Well, a couple of months later and I'm – like Stonehenge – still standing. After about a month I decided to change it up. No point giving myself varicose veins by standing too much. The point is to achieve a healthy balance, after all.
While I was still standing all day, every day, I found that changing shoes, or taking off my shoes for an hour or so, really helped reduce leg fatigue. Sometimes I put a book under the balls of my feet, or my heels. I still try to make conscious choices as to whether to balance weight equally on both legs, or to shift to one leg or the other.
These days I normally stand until I start to feel tired; then I sit for a while. The interesting thing is that now, if I sit for more than about 90 minutes, I become aware that my hips are stiff and sore, and I want to stand up to work.
I've also improved my diet and lost a little weight over the summer, so it's hard to tell what effect the standing is having, but I generally feel a lot better: better digestion, less aches and pains, more energy than when I started. I'm going to keep this up.
Now playing: "Bukra Wba'do (Tomorrow and the Day After)" by Pink Martini.
Photo by jdurham, Morguefile
