Let's Post our Daily Exercise

Falconer

LilacBlue, another year a ok! Awesome! thanks for the exercise info. Since you specialize in it I'm going to PM you. I'm going for small Flap recon- 34bish.

Two miles on the elliptical today 15 minute quickie!

Unbreakable01

Earlier this week one of my mom's friends told her I'm meaty. In our language the original saying is I'm "fat". I know I've gained some weight, but I've been through 4 surgeries and radiation. I was a workout fiend before cancer, but when you have to rest and not workout after surgery, you listen. The left is pre cancer, the right photo is post.

I've been running, not lifting weights as much. After I heard that I decided to kick it into higher gear. I'm running 3 miles a day, and now trying to lift 3 days a week. Strength training helps and I've lost some muscle over the 1 1/2 years. I am cutting out processed foods (I didn't eat much to begin with).

I'm doing this for me, not for her. Although I was rather annoyed at that comment. If I could, I wouldn't have gotten out of shape, but I didn't get to choose cancer. In my culture people don't have a filter. I just smh.

ruthbru

Just start where you are, Unbreakable, and work back up slowly.....it will come.

Felloco1

unbreakable ... you have faced a massive challenge in dealing with cancer and the side effects / tiredness add to that tough time . Be proud at how strong you are and have been so far ...a little progress every day will add up.... I love to run but I am halfway through chemo ( post double mastectomy) so in the last 6 months it's not always been easy. I stay strong knowing that if I can't run I walk and give my self a break every now & then ! We are all traveling the same hard road....so stay strong knowing you have many friends here who really understand just how amazing you are doing.... keep going you will get to wherever you want to be 😀👍

Falconer

Unbreakable, my heart is with you. I am in disbelief every time I step on the scale. I've always had a stable weight but I've gained 10-15 lbs. On me, that is a significant percentage. But now is the time to be gentle with yourself. You are beautiful, don't doubt it for a minute.

M0mmyof3

workout accomplished

Unbreakable01

Falconer, Felloco1,Ruthbru,

Thank you for the encouragement and for truly understanding. Its not only a battle of the body recovering, but I don't think tamoxifen helps either.

Doing pull ups is definitely not the same with the muscle pushing on the implant. Because I look healthy, people don't always realize the struggles to do the same workout as before.

I appreciate you all!

badger

hi all and welcome Unbreakable01 and breastcanceryogi. Do what you can when you can. All movement counts. I'm over ideal weight (doggone GS cookies LOL) but healthy and that's worth more than a number on a scale. But I'd sure like to drop ten.

Gotta share This Girl Can. I jiggle therefore I am.

badger

Oh yeah, exercise LOL - met my walking buddy yesterday for a Capitol constitutional over lunch break. Today worked through so could leave early for doc appt.

Six-month follow-up with onc. He's pleased to see me looking healthy. We discussed DEXA scan result and since I have mild osteopenia he said to ask my PCP (primary care physician) about Reclast. He'd give me a shot once a year if she concurs. Anyone do a pharmaceutical bone-builder?

20,120 steps = 9.5 miles walked since last post.

ruthbru

Cleaned the house this afternoon & went to yoga tonight.

Love the giggle, badger. Don't know about bone-builders but I imagine that somebody does.

Unbreakable, I tried to be very stoic & stiff upper lip etc. etc, during treatment and then was secretly miffed when people would comment that I must have had an easy time of it. It kind of brought out the crazy in me!

hbcheryl

Unbreakable its one step at a time, you will build your muscle strength again and being healthy is far more important. LB great news congratulations. Badger I love that campaign.

Yesterday was my 3 class day - Sprint, Body Flow Express and LM BodyBarre, BodyBarre trial ends next week and I sure hope they keep the program as I've thoroughly enjoyed it. Tonight a friend and I walked the wetlands, they are right off the ocean on Coast Highway, the wind was fierce but such a lovely refreshing walk breathing the fresh ocean air.

