Keep on beginning....

i really need to read that today. it has been a frustrating last few weeks. i started the bootcamp workout and loved it. i had SORE MUSCLES and as someone who used to run track and play basketball back "in the day" it was a wonderful feeling. SO MUCH better than the sore joints that i have been dealing with over the last 10 years. i was elated to "hurt" the "right way"... just ask my husband... i gushed on and on about it. i felt like i had come SO FAR! Well, less than one week later i got my period. The night before i had cramps all night... hubby said i moaned and groaned in my sleep. (no pain meds due to my rebellious stomach) once the cramps were over after the first couple of days, my back has been achy and sore since... went to the dr. for my stomach and asked her about my cramps/back... "well, you're not too far from menopause, so you don't have too many more years to deal with it" i am so mad. i have had this problem forever. when i was in my twenties i heard "oh, after you have babies you won't have this problem anymore." then i had babies and heard "oh, get more exercise and sleep" then my babies grew up and i heard "oh, you're tired and stressed" now i hear "you only have to put up with it for 5 or 10 more years...." BS! and you know what really torques me off... my daughter has the same problem and has given up running due to the pain and is getting the same "blow off" treatment that i got 40 some years ago. (deep breath) so there it is... now what do it do?...

• keep on exercising as best i can... probably no more bootcamp workout :( until my back settles down again
• wear my sacral belt all the time until it settles down
• start digging on the internet... i owe it to my daughter!
• and keep on beginning...