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CynthiaWVirginia -> RE: Workout (2/5/2013 1:53:58 AM)
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Okay, my turn now. (I am so not giving my weight...but I will say that whatever anyone lost this past year and a half, I found it.)
I've been keeping a food diary these past two weeks and have been surprised at how little I usually eat. Breakfast today was one half of a ham steak, one tangerine sized orange, 4-5 oz of cheezy grits, and one coffee. No lunch, just some lemonaide. Dinner was some lemonaide and one beef BBQ sandwich on an onion bun.
Due to health problems, I have allowed myself to become an uber couch potato. I've got a lot of old fractures that are cranky at the very least (3 old back fractures, two hip socket fractures, etc.). This past year I really fouled up my knees, particularly my right one, and walking as exercise is not a good idea; one or two hours of walking will incapacitate me for about four days. My right knee got very bad and started popping out a little, trying to give out from under me. I have asked my doctors every blessed visit for help, even for physical therapy and pfft, I get nothing. What I did two Halloweens ago distracts them too much, lol, as I was in the hospital for 10 days because dozens of clots hit my lungs, making me lose 25%. (I had gone on birth control pills. Bad idea on my part.)
This past year I have been reading all kinds of different exercise books and looking at different tapes. All of them made me roll my eyes because there was no farking way I could do them without landing myself in the hospital. Until two things happened. Penny (MusicInstr78) was staying with me and bo for several days so she could go to a (BDSM) event and she was doing her exercizes. bo was doing them with her. (What is the name of that thing anyway?)
I didn't want to tell them, lol, but I thought I could do it for a very short time. Dumbed down. Drastically. Basically it is just marching in place, occasionally taking sideways steps, and sometimes kicking. Ego made me wait until I got home. Btw, babying your body can make it fall apart, even if doctors have told you for years to take it easy and to keep a leg raised to cut down on swelling (cancer sugeries did this to my right leg)...as I huffed and puffed and prayed not to fall on my butt (if my knee gave out it would likely be a trip to the hospital)...I kept remembering "use it or lose it".
Penny...I managed to finish an entire 3 minutes! LOL! I sat down at the computer for five or ten until my breathing was normal and then got up to do more. After four times I was ready to be taken to the glue factory and shot. Surprisingly enough, doing this every other day, if my knee is up to it, is easier on me than attempting to resume those 1-3 hour walks I used to do with my son several days per week. What I'm saying is that it does less damage. I also feel "good pain", when muscles get sore from exercise and are rebuilding.
Now for the second thing. My body has been screaming at me to do some kicking exercise, like kicking a tethered ball. It's winter and I cannot do that. Doing that in the basement would mean going down and then up a flight of stairs. Not a good idea after exercising; I could fall. I cannot go swimming but used to swim a lot when I was a kid and then a young adult, so one day I was lying on my bed, belly down, and thought, "What about kicking HERE? Like I am swimming." It's been three weeks now and my knee's crunching has almost disappeared and rarely...do I come down on it wrong while I'm twisting to reach for something.
I've also added 8 times per day...of doing short bursts of spring cleaning. Every time I go upstairs to use the restroom...afterward I have to find something to do for ten to fifteen minutes. I've come to the sad conclusion that I've gotten very lazy; it's fun having bo do things for me. Also, it drives him crazy when I do things for myself like get my own hot tea or fold clothes. At his home I started doing laps around the living room through the kitchen through the pool table room then the hallway, and back into the living room again. At home...I fold and put away my own laundry, clean dead bugs and dust from my window frames and sill, wash windows, etc. I am still not used to being completely out of breath so easily, but at least over this past year it's gotten a bit better. I'm still breathless after ten to fifteen minutes of work. I don't know how long it will take for my lung function to improve more than it has already. Getting out of breath sometimes triggers asthma attacks and my PTSD, lol. What a mess. *laughing at self*
Arriving in the mail soon from Amazon.com is an old Richard Simmons VHS tape I used to have a copy of. I loaned it to a friend in a wheelchair and cannot find it ever since, though I'm sure she gave it back. (My house ate it.) When it arrives it will be added to my exercise list; I need exercises to do from a chair...and doing arm lifts gets boring very fast.
I've been large my entire adult life but I was also physically fit. Running up and down four flights of stairs to haul up lots of groceries and stuff like five gallon cans of kerosene was nothing. I used to walk all over the place late at night, doing laps around the hospital or around a Walmart parking lot. Since breathing became a big issue...I could barely walk a car's length without stopping to grab the wall and suck in air with all my might for almost five minutes. I'm a lot better now but nowhere near what I would like to be.
Oh, and a word of advice...if anyone tells you you are going to die...don't be like me and dedicate "the remainder" of your life to having fun and simply enjoying it to the fullest. You might LIVE, lol, and then have one heck of a mess to deal with getting your body back into shape.
Gah. Guess what time it is? My butt just literally went numb with sitting here and so, by my own rules I set for myself, that means I have to get up and do that walking thing on youtube until my knees call me a f*ing bitch. (It's a good pain though.)[:D]
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