New page! DCT hope you are recovering fast from shingles and its not lingering XX .
It’s horrible isnt it! Look after yrself and let others spoil you! ☺️
I’ve still got the rash, but the pain is minimal,and I seem to have been left with a jolting,twitching,jumping sensation all over,which mainly happens at night. XX
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Thanks everyone for the supportive comments.
Welcome Lacy and thanks for the exercise suggestions. I belong to an online gym and am ashamed to say I rarely log on these days. Part of the reason is that my house is a shambles with the unfinished renovations and just general clutter everywhere. I need to have a good clear out before my surgery as it is just getting me down and will make moving about with a bad leg hard.
Anyway, I’m pleased to report that my bg was down to 5.0 this morning. So hopefully finally back on track.
I have a couple other NSVs to report too. I was at my counsellor’s office yesterday. I usually sit on the couch in the waiting room because the two chairs have wooden arms and when I’ve tried to sit in them before, my painful lipedema fat tissue was getting pushed up against the arms and it was so painful that it made me nauseous. But my hips have slimmed down a bit now along with my waist, so as an experiment, I sat in a chair, and guess what? I fit without hitting the arms now! Of course that led to a bit of overconfidence and I chose to sit in one of the big overstuffed armchairs in the actual office, and unfortunately I’m still too wide for that, but at least it is soft so it doesn’t hurt me. Anyway, that led me to try on a pair of Bermuda shorts when I got home that I’ve been using to measure my progress. I hadn’t tried them on for a couple of weeks as it was frustrating how tight they were around my legs and that fat didn’t seem to be budging, so I incorrectly assumed that it was all lipedema tissue and it wouldn’t be lost. But I was wrong! The legs are fitting much looser now.
So anyway, as much as I am pleased with the results, there is definitely a part of me that feels it is not deserved given how off-piste I’ve been this week. But I am trying to have some self-compassion and acknowledge that it was a hard week, so of course things haven’t gone to plan. It is always the 2-3 week mark where I am likely to fall off the wagon, and then the events over the last week just made things harder. But instead of using that as an excuse to chuck it in, I’m going to try to get back on with things and continue to make further progress. No excuses for me, Yowzer! A year does seem rather long, but 6 months may be more doable. I need those shorter term goals to keep me on track. My next goal is to get those Bermuda shorts fitting to the point where I could wear them in public. Still a bit tight through the bum for that! -
Heidi another four exercise options from You Tube, depending on fitness levels. I do like Will too.
Yes2Next is a mother (84yrs old) and daughter channel. The daughter is the instructor and her mother does the exercises alongside her, mainly seated. It’s an engaging channel with varied exercises, including strength.
Improved Health is a lovely channel with an instructor that does not talk all the time and again is varied with walking, dancing and strength videos.
Lucy Wyndham-Reid is a walking/cardio channel mainly.
The Girl With The Pilates Mat s excellent and does varied “classes” for beginners and more advanced exercisers alike. She also caters for patients with osteoporosis, if this is a consideration.
I admit that I pay for You Tube as that way it is advertising-free. But for a long while I just fast forwarded where possible, or gritted my teeth and carried on when not.