Resolute, but not a resolution

So, I walked Monday with good results (relatively pain-free) and haven't done much since then. Other than work. Today is New Year's Eve. I want to commit to daily exercise. I want to commit to menu planning and making wise food choices. I refuse to call any of this my "new year's resolution" because it's just way to easy to abandon those annual resolutions.

I am resolute, but I'm not making any resolutions.

I get off work early to day to begin celebrating the holiday. I believe I'll start my long, holiday weekend with a fitness walk.

The morning after the first walk

This morning, I did not have the pain that I did a month or so ago. Before the Cortisone shot, if I had done any fitness walking I would have been limping around the next morning. I'm very careful not to go barefoot, even when I get out of bed in the morning. I'll slip my loafers on (that have my orthotics inserted). I'm "aware" of my foot and arch, maybe it's just a little achey, but nothing like what I was experiencing two months ago.

I went ahead and took 800mg of ibuprofen this morning, as a preventative measure, with breakfast. I hate to think about taking it 3 or 4 times a day, every day.

Also, I know I need to be more "on it" about doing the stretching exercises that I read about and that the doctor instructed me to do. Why is it that five minutes of heel stretching every morning before I get out of bed is just not do-able? What's the matter with me? Chronic laziness? Denia? Tell me.

It's a good day. Planning another fitness walk this evening after work.

Yippee!!!

Oh, you are kidding

Oh, you are kidding! - I have not posted here in over six months. That's ridiculous. Oh, wait, it's all coming to me and starting to make sense now. Back problems in the summer and then in August I diagnosed myself with plantar fasciitis (chiropractor and podiatrist have each confirmed my self-diagnosis).

After weeks of having the chiropractor perform cold-laser treatments and massage my foot, I finally went to the podiatrist late November. He gave me a cortisone injection and orthothic inserts for my shoes, and has instructed me to never go barefooted. It's been over a month since the cortisone shot and he said I could try some easy walking.

When I got home from work this evening, I changed my shoes and grabbed my iPod, and headed out the door for my first "fitness walk." And I did not wait for New Year's resolutions to kick in for this first walk, though I was tempted to put it off for another few days. It turns out that I did not need my iPod, as my sister called and and she kept me entertained for the duration of my walk. I did not have my ear-piece for my phone, so I actually had to hold the phone up to my head to have our conversation. Can you imagine, the inconvenience of having to hold the phone to my head while out on a fitness walk (using the sarcastic font here, please).

I walked 24 minutes, came home, microwaved some left-overs and ate them while icing my foot. I'll have a better idea in the morning as to how well I tolerated the walk.