in the process of going on/off of placebo week. I get pretty dramatic mood swings. I was on top of the world yesterday, and tonight I specifically avoided all phone calls because I was afraid I'd just end up crying in the unlucky caller's ear. Such is life.  Fortunately the mood swings (for me) are only in the transition days between the placebo pills and the real hormone ones (or actually from no pills to the hormone pills; I never actually bother to take the placebo ones, just take a break from the pack for a week).

I just discovered the blog Eat the Damn Cake, it's pretty awesome.  Definitely my recommendation d'jour, especially this post: This One is Your Real Body.

A friend of mine invited me to go to a power yoga class with her tomorrow morning, and it's given me a maddening amount of stress over what should be a simple decision. The main issues are 1)  is that it's during my normal workout time, and thus would automatically interfere with routine (What! The OCD monster is rumbling to life...), and 2) I also have no idea how it would compare to my usual workouts in terms of energy, which means I don't know how much it could substitute for, whether to count it against my exercise budget (at a time when I'm trying to cut back), how I should time my food intake in relation to it, and a million other calculations/quantifications/evaluations.  Welcome to my brain, watch where you step because it's a mess.  This is really frustrating me tonight, because it's just this kind of bullshit that eventually robbed me of all the team sports I used to be involved in,  Ironically, I couldn't play sports because they interfered with my exercise routines.  Makes a ton of sense, right? Anyway, we'll see.

I blamed the Pill for my mood swings, but it seems as though the fact that I haven't slept for more than 4 hours per night (and never 4 contiguous hours) since sometime last week is probably not insignificant. Hence I should probably wrap this up.  I hope everyone's week is off to a great start.