Making Physical Progress

If you have read through my story, you know that anxiety has impacted my life both mentally and physically.  On the physical side of things, I became housebound and nearly bed bound.  When I did leave my home, I walked to my car, drove to work, walked to my desk (didn’t get up all day), drove home, and got back in bed.

When I first started seeing a psychologist, I also began to push myself to become more physically active.  I purchased a pedometer, just to see how lazy I really had become.  Upon arriving home from work, I would glance at the results and see that I had walked between 800-1,000 steps for the day.  As a note, it is recommended that you walk between 8,000 and 10,000 steps a day.  This came as no surprise to me.

I began walking in the morning and soon was finishing the day between 3,000-4,000 steps a day.  Fast forward to a few weeks ago.  I added a morning run to my routine.  When I first started, I timed a one mile run — 10 minutes.  This morning, I did another 1 time timed run — 5 minutes 58 seconds!

Progress does come, we just need to be aware enough to look for it.