#this was a good exercise for me today

[ilovedthestars]

List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the ask box for the last 10 people who reblogged something from you. get to know your mutuals and followers! ✨🍄✨

Oh what a lovely ask game! I have had a rough day so it will be good for me to stop and think about things that make me happy.

The pond that is a short walk from my house. Now that I'm back home for the summer, I've been walking down to the little bit of woods that surrounds it and sitting on a bench by the pond, listening to the birds. It's very peaceful, and a good chance to get out of my house and get some time to myself. I went there today and it was cold and a bit rainy to match my mood, but when it was sunny a few days ago it was even more lovely. I'm going to try to do some drawing or maybe photography around the pond this summer.

Mangoes. I had a mango today and it was delicious. They taste like sunshine and remind me of times in the past when I have found joy on difficult days.

Daffodils. More flowers are starting to come up now, but a few weeks ago it was just the daffodils, and they were everywhere. To me, blooming daffodils are the sign that spring has arrived and they are tied to a lot of happy memories. There's a vase of them, and a second smaller vase of grape hyacinth which I also adore, on the kitchen counter right now, cut from our yard.

Books! I finally have time for books and I have been trying to take advantage of this. I've read more books in the last week than I did in the previous three months, and I have a nice big tbr stack. I also just cleared off a lot of old books from my bookshelf and now everything that's left sparks joy and I have room for some new favorites.

Pocket friends :) I think you all are very sweet and fun and cool. I think I've been only sporadically present on discord and tumblr recently because of Life but when I am online and get to talk to other friendly humans all over the world it makes me very happy. If you're seeing this and you ever feel like making friendly small talk about anything at all, don't be afraid to say hi via asks or DMs or whatever, i would love nothing more. <3

[obsob]

autism 2 autism communication

[myokk]

fast sketch for today💓💓

[tleeaves]

There are two wolves inside me. One wants to embrace a new hobby in dance so I can be active and feel elegant and graceful and strong. This wolf wants to try something new and exciting, finally indulging in something I've always had an interest in.

The other experiences such frustrating emotions on a near daily basis that I want to go back to boxing, which is arguably easier to break into since I've already done it before. This wolf doesn't think of elegance, she just wants to fuck shit up until her body's so overworked and warm it fogs up car windows without having to do anything but sit inside.

Which one do I fucking feed??

[thedisablednaturalist]

Tw for weight loss mention

The whole exercise will cure your disability thing is a fucking joke. Yes exercise is beneficial for your health, but only if you aren't already on shaky foundations. You need to be on a treatment plan that WORKS before going into the maintenance phase. You wouldn't do regular maintenance on a broken item, you'd work on getting it up and running first. And maybe it would even need specialized maintenance afterwards if it's especially fragile.

I have fibromyalgia and acute degenerative disc disease. My immune system attacks my nerves and discs in my spine are slowly calcifying and causing the bones to constrict and damage my nerves (i think thats how it works). I have days where it feels like my body is on fire from nerve pain and days where it feels like my spine is about to rip from my back. And days where I have both (like today!). I get numbness in my hands and feet. I have horrible migraines. I can no longer walk unaided more than maybe 5 minutes without severe pain. I have something wrong with my knees and hips but the doctors don't know what yet.

You'd think I live an obviously seditary lifestyle correct?

Hell no.

I walk aided on average 6 miles a day over difficult terrain OUTSIDE of regular activity almost everyday. My legs are muscular and strong. I get my heart rate up and a good sweat, like all the gym rats swear on. I am often doing physical labor such as weeding, digging, sample collecting, pruning trees etc.

I'm not saying this to make other disabled people feel bad or prove that they can do anything if they just tried harder. This is an extremely painful lifestyle I've chosen that takes a lot of lifestyle management AND BOUNDARIES to keep up with the work. I also have an extremely forgiving boss who is also physically disabled and knows what I'm going through (deciding between your passion and your health and having to do so each and every day) No one should ever be expected to do what I do. I'm not even sure if I should be doing this myself.

This is to prove that exercise? Has not cured me. My muscles are strong but still hurt as if they're broken and I have to take more breaks than my coworker. I am constantly getting out of breath and I flare up regularly if I'm not careful. I am in excellent physical condition outside of my disabilities. I go to different doctors several times a month to get checked out.

I previously went through a diet program and lost a lot of weight (basically starving myself and got off my depression meds which cause weight gain but are also the only ones that work) and guess what? That didn't do shit either!!! I still felt horrible!!! I've since gained back the weight anyway after switching to focusing on adding more nutrient dense foods than taking stuff away from my diet (also muscle weighs more than fat, and fat helps cushion my aching joints and spine).

