Progress…

I’ve been at my new job for just over 6 months and I just found out our building has a public gym with a locker room and showers ( I think it’s a well-kept secret) - it’s rather small, but has everything you need for a lunch time workout. I’ve been itching to get back to the gym and this seems to be the perfect solution.

I haven’t worked out (in a gym) for about 6 or 7 months and I was nervous today, not knowing what my body would be capable of. All throughout my years of being sick with Cushing’s, I was a dedicated gym rat. In fact our entire family spent quiet a bit of time at the gym. Our gym had a special kid’s club, so it made it easy for us to drop off our son so we could work out. Since moving to a new city and starting a new job, those visits to the gym became farther and few between. Mostly because I just wasn’t up to it after a long day at work.

I’m approaching one year in recovery (Jan 29th) and I’m finally starting to feel better - my energy and stamina are improving leaps and bounds. The aches and pains have for the most part disappeared.

So I brought my workout clothes to work and committed myself to the elliptical machine for 35min and treated myself to about 15min of stretching afterwards - it felt GREAT. All afternoon I’ve had the post-workout afterglow. No aches, no stiffness, no pain ANYWHERE. Is this really my body? It’s hard to believe that I’ve reached this point in my recovery. I’ve had my first taste of what it’s like to feel like a normal person.

There was a time not long ago that I envied the woman around me in the locker room at my gym, getting dressed in their jeans. At the time, all I could wear were stretchy knit pants (I think I owned 3 or 4 pairs of the SAME black stretchy knit pants). I longed to be able to wear jeans.

Today was a milestone. I no longer own ANY stretchy knit pants (I threw them out over the summer). And guess what I wore after leaving the gym - JEANS

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