Old Lydy is Old
Jul. 26th, 2014 10:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydySo, I'm in my fucking fifties. Hard to believe, but there you go. And I'm fat. I don't have a lot of emotional baggage around that, actually. It's true, but I am not having trouble getting laid. While the current psychotic medical establishment has bizarrely negative opinions on my weight, I'm quite certain they're full of shit. On the other hand, the combination of the weight and the age mean that I hurt. I'm stiff. When I stand up from a chair or get out of bed, I limp for a while. It's not fun.
I'm basically a sessile creature with legs. If I had my druthers, I'd sit all day and vary that with lying down, some. I don't like movement for the sake of movement. And I have a remarkably sedentary job. I basically sit and stare at a computer screen from eleven at night until seven in the morning, three nights a week, with additional sitting around at various times on either end.
But, as I said, I hurt. Not lots, not extreme. However, this is getting less and less fun, and it wasn't fun to begin with.
I've decided to try to move a little. Not a lot. But, get up from my chair every half hour, or at least every hour. And I'm trying to do brief stretches several times a day. I'd really like to be able to do the Sun Salutation, and I've tried, but man am I stiff and out of practice and my balance is not so good as it once was. Also, my breathing is crap. I can't remember where to breathe.
So the goal is to move at least once an hour, try to do one or two Sun Salutations per work day, and one or two triangle stretches per day. The hope is that this little bit of additional movement will help with the stiffness. I haven't decided what I'm going to do for my off days. Maybe nothing. Maybe I'll try at least the triangle stretches a couple times. We'll see.
I've been on this, um -- program is an awfully aspirational term but let's go with it -- program for two whole days, now. Not long enough to have any results, and not long enough to know whether or not I'll be able to stick to it. I'm terrible at doing things on a schedule. Terrible with procrastination sauce. So far, the stretches hurt, and the the Sun Salutation feels awkward and unpleasant. I'm hoping that with a little practice, these things will start to feel, if not good, at least not actually unpleasant. Twenty-five years ago, I remember really enjoying yoga practice on a daily basis. I wish I hadn't gotten out of the habit, but there you go.
My secret goal? Get comfortable enough with all this that I can attempt the Tree pose. I always love the Tree pose, even though I was crap at it. It had this wonderful feel to it, a completeness and an groundedness, even as I was losing my balance and falling over. Go figure. Yoga. Very weird.
So, I'm telling you all about this in hopes that it provides a little more incentive to actually, you know, do it. Who knows. Might help.
I'm basically a sessile creature with legs. If I had my druthers, I'd sit all day and vary that with lying down, some. I don't like movement for the sake of movement. And I have a remarkably sedentary job. I basically sit and stare at a computer screen from eleven at night until seven in the morning, three nights a week, with additional sitting around at various times on either end.
But, as I said, I hurt. Not lots, not extreme. However, this is getting less and less fun, and it wasn't fun to begin with.
I've decided to try to move a little. Not a lot. But, get up from my chair every half hour, or at least every hour. And I'm trying to do brief stretches several times a day. I'd really like to be able to do the Sun Salutation, and I've tried, but man am I stiff and out of practice and my balance is not so good as it once was. Also, my breathing is crap. I can't remember where to breathe.
So the goal is to move at least once an hour, try to do one or two Sun Salutations per work day, and one or two triangle stretches per day. The hope is that this little bit of additional movement will help with the stiffness. I haven't decided what I'm going to do for my off days. Maybe nothing. Maybe I'll try at least the triangle stretches a couple times. We'll see.
I've been on this, um -- program is an awfully aspirational term but let's go with it -- program for two whole days, now. Not long enough to have any results, and not long enough to know whether or not I'll be able to stick to it. I'm terrible at doing things on a schedule. Terrible with procrastination sauce. So far, the stretches hurt, and the the Sun Salutation feels awkward and unpleasant. I'm hoping that with a little practice, these things will start to feel, if not good, at least not actually unpleasant. Twenty-five years ago, I remember really enjoying yoga practice on a daily basis. I wish I hadn't gotten out of the habit, but there you go.
My secret goal? Get comfortable enough with all this that I can attempt the Tree pose. I always love the Tree pose, even though I was crap at it. It had this wonderful feel to it, a completeness and an groundedness, even as I was losing my balance and falling over. Go figure. Yoga. Very weird.
So, I'm telling you all about this in hopes that it provides a little more incentive to actually, you know, do it. Who knows. Might help.
