Kicking LEs butt!! Exercise & Self Care Log
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Headed out for a soggy walk this morning in the rain...hoping the thunderclouds stay away. Got in almost 19 miles total last week...each week a mile or two more than the one before. Only 10 weeks left to the marathon day. Yikes!
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Kudos to all of you who are doing exercise regularly. I have been trying to do some short of exercise every day, with two little kids its not alway easy to maintain a routine. But i have been more regular and upbeat. Have a great rest of the summer.
lovujja.
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I bought new shoes. Purchased some orthotics. Feet still hurt but it's only been a day or two. Trying to get more steps in but <argh> it hurts. Heading to San Fran Friday (work) and plan/hope to do lots of walking while I am onsite that week. It's a start - not a big one - but a start.
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Yeah to those who are starting back in to exercise. Take it slow and listen to your body, lovujja and Diane. Kudos to working to get in exercise time with 2 little ones, lovujja. Make it a family affair...swinging and playground time can actually be very good. When mine were little, we went to a park with a playground with a 1/8 mile track surrounding it. It was great to be able to keep an eye on the playtime while getting in some walking.
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I disappeared for a spell. I had to have my right implant removed due to infection. You think no boobs is bad until you have no hair. You think lymphedema is a fashion challenge until you have one boob...and so much more. Ugh. I'm wearing a sleeve today. I was careful at the hospital that they knew about my lymphedema. Beyond that I haven't been doing much of anything and gratefully it stayed pretty stable. Back on the sleeve today. These surgeries are so majorly messing up my workouts!
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Mariasnow, ugh, hang in there!
Been doing good on the weights, added five pounds today, but haven't been wearing the Fitbit! Darn, I need to strap that little sucker on!
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The morning is beautiful here today...low 70's and the humidity has gone...got in 6 miles this morning at the local dam. Note to self: it may be better to park at the bottom of the dam and go up for the first mile, rather than uphill for the last mile
Now in the LymphaPress to start the day. Have a good one everybody!0 -
Thanks nibbaba. I will try to keep the faith and stay in touch with everyone to hear the good stories so I can keep being one. :-). Nice job getting out there Laural. It's awesome!!
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Did my leg workout today. Got to incorporate lunges again though. Got the Fitbit on too, 5,270 steps so far.
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nibbana, that is awesome! burn up those legs! yes!! I'm able to start walking a bit tomorrow - 10 days after my surgery and I am SOOOO excited. Another thing I have been reading about is that a lot of women report their lymphedema improves after a latissimus dorsi. Interesting. I sent my surgeon the articles to see if he has any opinion. I can't wait for August 7th to get back to 2 boobs!
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Isn't it weird how we sometimes drag ourselves to get started exercising and then when health takes it away we crave exercise and wish we could exercise our heads off
Back on track after about 2 months. With pup training it has been hard to get out as she can't walk as fast as me and also I need to be able to spend a lot of time with her training before I finish my summer holidays. No excuses anymore.That said I did walk 3 times this week and put the wee one in her crate. It felt so good to walk, I missed it like mariasnow has. I got to beach walk and it was so awesome of a day despite my toe injury. Went to doc and he doesn't think toe is broken. It is improving so I am out WALKING, YES! YES! YES!
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Hugz, I so agree about the hard to get started but torture when not able to exercise! When I had my toe fixed a couple of years ago, lordie but it was the first question....how long till I get to go back to the gym . Tortured the surgeon and lucky, he understood and I was back in the gym on a bike in about 2 1/2 weeks!
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I am not going to get crazy about when I can get back to exercise but I will do it when I can. On an interesting and happy note, my lymphedema is the best it has been in a while. This means either my infection or my implant was contributing to the situation. I'm not sure which.
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I am nearing the end of a five day kayak trip, stealing a few moments of cell phone battery time (we are camping from our kayaks). We have paddled 75 miles so far, with one day to go. I put my fitbit on my paddle, and it tells me I have lifted my paddle 73 thousand times, starting on Monday! So far, I have felt a fatigued arm, but no added swelling. Wearing my Juzo sleeve and gauntlet + Underarmour T. Wearing Columbia bugproof shirt and pants, which are amazing! Scenery is wonderful and well worth the wear and tear on my arm.
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Sounds great Carol. You must be really fit from all that paddling.
Happy to hear that the bugproof clothes is working. I will have to give my columbia bug shirt a try. I have been holding off because I was worried that the material was impregnated with chemicals and hate the thought of it next to my skin and then it rubbing on my LE sleeve cant be too good for the sleeve either. Still I know we got to live our lives and have fun while we are at it.
I get to walk my friends dog on my lunch hour. Yeah!
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carol, that sounds great! So glad you got to do something strenuous and adventurous - lymphedema and all!
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It was fun, and I definitely feel I have a tired arm, so no free pass, but I will sure look forward to doing it again next year on another river. I am really glad that I have stuck to my weight lifting program. It is incredibly frustrating though, when the LE arm gets super tired while the unaffected arm could go on seemingly forever and feel zero fatigue. Yesterday at a certain point, I had to stop paddling and just float, using my paddle for steering only, because the LE arm was just done pulling hard. I brought up the rear of our three kayaks, which I don't mind, but I sure was getting moody over how LE was taking charge. I am very grateful that my LE isn't very advanced, but still, it does make me furious sometimes, as I know everyone here can relate to.
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Glad you had a good time Carol. Yeah, the weight lifting is my saving grace sometimes. If I didn't do this, I think I'd be a lot worse off.
