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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
Congrats on the walking and the work outdoors, Rizen. I walked 1.15km today with my dog which surprised me since she gave birth just yesterday. She was eager to walk, though, since she spends most of her time nursing her 7 pups.
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
I decided to heed my home health care giver'’s advice and skip walking today. She suggested maybe the time has come to cut back again. She was right about cutting back from 3km a day to 1km a day. Now she’s saying how about if instead of walking every day I walk only every other day. She may be on to something. I’ll give it a try.
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
I skipped walking yesterday and it did me good. I was able to walk 1.4km today.
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
I walked exactly 1km today, my daily goal. Glad I was able to do so.
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
i walked 1.1km today, surpassing my daily goal, thank goodness.
Rizen
Rizen
I bet the puppies are adorable.
I walked 4 miles and gardened for 2 and a half hours this week.
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
The puppies are SO cute, rizen. It makes cleaning up after them worth it.

Good walking and working outdoors again, my friend. I'm looking for 1km in an hour when the Mexican hot weather cools down. So grateful to be walking without winding up in a wheelchair once this year as opposed to last year.
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
I did walk 1.1 km yesterday as I hoped! Now today I took a nap this afternoon so as to rest up for the strength to do it again today. Every day I can walk, even if it's just for 1 km, I'm grateful that I'm not in my wheelchair I feel back into last year 3 times. This year I've been wheelchair free so far, thankfully.
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
My living room is in between my bedroom and my kitchen, a detail I'm mentioning here just so my walking can be mapped today. My CKD pain was so bad today that I could only make that walk halfway. In other words, I staggered from bed to couch, but not on to kitchen and brewing my morning coffee. That had to be done for me. Ouch. No walking outdoors since I couldn't indoors.
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
Today's one of those days when I'll have to take the day off from walking, I'm afraid. Lately that's happened a lot. But I figure even if I only walk every other day I'm still keeping myself on my feet and out of last year's wheelchair.
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
I can't explain why, but today I went from not walking yesterday to walking too much today--1.6 km, when my goal is only 1 km. I'll skip walking tomorrow to cut back for health's sake, though I will be walking in the supermarket grocery shopping for the month since it's my pension payday.
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
My plan to walk less today went south when our supermarket trip wound up meaning we walked 4 times as much as usual: 4.54 km! I'm tired. But I'm ok.
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
My daily home health care aide fell ill today and so , tables turned, I ran an errand with her teen kids to the drugstore for her. Then I took the kids out for ice cream and pizza before coming back home. It was nice. In the process, I walked 1.86 km. I can skip a day this week all the more now.
Rizen
Rizen
That was nice of you to help the healthcare aid out.
I walked 2.5-3 miles and gardened outside for 3 hours this week.
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
Thanks, Rizen, she and her family are good people, so helping them was a pleasure.

Good job of keeping up the outdoor work and the miles of walking. I'm not walking today as we have thundershowers here in Mexico right now. It's the tropical rainy season so it's going to happen from time to time. I walked extra a lot this week so it won't bring my weekly walking distance average down or anything.