13 Jun
Okay so I am not becoming a fitness person. That is not what this is. I just needed to say that upfront because every time I've tried to "get back into exercise" in the past two years it turns into some whole thing and then I do it for nine days and stop and feel worse than before. What I have actually been doing is walking. Three times, not every day, just when I can slot it in. Round the block, sometimes to the end of the road and back, once to the corner shop for milk. Nothing that would impress anyone. But I have noticed something a bit odd which is that on the days I do it my mood is... not fixed, nothing is fixed, the joint aches are still there, I still slept terribly, I am still 49 and in the full swing of this whole situation. But there is something slightly less grim about the afternoon? Hard to explain. Like the edges are a little softer. I have also been trying to eat something with protein after, not in a disciplined way, just because someone on here mentioned it a while back and it stuck. Usually just eggs or some cheese and crackers because I am not making a whole thing of it. I do want to ask my GP about getting back to movement more generally because my knees have been doing something unpleasant on stairs and I don't want to make that worse. Has anyone gone to their GP specifically about exercise and joint stuff? Did they actually have useful things to say or was it the usual "try some gentle yoga" situation 🙄 Anyway. Walks. Three of them. Mood: marginally less awful. Knees: jury still out. x