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Old Jul 25, 2025, 03:38 AM
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That's excellent work in the pool Tart Cherry Jam! Way to go
I feel so great after the pool workouts! And the atmosphere there is incredibly cheerful: lots of kids playing in the pool and adults chatting around it while they wait for their children. I felt as if at a big party.

Since I came home, I have done two sets of Kegels and am now going to bed.
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Old Jul 25, 2025, 09:01 AM
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I gained 4 pounds since yesterday I didn't eat that badly
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Old Jul 25, 2025, 10:38 AM
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Did a 6 mi jog in light rain this morning. It kept stopping and starting and got the sidewalks & roads slick, so I had to be careful not to fall. I have almost a paranoia that I will fall running or power walking. Well, I guess it's not paranoia since it really has happened to me 5 or 6 times now and once I shattered my pelvis and another time chipped a tooth and got so many scrapes not to mention cracking my cellphones so they no longer worked. Jogging in the rain is not my favorite thing, and I was annoyed at the weather forecast which gave less than a 10% chance of rain this morning and didn't show any rain on the radar, but it was still raining! Of course, once I came in, the rain completely stopped 5 min. later. Murphy's law.
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Old Jul 25, 2025, 05:26 PM
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My doctor told me to stick to stuff thats easy on my stomach. So I had pretzels, rice crackers, and a protein shake. My mom says my knee will get better if I lose weight.

I've gained a few pounds since getting off topamax but I feel so much better mental health wise without it that I feel like its worth the 6 pounds.
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Old Jul 26, 2025, 01:46 AM
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Orangetheory fitness and personal training today. This is because it is almost the end of the month and I needed to schedule Orangetheory before the month expires (I get 4 sessions a month). I had not gone in a way and that created the situation when I needed to essentially double-book myself. I took a nap after Orangetheory and before personal training, but still, I think I overdid it, because in the evening I got a migraine attack with nausea. Medications worked to abort it. I am doing fine now and am about to go to bed.

Oura shows 2 hrs of activity time today and almost 9K steps. Some of the step count came from doing laundry in the evening.
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Old Jul 26, 2025, 08:05 AM
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I’ve come down with a head cold and feeling grotty so my rest days are extended until feeling better. Was feeling so yuck I took a covid test but it’s negative so likely just a summer cold virus. It’s annoying because it’s going to set my training back but on the upside my husband and son have sponsored me so my fundraising is looking very good.
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Old Jul 26, 2025, 05:37 PM
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ChatGP just told me I look 50 pounds less then I actually am. Thats good but my doctor wants me to lose 50 pounds. So I hope I don't look like a skeleton.

I'm just letting things go on their own
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Old Jul 27, 2025, 12:47 AM
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I went to the gym today, aiming for a long session of low-intensity cardio on a mix of machines. However, I forgot my water bottle. I spent only 30 minutes, with 15 minutes on the rower and 15 minutes on the recumbent bike. After that, I became uncomfortable without water and returned home.

Rowing was a breeze after one of the trainers explained to me that to mimic rowing on water, I should set the resistance to 4. In the past, I always set the resistance to 10 (max). He said that this would be like rowing upstream on a river.

At home, I engaged in laborious food prep and cooking and cleaning while wearing the 12-lb vest. Oura thinks this is all exercise (walking) and tells me that I spent 1 hr 24 minutes being active today. So it counts those minutes of kitchen activities as a workout. I do not know whether I should believe it.

Did Kegels twice.
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Old Jul 27, 2025, 03:58 PM
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What is this kegal app I’ve heard some people mention? I feel like I’m missing out and should probably be doing kegal exercises too. It’s good for you I believe.
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Old Jul 27, 2025, 04:30 PM
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@Discombobulated - I hope you feel better soon! @Tart Cherry Jam - It's hard to workout with a water bottle, and I found this especially true back when I belonged to a gym.

As for me, yesterday I did a long jog, 8.5 mi, so today I did a gentle pilates video. The video is pretty easy until the end, where there is a killer arm segment. As long as I've been using this series, the arm segment still hasn't gotten easier!
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Old Jul 27, 2025, 05:01 PM
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I ate pretty good today and I did 250 reps with my ab roller
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Old Jul 27, 2025, 11:41 PM
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I stretched, walked from the parking lot to the farmer's market and back, and went to the gym for slightly over 40 minutes on the Expresso upright stationary bike, which has a huge computer screen and provides simulated rides. I did two such rides: Alpine Splash and Catacombs. I really liked the graphics in the Catacombs ride and will definitely repeat it! I covered 6.5 miles total.

Did Kegels once and might do them one more time before going to bed.
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Old Jul 28, 2025, 02:28 PM
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@Tart Cherry Jam - That's so cool that you can do simulated rides on the bike! I would love that! Every time I read your posts about doing kegels, I do a few myself!

