April Healthy Living Thread

This sounds nice.

I wanted to go to the gym today but missed due to there being 8 to 10 inches of snow in the driveway. I really need to make sure I get to the gym 4 days a week I have gained so much weight since getting Covid and skipping a lot I need to be disciplined I love my hit workouts I feel like I have done something healthy for myself afterwards. I also need to start doing more walking when the weather gets warmer.

Got out for a couple of hours on my bicycle yesterday. I'm trying to increase the distance I cycle and therefore my fitness, so was pleased with the 28 miles I managed.
It was good to clear my mind and just concentrate on pushing myself forward.

So, I made some new year goals as 2022 was brutal. To sum up 2023 so far:

In January, rejoined gym and went about 5x/week doing high intensity interval training, though I was very limited in being able to sprint. My resting heart rate day one was 131, and I got it down to 99 last time I was checking in February.

In Feb I started adding weight training, doing upper and lower body days, and reduced the HIIT to some days after strength workout. Dropped to more like 3-4 days a week. Also started doing 1-2 long walks (5-10 miles) each week.

In March, more long walks, and got dumbells to do home workouts.

But in April so far I've fallen off the wagon. Took too many days off and now haven't worked out in a couple weeks. Though I did buy a bike and have gone on a few rides.

I'm wanting to get back to it, thanks for this thread.

🤔 👋😁 idk, maybe i'm new here! but i saw this thread and i want to try to answer. i've been spiraling so much in recent weeks that i really felt like your classic matter going down a toilet. much going on and was not at all helped by my sciatica or whatever, that still causes me a bit of trouble, but also seems everything below my waist. hips, knees, left shin, and feet bottoms. i was thinking of knee surgery, but what if my issue is diabetic neuropathy. what if i do the surgery but then they tell me they have to do away with my feet. ok ok, the doctor said that that will not happen. my diabetes is safely under control. but it still hurts to walk and the bottoms of my feet have a strange numb and painful situation going on.

i said i was spiraling. i've been doing a lot of change and when you have no friends who understand or if you feel talking to family is too difficult, and the body pain is just too much... well...

i just spent 11 days in the psych hospital again. me! but i wanted to. i simply needed a rest in a safe space. and i knew i would find i could make the doctors understand that i needed the rest but not meds. i knew i'd discover that finding listening ears in my family do exist. i realized that i am already in a support group and those peeps are indeed my friends.

unfortunately or strangely or ironically the hospital does not always have that much for a psych patient to do except walk the halls. i did. and in those halls i discovered that i can bend my knees. i can stand on my two feet and maybe even discharge the weird sensations in my feet. so i walked with deliberation and as naturally as i can and to my surprise, my walking is improving. and now back home, i'm walking more. i feel as if fear, bad thinking, lonliness, intrusive thoughts and the like kind of froze me into bad habits when it comes to walking so i'm relearning. i'm discovering that healing can come from within. i'm guessing i am new here! and i'm feeling optimistic and more able to face the world in a new way. feeling quite happy in fact!