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Eating Behaviors
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Motivated to make healthier choices
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“Because I know I’m trying to improve myself by doing yoga and I think I shouldn’t go and get a Subway sub. Or if I do, I get the healthier version. [Yoga] puts me in a mindset, like, I’m trying to be better, so then I eat better”
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More mindful eating
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“[As a result of yoga] I tend to choose the things that fuel [my body] rather than the things that are just available and easy to eat and taste delicious.”
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Management of stress and emotional eating
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“When you’re feeling less anxiety, more peaceful, more hopeful about things, then, you don’t see the need to consume everything in your house.”
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More healthy food cravings
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“After you’re sweating for 60 min [in yoga], I get out and crave good food.”
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The yoga community
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“I became closer friends with people that did yoga who also happened to eat healthier. I spent more time in places where people were interested in being healthy.”
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Physical Activity
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Activity due to yoga practice
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“In the winter I don’t do any sports, so [Yoga’s] my one way of moving.”
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Motivated to do other forms of physical activity
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“[Yoga] gave me enough confidence to go out and join the gym and get a personal trainer, and I don’t think I would have necessarily done those steps had it not been for starting out with the yoga and seeing results with that and feeling more comfortable with myself.”
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Improved capacity to be physically active
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“I coach basketball…before that, I couldn’t get out and do stuff, and I started yoga, and I’m able to… run up and down with the high school kids now and play basketball with them. So [yoga] helps me be more active.”
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Complemented an already active lifestyle
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“[Yoga] definitely makes my body feel better… but I definitely try to be very active, so in my mind I would say my activity level encompasses yoga versus yoga making me more active.”
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