Exercise and well being during chemo and radiation

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  • pboi
    pboi Member Posts: 663
    edited September 2015

    Good luck tomorrow Octogirl.

    2.0 walk/run on treadmill + steps = 4.4 mi

    PB

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  • ksusan
    ksusan Member Posts: 4,505
    edited September 2015

    9/8:

    • 1.0 hr T (2.3 MPH) + stretches
    • 25 crunches + 100 pedals
    • Fitbit steps [incl. long walk]

    = 11.75 miles

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  • Jackbirdie
    Jackbirdie Member Posts: 4,693
    edited September 2015

    K- a new record! Yay!

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  • ksusan
    ksusan Member Posts: 4,505
    edited September 2015

    Ate a reasonable breakfast (coffee with almond milk, water with l-glutamine, egg, Dave's Killer Bread, kale/rice protein/frozen berry smoothie). Schmeared self with Cetaphil 30 sunblock, walked listened to an audiobook (Ishmael Beah's Radiance of Tomorrow), ate an apple and a protein drink, bought myself a necklace. Ate a pleasant lunch with a friend (ham and cheese on a small roll with fried brussels sprouts and bread-and-butter pickles). Walked home with a cup of tea (pepperment matte), ate a Kind bar, flang self into cool bath. Ate cabbage and cauliflower chunks, leftover cornbread-fried hemp-fu, kefir, walnuts, another apple. An hour slow treadmill. And now, melatonin and reading in bed. No cake. I wish I had a hunk of cake.

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  • Italychick
    Italychick Member Posts: 2,343
    edited September 2015

    haven't done anything for the week I've been gone to visit my brother, dad and new nephew. Tomorrow back on the exercise mill. This week is the longest break I have had from exercising since October! I am definitely not looking at the scale for about a week. But it has been fun. And I missed exercising with all of you!

    I did walk at state fair for four hours Friday, danced three hours at my 35 year class reunion and judging by the way I felt the next day, those events definitely qualified as exercise. Plus running and chasing two toddlers Sunday and Monday

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  • ksusan
    ksusan Member Posts: 4,505
    edited September 2015

    Those count, Theresa!

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  • Mom2ABoy
    Mom2ABoy Member Posts: 170
    edited September 2015

    Hello all, I wanted to pop in here just to make a recommendation, if you're having trouble getting workouts or running in and need an energy boost, my experience of the past few days has been that a half hour or so of qi gong does amazing things for relaxation, loosening up tight muscles, clearing the mind, and just all around feeling better. I tried to find a video to show you what I've been doing, but none of the ones I can find really seem to explain it as well as someone would if you were learning in person. (I'm learning in person.) I recommend watching qi gong videos to get the idea but try to find a teacher if you can.

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  • slothabouttown
    slothabouttown Member Posts: 449
    edited September 2015

    K Susan,

    Where are you buying hempfu?

    I'm really missing tofu since quitting the soy (except for the occasional sushi spurge)

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  • ksusan
    ksusan Member Posts: 4,505
    edited September 2015

    Thanks, Mom2ABoy! I think we could all use calm, balance, and unblocked chi!

    Sloth, Market of Choice, near the tofu. There's a MoC at 8502 SW Terwilliger Blvd., though I'd call to see if they have it. I haven't checked Whole Foods.

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  • eheinrich
    eheinrich Member Posts: 792
    edited September 2015

    Good luck Octogirl! Wishing you minimal SEs and an event-free day.

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  • queenmomcat
    queenmomcat Member Posts: 3,039
    edited September 2015

    Swimming, for the first time since my Y did its annual clean-and-tidy. As part of their expansion/renovation, they redid the lights in the pool area (and in the racquetball courts) Much whiter/bluer and brighter than the previous ones. Wow. Before, the pool was a dim aqua.

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  • ksusan
    ksusan Member Posts: 4,505
    edited September 2015

    I feel well enough to be bored! I have work to do but I don't want to do it, so I'm walking to work to pretend I'm working (I'll water my plants and see if anybody needs anything from me in the next few days), and then walking home via a tea place, maybe. We've already determined that dinner is French lentils with ham and tomatoes, so there's no need to prep before my wife comes home.

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  • Jackbirdie
    Jackbirdie Member Posts: 4,693
    edited September 2015

    K- sounds like a nice afternoon.

    1 mile on the recumbent bike with arm thingies (now that's progress!)

    1 mile walking

    I might take the rest of the day off.

