Moving slow & shaky this morning and I can't seem to shake off the morning crankies. I hope the food bank is gentle with me today. Feeling fragile. #POTS
1/9/24 Edited to add:
I will never forget this toot. This was the beginning of me getting my life back from POTS. I had finally had enough of it & made the changes necessary to get on a path to better health.
I promised myself that I'd do 20 minutes of exercise today. The last fucking thing I feel like doing is 20 minutes of anything resembling exercise. I swear I can feel the #POTS flare up getting worse as my day goes on. (Someone tell me to stop bitching & get the yoga mat out.)
I did my 17 minutes of beginner #pilates (leg circles suck) and I felt good so I did 30 minutes of gentle #stretching right after. This is a new #yoga instructor for me. I'll try it again without doing pilates first. I'm nauseous now & headachey & I think I just did too much. (Sounds like it's time for a bowl. Hopefully the munchies will kick in just as dinner starts.)
Today's #yoga was with Kassandra. A couple years ago I decided I *really* wanted to "get good" at yoga (this is where you say- wth, Heidi. That's not the point of yoga... I know.) Anyways, I have bad wrists from knitting & I've had multiple ab surgeries, not to mention the exercise intolerance from #POTS but I dove in & it didn't last. 🤣 Kassandra was my preferred teacher. Today's session was gentle. I'm stiff from yesterday & sitting all day at work.
More gentle pilates. There's something vaguely embarrassing about needing to follow exercises meant for seniors when you're not even 50, but it felt good to do so I'm adding this to the line up. There's a few more videos with this instructor that look interesting. I would really like to add strength training to my workouts. I'd really like to get even a quarter of my strength back.
Heidi