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[telophase]

20 min., 3.5 mi.
Total: 191.8 mi. Still in the Marshes. And not too happy about it.

OTOH, the scale this morning revealed I have officially lost 20 pounds. :D

At my rescheduled "are you dying of liver failure yet?" appointment with the ADD people, I got a copy of my labwork from when they took blood last month, which provides me with proof to wave in people's faces that cholesterol levels are far more genetic than weight-related. So nyah to those people who think I'm about to drop dead of a heart attack any moment now. :P

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[kintail.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

I keep meaning to tell you that seeing your exercise update nearly every day has been really inspiring.

Life has gotten in the way of going out to shop for my own exercise machine of some kind (though I don't know if I have much chance to get something worth it given the constraints of my financial and space budgets), but as the weather has provided teasers of spring I have been walking the dog much further more often than just the minumum necessary for him to do his business.

I've been very proud of myself, which is a great energizer and mood-booster, too.

This week hasn't been as good as last week, but my partner Tav has been sick and usually I get whatever he gets so I've been conserving energy to fight it off, and then we got another bone-aching cold snap. Still, I did twenty minutes of (very basic, specifically for chronic back pain) yoga today as well as a short walk, and the motivation to do more when the weather warms up again is still with me.

So, thank you. It's overdue.

(And I really should start updating my own journal about this.)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Then, congratulations to you, too. XD Yeah, it was seeing other people on LJ posting about their progress in various health-related exploits that really spurred me to start this, and it's helped a lot, so I'm happy to be doing the same for others.

The Strattera's helped, too, but what it's done is provide the focus necessary for me to get on the bike every day, and to write down everything I eat. I'd never been able to keep doing that longer than a couple of weeks before. It's made it surprisingly easy, too: I can look at something and think that I'd really like to eat it, but resist it and eat something healthier more often, and I can just get on the bike and go instead of whinging about how much time it'll take out of my day. Plus finding the right sort of exercise for myself - I can't go to a gym every day because there will be other people there, so I need to make sure my hair isn't frightening, that my workout clothes have been washed sometime in the near past, etc. - and making sure that I don't *over* exercise, which tires me out and makes me less likely to do it again the next day.

And it has nothing to do with willpower or moral strength, and I know for sure that I'd never tell anyone that they just need more willpower and they'd be able to do something. Because it has nothing to do with willpower, and I don't think I've got more or that I'm a better person now for being able to bike daily; it's that my brain chemicals are closer to normal so the thing that was stopping me from committing to it before is gone.

I have no idea what it's like for others, especially because there are as many different reasons for behavior as there are people, but I'm happy to have proof to myself that it's not because I just don't have the strength of will or because I don't want it bad enough.

And now I'll stop with my stream-of-consciouness babble and post this. XD