SiaKlynn
Walk with me?
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Me too. I've always hated "structured" exercise. I'm a country girl. I'm use to hauling fifty pound bags of chicken feed around or wrestling with hay bales, doing gardening work, stacking firewood, that sort of exercise. But as the farm dwindled down from a farm into a simple homestead, I haven't had to do as much of that stuff. Blowing out my knee curtailed a lot too. Then the diabetes came along (long family history of it) and I had to do something more structured. I figured the first two weeks back is going to kill me but well worth it. I'll just remember what it felt like when I couldn't do it. *grin* I'm never be bitching about that again.
Funny how you miss something once you make it a part of your life.
I have a hard time with structured exercised too, so saddling up the doggy and walking laps around the neighborhood park is nice. I think I might even take to jogging a bit once I get new shoes the ones I have right now are too old to safely run. The last thing I want to do is twist my ankle or jar my knee... both are sensitive from previous injury.
I have a family history of diabetes too, so I have to keep myself in check as well. I had gestational diabetes when I pregnant and they freaked from my sugar levels, but I think it was as bad as it was because no one explained to me not to eat before the test. Once I went on a controlled diet my levels all went back down to normal.