I have not even looked at my gym in over a month due to this
stupid lupus flare up. I had every
intention of going to the gym today to do some water walking. Yay for us, we had a cold front came in overnight
and when I woke up I was hurting all over and I felt down right crappy. I pulled my blanket up and tried to get some
more sleep in the hopes I would feel better in another hour or so. I wasn’t so lucky, but I dragged myself to
the gym anyway. My gym has three pool,
one outside (which is closed now) and two inside. One of the indoor pools is a lap pool and is
kept at cooler temperatures, in which I usually do my laps. The other pool is the
family/water aerobics pool so it is kept at a warmer temperature. Of course I went to the warmer pool! I had planned on doing a mile (36 laps), but
at lap 5 my hips and knees and back started to complain. I figured if I could get to a half a mile I
would be happy. Finally I hit lap 18 and
I was done! I spent a little bit of time in the hot tub (I want to talk to my
rheumy about that, need to make sure it is ok).
And just to get the pain out of my hips I went into the sauna for all of
about two minutes (I can’t breathe in the heat).
Before I got in the pool I braved the scale… I was so ecstatic
to see in the past 13 weeks I have only put on four pounds. Of those 13 weeks, I have been on prednisone
for about a month, so seeing a four pound gain is amazing!
Now it is time to have quiet time. My goal this week is to do a total of 2 miles
of pool walking.
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