Walking back to Happiness

@ Myshittit

Luv ur name im soz it made me laugh, just wat ineed a gud laugh. Im off put me muni in bank its a gud 3 mile walk. 

Take care n keep it up riff raff

Hi WhatHappened

I fully understand how we just drive down roads and I am guilty of driving along the clifftop and just going about my busy life. but the BC stopped me in my tracks and made me realise I am important more important than work work work and now I've made adjustments that allow me to walk along the clifftop and breath the fresh air. I even go there when its raining, I always walk with the wind behind me (not that type!!) ha ha 

I started walking before Christmas as after BC treatment I had the pleasure of being left with Degenerative disc disease so walking is the best treatment then now its given me inflamed metatarsals in my left foot so I take my time just putting one foot in front of the other and I will get there, I get over taken by older people but thats Ok I've got the time to enjoy my walk, I have a app on my phone that tells me how far I have walked but now I fell guilty if I miss a day

I understand the bit about being safe, I won't walk through an area of gorse and shrubs just in case,  I always think better safe than sorry

Keep up with your walking, if we can do it in the winter then by the summer we will be fitter and ready to enjoy the sun, I was told to get out to see, to feel, to experience and to enjoy life

This picture is for especially for you, I took it

yesterday 

What a lovely photo, Happybird! Where is it?

I travelled to Nefyn yesterday with my husband and we had our first walk on the beach this morning. The sun was shining, but the wind was bracing! Certainly blew all the cobwebs away. Took a flask of coffee and some malted milk biscuits (we know how to live it up ).

Hi Penny lane 

Its Bournemouth, you can see the polar bear on the Isle of Wight, It's when your home is like being on holiday all year, Nefyn looks beautiful we are so lucky in this country to have such beautiful scenery.  

xx

Leolady56..how brilliant that you couldnt type well coz you were in France,hugging your Grandson ...has to be the best reason I have read for it!(way back in thread)

and ronstar...love the pholosophical post...it so definately is,one step at a time.

WhatHappened...Go You!!i loved readding the tale of your walk.Immediately following my op,I couldn’t walk far without getting out of breath,which frightened me a bit as I dont have a car ...but I had an older bro and sis encouraging me to go to gym...so in the end I gave in and went.The first time I got there I had to plonk down on the handy sofa,breathless and panting!!My trainer tells me I used to do the same after each warm up exercise too...

Anyway that was 9 months ago,and I am now so much fitter and less frightened as I dont get breathless now.I only do 2 half hours each week on the warm up exercises...but have kept steadily at it.The trainers are great and good fun.They laugh when I try to scare them with my “guns”.would recommend it to anyone.I used to avoid gym-type activity at all costs!!

Hello everyone, waffling coming along, you might want to get a cuppa first haha

Hello Leolady56 - Wow hope you're having a great time in France, the photos are lovely, its amazing, we've recently found out we have relatives in France...  :o  apparently from when my late Grandfather was 'fighting' in the Second World War (I'll tell this story another time if anyone is interested).  Thank you for your kind and inspirational words, wait till I tell you about my walk the other day (I'll add it tomorrow as this post is another chapter towards War and Peace).

You know when I first mentioned on the "Fatigued Thread" about us starting a "Walking Thread", I had thought, well there are 'walking groups' to inspire people - I wonder if a Walking Thread would work for us, I certainly would like and am in need of encouragement. When I was writing about it I was thinking to myself 'everyone is going to think I'm you mad' (okay confirm that I'm mad).  How wrong was I - I can't believe how many ladies have said how it is inspiring them. Then with the fantastic names that you and  came up with, it just had to be.  This just goes to 'show/prove' - 'we are normal with the thoughts' what we go through, the various feelings we have, what we feel etc.   Whats even nicer, is our truthfulness, the shear honesty of how we feel, how are day is and the inspiration this thread is giving all of us.  

Owww  - Your post was lovely and your photograph for me 'honestly made me cry - don't panic, happy tears, my eyes are filling again typing this.  Firstly, how very, very kind and thoughtful to dedicate such a beautiful photograph to me.  If you don't mind, please can I copy it and use it as my screen background on my computer - it is such an inspirational photograph 'Thank You' again.

I didn't know about the Polar Bear on the Isle of Wight - I can see him and how amazing he looks too. As a child we would go on holiday to the Isle of Wight, Bournemouth and in later years Eastbourne - a few memories from Bournemouth was a very long sloping road down to the beach and the other was a 'life' on the front of a cliff (I would of said mountain as a child haha).  Then Eastbourne we would go on the pier and watch a man making seagulls and other animals out of glass, we used to watch him actually glass blowing, then there was the bandstand and near there was a lady that 'lived' on the beach, the story we were told, was her husband was killed at sea (may of been during the war) she wouldn't accept this and was waiting for him to return (I was only about 8 or 9 at the time so didn't really understand how sad this was at the time).  Thank you for such a kind a lovely gesture - this photo shows us all what we have to look forward to, what is out there and it's free - with the feeling of the wind :) the smell of the sea or countryside and the wonderful views - they are there for us, like you say, if we just open up our minds to it - its a goal for us to work towards.

