7d ago
Okay so the walks. I kept dismissing them because they're not, like, a workout. Twenty minutes around the block isn't going to fix my weight or my sleep or whatever. And yet. I've had three days in a row where I went out in the afternoon and came back genuinely less awful than when I left. Not fixed. Not energized. Just... less awful. My mood was sitting at a solid 4 and it moved to maybe a 6. I'll take a 6. The joint stuff is still there, my knees are pretty cranky by the time I get home, so I've been doing some gentle stretching before bed, mostly just moving things around slowly, seeing what feels okay. Noticed that if I skip it I wake up stiffer. Probably nothing scientific happening there but it's become a thing I do now. I've also been eating something with protein after I get back. Not because I read some protocol, just because I was starving and eggs were fast. But I want to ask my doctor about the knee pain specifically because I don't know if it's just deconditioning or something I should flag. She's going to tell me to move more and I'm going to have to not laugh. Anyway. Walks are doing something. That's the whole post.