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Walk a Day

Rizen
Rizen
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!
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
I did get those boots going and I got 3.8km of walking in on my cane yesterday. Yay!
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
I broke my string of 3km plus days of walking yesterday by only getting 2km of walking in. But I'd walked so well in excess of my 3km per day goal daily for so long that my daily average still stands at 3.4km! Yay! Let's see how much I can walk today. Looking forward to it.
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
Once again torrential downpours here in mountainous Mexico confined me indoors and so I only got 2.6km of walking in yesterday. Argh! I'm glad during the dry season I ran up high daily walking numbers because my average is still 3.2km, above my daily 3km walking goal. So that's good. But I'd like to walk 3km today. Hope I can.
Rizen
Rizen
I walked a mile yesterday and hiked about 4 miles today.
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
Wow, that's the most you've reported in a long time, right Rizen?

Me, I had a terrible CKD pain and fatigue day, yet I DID walk 3km and met my 3km daily walking goal! Yay!
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
I felt much more pain free yesterday, and so it was a pleasure to get 3.3km of walking in to surpass my daily 3km walking goal. It's a mystery why CKD hurts some days and other days it doesn't, but when it doesn't I'll take it!
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
It poured rain yesterday but I got 3.1km in before it did! I'm meeting my 3km daily walking goal despite the weather! Yay!
Rizen
Rizen
It's raining here too. I walked 2 miles.
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
Congrats on the 2 miles, Rizen. It's going to be dry today for once, it looks like. Still, yesterday I was really excited that I got 3.2km in and in the rain, no less. Yeah!
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
I got a whopping 5.3km walked yesterday! Part of it was running an errand, walking to take my clothes to the laundry. My goal is 3-5km daily, so I overshot the high end of my goal. THat's going to really help boost my daily average, and gives me a cushion against rainy days like today. Last night Hurricane Agatha hit landfall in the state next door to mine in Mexico so it's pouring rain here. Today I might not walk 3km just becuase of that, so yesterday's excess was actually good future planning and I didn't know it.
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
Hurricane Agatha made landfall in the neighboring state of Oaxaca here in Mexico yesterday so here in the next door state of Chiapas we've seen torrential rain and a 10 degree drop in temperature. Walking has been impossible, so my daily walking average has dropped under my 3km per day goal to 2.9km per day. The weather forecast says it'll be dry tomorrow, so I'm really hankering to getting back on my cane and walking then.
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
The post hurricane rain continues here in Mexico, but I still got 3.2km in walking on my cane yesterday. It feels good! :-)
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
3.4km in the rain yesterday! THREE POINT FOUR! Wow, that was good! I'm proud!
Rizen
Rizen
A few days ago I walked about a mile and a half, the next day I helped with gardening for 2 hours and today I walked about 2 miles.
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
I've been frustrated that injuring my Achilles tendon just sitting on my sofa last Friday put me in a wheelchair again. But last night I soaked my feet in some mysterious Mexican medicinal herbs friends brought me. Either just the hot water or the herbs themselves seem to have worked to get me halfway recovered already! Yay! In APril it took a week for me to recover when this happened, but it might only take half as long. I'm soaking my feet in that potion again tonight, and I'll see if I can't go home tomorrow. Then back to walking 3km a day by the weekend again, hopefully. :-)