Looking for motivation…
Looking for motivation… Hi everyone.
I love to hear from anyone else out there who are or have struggled to get back into some form of exercise.
Before my diagnosis I was as fit as a flea.
I’ve got a really physical job working full time shifts lates, nights and earlies (still on sick leave tho at the mo).
I used to go to the gym after night and early shift, before on lates.
Most saturday and sunday morning would be a bike ride or 2 to 5 mile runs with Husband.
Could’nt face the gym with a bald head.
Husband bought me an exercise bike for christmas, and although I have used, it at one point going on it daily, since rads finished at the start of may I just cannot get myself to go on it or do any other kind of exercise.
I’m hoping this lack of motivation will soon pass.
I wonder if sub consciously I’m thinking well why bother I did everything I could to keep myself healthy and this still happened to me.
If anyone can give me some advice on how to get my mojo back I’d be most grateful! 
Best Wishes
Linda xx
p.s. did’nt do gym every day but at least 3 times a week.
Motivation Hi, I understand what you mean, I am feeling very slow at the moment. I have major skeletal problems which I have been in control of to a point, but I feel with breast cancer I am not in control of the outcome. I am wondering if this is why I feel so slow and unmotivated.
I go radiotherapy planning tomorrow, but starting to feel cross at my lack of ‘get up and go’ Sometimes I feel that keep talking about our problems just generates more problems instead of looking forward. I expect it is because there is still more to come with the treatment and can’t draw a line under the diagnosis yet.
I will think of you and try harder myself to ‘get going’ perhaps the ironing will be done now, thank you
eileenmary
I have been really unwell on Taxotere and have had really bad fatigue with it to the point I have been very inactive. I used to walk about 10 miles at a time before this and feel I need to get my fitness and stamina levels back, as well as losing a bit of weight. I have a lot of things at home like a gym mat, hand weights etc, so I plan to get into the way of a gentle stretching routine every day. We bought a side to side stepper and I was doing abit every day whilst on rads, but I’ve been so knocked out this past 10 weeks that I could not cope with using it. My motivation is affected by the fatigue - it’s too easy to retreat to bed with the telly at the moment and it’s all I’ve really been able for.
I continued going to the gym throughout my treatment even if all I did was walk on the treadmill. I actually found that doing something helped witht he fatigue and other symptoms. Gym staff revised my routine to take into account the difficulties I was having. I wore my wig until my hair started to grow back. A couple of times I went in wearing a scarf. Once I had some hair, I went “au naturel”. Some people did stare but I just stared back. Interestingly it tended to be young men and women (late teens/early twenties) who stared or passed comment. Some people just thought I had a funky hairstyle. I finished my treatment in Feb and started training for the Race for Life which I ran on 10th June. I’m really glad I kept going to the gym. Apart from anything else it got me out of the house for something other than hospital appoitnments, and I always felt better for going.
Geraldine
Thanks for your replies Girls,
I’m sure I’ll get back into the swing of things soon (touch wood).
I had the exercise bike moved into the shed because I was sick of it giving me dirty looks everytime I passed it! lol
Come monday it’s coming back in.
Going to have a good blow out this weekend before serious dieting starts.
I’ve got the stone and a half to shift that I have piled on. I’m looking to start back at work mid august (short hours, light duties to begin with) and I want to be back to my pre BC weight.
Take Care
Linda xx