Cheers man! Life is for sure all about adaptations and adjustments. When something isn't quite right, we have to adjust, whether it be a lot or a little. The adjustments come at a cost of course, but overall they should eventually even out to something we can manage, or we just continue adjusting until we feel as good as it can be.
I'm glad that you got some work done on the abode and have things getting back to better. It is for sure important to do one bit at a time, instead of trying to do everything at once because then nothing gets done, so that's good!
Here's to taking some walks and getting stronger day by day. My neighbor had surgery earlier this year and he was miserable for months but I helped him in a few ways, and one was to get out walking. He's been walking every day for a few months now and is up to 5 miles! After surgery he couldn't walk up the stairs. Keep your chin up man! One foot in front of the other is all it takes, then momentum builds!
Thanks for the 'very you', encouragement dude, it is welcome and very well received.
I have indeed, totally overdone it a few times, and adapt to the new limits afterwards, I confess that the old me would have tried to do 5k from a standing start and crashed and burned. The thing is though, (in the spirit of my post), time passes so bloody fast that if you scale up daily or weekly in small increments you are far down the track much quicker than you expected.
I was talking to someone a couple of months back who had success with weight loss, gained it all back, then had success again, obviously I spoke of mindset but when they listed some MASSIVE weight loss goals, I ran the numbers if you went for something tiny like a half a pound a week with consistent results you would be 52lbs lighter in just 2 years, who wouldn't take that as a locked in guarantee?
BUT it sounds tiny and pathetic when you think of such tiny numbers, we have it wrong, I think, and of course most people would have many weeks where they dwarfed their goal and went further, faster.
I am certain your neighbour is extremely grateful to have you in his life, sometimes a few words from another can make all the difference and illuminate a path they may not have even considered or believed possible. Good on you mate 😎