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[funnel101]

Belly dancing has taught me one very important lesson about my body: if my muscles are tired, my risk of hurting a joint dramatically increases. (This is why it's so hard for me to lose weight, because I have to stop exercising shortly after my muscles get tired. It's like I'm building muscles one cell at a time.) Yesterday, in my rapture at being

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[skogkatt]

Ow! Yeah, it's always a struggle for me to stop doing stuff that's bad, too. I've been not supposed to lift more than 15 pounds for the last few months, but I constantly try to do stuff like carry heavy grocery bags. Then I pay for it. You would think that the lessons would sink in more easily than they do.

[marzipan_pig]

Thanks for letting the rest of us off the hook too :) I am really struggling with some annoying minor injury and I get SO MAD at myself for not being able to manage it better; it's important to remember how near-universal that experience is.

I'm glad your feet had been feeling better, and good luck with working out how to deal with new boundaries and limitations!

[lady_sakina]

That must be amazingly frustrating! Hang in there! One cell at a time better than nothing at all ; )

And yes- go heal and do it again...

Sometimes after reading your posts I wonder what the hell I'm whining about.

[funnel101]

This is the primary reason I left bellydancing, by the way: I felt like I was being judged by an able-bodied standard. Yes, I realize that most people after dancing for as long as I've been dancing can do more complex moves than I can, but pointing that out to me is not helpful. What's important isn't how well I belly dance, but that I can belly dance at all.