I jogged 6 mi. this morning. I wanted to jog 7 mi, but the heat & humidity was so bad and my legs were getting tired, so I called it at 6.2 mi. @Discombobulated Have you recovered from your head cold yet? I really hate being sick and missing out on exercise. You are right in that distance running is a time commitment. I'm not sure if 6 mi counts as distance running, but it does take me over an hour to run it, and some days it takes awhile afterwards to recover.
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Old Jul 28, 2025, 03:18 PM
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What is this kegal app I’ve heard some people mention? I feel like I’m missing out and should probably be doing kegal exercises too. It’s good for you I believe.
As a person from "down under", you should know kegel's are for exercising your "down under."

I may be entering my 2nd childhood
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As a person from "down under", you should know kegel's are for exercising your "down under."

I may be entering my 2nd childhood
Yes I know what they are LOL. I was asking about the app.
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Old Jul 28, 2025, 03:24 PM
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@Blueberrybook I kind of went up and down with my cold and still very congested and tired. I do feel antsy about training but my sensible head knows I need to rest up this week.

I’d say 6 miles is a good distance definitely, and yes it does need recovery time. It takes me over an hour too btw.
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The app is called Kegel Trainer. I downloaded it from the Playstore.
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Old Jul 28, 2025, 11:51 PM
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I had a hard day today. First I woke up just in time to go to Orangetheory fitness. I quickly got my act together and made it to class, but I didn't have time to apply sunscreen. I had a good workout, but I could not understand why all the other people - 9 of them, including one coach who teaches other classes - were faster than I was on the rower. We did the 350 m distance 4 times, alternating it with treads. I reached the required meters per motion, but I still was the slowest. Not that it made me feel bad, but just reporting something that puzzled me.

When I returned, I felt like taking a nap. I woke up from the nap with a vestibular migraine and decided to push through it to prepare for my evening online class. That wasn't a good idea - the migraine turned into a classic painful one and I took my computer into bed to listen to the class. I ended up falling in and out of sleep and now I will need to listen to the recording of the class. The pain is at a lesser level now, but I do not know what the night will be like since I spent so much of the day and evening sleeping. Also, it was the first time a vestibular migraine turned into a classic one. I wonder if that was the result of my not staying in bed with a vestibular attack but pushing through it.
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I now think of Kegels as "my Australian exercises."
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@Tart Cherry Jam - I'm sorry you had a hard day yesterday, and I hope today is better. A lot of the time when I oversleep, I feel my whole day is thrown off. I'm curiousw; what kind of class are you taking?

I jogged 6 mi this morning, but it was hard going. I probably should have stopped after 4 mi. It may have been extra hard today because last night I swallowed one of my meds and it kind of stuck in the back of my throat burning and some of the pill dissolved in water went down my trachea. I could still breathe, but it was definitely not my normal breathing (wheezing). I started coughing really hard constantly a good 15 min. before finally I could settle to read and fall asleep. This morning, I woke up hoarse with sore lungs from coughing so much. Truth to tell, I'm still sore over those muscles and really shouldn't have forced the run. It could have been an extra bad day with the chemical plants too for all I know. I'm thinking I may stick with pilates toimorrow unless I wake up bouncing with energy.
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What a horrible story, Blueberry! Reading it, about your pushing hard past the point when you really should have stopped, made me wonder if it is what is left over from your eating disorder speaking, forcing you to push yourself in an almost punishing manner when you oughta give yourself a break
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I feel much better now, with the pain gone and just some lightheadedness remaining, but not too bad. I will go to the gym today but will be careful, remembering that I have had a difficult time lately.

And I have already done 3 sets of my Australian exercises today!
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What a horrible story, Blueberry! Reading it, about your pushing hard past the point when you really should have stopped, made me wonder if it is what is left over from your eating disorder speaking, forcing you to push yourself in an almost punishing manner when you oughta give yourself a break
Yes, I think you are right about that. I've never gotten over my body dysmorphic issues and I still do struggle with ED thoughts more than I'd like It doesn't help that I have some OCD issues too, a lot of it revolving around my morning routine which includes exercise but also mundane things I like to do in order: take meds, feed the cats, put away clean dishes from the dishwasher, take out trash, brush teeth, exercise, shower, breakfast. If this order gets messed up even a little (say I forgot to run the dishwasher overnight), I feel all out of sorts & even a bit cranky. And if I'd planned to run for exercise, I have a hard time not sticking with what I'd planned to do that day. I think I'm definitely more rigid when I plan to run vs. pilates and yeah, my weight never is low enough even though I learned a long time ago with EDs, it doesn't matter how low you go, it's never low enough for the ED.

Especially in the summer, I need to take it easy. I know you are supposed to be careful about overheating on a lot of these psych meds, including Seroquel, which I take.
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