What a difference a couple days makes

I saw this news article about the relationship between exercise and period pain last month and said to myself that I’ve known this for years. Still I often do try to do some exercise during all but the worst pain. This period, the symptoms didn’t all kick in until well into the second day. My weight didn’t increase until then either, which surprised me because it almost always jumps a day or two before then. Maybe the regular exercise is helping a bit. The cramps weren’t all that bad on the second day but I found exercise a most miserable experience. My body just didn’t want to move and the particular exercises showing up in the program generated routines were quite difficult. Yesterday I opted out of exercise, just to give myself a bit of a break and I think that was just what I needed. Today I got back into my exercise routine and kind of enjoyed it this time. My weight had dropped back again and my body felt pretty good. Compared to the two days before, it was such a breeze that I might have continued on for a couple of hours had common sense not prevailed. The only issue I had today was a very tight calf muscle from a couple days. Originally both calves were tight but only the right one was a problem today. I managed to work through all but the split jumps (jumping jacks using just the legs) without a problem. The jumping was very hard but I got through all 24 of them and was okay the rest of the time.

I was also feeling pretty good today to that my blood sugar level has finally come down to normal range again. They had been slowly climbing over the past few months and had been running a bit high since November. Both my body and mind were feeling quite sluggish all the time so it was quite a struggle to pull out of that state. It’s taken about six weeks to get back into the normal range so I must make the effort to keep it up so I don’t return to that horrible state.