The Inadvertent Exercise plan Part III

Owing to several reasons;

• The wet weather and, at first, our dog wanted little part of puddles and wet fur
• Our dog started sleeping, late, with my daughter
• After 3 weeks of illness, I was relieved to be merely exhausted, yet got less done than when I was actively ill.

 Our dog and I, I can’t keep calling him our dog, his name is Teddy, ended up walking about 1 to 1.5 hours each day, rather than the 2 we got up to.

 Even so I find:

• My waist is still 34.5
• I am down a bra band size, but darn, not a cup size! Large cup bras are pricier, and fewer in available styles!
• I will soon have to either buy size 12 jeans, or as I considered while freezing up on the hill waiting to pick my daughter up from school, start wearing my leggings under my size 14 jeans. I will likely settle on doing both.

I could not bear to drag the pleasantly sleeping pup out of bed, so the full 1-hour early AM walks got reduced to later in the day, 40 to 50 minute walks.

Then, these last two days,  Teddy, has gotten himself out of bed a bit before my daughter, so we have restarted half hour walks in the early AM.

 The first of those two days it was still raining, not hard, but steadily with strong winds, but the pup must have developed cabin fever. He ever stopped jumping over puddles. So as it turns out, at least with our Teddy, this will not be a fair weather exercise program!

 I am beginning to feel like myself again, rather than exhausted. I have concluded that illness, or delirious with fever, on and off, seems to have a momentum that recovering from illness, and being exhausted does not. I had not been that ill since high school, so I had no real recollection of a weeklong recovery time.

Last week I was just dragging myself through each hour of every day. We had less walks, and owing to my general fatigue, especially les up hill walks. Even so, it the greatly decreased activity level seems to have no effect on the shaping up gains of the previous, I guess about 5 weeks now!

 More reasons to be cheerful! Nice to know you can suffer through illness, recovery, and end up, as good as, if not a tad better than, before the sickness took hold!