The muscle doesn't do shit for my disabilities outside of maybe some stability. Exercising everyday doesn't make the pain go away. Without my medications and aids and nutrition plans and steroid injections and spinal adjustments and physical therapy (that takes my fibro and spine into account) and alternative work methods I WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO DO WHAT I DO. Exercise alone is like trying to make a car run with no oil. Yes it'll go but it'll get more and more damaged till it can't and will need its entire engine replaced!

And yet I see new doctors and they look at me and the first thing out of their mouths is do I exercise? I should try doing a little every day :) and then i fucking blow their minds when I tell them about my job. No longer can they use that fucking cop out on me. I've been through this rodeo. Ive tried their suggestions. If you are in pain and nothing is helping? Exercise ain't going to do SHIT. You need to get to a point where you can move without severe pain first (if that's even possible). Then and only then should you consider implementing regular exercise if you can. Also weight loss talk is a red flag and a cop out. They made me lose 50+ lbs before they would look into the reasons behind my pain. Weight loss did nothing for me and exacerbated my pain.

I am living proof that all that shit is a lie and a cop out. That is the point of this post. I cannot believe people with serious medical conditions are being forced to put their bodies through extreme duress just to be believed. You are not disabled because of laziness or because you sit a lot. Plenty of people live seditary lifestyles and do not live in constant excruciating pain (they may develop disabilities later in life due to this however, and should be doing preventative exercises to maintain their health)

Please, share my story with doctors. Use me as an example. I am proof that "exercise first treat later" does not work. I should not have had to wait years to have my pain validated. I'd rather hundreds of fakers get (what? A blood test? An MRI?) than one chronically ill person get told to try yoga and go away by a doctor.

[inkmaze]

have had a bike again (since like half my life ago) for 24hr now and. actually yknow what this rules 🚴‍♀️

[perilegs]

packed lunch is such a lame term it has nothing on eväs. if i say eväsleipä everyone knows what i mean but how do i even translate that. "packed lunch sandwich" ? pathetic. anyways i helped my bestie move yesterday and we always reminisce about the packed lunches they gave us on school trips which was always a sandwich, half a banana, and a juicebox, so i packed exactly that for us before i left to her apartment and i was so giddy the whole way there bc i know this thing that took no time or effort to pull together would make her so happy and it did and now i'm eating the exact same kind of sandwich we did yesterday and i am filled with love for my friends. i think i had a point here somewhere but i like how food can be made better with memories of good company

[ereborne]

my boss has not made a more general announcement about how she's fricking bailing on us. literally already gone multiple states away. taking a new position elsewhere! so I keep being in meetings where she is notably not, explaining to the other attendants why precisely that is so, and I'm getting a lot of immensely cathartic 'oh what the *mic cutoff*' reactions

office worker tip #whatever: outsource your outrage to people who are not direct-reports, because you deserve to hear someone call (or at least see muted people mouthing) bullshit, but unfortunately if you say it yourself your boss even from 400mi away will hear and fire you

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

yes I am probably showing Symptoms. I should do something about that

[terresdebrume]

Body update: it turns out that after about a year (ish) of trying to eat more healthily and avoiding fast food, my body cannot handle some of the meals I used to enjoy anymore

I had a burger last week at DND and was sick, and I thought it was bc the burger particularly greasy, but then when I ordered from my usual place today (less horrendously greasy but still, you know, a fast food burger) I actually kinda stopped enjoying it three bites in and had to put in some effort to finish it x)

Oh well

[thefrogdalorian]

Did I just find the motivation to go for a morning run in the rain by reminding myself that if Din Djarin ever encountered me he would 100% start sprinting in the opposite direction so I need to train to keep up with him so he can never get away from me?

[obsob]

here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud!!

✷(print shop)✷

[suffercerebral]

me having gone to bed at 6 am every day for the past week and generally spiraling mentally while rotting in bed waking up this morning: a 4 mile hike in the heat is a really good idea right now, and while we're at it let's start like 3 art projects

[adore-gregor]

Lol I keep on doing this, saying I'd come back to tumblr to only disappear again 😂😭

[fraddit]

I have no idea what this fic is or how to end it.

[black-quadrant]

life really is this mindful balance between accepting yourself as you are in the present while actively building to a better self. you know you can improve but that doesn’t mean who you are now isn’t good enough. speaking from experience, hating what you aren’t yet won’t get you there faster. practice self love and be patient.