Exercise and well being during chemo and radiation

ksusan

Envious!

octogirl

I love the desert (and Sedona) also...enjoy...

I just got back from another favorite spot, the Monterey peninsula, where I wasn't posting on the board, but where I did do a lot of walking. 3.2 miles Wednesday, 3 miles Thursday, almost three today...nothing like the ocean to get me in the mood to walk.

On Wednesday hubby and I tried one of those surrey bikes where you sit together on a seat and peddle. We see them whenever we go to Monterey and we were wondering if we could succeed in peddling together without fighting (we have observed that they are not easy to steer)....that part was relatively successful but they are a hell of a lot harder to peddle than one would think. Much more difficult than a regular bicycle. Both hubby and I felt muscles we hadn't used in a while. Did manage about four miles though!

Octogirl

ksusan

10/31: Stretches + 50 bicep curls [x2] + 10 reclined triceps extension + 50 crunches + Fitbit steps (2.0 miles)

littleblueflowers

Hiked about 8 miles yesterday and did some bouldering up to some ruins. Then got in costume and went to Jerome for the night. Danced my boooootay off! So fun. I heart Arizona! All of my muscles are sore now.

ksusan

Hooray for pleasingly sore muscles!

Despite my double-earache, we're planning to enroll at a fitness center today. If we go 8 times a month all year, we get half the annual fee back from our health plan.

slothabouttown

Here's our Thriller debut. Got my fitbit steps in, 15,000 zombie shuffles!

slothabouttown

Also this. Ready to eat some brains. And then find a good moisturizer!

Jackbirdie

Sloth- looks like a great time! So glad you had fun AND got all those steps in! Haha! I feel dirty now somehow

ksusan

Sloth--excellent, and not unlike our armpits! Thanks for showing the world what radiation looks like!

slothabouttown

Susan, that's exactly what I thought! After these past 10 months it wasn't much of a stretch to channel my inner mutant!

Italychick

sloth, awesome! I want to do it some year!

28.2 mile cruise/ride today looking at the ocean, so beautiful. 1,000 calories burned, I will take it. Then about 2 hours of walking around the Carlsbad street fair.

I love coastal living!

ksusan

I'm bummed that all the gyms won't allow sport sandals. I can't wear sneakers or other closed-toe shoes for exercise. So much for joining a gym.

Italychick

wtf, why? That is ignorant all day. Can't you get a doctors note or something?

ksusan

Liability, though dropping a 5-lb weight on your foot is going to hurt you whether you're in sandals or a sneaker. It's crazy because I've walked thousands of miles in just my current pair of Tevas with no problems. Ah, well. I went to the fancy shoe place and paid a lot for athletic shoes with as big a toe box as I can find, in a half-size too large. I'll try them on my treadmill tonight and see how my toes are by morning. I have Morton's toe on both feet ("index" toe longer than big toe), plus wide feet that are at an angle due to a mild congenital defect, so closed toe shoes are always painful after a very short time. If these can take me through 30-60 minutes of treadmill okay, that's acceptable. I can't imagine that sandals or unconstructed yoga shoe-type things are not permitted for aerobics and Zumba.

Tamoxifen does really decrease my frustration tolerance. It was hard not to cry all afternoon after going to the gym to sign up and seeing the rule just before we signed for a year.

Italychick

Ksusan, try to get a doctors note. There are always exceptions.

littleblueflowers

Ksusan, would crocs work? They have a pretty wide toe box...or maybe Hoka running shoes?

ksusan

Crocs seem to be explicitly excluded. I've purchased a rather expensive pair of athletic shoes a size too large. I can treadmill with clown shoes. I can't Zumba like that, though, so I've requested a medical exception and offered to sign a liability waiver.

In good news, my ND says my new lump is not suggestive of cancer, confirming my BS's evaluation.

Jackbirdie

Ks- very glad to hear that bit of confirmation. Such good news. I'm glad.

Got a walk in betwee rain showers today. Made myself do it. Felt myself sinking again. Why is it do hard to do what I know will make me feel better

Italychick

Katy, that is the question lol. If we knew the answer, all of us would be fit and trim! I can find a reason to ditch exercise at a moment's notice. Karl Strauss's happy hour prices, an unwatched episode of Walking Dead, cleaning the toilet. It is always a struggle to just start.

Today, 14 miles, less distance because less daylight and now I have to ride on my lunch hour. Early darkness sucks.

pboi

That is the question isn't it?! Thanks for posting Theresa. I see how much you ride and it inspires me. To know that you too struggle to get started makes me feel like it's not just me. Some people seem to love to exercise, and miss it when they can't. I wish I were like that...but I'm not. I need to do this to keep myself healthy. Slowly it's become a routine to go exercise...very slowly.

Raining outside today...2 mi walk/slow jog on treadmill this am and hoping to repeat again tonight.

PB

bluedog

The only thing worse than exercising is not exercising.

bluedog

2 mile dog walk today.

Jackbirdie

lucky dog! Is his name Blue?

Jack got 1/2 a mile or a little more. He never asks. Only that he be beside me. I am a lucky human.

bluedog

No, her name is Nellie. I'm bluedog because I love dogs and like the color blue. Nellie is a border collie mix. Her fur is much shorter than most border collies, though, and she's small. She looks a little bit like Jack.

Italychick

Pboi, oh hell no. If I had a magic pill to be completely healthy no matter what I did, chips, alcohol (wine, beer, whiskey, gin, vodka, you name it!), cigars, cigarettes, illicit drugs, fatty yummy greasy stuff, candy, especially chocolate candy with almonds and any type of sour candy would be in my mouth 24/7. I mean, let's face it, all the stuff that is the worst for us is what we desperately want, right?

I exercise to eat, lol. And try to be healthy too. Exercising mainly calms the little voices in my head saying if you don't exercise you are gonna die, so if I don't exercise, the voices get louder and start terrorizing me. But if all bets were off, give me a big ass party eating junk, drinking, smoking a cigar, gambling, etc. I have never "liked" to exercise. I do like the endorphin feeling I get afterwards though.

ksusan

I don't mind walking. The rest of it is my "exercise job." I'd rather lie around and read. I do look pretty good in sweats, though--at least until I start moving.

Italychick

yep, I'd rather lay around and read, or do anagrams, and eat chocolate. Ooh, or a Popsicle. Haven't had one in four years since it's a pure sugar bomb. Riding today totally kicked my ass, the wind was so brutal today!

littleblueflowers

Ran 4 miles yesterday, 20 wall pushups, a zillion abs. Oh, and got up at 4 am to catch a plane home. On exercise: I love it because I LOVE to eat. I can easily pack down 3,000 calories a day, but only if I exercise enough to make room for all that wonderful food! Food, glorious food, is my motivation. Especially delicious Mexican food. I don't do diets. If I feel yucky, I add things. Like, vegetable smoothies. But then, aside from the marshmallow pinwheel cookie debacle of October 2015, I don't eat trash food, either. So it all works out. Keep it classy, sexy sisters!

pboi

Wow...sorry Theresa. Some of you here exercise so much I thought you just loved it. I'm with you though, would rather sit and eat chocolate...and pass me the remote!

PB

ksusan

My weight is down another pound. I'm now only 2 pounds higher than I was the day I went into surgery. We're talking about 9.5 months to lose 4 pounds, but I haven't gained with tamoxifen and I'm hoping my metabolism will settle into a weight-loss groove. Truly, a pound a month would be excellent.