1 km walk

Two days ago I did some work on my house and spent time raking leaves and got a good sweat. I walked an entire km today. I'm tired though. Early to bed I think. My busted left shoulder is aching too, it "pops" when I move it in a certain way. Do it too much and the ribs feel it too. Rotator cuff injury or something like that. My depression has prevented me from having it properly looked at. I expect I'll need surgery.

My hobby project is closer than ever to being finished though. I have some tougher programming type bugs I've been leaving alone while I cleaned up all the easier stuff like.

800 meters, fish oil

Walked 800 meters today according to the pedometer. Also found that grape juice hides the terrible flavor of fish oil very well for me. Maybe it loses some effectiveness since grape juice is acidic, but fish oil capsules are too large for me. Why doesn't a manufacturer make smaller capsules? Even if that means taking more at least people who can't deal with the giant size capsules will be able to take them. Fish oil is supposed to potentially be helpful for depression. Worth a try. I stopped taking it a couple of years ago because of the size of the capsule and the taste.

Cut my walk back

I cut my walk back from 1km to 600 meters as measured by my pedometer. The pedometer itself is probably wrong since it measures steps times length of step, and I'm tall so my length is higher than what's programmed in. Anyway much less dizziness. About 8 minutes of walking for that distance. So I need to keep at it until I build up some stamina. Also did groceries later today and made some chicken noodle soup for my wife and I. Soup's not my culinary strongpoint, it was pretty bleh even with pepper to give it some flavor. I've been wanting to go to bed since about 4pm today after getting up at 9am, but still hanging in there at 7pm.

Exercise makes me dizzy

I'm trying to start walking again for exercise. The problem is I have been getting dizzy when I've been taking walks. I checked into it online and apparently you can get dizzy if you exercise too hard. Well I'm in terrible shape since I have barely moved for the past 6 months or so. I've gotten out and walked twice this week for a kilometer each time (according to the pedometer on my phone) Fifteen minutes of walking leaves me starting to get dizzy after maybe 8-9 minutes. And because I'm dizzy I can't really be productive at anything for some time after. I have to take a nap due to the dizzyness. I know I worked my way up to 25 minute walks this spring though. I need to cut back from 15 minutes to maybe 10, and then work from there.

In the weeks before I was let go, I was at the point that even walking down the street at lunch to get something would give me panic and exhaustion. I could only handle going to the place that was in the building or to the place directly across the street. I was beyond sedentary to the point of vegetative. By the end of the workday it was all I could do to get myself home. I didn't have the energy to even try to walk. Mostly I just stared at my home computer.

I can't say I have more energy, but I do seem to have lots more if you look at older blog posts I'm definitely not where I was. I need to build up some exercise to stay strong during the winter.

I've been able to set tasks and get them done.

Visiting relative

Visiting relative makes for stress of keeping up with them.

We've had a good two weeks of rain as well. I've been turning on my SAD light in response.