Well, as you all know exercise is good for you. It is good if you want to lose or maintain weight. It is also good for the body and the soul. My preferred method of exercise, other then walking my little doggie throughout the neighborhood is swimming. And the reason for this, its low impact on my joints, and I don't believe it will cause me to gain a lot of "weight" back in muscle.
As you also know, I am a burn survivor. I was told I needed to wait a year until I got into a pool.
Tuesday marked the one year mark, and you bet I went swimming! My hands didn't hurt at all. I didn't need to stop half way in the midst of doing a lap for a breather like in the olden days. I was able to complete some laps (just going one direction) in under 25 seconds. But before that, I decided to take two flights of stairs up, and didn't have one single problem, this used to be an impossible task. I truly felt like I was on the top of the world. While I was swimming, I thought a lot about overcoming things. I have overcome a lot of stuff including, but not limited to being burned, school troubles, and being obese!
Then I thought how cool it is that other people come along and help us out of whatever corner we have found ourselves in. Programs and people are there, ready to lend a helping hand when we need it.
Well, I swam for about 20 minutes (you have a maximum exercise limit of 45 minutes per day on this program, and let's face it, my dog NEEDS to have her walks) and everything was fine. My burn sites didn't have a problem. I decided to go swimming the very next day, at the same time. Only to find out that my burn sites would turn BRIGHT red. I tried washing the chlorine off, multiple times, only to find out that my hands (where I sustained 2nd degree burns) would turn bright red. It didn't exactly hurt, but just seeing my hands be red again, similar to when I got burned, hurt (mentally). I don't know if I should be in the chlorinated waters. I had previously asked my primary care doc, and he said it should be fine. I almost want to check in with my burn doctor and see what this turning red business is all about, but really don't want to have to pay him hundreds of dollars to tell me that its no more than agitation or something. My primary care physician is free to see, and I have given that considerate thought of asking him if there is some sort of fancy cream I should use to avoid the redness.
I went to bed, well, crying. I wanted so much to be able to swim without any incidents. I wanted to swim so that I might lose what is still allowing me to stay in fatso land faster. I woke up this morning, and my skin was back to "normal" on the burn site. So I have decided to swimming only every other day, and see what happens with my color-magic arms.
In other news: that 6 week slim down challenge that I alluded to previously, will be taking sign ups as of Monday. I will post or email those that have said there interested in it, directions to join, and how you will be able to win the money, on Monday. I thought the website that is going to be handling everything was going to be launched today, but I found out that I got my days mixed up, and it's really on Monday.
In other fantastic news: I have a very favorite client! "M" has only been on the program for one week, and is quickly shrinking! I couldn't be more proud of her! Her drive, determination, and results are
unprecedented. I am so happy for her and feel lucky to finally have a GOOD "real" client! I won't brag about how much weight she as so far ditched, cause that is her place, but she is definitely rocking this program!
Also, some of you who are only blog stalkers have requested side by side photos.... I will post that on Monday, when I have a new weight to report!
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