Hello  - your photo is lovely, I wonder what the story is to this house? Does the sea ever surround it - wow, imagine living there.  The sound of the sea would be something else and imagine the sea spray on a really stormy and windy night wowwww.  
Well Done to you and your hubby for having your first walk on the beach - I don't know between you and Happybird your both making me quiet envious - Birmingham just hasn't got the same scenery (you'll see this with a photo that I'll post in a day or two - I'm getting a complex with how long this post is :o 

ronstar - so love the photographs and they inspiration you are giving us.  I've wrote down your stats (hey I'm sound more fit already, with the stats hehehe).  I don't think I'll be doing the run 5 mins for some time, however, it has given us guidance of things we can do and tweak to build up stamina etc.  Mine will more than likely start with Walk - maybe a little faster walk for 30 secs (that is a lot when your walking, it is) then back to normal, then faster again etc - I know they walking fast is very good for you - like you say, one step at a time - doing what we feel comfortable with.

Hi Violetsniff - Massive "Well Done" on the 9 months!!!!! wow, I do hope with everyones inspiration we can all keep going.  I'll be the first to admit how out of breath, shape and condition I am in - this as got to change (owww I think I've heard myself say this before many times over the years).  Cannon, you say you don't get breathless now - have you noticed any other changes within yourself?

Now then a little confession, (not sure if I've mentioned this three or four times before haha) I came down with the 'lurgy - flu' on the 1st January ~ New Years Day..... I have only once felt as poorly, this about 2 years back, on Christmas Day that time, that only knocked me about for a few weeks though. After that I have been a little OCD with hand sanitiser, swopping queues (didn't realise it was spelt like this)  in the shop because (wait for this)... I can tell if the assistant has a cold just by looking at their nose!!! :o (My Mom goes mad, when I said lets move the person has a cold and Mom been Mom then goes up to the said person and asks... 9 times out of 10 I'm right hahaha).  So, with my hand sanitiser and my new skill of 'nose reading' ;) I had 'not had a cold or sniffle for just over ONE YEAR!! then I came down with this.  Well here comes my confession, up until this Walking Thread (well it is in the Fatigue Thread - I'll have to copy my post and picture onto here), up until then, I had not been 'outside' my house (I have nipped in and out the back garden), I mean actually 'outside' the boundary of our house since New Years Day - mainly do to feeling really poorly, as I have felt better I still don't want to drive yet (its coming back slowly). I've done shopping online and anything else I've got my other half to do.  

Now you can see how the walking thread became an idea - I wanted to get out, just no motivation, stamina or interest..... Until you lovely ladies all started posting and it honestly pushed me - okay, so my first walk was 10 minutes there and 10 minutes back - but I DID IT - the first time since 'New Year' ..... Thank You Ladies, Thank You LeoLady58 putting the Walking Thread together - Honeslty YOU ARE ALL AMAZING - and I really do need to post on the Fatigue Thread to let everyone know the benefits I felt since my first walk on Monday.

I am going, but feel I need to add, it is a massive effort to go out at the moment, when I have got out, after about 10 minutes I can feel my brain start to 'open up' and feel fresher - I can feel it when I get back in the house, as LeoLady58 said, I can feel 'the inner me waking up 'a little' and this is one I am trying to take in and remember 'out of 24 hours in the day - surely I can give my brain and my body 20 minutes - I keep saying its not for me - its for my brain and my body its gone though a lot so I am helping it :)

I'm stopping ladies, WAKE UP - mind you with the time..... GO TO SLEEP ~  THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH xxxxxx

I've just looked at the length of this post - Sorry!!!!!  

I'm blaming @mrsox - thinking of you lovely lady - sending love from the Rift Raff :) xxx
 

Oh whathappened! I’m so sorry to hear that you have felt so down for so long. I hope that you have friends and family nearby that you can share how you feel and to take you out for a little lunch or a jaunt In the car. If you stay home all the time it’s bound to affect you are feeling. We must work together to raise your mood and get you back out there more.

I too, am loving this thread. When I’m out for a walk I’m looking for “the view” that I want to share with you all.

I haven’t told anyone that I’m writing on here. You are all my secret. My allies, because you know exactly how I’m feeling, what I’m experiencing, how to cheer me up and how to pick me up when I’m down. I don’t want anyone that I know in the “outside world” to be looking for me on here - to know what I’ve written or see the photos that I’ve shared with you - these are just for you. In our little supportive bubble.

Happy Sunday everyone. Hope your day is a good one. One step at a time.

The sun is in the sky

Down to Cap Breton for a seaside walk

My favourite bit of this is that I now feel that I’ve got to keep the ball rolling. So you are all my motivation to shift my big fat btm.

The fact that so many lovely ladies pop on to share their walks and thoughts makes it even better. 

Sharing is caring as they say.

Take care and be gentle

Leolady