How do you recover from illness and injury during your weight loss?

This last week was the first time in months that I was feeling so bad I had to take some time off from work and workouts.  I came down with a cold or flu and just before that I had pulled something in my back during one of my last weight trainings.  Reminder to self remember to stretch more.  So imagine for a few short moments coughing and sneezing with your back spasms that would normally bring me to my knees if I could just get out of bed.  That was just two days ago and this morning I was back up and walked out 2 miles.

No, I am no superman.  I did have to dig in and find that hero I wrote about recently. I had to get back at it as soon as I was able.  Why you ask?  Well because it was the workouts and the weight loss that turned what would have been a full weeks worth of illness to just half a week.  That’s right my recovery was faster because my body was stronger.  It wasn’t hauling around an extra 100 lbs.    It was not in the constantly worn down condition of no sleep and no reserves.  When I got back there where still people out from the same or similar bug.

I went and got my back adjusted as I had gotten it out of alignment.  Feels much better today.  Again a recovery that would normally take a couple of weeks before I would even think of going back to working out.  In talking to the chiropractor we talked about recent vacations he had taken this last year and I commented that I used to think that action, fun-filled things like hiking and snorkeling where out of the question for me just one short year ago.  That this last year I had hiked the Grand Canyon for the full day and loved every minute of it.  I look forward to my next tropical vacation where I can get back in the water and enjoy the fish and swimming without feeling like I was going to run out of breath.

To answer the question I used for the title, I realized on my walk this morning that the way to recover is to start back at it.  It doesn’t matter if it was illness or lack of weight loss that slows us down.  It doesn’t matter that we are discouraged or feeling a bit let down.  It matter how we overcome that feeling.  It matters that we do what we can do.  Last week it was keeping the hands out of the chocolate jar at work.  This week it was going for a walk rather then slacking another day.  All of it based on choices that stacked up over this last year that made it even possible to do it in the first place.

That’s right loosing weight and working out made me stronger and recovery was faster.  Small price to pay to have along with it more energy and determination to keep going.  What goal are you working on today?  What are you willing and able to do to get there?  Think about it and DO Something about it today!

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