My body decided to throw my for a loop by making me think my appendix was going to blow up. As it turns out, it was my sneaky ovary making all the fuss.
So I’m home now, but I’m sore, exhausted and having a bit of a hard time catching up with things.
Slowly but surely…
I’m here! I’m here!
There have been so many times I have sat down with the intention of posting here and at my other blogs, and I have just been way too exhausted. How things are so, so busy even though I’m off work this week, I don’t know…
I’m still getting up about an hour and a half earlier than I usually do every morning to exercise. I am so darned proud of myself! A solid hour of exercise every morning has been hard, but the pride and confidence that I get from doing with it and sticking with it (even if it hasn’t been quite two weeks yet) has made me feel amazing.
While my chiropractor was able to do amazing things with my ankle to alleviate pain, it’s still just not strong enough for a walk every morning (unless I want to limp home on the second day, which is no fun at all I can tell you from experience), so I’m alternating my walking days right now. On the opposite days, I’m doing a solid hour of…
Yep, my old friend. Wii Fit!
The first morning I opted for an hour of Wii Fit, I felt bad. I was sure I was cheating somehow, even though I was determined to do the same amount of time a walk would take, and even though I knew that I had to give my ankle some rest lest I damage it severely. So I did the hour and wow!
As it turns out, the Wii Fit is a more intense workout than the walking by heaps. I know that’s because there is only so much I can push walking because of my ankle, but still. Wow. I was really impressed and finally got shot with the clue gun that Wii Fit is like anything else – you get out of it what you put into it. And I have been putting some hardcore workout time into it.
While some people might not ever pair ‘hardcore’ with ‘Wii Fit’, I do because by the time I am done, I am exhausted, drenched with sweat and puffing. Woohoo!
I am so happy about this because it means that I don’t have to walk on rainy mornings if I don’t want to, and I can strengthen my ankle up slowly while still getting the amount of exercise I want. While my weight is still bobbing around, the past couple of days have showed definite losses. Happy, happy!
So I have the exercise, now I just have to get the eating and the mentality up to par.
I’m still exercising an hour every morning. Just that paired with everything else has left me a little too tired for blogging. Will blog soon!
Have I mentioned how brilliant my chiropractor is? Because she is.
I mentioned ankle problems earlier this week and bought a brace for extra support. Well, it turned out that the brace made it so much worse. I ended up limping home the last quarter of the walk yesterday. Given it was my first rainy day walk of the week, I was feeling a tad miserable.
I didn’t do the walk this morning simply because it takes me forty minutes to walk to my chiro and forty minutes to walk back. Given the state of my ankle, I didn’t think I could do an hour walking and then two forty minute walks just a few hours after that.
My ankle had me in a heap of pain by the time I got to the chiro, but that’s where the brilliance comes in. She studied my walking a bit and then did fixes on my ankle, up my calf and even did some work on my hip. When I left to walk home, I had absolutely no pain. Lovely!
So while my weight hasn’t been reflecting my hard work so far, I’m still proud of punch at the amount of work I’ve put in this week. Five hours and twenty minutes of walking – and that’s not including all the extra walking I’ve done here and there.
Lovely stuff. 