Deconditioning

Hi y'all.
Sorry to keep repeating myself but I've been sidelined by extreme fatigue since September. Gone from 166# - - >146#. Eating as much or more than ever but can't gain weight. Since I got sick, my days consist of feeding, bathing, dressing, and mostly sitting in my recliner. I feel like an invalid. It's been worse, there was a point where I couldn't even wash my own dishes without feeling like I'd pass out.

I'm feeling a skosh better lately and have been able to do a 10 minute floor stretch routine without paying for it. I also do 5 reps of one resistance band exercise per day : either bicep curls, lat pulls, pilates reformer squats, or leg adductors, but only one of these per day with a very light resistance.

Occasionally a short walk around the block that takes 5 minutes but that is quite tiring, I think I need to do half that for a while. I feel like I'm between a rock and a hard place. I really don't want to get any weaker yet don't want to erase my piddly little bit of progress by overdoing it. I'm feeling a bit scared about how deconditioned I've become. I feel like I need to at least halt this.

Not sure if there's a question there but a little pep talk might help.
Thanks

hey there BJD, I know how you feel! I was an athlete all my life until this, almost 7 years ago. I have the opposite weight problem though, I can't keep it down. I try to think of what I CAN do for exercise even if it's not very much right now , and I believe someday I will be able to function properly again and I will get back in shape.

I think you will be able to build back up a little at a time, but sounds like not quite yet. This illness is a long long lesson in patience! You will get there!

It gets better with treatment, I promise! This time last year I was pretty weak working my way up from only being able to walk ten yards. Yesterday I was out in our local foothills for a 40 minute downhill hike in and 45 minute hike out (all uphill).

My slow recovery in process has been in spurts. From Dec to Feb my upper body strength increased by about 25%, then leveled. Sore, but less.

My "stay awake" energy seems to be stuck, unless I"m doing something I love to do.

Whole30paleo does not seem to make an energy difference besides already knowing glutan and milk tired me for a long time. Maybe it added to the strength difference though....? hard to tell.

Bjd i was were you were last year ...im not where girlie is but i am going golfing this weekend .....kill, build kill some more ...have you looked into bvt ,ellie lobels story...other llmds?

I've watched my muscles waste away throughout the decades I've been infected-in spite of regular physical activity and even full time plus hours maintaining my spotless pet store and horses at home.

But, I don't lose weight, I fight to keep from gaining.

Now of course I have lost so much lung use even walking unaided for more than 50 feet is impossible.
I am on oxygen and qualified for 24 hour oxygen, but they brought the wrong stuff out yesterday so will have to wait until next Wednesday for them, and then I will be able to start building up my stamina again, if not my muscle strength. I can't even open up jars anymore, even with 'tools'.