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Nibbana, I don't know that I'd be worse off (LE) without the weight lifting, but I sure wouldn't dare hop in my kayak for 5 days if I didn't know I had some pretty good upper body, and especially arm and shoulder strength! I'm still feeling the after-effects today, so paying for the paddling. Maybe next year, after another whole year of weight training, I'll have more strength and endurance and my stupid lymphatic system won't get so excited when I paddle!!
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Hope the quiet here means all are out enjoying summer adventures. I spent a Girls Weekend with my sister and friend. We put in 7 dedicated miles on a trail walking, and plenty more miles strolling the shops, coal mine, and sights in and around Pittsburgh. Back home now and still training daily with another 6 mile route coming up this Saturday.
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Have a new LiveStrong trainer and oh dear, she is killing me. In the best way possible.
I'm still not above 3 pounds when we do arms but my legs and my abs ... I've never worked out harder in my life. She's working on strengthening my hips to see if it will help my knees and I can get back to running ... and she has me doing the ballerina move ... I know I'm not going to spell this correctly ... but plies' ... whew! Today she had me do it with a weight to see if I could get down low enough to put the weight on the floor.
Yeah. Good night ... I've been fortunate enough last week to be able to come home and take a nap ... last Thursday after a shower I took a 3 hour nap. I'm thankful to have a trainer again ... but look out LE olympics ... I'm going to be the dancer, ok? 
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Dawne, great that you have a new kick butt trainer! It really helps doesn't it?
Last night at my gym, a woman asked to use a machine I was finishing up on and she said she needed to practice as tonight was her trainer session and she needed to prove she had been doing what she was told! Yeap. that is me too!
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You gals are certainly kicking butt real good. Yeah. I missed one of my walks this week so tonight after dog class which totally wears me out I will go and pound the pavement.
Hard to believe dog training is exercise but I have to bend over so many times to reward small pup and then walk her about during training that I am counting it as exercise. It is nice that it is outdoors and I am the only one attending so we get full attention and that is why I am worn out by class end. I have walked the dog everyday since last week but it is not much more than a 45 min stroll as she keeps stopping in fear when she hears a car comming behind her. Also she lunges forward during our walk so I have to stop until she slackens the leash. Sometimes I have to stop a dozen times within 50 feet. Yikes. I cant wait until we master the walk.
Anyone heard for our Beckysharp gal. I miss her. Tina too.
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I've heard from Becky, and she is busy, busy doing wonderful LE advocacy work in TN.
I've been a prisoner of work this week, the penalty for taking a week off to paddle. So I am getting a whole lot more fingers-on-keyboard exercise than real exercise, so bad, bad, bad. I did go to the gym on Monday and will return tomorrow, for weight training and I'll make sure I get in at least 30 mins of some kind of cardio.
My arm is barking at me. I think it's a delayed response to all the paddling. I'd do it again anyway, but pfffft. I hate having a sore arm as my lasting reminder of a great vacation. Whine, whine, whine.
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Nice to here Becky is doing well. She was such an inspiration to me being such an exerciser and one of the biggest losers here. I am talkin weight loss! Wish she would pop in every few months to give us an update on her le advocacy and her well being. Just adore that girl.
Walkies and lebeds today.
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Ok, I have another conundrum to figure out here.
I said I was ready to get a personal trainer. Well, I found a gym nearby, and talked to a guy who is a personal trainer, and now I don't know if I want a personal trainer!
What I don't want is someone calling my doctor, demanding medical stuff, in general treating me like I'm broken. I have this condition, I have been trained in how to deal with it, I have the papers from Carol on things a personal trainer should know regarding exercise and lymphedema. I know how to handle things.
On a side note, I'm afraid of being blacklisted for massages also. I thought of just not telling them about my condition, but if the massage therapist sees the scars under my arms, they could freak out, make me leave. My damn back hurts, I get stressed out, I need a massage at least sometimes dammit!!! Getting worked up, grrrr, oops, wrong thread.
I guess I want freedom, freedom to pursue health and wellness, and I'm not getting health and wellness when I'm constantly fighting for myself. I'm just tired of fighting, I'm just plain tired.
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Aw Nibanna, I hear you loud and clear and agree with you. What you need right now is one of my big sloppy kisses that I save for these kinds of moments......here goes. Smoooooooch! There now that feels better already.
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calm down, a gym or trainer can not call your doctor and demand any information on you! They can ask you to have your doctor sign a release! It is called privacy laws!
my gym does ask folks over a certain age to have doctor approval, heck, mine said sure! My trainer is actually someone who is studing PT for cancer patients, working on his PHD believe it or not. If you are hurting bad, maybe you need to stretch more. I have sort of stopped massages as concerned about my LE but, my trainer is big on stretches and I now spend 20 min or so every visit to the gym just stretching and I feel much better. It works better in my opinion. Maybe you spoke to the wrong trainer, they are all dif
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6.5 miles in this morning, and we dodged the rain by about 20 minutes...Saturday blessings
Now on to the rest of the day, my last Saturday before work starts up again and life becomes way busy. I am just very happy to be able to have the health to enjoy each day and to be able to work towards the Half Marathon goal week by week. Hope all have a good weekend.0 -
Well made it through the massage appointment without any drama. In fact, I don't think they even read the intake sheet. I think now I will hold off on a personal trainier. I'm content to work out at home, and I even added five pounds of weight, so I'm getting back up there.
Back and chest day was today.
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