Today I set off for my first walk since leaving hospital. Taking advantage of the warm sunshine, I set out just after lunch and strolled down to the creek. I coped ok on the way there but struggled quite a bit on the return 500m. My lung (the one that I had the pneumonia in) burned quite badly on the way back and I started to cough quite a bit. I arrived home tired and clammy but happy that I'd taken the first step back towards daily exercise and wellbeing. While my focus at present is on improving my health, I am keeping my weight and weight loss in mind. My losing continues to be very slow but I'm pleased to say that I'm down another kilo.
When I started my focus on weight loss and wellbeing a year ago I never could have imagined that my journey would have been so S.L.O.W. I understood that my health would be a long term journey but I really expected to have lost weight far more quickly and that I'd be happily at goal now. I rather suspect that if I knew that my weight loss journey would be this glacially slow I would have given up before I started. As it is, I set my foot on this path 12 months ago and although the journey has not turned out as I had imagined, I find myself with no interest in giving up. While experiencing moments of disappointment with my progress and the increasing complexity of my medical situation I find myself happy to have lost almost 10kgs and to have mainly kept this off. Prior to my pneumonia I was extremely pleased with the progress I had made with my daily walk, having found a new route I enjoyed and being able to successfully walk for 35 minutes or more each day without crashing back into fatigue. This was a HUGE improvement on what I had been physically able to achieve for many years and I know I'll get back to this walk as my body heals. Maybe I'm like a diamond and am simply taking a long time to form.... :)
Just catching up on your posts and SO sorry to hear you have been poorly.
ReplyDeleteSeems like each day sees and improvement - keep it up and well done.