Useful anger!
FairBreez
Posts: 22 Member
Hi, I've got Fibro with Chronic Fatigue, severe mixed sleep apnea, arthritic issues from aging & old sports/auto injuries and other lovely stuff; nothing organ-related or major as my "labs are normal" per the medical world...but now, I'm a "fall risk." I've fallen badly twice in the past year due to losing muscle tone & balance & strength; if I catch my toe, down I go! Nothing broken yet, but injuries are added to my growing list of probs. Every day is a freaking struggle.
I've gotten angry, but want to channel it to be productive & useful, and to inspire myself. I need to, now, lose about 100 lbs! Exercising is just awfully hard...but it's the only way I tone/lose weight, so I have to find my way through this...are you trying to, too?? We gotta get "more" fit - on OUR terms, in the way WE can and in OUR time with OUR limitations. So much of it is mental though, I've found.
Sometimes I play this game with myself for self-encouragement - I tell myself, usually aloud:
"At least I got up today and didn't limp so much!"
"I have a little energy today - I will (fill in the blank)"
"At least I can walk, when others with this illness can't." (not bragging, just being thankful)
"Thank God, I did that 30 min walk (in spite of limping all the way home LOL)"
Anyone else?? I'm here....
Barb in Colorado ~~
aka "Bree"
I've gotten angry, but want to channel it to be productive & useful, and to inspire myself. I need to, now, lose about 100 lbs! Exercising is just awfully hard...but it's the only way I tone/lose weight, so I have to find my way through this...are you trying to, too?? We gotta get "more" fit - on OUR terms, in the way WE can and in OUR time with OUR limitations. So much of it is mental though, I've found.
Sometimes I play this game with myself for self-encouragement - I tell myself, usually aloud:
"At least I got up today and didn't limp so much!"
"I have a little energy today - I will (fill in the blank)"
"At least I can walk, when others with this illness can't." (not bragging, just being thankful)
"Thank God, I did that 30 min walk (in spite of limping all the way home LOL)"
Anyone else?? I'm here....
Barb in Colorado ~~
aka "Bree"
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