Toes

Since the cortisone injection yesterday my foot has felt very achy. I did, of course, know this would be the case but I suppose I didn't expect the other stuff that goes with it. My toes (second and third) felt awful with a dull sort of ache and at the point of the metatarsal heads my foot was very swollen and tender to the touch... in fact I was unable to even touch the skin because it felt so bad.
Getting up this morning had me thinking that there is absolutely no way it would feel miraculously better by tomorrow morning. Occasionally today I would get the awful dull ache and once or twice have had a very sharp shooting pain up my toes too.

So, this evening as I was relaxing watching the TV, I dared myself to wiggle my toes. To my surprise, not only could I wiggle them but they also felt almost pain free. They are still swollen, but only a few hours ago I couldn't move my toes because it was too painful. Great stuff! I haven't dared put weight on my foot yet though... that will have to wait for another day!

I ordered a set of scales today. I'm not a fan of weighing myself too often... it's downright demotivating as I seem to put weight on whenever I start training hard, but these scales are different. They measure weight, body fat percentage, water percentage and muscle mass and are apparently extremely accurate. Now I have to say that body fat percentages have always scared me... when I was much younger I was scared of them because I was so skinny, anyone reading the results would have affirmed their suspicions that I was anorexic (I have never been anything close to anorexic... I was just extremely thin when I was younger despite the amount of food I could hoover up). In my 30's I stepped on a body fat scale in a chemists and was horrified to see my body fat percentage to be 36%.... considering I was training quite a bit (weights, running on a treadmill) I was gutted about this!
And now, after weeks of doing barely anything by way of exercise I am scared to see how things have deteriorated! However, when my training gets going again and I can't understand why my weight is going up (which is the norm for me), then maybe this will help me find out.

This afternoon I did an upper body weights session. I really enjoy the weights, they are great. Tomorrow I have an hour deep water running with my ankle weights on and then my core session (which is quite tough). So, I'm looking forward to doing all that. Hopefully my foot will have improved even further too!