LilacBlue

Cheryl, LM barre or vinyasa flow never made it here and can't see it happening in the foreseeable future. I'd love to teach vinyasa flow and #76 contains two track 2 sun salutations, courtesy of Kylie. Beautiful walk/photo. Falconer feel free to PM. Unbreakable, can so relate and between 1st. & 2nd. revision surgery, lost 20 lbs. I realized that for me to go through all this body harvesting/crap - to get to the results desired, the best way was to present with the best possible canvas I could to my PS. It was from this thread, Ruth (super B'day www photo!) actually, that showed me the way. I forget the name of the app, but I logged all that I consumed during the day and kept to very low calories (below 1000) and higher energy output, and cut out carbs. The flab on my tummy, hips and thighs left, yet cankles will never budge.

I think there is a hole in the bc book market for one on comprehensive diet & exercises - during tx and after, especially SE's of AL's, to get back to fit or become fit - to be in the desirable low BMI part of the scale for helping to keep recurrence at bay. The sad truth so far and including reports from a few of the bc ladies I work with at Pink Pilates, near starvation (1200 calories tops, or better to be below, per day) coupled with either big muscle movement (walking) or for quicker results, whole body workouts, several days a week, can do it. Truthfully, not many are willing to go to those lengths and as we know, high BMI exacerbates lymphedema, as all dots connect.

Going to go in to practice #76 and BB tonight, waiting for washer repair man to arrive.

Ginger48

unbreakable- people can be so thoughtless. What you think is the only thing that matters. You have lots of support here to get healthy and strong again. Do what feels right and forget the rest.

Lilac- thinking of you after all that has happened in London.

Wonderland- I got into Hydro Running class! Someone dropped off at the last minute. 45 min of running drills in the pool. I feel it already.

ruthbru

I am glad you got into your class, Ginger!!

loseit.com is free and a good way to track calories, exercise, what % of your food intake came from which food group each day & week etc. etc. I should probably go back there myself because I have a couple 'vacation pounds' that don't want to come off (but not today because my Book Club meets tonight which means wine and a rich dessert....hmmmmmm.....might there be a connection there to the pounds not coming off? ).

I am going to do an hour of toning this morning, maybe the treadmill (it's raining here today), and I am subbing this afternoon so will get in some steps roaming around a classroom.

Beautiful ocean picture, Cheryl!

M0mmyof3

Did a quick walk around the neighborhood this morning. Was pretty cold even though I was bundled up.

breastcanceryogi

badger - thanks for the welcome. It's very reassuring to find a community while going through this.

Yesterday: Some abs work, 40 mins on the stationary bike (very slow—I'm still on restricted activity), and an hourlong gentle yoga practice focusing primarily on hip openers. Crazy how tight my hips get from sitting around!

Another "funny" observation on yoga: surgery really turns your abilities upside down in some respects. I can do "hard" poses like Warrior 3 all day, but am struggling to get into "easy" poses like child's pose. Every day I get a little more movement back, though 🙂

Today: Probably more of the same, but I haven't yet broken free from the gravitational pull of the couch and the coffee cup.

sweetandspecial

hey all - posting from beautiful Queenstown today! DH had a successful red stag hunt earlier this week in Wanaka. While he was hunting our friends and I saw Cromwell and Cardrova areas. Ate lunch at the historic Cardrova Hotel, visited a distillery and had a tasting and finished up the day with a 4pm quadrunner excursion up the mountain (and back down again of course). Loved the quadrunner ride - had no idea I'd have such an incredible blast with that!

Wednesday was a quiet morning packing back up then a guided drive back to Queenstown with a lunch/shopping stop in Arrowtown. Red stag steak with eggs, toast and fruit for breakfast yesterday followed by a flight to Milford Sound, 2-hour BEAUTIFUL boat cruise and flight back to Q-town. Nary a cloud in the sky all day which is apparently unheard of in Fiordland area so we felt extremely blessed to experience the sound under such gorgeous conditions.

Red stag burgers with salad and sauteed mushrooms for dinner last night.

DH and I just returned from a Segway tour this morning (11:30am Friday right now). Next adventure is a guided tour to Glenorchy for sightseeing and a Lord of the Rings experience this afternoon. Will cook the last of our red stag supply tonight with leftover salad and some sauteed fresh vegetables and head out for Haast in the morning.

