Kelly, I will see what can be done about the pic updates…I was about to give a fitness update today anyway…

For the women of MM blog, I don’t know about you but I have a high threshold for pain, sometimes this serves me and sometimes not, about 9+ months ago I hurt my hip through various activities – yes, what you’re thinking included though add some sports into that and yes, my soas and hip flexor needed rehabing. I’m telling you this bc I don’t want you to do what I did for a time, live with =unnecessary pain= for any length of time thinking (hoping) it will get better!
I already sleep on my body support system product so that helped me get rest, but it did not fix my pain entirely. & I couldn’t figure out why.
I finally tried a personal trainer and it worked – to a degree, he gave me different exercises than I’d been doing so I was not exacerbating the pain – when it still wasn’t working, he told me to try taking more ibuprofen to alleviate inflammation, every 3 hours for 3 days, well I did it for 4 and still no relief, clearly something else was needed. (I am usually against taking anything so it wasn’t his fault I’m stubborn that way)

A friend sent me to his friend – & this accupuncturist changed my life, what was going on was I had nerve impulses still sending ‘pain zing this way’ much like an amputees phantom pain, there’s nothing phantom about it, it has to be alleviated or it continues endlessly…4 weeks later, a brief meeting with a physical therapist who commented on how my tenacious-ness is what prevented me from throwing in the ‘work out’ towel, usually people in nerve sensation pain stop working out – I urge you if you have anything like this happening – please do not do this – I’m not saying work out if your in tremendous pain but go and do what you can, walk, life lighter weights, whatever, just get blood moving to the area until you can hone in on who can fix you, and ask for referrals from peeps who are into holistic living, no magic bullet of muscle relaxer will make it go away for good. So next time you pull your soas muscle and overstretch your proformis, go get fixed. I maintained an attitude of it’ll all work out throughout the past span of time, though right now, I’m finally in heaven and pain free…

Tracy, I’ve got the ‘more to come’ factor working, a woman at the gym asked me about this topic: men (& sex, but of course) and when I addressed her questions, she said ‘you need to tell more women that’ hmm, ok, I will bc I hate to see women get caught up in finding their equality (or thinking their ‘liberated’) by acting or thinking like a man, that’s bs…in your femaleness and acting like a woman is your empowerment, wielded well, men and women will want to be in your inner circle and you get the attention, power, love, sex, (fill in the blank) you are seeking. Embrace it and own it and the world is your freakin’ oyster… : ) I’ve got to run right now, work beckons and I’m going to answer bc I want to, I will be back with a few bon mots asap though….

Luv, Zen Lill