Quick Little Update

Hi all,

It has been a while since I wrote anything on here, and I am so sorry for that. I honestly don't have much of an excuse, I just haven't been blogging even though I have a bunch of posts to do, not just here but on all of my sites.

Anyway, I wanted to post a quick update, because things have moved along since my last post. I was sort of in a bad place when I last wrote. I was feeling unwell with my health condition, and it wound up with me having a virus for almost two weeks, which made my POTS symptoms so much worse.

I'm all over that now, though, and I'm back to having a good mix of good and bad days with my health. I am still collapsing a lot, but some days, like today, I make it through the whole day without a collapse. Yay.

I've been stepping up the exercise more. Specifically, I've been doing a lot of blogilates on YouTube. I love these videos because they provide great toning, they're really challenging, and I can pick the areas to target. They're also great, because most of the exercises are done on a mat, and it's always best for my health when I can workout in a sitting or lying position.

I've also been doing cardio with my treadmill whenever I'm up to it, and using the bike machine too.

I'm getting a lot stronger, which I love. Exercises I couldn't even do one of a few months ago (lower leg lifts, cheerleader L's, push ups, etc...) I can now manage to get through the whole section of them in the videos. 

Last week, I lost 4lbs, which was incredible. I was aiming for 3, because that was what I needed to lose to get into the 8st's, and getting 4 was just so unexpected and exciting. So I'm currently sitting at 8st12lbs, just 7lbs left to go to hit goal, and my aim is to reach that by the end of November.

As far as November is concerned. I'm going to be keeping up with the pilates, by following the Blogilates workout calendar for the month (arm days are tough!), and I'm also going to keep up with the cardio, and to the Journey to Splits Challenge by Blogilates, which gives you stretches to do each day, to work your way towards being able to do the splits at the end of the challenge. I'm pretty excited to increase my flexibility.

So, that's where I'm at right now. In a pretty good place, even if my diet could be better. I'm sticking to calories, but not always with the best kinds of foods. My health, is as always up and down and unpredictable, but it's good to be back to just dealing with POTS, and not having a virus on top of it.

Hopefully I'll have another positive update for you after my weigh in on Saturday. Until then, I hope whatever fitness goals you have, are going well. I'd love to hear about your weight loss/fitness journeys, so please leave a comment, and don't forget to subscribe to my site for updates on my journey, and if you like what you're reading, please share. 

Bad Health Days

Hi guys,

I'm kind of having a bad day today with my health. I've had a pretty good run recently, a few days in a row where I had no collapses, or only collapsed late in the evening after a full day of doing stuff. After a run like this, it's easy to trick yourself into thinking you're healthier than you really are. Then it all sort of hits you again.

Last night, I had a bad fall while cooking dinner. I hit the ground hard and hurt my shoulder. Then this morning, it's not a good day.

I haven't had a collapse yet today, but I wouldn't be surprised if I did. What I'm dealing with this morning, is some of my other symptoms I get with my Postural Orthistatic Tachycardia Syndrome. 

I woke up feeling tired, and as the day has progressed, I'm getting more and more exhausted. It's not just a normal tired, it's kind of hard to explain. It just feels like every muscle in your body is tired, you can hardly keep your head up and your eyes open. You feel completely wiped out, and if you try and do anything, even small things like walking to the front door to get the post, you feel exhausted.

On top of this, I've been getting chest pain all morning, the kind that doesn't go away with my inhaler. I've had a bad headache that's increasingly getting worse, and my shoulder still hurts from the fall yesterday.

I think with my condition, it's easy on good days, to want to push yourself to do more because you know that you may not be able to do anything the next day. This comes at a price though, because maybe doing more yesterday, has resulted in me feeling so much worse today.

All I can say, is that today I am truly feeling the limitations of my illness. There's so much that I'd like to get done, but I can't get up and do anything, and even sitting down and writing is hard. I've been trying to write the novel I'm working on, but I can't concentrate because I'm just so tired.

I'm hoping that I'll feel more energetic tomorrow. For now, I think I need to go back to bed.