Comments | folkmew: Body Awareness... Oh the aches! :-D

folkmew

Body Awareness... Oh the aches! :-D

Nov 05, 2009 20:49

So, during the summer I had a job where I was on my feet almost all day. It was a good summer job with people I liked - but I started having major problems with my knees/hip, mostly I noticed them at night. It got bad enough I went to a PA who specializes in arthritis. She said "no arthritis" (yay!) but "probably bursitis" (wah! I'm too young ( Read more... )

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elizilla November 6 2009, 02:43:19 UTC

I'm having the bursitis thing too. Only for me it's in my shoulders. And I'm having terrible problems trying to pay attention to my body and do exercises correctly; I just don't have that level of physical awareness.

The article is very interesting - thanks for the link. I'm a bit disturbed by it, though. It comes perilously close to saying that it's OK to treat people badly for being fat, to treat them as lesser. And I have become more and more angry at this notion, as I have lost weight. I'm still the same person yet people I have known for years, are suddenly treating me as if I were more worthy now than I was, and it makes me angry! Part of my weight loss is due to a health issue. People who are supposed to care about me have said things that basically amount to "I'm glad you are sick because it has made you thin; don't get too healthy or you might get fat again." I'd like my friends to achieve their weight goals, but I don't want to inflict ANY of that stuff on them. Yeesh.

folkmew November 22 2009, 03:56:59 UTC

Re: article: Vigorous nods from me. I have to admit I was more focused on the "hmm - it does make sense to me that if you hang around with people who care about something (books, health, exercise, music etc...) you will fit it into your life more easily." aspect of the article. For me that means trying to create a support network to encourage all my friends to pursue good health *as they feel they need it at this time in their lives.* (sounds rather AA doesn't it? - God as we understand him?? ;-) :-P But seriously - paying attention to your body and its needs whether that means massage, exercise, meditation, eating really great food, eating less food, playing more... whatever ( ... )

mdlbear November 6 2009, 16:49:59 UTC

I find carving out the time next to impossible -- if you figure out a good way to do it, let us know.

folkmew November 22 2009, 04:02:20 UTC

I will say that this book
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&tn=fitting+in+fitness&x=0&y=0
that I picked up once has a LOT of good suggestions for ways to sneak in exercise more naturally. I should drag it out and look through it thoroughly again! Glad you reminded me of it. :-D

mdlbear November 26 2009, 05:31:48 UTC

Thanks! That looks useful.

beige_alert November 8 2009, 01:58:02 UTC

I'm the data-driven type. I have the daily weight and body fat numbers logged and graphed. If nothing else that catches trends long before the pants-don't-fit stage. I'll be the first to admit that logging my times commuting to work by bicycle seems pretty excessive, but it's always fun to set an especially good time. I see the connections between what I feel and the speeds and distances in the data. Another motivator is adding the bicycle distance data to the spreadsheet where I track the car fuel consumption, to compare the driving and cycling distances.

In the end, the big chunk of exercise is just going to work and back by bicycle. Not a lot of time (I was, after all, going to make the trip one way or the other), not a big fuss, but it adds up.

folkmew November 22 2009, 03:59:51 UTC

I think commuting by bike is a GREAT way to stay healthy! I did that one year and loved that I was fitting in exercise by just going to work! I've really been wishing I could find a way to go to work and/or the stores by bike again. That's the ideal way to do it I think - just make it part of life!!