Hey poaler bears, I need some advice. I normally work out six days a week come hell or high water. As in "walking on literal broken bones because it's cardio day and I can at least limp darnit". The problem with this level of far-right tail trait industriousness is that it works great when you're healthy. It also works great when you have a transitory illness.
It doesn't work when you're ill long term and your sheer stubborn gitter-dunness is exacerbating the problem. I've been badly ill for something like six out of the last eight weeks with three different sheer-bad-luck diseases that were bad enough that my spouse had to pull rank on me and order me to park myself on the couch and rest or be dragged kicking and screaming to the hospital because "You're too sick to stand up for more than ten minutes, FFS go lay down and sleep". And the other two weeks weren't healthy by any means, just "hurray I went an entire week without spending hours a day curled up in a ball on the floor because flavor-of-the-week disease".
I know my spouse would like to slap some sense into me, and I know logically that I'm just going to be ill longer if I push myself, but I'm horrified of going to the opposite extreme of becoming a lazy couch potato.
How do I balance wanting to work out and do productive things when from a health perspective I should probably be doing something more along the lines of "Go take a six hour nap, then if you can stand up without wobbling you can make walking to the mailbox an exercise goal for the day but only if you sit your butt down and take it easy afterwards"? Do I just sit on my butt until I feel 100% healthy? Do nothing for a set period of time and then try a normal activity routine (e.g. "Do nothing more strenuous than sleep and sitting on the couch for two weeks, then try normal activity levels"), or work with my spouse to put together some type of gradiated return-to-normal plan (e.g. "Day 1: Walk to the mailbox, Day 2 walk a block, Day 3 walk a block and a half and work your way up from there")?
My spouse is a total sweetheart and will help with whatever I go with, I just know that the current "Power through it through sheer determination" isn't working and I need an outside opinion to knock some sense into me.
Hey poaler bears, I need some advice. I normally work out six days a week come hell or high water. As in "walking on literal broken bones because it's cardio day and *I can at least limp darnit*". The problem with this level of far-right tail trait industriousness is that it works great when you're healthy. It also works great when you have a transitory illness.
It doesn't work when you're ill long term and your sheer stubborn gitter-dunness is exacerbating the problem. I've been badly ill for something like six out of the last eight weeks with three different sheer-bad-luck diseases that were bad enough that my spouse had to pull rank on me and order me to park myself on the couch and *rest* or be dragged kicking and screaming to the hospital because "You're too sick to stand up for more than ten minutes, *FFS go lay down and sleep*". And the other two weeks weren't healthy by any means, just "hurray I went an entire week without spending hours a day curled up in a ball on the floor because flavor-of-the-week disease".
I know my spouse would like to slap some sense into me, and I know logically that I'm just going to be ill longer if I push myself, but I'm horrified of going to the opposite extreme of becoming a lazy couch potato.
How do I balance wanting to work out and do productive things when from a health perspective I should probably be doing something more along the lines of "Go take a six hour nap, then if you can stand up without wobbling you can make walking to the mailbox an exercise goal for the day but only if you sit your butt down and take it easy afterwards"? Do I just sit on my butt until I feel 100% healthy? Do nothing for a set period of time and then try a normal activity routine (e.g. "Do nothing more strenuous than sleep and sitting on the couch for two weeks, then try normal activity levels"), or work with my spouse to put together some type of gradiated return-to-normal plan (e.g. "Day 1: Walk to the mailbox, Day 2 walk a block, Day 3 walk a block and a half and work your way up from there")?
My spouse is a total sweetheart and will help with whatever I go with, I just know that the current "Power through it through sheer determination" isn't working and I need an outside opinion to knock some sense into me.
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