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IzabelaKaramia

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trans woman, I write good poems, ADHD, autist, type 1 diabetic, love to study languages, dx exocrine pancreatic insufficiency Dec 2022. Runner not currently running because of years being undernourished. Now walking some and feeling better, convinced I will fulfill a promise I made in a poem The Pale Horse

Definitely a fan of Gruyère cheese.
You can never have enough elephants.
I'll close the door behind us, a tiny tap.
It's where museums tuck away the weird.

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I'm awake. Slept pretty well, though I would have liked to go back to sleep and get a couple more hours.

Legs and body feel pretty good after yesterday's activity, though I can tell the smart thing today is go pretty easy. The weather is my friend about that today, because it's to get rather wet and miserable.

I've had my breakfast and will soon feed Ginza hers.

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Still have some lingering sensitivity and itching from last week's sunburn, but it's less than yesterday.

Legs feel a lot stronger than 4 weeks ago. I've been doing at least a half hour walk pretty much every day and now I've added in the cycling.

I realized last night when going to sleep that yesterday's bike ride is the longest one I've ever done in my life. I rode bikes some when a kid, but not all that much really and never got into cycling as an adult.

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The body part that might be having the most difficulty adjusting to cycling is my ass. It was unhappy during the last few miles, so maybe today if I don't take a ride that'll be good to let it recover and toughen up maybe? Or maybe it's something that will need to get solved in terms of the bicycle seat itself?

When I think about things, my biggest worry as far as the matter of getting back to running is about risk of injury, in particular involving the bones...

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Seeing how well my body is responding to magnesium, that pretty well clearly demonstrates that my body was quite deficient and magnesium plays an important role in bone strength. That's why walking is important right now, I want to provide stimulus that tells the bones to get stronger and walking every day is a good exercise to do that.

Cycling doesn't provide that so much, though the stress of the muscles and tendons pulling on the tendons and bones does do a tiny bit.

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Today's primary goal is to eat 4 good meals with calories and nutrients.

A secondary goal is to remove some clutter from my room.

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Today's goal for the walk, if it's not too miserably wet then, is a lollygagging walk, which means just go super easy and keep heart rate down in zone 1.

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Ginza has seemingly decided that this overcast day is one best spent in a cozy cat bed with a catnip banana for a pillow. #CatsOfMastodon

I certainly can't argue with her on that.

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It's been cloudy but stayed dry so far today. That'll work nicely for me when I go for my walk after work. I hope to walk about 45 minutes to an hour and just do it very slow, keep the heart rate down in zone 1. Today is all about recovery after the big day of yesterday.

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It stayed dry today, though there is enough damp in the air the upper 50s feels on the chilly side.

I took 45 minute walk and 40 minute cycle ride. Walk was almost exclusively zone 1 and cycle ride was about 20% zone 1 and the rest on the low end of zone 2.

Ate my 4th meal of the day soon after finishing the bicycle ride.

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Awake. Feel sleepy sided but I slept better. The sunburn itch is subsiding and this morning was first time in some days that I didn't need to immediately apply hydrocortisone cream to anyplace on my body.

Ginza was of the opinion we should continue sleeping when the alarm went off today. But I got up and so did she though she wasn't bouncy like she often is. I've had my breakfast and have fed her hers.

Today's my 6 hour workday. I hope to take a walk of more than 3 miles and a cycle ride

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of more than 10 miles.

Feels so good again to be thinking about what kinds of physical activity I want to do during the day. For so long I might think about wanting to do something, but simply couldn't.

Now I can do that again.

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Ginza is enjoying the morning sunshine with her buddy Dinker Donkers.

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With the way how for many many years my body had been slowly starving for macro and micro nutrients and how now I'm finally starting to get the last ones that were needed, is how incredibly hungry I get...

how incredibly hungry I get while eating and after eating, it's like my body senses the needed nutrients coming in and it makes me even hungrier because of how many years I was unknowingly deprived of what I needed.

