More physical progress
May. 17th, 2009 10:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceriMy exercise tonight took me past a physical barrier that's been in place for five years now, a really significant step toward greater endurance and mobility. I love that.
I also notice that my nails are doing really well. I've mentioned before about being a lifelong nail biter and finding myself suddenly interested in not doing that anymore, right after I started thinking of myself as trans. Funny how that works. I must still be doing some unconscious nibbling, because a couple of these are pretty ragged, but on the whole, very much better than I can ever remember them being. This is really nice.
Some parts of improvement aren't so great, of course. Fat burning is hard for me because when it dissolves, the fat releases whatever was in my blood at the time, and that can include old allergens. I have to spend time detoxing after each bit of progress. Today was a detoxing day for fat burned off hard-to-reach places, like the underside of belly flab. If you think of getting severe poison oak and a sunburn there, that's about what it was like all day. I pushed myself on exercise partly because I really needed some good news.
And I got it. :)
I also notice that my nails are doing really well. I've mentioned before about being a lifelong nail biter and finding myself suddenly interested in not doing that anymore, right after I started thinking of myself as trans. Funny how that works. I must still be doing some unconscious nibbling, because a couple of these are pretty ragged, but on the whole, very much better than I can ever remember them being. This is really nice.
Some parts of improvement aren't so great, of course. Fat burning is hard for me because when it dissolves, the fat releases whatever was in my blood at the time, and that can include old allergens. I have to spend time detoxing after each bit of progress. Today was a detoxing day for fat burned off hard-to-reach places, like the underside of belly flab. If you think of getting severe poison oak and a sunburn there, that's about what it was like all day. I pushed myself on exercise partly because I really needed some good news.
And I got it. :)
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Date: 2009-05-18 07:13 am (UTC)I learned that letting them grow too long doesn't work out too well - they break rather easily, and it feels really strange when you go from long nails to short nails.
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Date: 2009-05-18 10:54 am (UTC)