So, day one's attempt to hydrate properly has me visiting the facilities on a regular basis. It's the right thing to do - keep our bodies replenished with enough water that we don't retain it. It's what I've heard anyway - hopefully my swollen feet will go down soon as slipping into the shoes is a real chore!
I decided I'd better have some breakfast too - so an orange, two pieces of toast and a glass of milk helped wash down the vitamin I am determined to make a habit AND the usual morning dose of back pain medication. It's easy to make bad things a habit so why not try to make the things that are good for you a habit too?
I think I will interject here a little tid-bit of information that might answer what some of you may be asking... "why don't you get your butt out and walk it off????" And the short answer would be, I'd love to but easier said than done. The weekend before Christmas I did a lot of walking - you know shopping and all the running around that goes with the season - and the Monday before Christmas we had a staff lunch and gift opening *up and down stairs twice* then I visited a friend's office after work *up and down stairs* and then we (the girls I work with) went to see Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat at Festival Place where our seats were in the second level balcony *you guessed it, up and down stairs again*... At the time I was renting the basement suite area of the duplex I shared with my daughter and her boyfriend. Yes, downstairs. Tuesday = morning shopping. Wednesday = I couldn't walk, had to call in to work and later that day my daughter went shopping for a cane! I spent the rest of my Christmas break (I was off until after New Year's, good thing) recovering from a pulled/sprained/twisted/ or just a plain old overworked knee.
I am still favoring it and trying to absorb some of the pain without taking Tylenol as well as the back meds, although, that is usually not the case, especially if I want to assume a somewhat normal life.
So the swelling can also be due to injured or stressed joints, especially my knees, but possibly hips and of course, the good old lower back. Knees have not been my strong point since about 1997 when I had the left one go on me so badly that it hurt to sit, stand, drive, lie down and just be. I took heavy doses of Glucosamine for several months and never had a problem with it again. It is my weak knee though and the strength in it is gone. In 2005, during a brief hiatus to Toronto, I worked security in a 9-floor bank office building. It was great fun and I learned a lot, however, due to a shoe malfunction I pulled my left knee. Boy that breakdown in footwear is not apparent until AFTER the fact and the damage is already done. So my good knee now becomes not much better that my bad knee and with the incident just a few months ago, sometimes it is slow going and often painful. I am now not only watching what, where and how I sit to ease the back pain, I am watching what, where and how I walk.
Hence, the walking for the benefits of losing weight are out for the time being. The increased water has me jumping up quite early a couple of times in the morning though, so perhaps this can be considered "increased activity?"
I decided I'd better have some breakfast too - so an orange, two pieces of toast and a glass of milk helped wash down the vitamin I am determined to make a habit AND the usual morning dose of back pain medication. It's easy to make bad things a habit so why not try to make the things that are good for you a habit too?
I think I will interject here a little tid-bit of information that might answer what some of you may be asking... "why don't you get your butt out and walk it off????" And the short answer would be, I'd love to but easier said than done. The weekend before Christmas I did a lot of walking - you know shopping and all the running around that goes with the season - and the Monday before Christmas we had a staff lunch and gift opening *up and down stairs twice* then I visited a friend's office after work *up and down stairs* and then we (the girls I work with) went to see Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat at Festival Place where our seats were in the second level balcony *you guessed it, up and down stairs again*... At the time I was renting the basement suite area of the duplex I shared with my daughter and her boyfriend. Yes, downstairs. Tuesday = morning shopping. Wednesday = I couldn't walk, had to call in to work and later that day my daughter went shopping for a cane! I spent the rest of my Christmas break (I was off until after New Year's, good thing) recovering from a pulled/sprained/twisted/ or just a plain old overworked knee.
I am still favoring it and trying to absorb some of the pain without taking Tylenol as well as the back meds, although, that is usually not the case, especially if I want to assume a somewhat normal life.
So the swelling can also be due to injured or stressed joints, especially my knees, but possibly hips and of course, the good old lower back. Knees have not been my strong point since about 1997 when I had the left one go on me so badly that it hurt to sit, stand, drive, lie down and just be. I took heavy doses of Glucosamine for several months and never had a problem with it again. It is my weak knee though and the strength in it is gone. In 2005, during a brief hiatus to Toronto, I worked security in a 9-floor bank office building. It was great fun and I learned a lot, however, due to a shoe malfunction I pulled my left knee. Boy that breakdown in footwear is not apparent until AFTER the fact and the damage is already done. So my good knee now becomes not much better that my bad knee and with the incident just a few months ago, sometimes it is slow going and often painful. I am now not only watching what, where and how I sit to ease the back pain, I am watching what, where and how I walk.
Hence, the walking for the benefits of losing weight are out for the time being. The increased water has me jumping up quite early a couple of times in the morning though, so perhaps this can be considered "increased activity?"
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