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Right now I feel really good and I'm looking forward to the bicycle ride I'll be taking around 1 PM. It seems that yesterday's very easy walk and very easy bike ride did me a lot of good. Yesterday I felt a bit physically dragged down.

But that easy walk and bike ride got blood to circulate to the legs and probably helped. In fact yesterday after I was done I seemed to feel more energetic than when I had started out.

Zone 1 can do a lot of good for an old gal like me.

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Another sign of me feeling better is how I've got Youtube videos of people hiking in the Cascade Mountains playing. I'm pretty sure that in the summertime I will be feeling good enough that I would like to visit a place or two in the Cascades and walk around and hike some. Won't be thinking to do anything too adventurous, but something on the gentle side that at least lets me experience the sensations of being in really tall mountains.

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To make sure I don't forget, I put the sunscreen in the bike helmet. That sunburn I got last week was horrible and it's finally fading away and not itching constantly.

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16.2 mile bike ride done. Just a simple out and back route, on the way back it rewarded me with a pretty gorgeous view of the Cascades in the distance..

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After the bike ride, took 30 minutes to check blood sugar and drink some water, then went out and walked 3.5 miles. So this was a big day, due in part to how tomorrow's forecast is pretty miserable and I'll likely only do a minimal walk and/or cycle at most.

Quickly heated up a big dinner after the walk. 2 chicken thighs, mashed potatoes, peas, carrots. So now that's digesting and hopefully delivering the needed nutrients to help me get stronger and healthier.

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It was about 4 weeks ago when the Garmin 45 arrived because I finally felt like my body was ready to start responding properly to exercise and I wanted something to give me measurements that would be useful to judge improvements in my health.

But I don't think I could have ever imagined that a month later I would take a walk of 3.5 miles and a bike ride of 16.2 miles in a day.

I'm beginning to think about targeting a half-marathon to run in for next year. That should be possible.

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@ninetiger

honestly, Ginza is doing really well with having become an indoor cat. It really seems like she has decided that moving inside is a lot easier and more comfortable for her. I think maybe she knows that she's beginning to get older and slower and she's basically like, "Yup, retirement to a more comfy living space is fine with me." 2 good meals a day, treats, and one or two snuggle sessions, she's enjoying her new life.

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Awake. A little on the sleepy side still but not too bad all considered. Still not sleeping as deeply as possible because of the sunburn itch, but that itch is subsiding some and hopefully it'll continue to subside and disappear.

I've had my breakfast and fed Ginza hers.

Going to be easy again with walking and the bike ride today. Feels like I should do it like that plus tomorrow is my short workday and I want to have more in the tank to walk and cycle with then.

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My body's tolerance to chill seems to be improving. Still a lot less than most others, but I no longer need a cardigan sweater when it's in the upper 60s. I hope that continues to get better, it really sucks to feel chilled most all the time when it's not the summer.

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Ginza seems to like to sun herself for a while early in the mornings when possible, but after she warms up enough, she scoots over to her hidey hole in the cat tree by the bed.

After having received a good solar charging, Ginza is ready to sleep and she has moved herself into the hidey hole of her cat tree by the bed.

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Ginza loves her cat tree. I'm so glad that people here gave her and me help back when we needed help with moving and that gave us breathing room and also a chance to get her a cat tree. I think it really helped her deal with the move here and gave her a place to claim as her own while we waited for her cat beds and other familiar objects to come across the country. Not a great picture, but it shows her curled up inside the tree's hidey hole space.

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Took a very easy paced bike ride after work, for the first time ever I was able, for some of it, keep the heart rate down in zone 1, the rest of it was down on the low end of zone 2. So that's a good sign that my cardio system is improving. I found it very pleasant to ride like that, just look around at the scenery and think some about things.

It's probably a good idea for me to try do good chunks of time down in zones 1 and 2. My fitness and health was so wiped out, I'm starting from zero.

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