Exercise has been walking up and down steep hills from rental home to town and the Segway ride was a bit of a leg workout.

Will check in again when I can. I'm on my little notepad for this so typing a lot takes me a while.

Inspirational thought for today: Wake up, drink water, work out, eat healthy, give joy, be awesome!

Keep moving my sculpted sisters!

ruthbru

Great advice, sweet. I will only add one more piece of advce: eat some cake too!!!!

JEALOUS of your upcoming Lord of the Rings experience!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

badger

me too!

Another busy day but productive. Being in a carpool is good because we leave at a set time which focuses the mind on the clock. Turned in 1st draft of today's project then took a 20-min 7th inning stretch. Came back to more inputs and had final draft in by COB.

Wonderland

Ginger: So glad you got in the class! When I was in my 20s I took a water aerobics class at the Y. Each class ended with running in the pool. I thought it would be a breeze. Boy, was I wrong! The class was mainly older women and they were passing me left and right. Finally I got my rhythm and was able to keep up with the ladies. You'll have fun and a good workout.

Welcome to all the new ladies!

Unbreakable: that took guts to post your pictures. Some of us have been where you are, some of us are still there. We are here to support each other no matter what.

Karen: (((HUGS)))

Badger: Sounds like your new job is going well. So happy for you!

Sweet: Wow, just wow. What a fabulous time you are having!

Lilac: Congratulations on your yearly report!

Cheryl: Gorgeous picture!

Ruth: I look forward to your WWW pictures.

M0mmy: Yea for getting in your walk!

Walked/jogged this afternoon. It was perfect!

LilacBlue

Sweet, good to read your holiday check in. Thanks Ginger, and this is how horrible terrorists incidents are handled over here (and why I love London):

M0mmyof3

I was horrified over the incident in London. I had been in that area when I was over there on a school trip in '93. It just made me sick to think that such a terrible thing happened that close to where I had been once.

ruthbru

Happy Birthday, Cheryl! Let the adventures continue!!!!

Scottiemom11

Sweet also jealous of your LOTR tour. That will go on my wish list. Can't wait to see your pictures. Enjoy.

On the bright side my PS said I can start back walking in another week.

Scottie

hbcheryl

Thank you Ruth Ginger glad you were able to get into the class. LB, I love the train board, people in Britain have had to deal with so much through the years what with all the IRA bombings. Barre and Vinyassa are on the On Demand app under Mind and Body if you every get a "try it free" for a week you should go online and look (and they put that of out all the time) it should be available over there as I am in a closed group for On Demand and there are people from the UK posting in the group. Sweet one of my my favpurite memories is flying on a private plane from Queenstown to Milford Sound, it was like you could reach out and touch the tops of the very jagged and snow covered mountains and then those cravasses were terrifying they were so deep then he took us through the sound sideways it was spectacular, NZ is so beautiful.

Last night did Sh'bam and Body Pump, was so tired after the gym that after dinner I fell asleep and woke up in my recliner at 2am.

M0mmyof3

Workout tonight

karen1956

I'm officially on spring break! Making almond cookies, but the dough needs to be refrigerated for an hour....I put in the freezer for less time....waiting to make/bake the cookies.

Feeling really stressed about Mom so enjoying a glass of wine a bit early...so of course I have to snack!

Have a good week-end. Karen

Vargadoll

Almost back to my pre-surgery steps! This week I have logged over 120,232 steps on my fitbit. The night isn't over so I should end my work week hussle with about 124,000 + steps.

Of course all this goes down tbe drain again when rads start....sigh....unbreakable, I totally understand and hope to have the same get and go when this BC journey is over!

Wonderland

Cheryl: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! You are such a special person and I'm so glad I know you!!!

Vargadoll: Your step totals are awesome! Hopefully rads won't be too bad for you and your energy stays level.

Karen: Wine and almond cookies together sound soothing.

Hi All! Walked/ran this afternoon.

ruthbru

Subbed and walked after school.