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Rizen 11/23/2014

I'm trying to exercise daily. I was doing fairly well until I sprained my ankle 2 weeks ago but now I'm getting back on the horse. Today I walked over a mile with my arm weights that are about 22lbs total. I was out of shape and it was hard on my arms. I also did my 30 situps.
I'm also going to drink a lot of water and try to eat healthy. I do tend to have a sweet tooth but I'm cutting back.
Walking greatly improves my mental health too. I'm feeling less irritable and depressed after walking.

I want this to be a support thread for people who exercise and eat healthy so if you do any of that post here!

Rizen 10/19/2019

I hiked a little under 2 miles.

mujicaptsd 10/20/2019

Way to go. Feeling depressed on the walk still, Rizen, or is walking helping?

Rizen 10/20/2019

I was really depressed on the walk. I walked 3 miles tonight.

mujicaptsd 10/21/2019

Sorry you were depressed even as you walked, Rizen. All the more brave of you to walk anyway.

Me, I got my walk in yesterday, I'm proud to say, and weighed myself to find to my delight that with the walks daily I'm maintaining the weight loss now from my bariatric surgery last December. YAY!

Rizen 10/21/2019

It's been over a year and no one ever responds to my messages on plenty of fish.com. It shouldn't be this hard to find a date.

I have a bladder infection so i only walked a mile.

mujicaptsd 10/22/2019

I've been 9 years without a date now, Rizen, and none on the horizon, so I hear ya.

Sorry about the bladder infection. Are you on antibiotics for it?

I got my walk in yesterday, I'm proud to say. The full thing to, up hill with cardio. I'm seriously proud I haven't quit the walks. I'm maintaining that weight loss I had surgery for, I'm proud to say. Glad you post about your walks here, too, for encouragement.

mujicaptsd 10/22/2019

I really, really, really did NOT want to do my daily 30 minute walk after work today, Rizen. I knew when I got home from work that if I went from my car into my apartment I would NOT emerge from my place again to get my daily walk done today.

So I just got out of my car and did the walk in my work clothes, my coat and tie, right then and there before going in to my apartment after getting home from work. I did the whole 30 minutes, too, with cardio.

It sweated up my coat and tie, but it made me keep may promise to myself to keep the weight off by walking after my weight reduction surgery last December. I didn't quit today.

Did you walk today, too?

Rizen 10/24/2019

Good work mujica.

I hiked a mile and walked 2 miles yesterday and 2 miles today even though it's snowing.

mujicaptsd 10/24/2019

Snowing? And you still walked? Holy cow. Way to be tough about walking, Rizen.

I walked, too, in perfect weather though. No excuses then, I'll do it again today.

mujicaptsd 10/24/2019

Did it, Rizen! How about you? In the snow?

Rizen 10/25/2019

I only walked a mile because I got cold.

mujicaptsd 10/25/2019

Brr. Still, you didn't quit, even in the cold. It's not really cold yet where I live, so I got up early and did my walk, this time downtown again, for variety. I'm really surprised and pleased at myself for the fact that I haven't quit taking my 30 minute walk every day. I think part of my sticking to it has to do with knowing I'll get to post on this thread you created for us, Rizen.

Rizen 10/25/2019

I walked 3 miles before it got dark and cold.

mujicaptsd 10/26/2019

Bundle up, Rizen, it sounds like winter came early where you live. I'm really tired, but I'll see if I can't muster the wherewithal for a walk today anyway. Fingers crossed.

Rizen 10/26/2019

I walked about 2 and a half miles today.

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