For April and May, my goal was to focus on healing my back. And I've honestly done alright on that front! Though I didn't really follow the plan I set for myself, at my last chiropractor appointment, I was told to come back in a month! So hurray, I succeeded!
For this month's goal, I planned to: do yoga for my back once a week minimum, choose healthier choices while eating out, and read a book on back pain. At the start of the two month period, I wasn't consistently doing the yoga for my back. But I've found a time and day that is working for me, and have successfully done the workout over the last three weeks. :) In terms of eating out, I feel like I didn't eat out much over the last few months, so that was great. I don't think I chose healthier choices though when I actually did eat out.
The book was an interesting point of this whole plan. I made it about halfway through one book which was really in depth and interesting in terms of what can cause backpain. But I lost interest as I went because it was talking about things that are clearly not going on with my back; I unfortunately stopped reading it just before it started to talk about different solutions. I also flipped through a second book on healing back pain through yoga. Unfortunately I found that book a little bit weird (the author used lots of weird statements to better get you to understand what she wanted you to do, but I found them confusing and distracting). I thought that book had videos to go along with the yoga routines, but unfortunately I couldn't find them online. But that's okay - I'll just stick to the workout I like to use, or look for different ones on YouTube if needed.
What actually made the biggest difference though, in my opinion, was something I didn't actually plan for: attempting to fix how I sleep. I saw a random ad for an alignment pillow for side sleepers, and, after thinking about it for a few days, decided to give it a try. I started sleeping with a pillow between my legs while I waited for the alignment pillow to arrive in an attempt to help. And honestly, it's made a big difference! I don't use the pillow all the time, especially now that I don't seem to be on my side quite as much as I was before using pillows to sleep (I'm on my back a little more now, kind of sleeping between my back and my side). I've found that since that time, my back isn't as bad as it used to be! I still have to be careful to not do too much (I was digging something out of the garden and started to feel my pain spot flaring up a bit), but overall this has been a game-changer for me!
So yeah. My plan didn't work very well for me, but I still got to what I was hoping for in these last two months! Hopefully I can keep up this momentum and heal my back more. :)
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