That new fitness device sure tells you a lot of stuff about the steps you take, the type of gait you have, the calories you burn, stuff about your heart rate and cardio fitness.
Sooooo, today at work, I logged 8911 steps. My cardio range was sustained for nearly an hour at approximately 116. I was burning fat at the recorded range of 84. I learned I have an usual long gait, which I kind of already know about, since I have really long legs. But what is interesting to me is that I sustain a fuck ton of pain while walking: I have an unreal case of high pain tolerance. As an example, lol or not, when my physical therapy team was doing "Light Therapy" on my lumbar injuries, they were doing it at the lowest possible setting and told me to tell them when it was too much to endure or if I was in pain. Five minutes into the first session, I told them I was feeling nauseated, and before they could decide to stop I lost consciousness and peed all over the place after I blacked out from the low-impact Light Therapy treatment they were giving to me. I've tried to explain this unusual pain tolerance issue to them and other physicians for years, but the day that happened to me was the day my PT team learned that they didn't know enough about my set of injury factors and how my body acts under pressure of pain.
I am definitely going to do screen shots of fitness records on a daily basis and show it to my primary physician so it will give her a better idea of my mobility range and the pain I endure daily and each night. I have a stash of non-narcotic muscle relaxers I use on special case situations, where I feel the pain I am in might lead to nausea and loss of consciousness.
I'm okay tonight, but my body is not happy.
So that's my record of steps today at work and today was not exactly a full day at work. We're still operating on Holiday hours and will be until the first of the new year.
So there it is: I'm active; but not like in ordinary ways due to the mobility issues I have been enduring since November of 2016. I can hear my doctor now. She's most likely going to say.... "That's just lovely." lolol (or not).