Climbing back up... Bah...

I don't know what it is about having an illness, small or large, that just takes it out of you.  Well, I know what is happening, the body resisting illness and such.  But it's the idea that I can be well and healthy, going gangbusters on the machine once EVERY OTHER DAY, (she can be taught!), and getting stronger, then, like a wet blanket dropped from above, a cold.  Or worse, in some cases.  But whatever, it knocks you down.

I just fell flat as far as doing ANYTHING when I was ill.  And all I had was a cold, but I was just as happy, relatively speaking, to sit and stare at the cows outside, as to actually get up and DO something.  I mean, I had one day, that I didn't even want to knit!  And anyone that knows me, that's pretty off the charts!

Tuesday, I got up early, and tried to work on my machine.  Well, I *did* manage to work out for about 15 minutes, but am not as greatly recovered as I hoped.  I started slow, and worked up, then started coughing. Yay.  Okay, well, I can walk, so we do that.  And I managed to get something done, so I feel like it was good.

I had a friend who had cancer, she went through so much, and I remember there were a few times I would talk with her, and she was quite happy to just sit, and let me babble on.  She was so worn out from what she had to go through, even with her up attitude, and good doctors and such, she just had a battle and a half to stay stable.

So am I odd to think that I should be happy it was only a cold, and that I will recover quickly???

Ah, HA! Now, plan B.

I have, amazingly, managed to keep up with my goals, for the most part.  I am getting a smidgen lax on the journal, but not enough to worry about.  Let's just say, I am not having a large amount of things, so remembering isn't a big problem to catch up...

Anywho.  I have been working on the Max thingy, and I was finding I was wiped, and hurting a lot of the time.  Huh?  That doesn't make sense.  I have exercised, and haven't had this problem before.  And the exercise is for a limited time, each day...

So, I started looking up information about what I was doing.

I either missed, or mis-read it in the owner's manual.  I am OVER-doing it.  I should be alternating between the machine, and "resistance" exercise.  I had to look resistance exercise up.  Resistance, basically like, push ups, sit ups, jumping jacks, etc.  As my Husband said, the stuff you were doing BEFORE you got the machine. 

Huh.

So, I have to make a slight change in my daily plan.  I did the machine today, and I am supposed to ease off for 24 hours, to let my legs recover.  So, tomorrow, I do non-machine "stuff".  That still sounds odd to me, but hey, if I work on other stuff, I get more benefits, right?

So, I will now have to mark down that, too.  ★ is the mark in my journal that I did the machine...

★R for resistance?  Or ★:)  because I hopefully won't be hurting? 

Let's see, Overthinking 101...

Whatever, I am doing fairly well, and if I don't manage to overdo some other way, I should be back on track!  Yaaaay!