Oi. Did my morning exercises, and pain, pain, pain now. I was thinking about the whole exercise thing. When you do not have Fibromyalgia, when you exercise, you can expect to get stronger and fitter over time. You shouldn’t have pain if you don’t overdo, either. With fibro, your body does not work like that. Even doing small amounts causes a lot of pain, sometimes not until a couple of days later, either. And the ‘stronger and fitter’ does not seem to happen. At least not for me. I keep forgetting about ‘recovery days’, which are always needed after doing pretty much anything beyond reading on the couch. LOL I kind of figure that if I do something that I know is going to cause pain, well, I’m going to have pain anyway, so might as well do something fun anyway. But I am at the point where the pain never stops. Never stops. Just sitting here, messing about on the laptop, my arms and shoulders and hands hurt. I have taken the Aleve. Yesterday I took Tylenol. I had been taking Celebrex and Tylenol. Nothing seems to work anymore. All pain, all the time. Pain causes fatigue, which is already a fibro thing anyway, but coping with pain, walking, moving carefully, takes energy that isn’t really there in the first place. So always, always exhausted. Exhausted and in pain. All day every day. Fun times, people. Fun times.

On the bright side, my coffee maker is still working, and making almost no work at all coffee with freshly ground beans is just the best way to start off the day. I am using oatmilk, too, not dairy, because of the whole bird flu things and dairy is really not recommended when you have fibro anyway, as far as I know. I love cheese, Mother Nature. Come on. But oatmilk is surprisingly really darn good. In coffee, as a glass of cold, which I do not normally have cause I really don’t like milk that much. Although that Organic Valley milk is good enough to drink by the glass. Why is it different? No idea, but I like it. Still doing the avoidance thing, though.

Remember when life was good. In the respect that you went to the store and bought your food and cooked your food and enjoyed your dinner? Then it was OMG FAT. NOOOOO So everything went fat free, which only meant more sugar, which is deadly. Seriously, Duck Duck Go it. Then it was one thing after another on why we should not be eating this food or not the way we always ate it. Now it’s no runny yolks, no milk, no this no that. Food is not what it was anyway. It is all processed and messed with and does anyone ever just buy meat as it came from the animal, veg as they came from the garden, fruit as it came from the trees or bushes? Grocery ads used to be the meat section, the fresh produce section, dairy, and then canned and packaged things like flour and sugar, etc. Look now. Everything is processed, and virtually everything is really junk food. Why are young people getting cancer? Why are so many children plagued with food allergies? Why are people getting sicker? Well maybe it’s because we have not evolved for our bodies to process chemicals and food so processed that it bears little or no resemblance to what it was meant to be. I don’t know. Apparently pain makes me grouchy. 🙂

Again, this post was written by someone who has a frig stocked with ready meals, because cooking is beyond me right now. Heat and eat. Or eat it cold. I just had Cedar’s chickpea salad, which is so good. Oh, Cedar’s got its start about a five minute walk from where I lived in NH way back when. A teeny little store front where the guy would give you free samples to try, because Lebanese food? What even is that? But so good. Here’s an article I found about it.

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/haverhill-cedars-foods-hommus-hummus-it-happens-here-wbz-tv/

And here’s where it started. There were two store fronts in that little building, so guess how small Cedar’s was. Now look at them. They are everywhere, and deservedly so.

This is right over the line from Haverhill, Mass. You could tell when you crossed the line by the condition of the road. Nicely plowed/barely scraped. Nicely paved/pot hole city. Not going to say which was which. 🙂 Top circle is where I lived. Bottom is the place Cedar’s got it’s start. About a five minute walk, if that. Neat. Of course, a lot of it is very different from when I lived there, more buildings and crap. Blogging is fun. LOL