Saturday, September 18, 2010
YES I CAN .... Recover
Well after some much needed sleep, I feel much more able to handle the emotions that poured out last night with my struggle as I ran. I know that I will overcome this and many more, but saying that and doing it are two very very different things. The raw open wound that was once a blister is still very sore and very red, the other foot has recovered almost completely. I noticed today that my body seems to think itself very hungry and very tired. However life with 3 kids you do not get to stop and sleep and eat and recover. The stress in my household has become very stressful lately and I feel that weighing on me a lot. I worry that if i cannot change this situation that I will become very miserable and it will be very hard to continue. I worry about so much I am worried that in my life I have bitten off more than I can chew. I really want to go run just as an emotional escape from the chaos that is my life.
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Lots of people confuse thirst for hunger, many of the physical effects are the same. Try drinking a big glass of water or two & waiting half an hour...you might find that the hunger goes away, or can be satisfied with less food. For me, thirst = headaches. Where I used to pop an ibuprofen, now I drink a big glass of water & wait 20 mintues - that often does the trick!
ReplyDeleteRunning was a huge stress buster for me too, I started when my marriage was dying & I needed an outlet sooooo badly. It worked for that, until the stress started manifesting itself as chest pains & I had to stop while the docs ran a zillion tests to determine that I was healthy (but stressed :-) I haven't started running again since due to time constraints, but I am in such a better place emotionally these days. Now I want to start again to make my body happy - loved that feeling of a well-running machine that I had after a few months of running. I miss that, the old aches & pains are coming back. So, emotional well-being and general comfort in one's own body are two other important measures of progress - it's not all about pounds & inches, and when those plateau for a while (as they inevitably will), realize that your body is doing important work in those other areas too, which can be harder to measure but are oh, so important!
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