Health and Wellness Check In

ball.and.chain

Happy hump day, Bumpies!

How are you doing this week in the health department?  Any successes or challenges you want to share?  Any goals for the coming week?

QOTW: What is your favorite (and/or most effective) form of stress relief?

ball.and.chain

I weighed in this morning and had lost 3 lbs!  Yay!  I'm super proud of that because I haven't been able to exercise, so I've been very careful with food.

As far as challenges go, there's the exercise issue, on top of which my whole body hurts right now from the crutches.  My arms, especially my wrists and elbows, started bothering my yesterday, as well as my preexisting hip problem which had started to go away with PT.  So my goal for this week is to do my PT homework every day.  I've kind of slacked with that lately and I'm hoping it will help fend off more soreness.

QOTW: Massage!  But I can't afford that on a regular basis.  On a more regular basis, I like doing mind-body recordings like Circle + Bloom.  And reading can be good for taking you outside your world.

KH826

@ball.and.chain - congrats on the weight loss! That is awesome!

This past weekend I pretty much ate what I wanted Saturday-Monday; however, I really only had a few meals that were true splurges, and while I felt full, I didn't feel stuffed. So I feel like I indulged a bit but didn't binge. Which might not sound like a win to most, but it is a win for me. AND, I got back on the healthy eating train yesterday and seem to be doing fine with that without much temptation for splurges (think I got it out of my system for now), so that is a win. Trying to find wins everywhere I can right now HAHA. I am not going anywhere near the scale since I am in the middle of stims and I know I have likely gained from that and I don't need to play mind games with myself, so I am just trying to take it easy, make healthy choices during the week and loosen up a little on the weekends without going bonkers. That is my survival mode for now and it seems to be working.

QOTW: I have a really hard time with relaxing and stress relief. I have found some random things that tend to calm me down and help me chill out a bit (even if temporarily)... they include: mindless guilty pleasure TV; really hot showers (I call them recreational showers, b/c they are typically in addition to my regular "cleaning myself" shower for the day); pedicures; singing at the top of my lungs (in the car, while cleaning the bathroom, while folding laundry -- usually 80s ballads or show tunes.. this one sounds strange, but it works for me!)

healz413

I have been good about increasing my exercise. I'm trying to ease my body into it (since I usually quit when I get too sore or hurt) and have been focusing on long walks.

I'm really excited because M and I bought me a bike yesterday! My other one broke on our last long ride.

My eating was not good this weekend at all. And so despite the exercise, I have actually gained a little bit of weight in the last week. Oops!

At least I know that the exercise is good for me regardless of whether I lose weight. So I'm going to try to focus on keeping that up, regardless of the scale, and also getting my eating in check more.

QOTW: The most effective form of stress relief for me is to go play a sport (baseball or basketball generally). That is not my most common. My most common is probably watching junky TV.

Manada

@Ball.and.Chain -- CONGRATS on your WL.  That's great, especially considering you're pretty much immobile between all your injuries.  (Oh trust me, I know - between ankles and wrists I've been out for the count too many times in my life...)

H. has been doing AWESOME on her exercise plan these days.  She's made it her mission to walk from our old house to our new house and discover how the paths connect in the valley near our house --- yesterday she made it pretty far, I think next time she's going to start further up the path to see if she can find her way there.

QOTW:  My most effective stress reliever is what I like to call "happily bobbing around in the water" - which is mostly just me, floating, sitting and prancing around in a lake    H. is under strict instruction that if I ever end up without my mobility & communication faculties, and it's summer - she is perfectly okay to, and expected to, just put a life jacket on me, tie me to a tree and let me float in the water for hours.  

Manada

Ack!  And I got so caught up in my QOTW fantasy that I forgot my own health accomplishment! 

I rode my bike to work today for the first time this year!  Yay!