For chronic anxiety, it's amusing how my heart rate continues to improve,

[Deja Q]

despite NOT doing any cardio exercising.

I have done strength training.

But no cardio worth a dillytwilly.

I counted 64. I don't think it's been that low in ages.

[Sugar Smack]

1. fantastic, baby!

:hug:


keep it up!

[Deja Q]

2. Thanks.

Hopefully it won't be too long until I have nothing to get anxious about. :)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear Hyno!

That's very good.....as long as you feel well with it, and I gather you do!

You'll live longer!

:hi:

[Deja Q]

4. Define well.

I'm actually confused.

The only way to lower the heart rate is to do cardio exercise.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I haven't done aerobic exercise.

And my parents commented on my walk home today I was huffing and puffing.

I know I should get on the exerciser and properly rebuild myself. But I have no reason to do so.


And confusing. My doc claimed anxiety was why my heart rate was elevated all the time; 2 years ago saying 80bpm is too high but these days says is just fine.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. OK....define "well."

When I say if you feel well, I mean you don't feel sick, or anxious or anything else unpleasant.

Does that help?

A little cardio training is not a bad idea, BTW.

You don't need to do much. An easy paced walk for say, 10 minutes to start with, would be a good place to start.

After you've done that awhile and are finding it easy to do, then you can increase the time spent walking.

After awhile, you should notice that your huffing and puffing will diminish.

When you checked your heart rate, had you been sitting down relaxing for awhile? If you had been, then that would account for the low rate.

You might want to talk to a personal trainer. They know a lot more than I do...

:hi:

[Deja Q]

6. Thanks

I ought to do that, for real.

It's just hard, not seeing much of a future, to maintain what's left of my body. (My strength training, which includes doing work at work, has impacted my degnerative disk disease.)

Life helps if I had somebody in the journey. And that's what most people take for granted, what with divorce rates and such. But I will never understand humanity.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. My dear Hypno......

I don't think that most of us understand humanity...

I know that I have trouble understanding myself, sometimes!

But I do know that it's worth it to take care of myself, in order to have a better quality and QUANTITY of life!

:hug:

[Deja Q]

9. Quantity is irrelevant when the resources become finite.

And i'm not worth taking care of.

When articles and DUers make posts of how mercury and other things make birth defects such as Autism, yadda yadda, higher... with nobody responding to the content that being autistic or whatever is a defect, which means that person is a defect...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. Wait a darned minute......

There's something you should know: ALL of us have defects! ALL OF US!

There is not one person on the planet that doesn't have some physical defect....

Some are bigger defects, and some are smaller....but nonetheless, we ALL have them.

For example: Me. I was deprived of oxygen at or near my birth, and as a result of this deprivation, I had trouble with physical tasks. I had trouble learning how to feed myself, and I walked late too. OK, you say, SO what?

I did outgrow those problems, but I still have trouble learning how to do things with my hands.

So....remember. We all have defects. You are not alone. :hug:

[Deja Q]

15. And yours aren't related to persona or thought processes.

I'm eccentric and for that alone deemed a freak.

My IQ may be high, but the brain is slow; akin to an 80486 in the age of a Pentium 4. That's had a fair of nasty comments to - admittedly from people whose IQ is about 40 points lower, but at least they can think on their feet.

I'm glad you were able to outgrow your problems. :hug: I wish we all could.

[radwriter0555]

7. YAY! Have you tried those LUNGES??? Holy crap those things are

great!

I've gone from a size 12 to a 7/8 since November.

[no name no slogan]

11. Hope it ain't due to the new heroin habit

CONGRATS! :bounce:

[Deja Q]

12. No drugs. Illegal or otherwise.

Thanks for the congrats.

[sexybomber]

13. Damn, you're doing pretty well! Congratulations!

:applause: :headbang:

[Deja Q]

14. Getting there, surprisingly. But I have no choice.

I've took risks to rebuild... I only hope I haven't done too much in the process. My doc did warn me not to do anything that aggrevates the neck and I have done that, you can hear and feel the clicking as the fused vertabrae rub against each other... I can imagine how the underlying disc must be by now. (the last MRI had showed continued degeneration...)

So, one way or another, I won't worry about what is to come.