October 11, 2003

• I’m not cheating tonight. I’m blogging on purpose on my site here. LOL.

  
  

  I must admit, I’m looking forward to when my therapy starts being every other week. My next therapy appointment is on the 24th and that is when the every other week deal begins.

  
  

  I’ve been working in my book, The Courage to Heal, faithfully and have worked through the entire thing with the exception of reading the personal stories in it. I’ve done all the exercises, ect. and I go back and do the exercises again and again because they are theraputic for me. I take the written work into therapy with me. It helps in my sessions a great deal.

  
  

  I think that I mentioned in the post yesterday that I have started a walking regime. Well today I was thinking of stepping it up to an “Airborne Shuffle” instead of just walking. The “Airborne Shuffle” is basically a slow jog. It’s not really a jog, but a shuffle like movement. I think I could handle that and I think that would be even more effective for me then the walking is. I could always criss cross between the two as I can handle it, ya know? I also want to go up to two miles starting tomorrow. I’ve been doing a mile for two weeks now. I think it’s time to up the ante.

  
  

  I can’t believe how good it feels to be able to get outside and move without running out of breath from smoking! It just feels good to be able to move as much as I am and know that I am burning calories and fat that I don’t want on my body. To know that I am getting healthy and doing something good for myself. It is even helping my mood swings which really surprized me. I’ve heard that exercise can do that but I never subscribed to the idea because I was always too damned lazy to try it! I think I’m a converted believer now.

  
  

  I did hurt myself today though. I had sat on my ass all day here at the computer, not moving but very little (just getting up to throw laundry in the washer and dryer, to clean up the house, to go to the bathroom) and then I went on my usual walk after supper. I got what felt like shin splints!!!!!!! OMG they hurt!!!! I had no choice but to walk off the pain! I did some stretching and things as I moved and the pained ebbed away soon enough but I had no one but myself to blame for what happened.

  
  

  But today I just FELT like sitting here working on graphics and that is excately what I did. I’m not sorry that I took a computer day today but I am sorry that I didn’t stretch out before I took off walking. At the very least I should have been doing stretches here at my desk. LOL

  
  

  Am I boring you yet with all my *healthy* talk? I sure hope not. Its not very often that I am in one of these up cycles and I just want to share it with all of you. I hope that it is infectious and that maybe I can somehow inspire some of you to go out there and start your own walking regime. It’s hard to force yourself to do it but it is so worth the end results. Believe me on this one. There are still days I have to force myself to walk too. I wish I could force myself to get my happy ass out there in the morning AND after supper. I guess that is my next goal.

  
  

  Have a good Sunday everyone and hey, if you have any exercise or health tips, would you please leave them in the comment for me? I would really appreciate it!

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