I hurt, therefore I rest

I've had a slow-moving, unmotivated sort of day today and I've finally (at eight o'clock at night) worked out why. I went to the pool on Tuesday, like I usually do. However, this week, instead of walking underwater half the time and swimming the other half I ended up walking about a third of the time and swimming the rest, because I had to leave the instructional pool and go over to the lap pool. So, I overdid it swimming, I think. Plus, I got on the stupid Wii fit twice this week with the kids and I think the pain in my shoulder, possibly begun at the pool, was exacerbated by the sort of reaching and stretching and wiggly sort of body movements required by the Wii fit games.

All this to say that my shoulder has been hurting for a few days and, naturally, I am not interested in doing a lot of non-essential physical activites at home, e.g., replacing doorknobs, taking down holiday decorations, etc. Please note that I did a bunch of "essential" tasks like making dinner, cleaning up, etc., even in pain, but that's as far as I could go this week.

Why am I talking about this on my fat acceptance blog? Because prior to this, I would be castigating myself for being fat and lazy and making elaborate plans to get in skinny and in shape (a shape that is not fat, of course) and therefore be full of energy. In fact, what happened is that, in my current physical condition and at my current level of conditioning, I overdid it physically and I need to let my shoulder recover.

This is not a fat issue, it's a "I did too much too fast" issue. When I was 100 pounds lighter doing taekwondo, this used to happen all the time. I didn't blame my weight then (even though I was officially overweight), I acknowledged that I had pushed myself too hard at a physical activity and needed to chill out for a while and that is what I need to do. When the shoulder feels better, I'll get back to using it.