You may have noticed that this occurred several weeks after my last entry on running.
I’m writing this over a week after the fact…
With my Crohn’s acting up so severely that I haven’t been
able to eat, I had to eliminate my work outs.
In fact, I eliminated even routing things I did to help me stay in
shape, like taking the stairs. I figured
that if I wasn’t consuming enough calories to keep my weight up, then I couldn’t
afford the luxury of burning them for staying fit.
Last weekend I had two good days in a row, meaning I think I
ate more calories than I burned. I
decided that this was good enough to justify a “work out” and I decided to walk
a forest trail. At the 0.5 mile mark, I
felt very good and REALLY wanted to start running, however, I restrained myself
because it had been about 3 weeks since I had felt good enough to do anything.
Restraining myself turned out to be a good decision. By the time I got to 0.75 miles, I started
feeling very light-headed and I turned around.
It took a lot of will power to keep going by the end, I felt
exhausted.
Still I was very happy that I
was able to do anything!
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