Spurts Of Energy

I’ve noticed Sweet Roast has had spurts of energy over the past few weeks. This is a good thing, but I have had to tell her to be careful. She has a habit of taking on a bigger chore than she can handle when she feels good only to feel bad for not finishing it when she runs out of energy. It’s all about the pacing. She’s been feeling pretty good now that she rides her bike from home to work and back home everyday. She’s told me she feels a lot more energetic because of it. Her productivity at work has improved and now she’s tackling small chores around the yard. The past few days she’s even been working on small yard projects during her lunch hour after riding her bike home. It’s a big change to the way she used to be, and although I’m thrilled to see the transformation I keep telling her to not overdo it. Lately she’s been pruning the massive lilac bush in the side yard next to the house. I used to trim it back each winter and have just let it grow over the past couple of years. There’s a lot of dead branches on it which affected how it bloomed last spring, so Sweet Roast has decided to cut it back this spring and she’s being smart about it by doing a little at a time over the course of a few days. So far, she’s done a good job and hasn’t worn herself out in the process. Today we spent an hour in the yard, which included me moving lilac prunings and a woodpile while she raked the whole yard. I got her to stop before she overdid it. We went inside and after a quick shower I went to work for a few hours. When I got home I found Sweet Roast back out in the yard with a rake. She said she had only just got back outside and wanted to finish a small job she had started earlier in the day. Once finished, she called it a day. She probably needed that small accomplishment to measure the day with and that’s fine. As long as she doesn’t work so hard in the future that she ends up back to where she was before she started exercising. There really is a balance to all of this and you have to be aware of what your body can and cannot handle in order to make any real progress.