    QMC- the swimming sounds nice in a nice clean bright pool! Yay

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  • ksusan
    ksusan Member Posts: 4,505
    edited September 2015

    That's progress, Katy!

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  • KBeee
    KBeee Member Posts: 5,109
    edited September 2015

    5.25 miles...run 1, walk 1, run 1, walk 1, run 1.25.

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  • Jackbirdie
    Jackbirdie Member Posts: 4,693
    edited September 2015

    Kbee! Great energy and activity!

    K- what? No new hair share? Please

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  • KBeee
    KBeee Member Posts: 5,109
    edited September 2015

    Activity keeps my mind occupied and not so focused on the big C. Basically, it distracts me from reality...in a good way!

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  • octogirl
    octogirl Member Posts: 2,804
    edited September 2015

    Today was my first chemo and so far, so good...posted more details on the September 2015 chemo thread so won't repeat here, but bottom line: I feel just fine. I do confess that given the early hour for my apt AND the horrible smoke from forest fires that is starting to fill up the valley (fires are in the Sierra Nevada, quite a ways away but the smoke heads this way), my exercise today consisted of walking from car to MO office, to the chemo chair, back to car...you get the idea. It is very hot today but I plan to walk in the am, knock on wood. Hey, it does all count, right?

    Octogirl

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  • Sloan15
    Sloan15 Member Posts: 896
    edited September 2015

    octogirl - I'm in the heat in the central v, too. I had my second treatment yesterday, and this AM I got up and walked and feel great. I walk EARLY, and I tell myself I'm not tired from chemo, just sleepy from being up early! Good luck with your chemo.

    Ksusan - I love Dave's Killer Bread toasted, buttered, and with Trader Joe's apricot jelly. I'm not kidding you, it's ALMOST as good as cake!

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  • Jackbirdie
    Jackbirdie Member Posts: 4,693
    edited September 2015

    Octo and Sloan- well done ladies! Proud of ya!

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  • rainnyc
    rainnyc Member Posts: 1,289
    edited September 2015

    Octo and Sloan: What Katy said. Good luck with it all!

    KSusan: interesting novelty--that one should be well enough to be bored!


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  • eheinrich
    eheinrich Member Posts: 792
    edited September 2015

    It's in the low hundreds this week. Tomorrow (I'm cleared to drive starting then) I'm going to go to my gym and do a walk on the treadmill. Not sure how far I'll get but I need to start again after 2 weeks on my ass.

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  • Jackbirdie
    Jackbirdie Member Posts: 4,693
    edited September 2015

    E- glad you feel well enough to even CONTEMPLATE such an act.

    Please hydrate well today and listen to your body carefully tomorrow. You are not in a sprint. It's a marathon. I know you already know that. Two weeks is not much time, listen to your body. Hugs.

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  • eheinrich
    eheinrich Member Posts: 792
    edited September 2015

    Just gentle walking. This last surgery kicked my butt but good. Thanks for the hugs - they always help :)

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  • Sloan15
    Sloan15 Member Posts: 896
    edited September 2015

    jackbirdie- your posts are so loving. You make me smile!

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  • ksusan
    ksusan Member Posts: 4,505
    edited September 2015

    More later. 8.6 miles so far, hot, going to cool down with a tub and McCall Smith's Unusual Uses for Olive Oil. I can think of a few! Which reminds me to say I walked by a health food joint and bought myself a little something--yes, friends, it's emu oil!

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  • octogirl
    octogirl Member Posts: 2,804
    edited September 2015

    I still haven't gotten emu oil, but I did get a delivery today from Amazon of the huge 32 oz economy tub of coconut oil! Have already used it on my nails per some suggestions I read on one of the boards....

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  • Jackbirdie
    Jackbirdie Member Posts: 4,693
    edited September 2015

    32 OUNCES if coconut oil..... OH YEAH...... Hahaha. It is good for lots of things!

    K- 🎼🎶🎶 Schmaltzing the emu,

    Schmaltzing the emu,

    Won't you go schmalting,

    The Emu with me🎶🎶🎶🎶??

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  • Jackbirdie
    Jackbirdie Member Posts: 4,693
    edited September 2015

    Sloan- aww thanks. And you have a beautiful smile! So that's great!

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  • mysunshine48
    mysunshine48 Member Posts: 1,480
    edited September 2015


    I need that big tub of coconut oil. I am on my third jar (not that big), but I use it everywhere everyday! Exercise today was pre op with plastic surgeon and trip to Fresh Market. Not much! Exchange surgery scheduled for September 25. Ready, but scared. I don't like surgery

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