I am so very sorry I have not kept up with this month. So much as gone on,everything from my birthday to holidays to being ill. Even this Christmas I came down horribly with the flu and it's still not entirely gone. The one thing I have noticed is that everyone seems to have gotten it at work, yet again another sign I need a new job. The job I have again you ask? At a call center with circulated recycled air and sharing computers, headsets etc. means sharing plenty of germs that don't get out of the building. Most people have kids and are interacting with outside sources and bringing new bugs into the building as well which feeds more germs. It's just not a healthy environment. And then sitting there all day too does not help.
Now admittedly work is trying to do something about that and they are starting a walking club, of which I've signed up for. We'll see how that goes for the new year. I also had my ergo assessment almost two weeks ago, and thus far better for my back for sure. I don't have as many issues with my shoulder and the massage therapy is definitely helping. Especially when the therapist gets right into the sciatic nerve. More info on sciatica can be found here. But massage therapy can only help one's health so much and there is so much more I can do and have been advised to do such as continue walking. However for the past week I have stopped walking to work only because I was very ill and this flu went right into my lungs. It could have been pneumonia almost, in fact it's still there but not nearly as bad as it was. I woke up Monday with a fever that though it broke sometime around noon, it was high enough I was seeing things and found myself dehydrated and overheated and on the floor of my bathroom when I came to at one point. Remember, always drink lots of water and fluids when ill. Chicken soup does wonders especially because of the salt and water content, you need this for electrolytes. Electrolyte drinks are best and sports drinks though are good potentially for hydration when doing workouts are not best when ill. They don't give you enough and are quite often filled with sugar. When my sister was ill with the flu I went looking for some ideas if you didn't have some stuff on hand or couldn't get to the drug store by chance to get an electrolyte drink mix. This site was just one of many that I found about mixing your own with certain recipes and most kept to something very similar.
Moving on I have been gathering up a multitude of articles on different health subjects. One of which I thought was interesting was the use of exercise as a form of medication. The article on this was quite interesting and I tend to agree. It can certainly have a multitude of benefits but I wouldn't go off any medications that are absolutely required. I do believe exercise is a great way to reduce certain medical issues that could come about, as a prevention measure. I also further found an article on fatigue,"7 Weird Reasons You're Tired All The Time" and in fact most of them are admittedly true for most people, including myself. Certainly something to consider or ask your doctor about if you are having trouble sleeping. I might also add that I had a semi discussion with my massage therapist about this and charlie horses, for charlie horses it's your muscles contracting and telling you to rest and you should have lots of water and perhaps more potassium in your diet. However it goes without question that when your body is ill or you have muscle spasms or even soreness overall, it's your body's way of telling you that you need rest. You are tired, your body is fatigued and or the muscles overused. You can go and go and go like the energizer bunny but even the energizer bunny's batteries have to be replaced at some point and unlike him we can't "replace" our batteries. We have to take care of ours so they don't erode to nothingness. So please when your body says slow down, try at least to listen. I've learned the hard way and am trying to slow down.
Now lastly for this week/month and year of 2013, I'm going to go on to motivation and goals. I found this article today "22 ways to stay motivated to lose weight". A good read and certainly some ideas to keep in mind for any goal to keep healthy. I agree with all points. This leads me to believe that, you know what, I can do this. I am horrible at motivation and I just need to find the right way to motivate myself. I have been trying and little goals like less pop with more water, have been successful. I have kept to less pop, more water, more veggies, less eating out, and trying to walk more. I have tried to do other exercise and if I hadn't gotten this cold/flu I probably would have kept to that goal this month. I did keep to my goal in November of near perfect attendance at work and successfully walked for the most part to and from.
This year for 2014, I want to keep to the goal of less pop, more walking and exercise and eating better. I don't want to set a goal for how much weight to lose, I know already I must have lost a little bit in some areas because admittedly I'm getting stretch marks around my waist. So it's going off somewhere. I must be patient. I am still in a healing process for my shoulder and back and eventually I will get to where I want to be. If it's not by the end of 2014, that's ok. I'm making progress and that's all that matters. I'll probably make more resolutions but not all are regarding health. Making too many goals though, is a challenge and not healthy and one should take things one at a time. Let life lead the way and don't let it get you down! Everything happens for a reason and we might not all reach our goals or get what we want done but we might get what life wants and what we need to have done. There is a true difference between what we want and what we need.
Anyway this is the last post of 2013, so I hope everyone had a good year and I look forward to more posts in the new year! Hope everyone has a happy, safe and healthy holiday! :)
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