First step – take it one step at a time.
Small steps back to recovery are always
more effective than overreaching yourself.
Going too far, too fast can just leave you
feeling worse than before you started.
Practical tip
It doesn’t matter how grand
or humble your exercise
aspirations are – get someone
to help you. Find someone
to walk, ride or garden
with. Making your routine a
companionable activity will
make it much pleasanter, and
much easier to stick to.
So whatever it is you’re doing – whether it’s
walking to work or working in the garden,
give yourself time and take it slowly at first.
If you need to rest, then do. It’ll take time
and effort to regain your fitness levels, but
it’s time well spent.
Set yourself some small targets if it helps.
Reward yourself for meeting those targets
and you’ll help keep the momentum going.
Second step – eat yourself better.
Getting your five portions of fruit and veg
every day is a great way to kick-start your
recovery. Add in some good starchy foods
like potatoes, rice and good wholemeal
bread and you’ll be well on your way.
There’s always room for the occasional treat
– particularly as a reward for meeting your
exercise targets. Besides, a little a bit of
what you fancy does you good.
Third step – enjoy life.
This is the most important step of all. Make
your recovery as pleasurable as it can be.
Make the most of your friends and family.
Start picking up your old pastimes again.
Practical tip
As they say, energy makes
energy. In other words, the
more you exercise the more
energised you’ll feel.
Make the most of every sunny day – all
that vitamin D is one of life’s natural mood
lifters.
You’ll probably start to feel yourself
slipping back into your old routines in no
time. And if not then maybe it’s time for
some new routines. Why not try a local
patient support group? They’re a great
way to get-together and make some new
friendships.
Or take a leaf from some of our contributors
and take up some new interests. It’s
amazing how much poetry, art and
storytelling we’ve seen from our readers
over the last year or so. For many, an
enforced change in their life has brought
with it the opportunity to try all sorts of
new things.
Over to you...
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