Overdoing It

So after talking to my mom, I realized I was so exhausted because I was overdoing it with my Wii Fit workout. I know, that sounds pretty pathetic. But, I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia a few years ago, and I think the extreme fatigue was my body's way of telling me to slow down. I was going a little too fast with my workouts and my body wasn't very happy with that. I literally felt like I could go to sleep at any time throughout the day...and that was after at least 9 hours of sleep a night. Since my fibromyalgia has been under control for so long, I was kind of in denial that it was flaring up again.

I know fibromyalgia kind of controversial right now because some people don't think its a real ailment, but I have been diagnosed with it, and I am definitely not a hypochondriac. Even when its under control, I'm tired all day long and my muscles can get sore from just sleeping funny. Its really fun, believe me. And I'm 22! I'd kill to have my body react "normally" to everything.

Sometimes its really frustrating because I can't push through it and just keep going. If I'm really tired, I have to go to sleep. If my muscles are achy, I just have to rest. Pushing through it just makes it worse. I have to have 8 hours of sleep a night so that I can function throughout the day. I can't actively work out without feeling it for the next 3 days. And sometimes my body just completely freaks out and I have debilitating migraines or my muscles are so sore I don't even want to move.

Thankfully though, like I said, those instances are pretty rare. But its kind of scary thinking that one day when I have kids, there will be times where I'm going to feel completely awful and I'm probably just going to have to suck it up until it gets so worse and I'm forced to rest. Good times.

So, I'm taking it a little bit easier and giving my body a break. I've also been kind of a crazy person trying to cross things off of my to-do list so I could stay busy. I was unnecissarily productive on Saturday, ha ha. These aren't really things that need to be done, I was just doing them so I had something to do. After working 40 hours a week, I need to treat myself to more breaks and more time relaxing!!!