Well, at the age of thirty I have been diagnosed with osteoarthritis...not a happy thing. I have known my health was deteriorating for some time and that I needed to focus and lose weight, but due to my knee pain I always had a hard time sticking to any exercise regiment. Now I have heard from my doctor, physical therapist, and orthopedic surgeon and one sweet medical secretary of the grandma type that I "must lose weight". Do you notice the word choice there? Not need, but rather I MUST lose weight.
I now have been diagnosed with what I somehow already knew was there...well I knew something serious was wrong with my knee(s). I am now having to cope with the the fact that I will no longer be able to run. Running was always one of my favorite exercises which I have not been able to do for quite sometime. Now I am told I need to learn to love swimming, cycling (already love it!) and yoga (love too!).
Although, when I found out this news, I was really deflated, discouraged and almost sad. It was almost as if all the things I had been ignoring and slightly nurturing about my health and well being all hit me at once. What happened to the athlete in me? I know she is still in there and dying to come out, but she has been defeated by so many things over the years. My assignment right now is to find balance. Physically I am supposed to find a balance with exercise as it helps OA, but if I you exercise too much it does the opposite. So now, I am forced to listen to my body and pay attention to what it has been trying to tell me for years. Perhaps having this diagnosis and hearing that I "must" lose weight from so many is the ultimatum I truly needed. I allowed myself to wallow for a day and then decided to move forward. So hear is to moving forward and pressing onward! Cheers!
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