Topic: Let's Post our Daily Exercise

Oct 5, 2020 07:45AM GoKale4320 wrote:

Ginger- I hope you feel better soon. This reminds me that I’m nearly due for my second shingles vaccine.

Edj3- that is a powerful review. Great motivating picture, too.

Pat01- I never would have guessed that pickle ball would have so many cliquey groups. I hope you are able settle in with a few groups.

Wonderland- beautiful pumpkins! Happy birthday; I never would’ve been able to guess your age. I thought you were in your early 50s.

Runnermum- gorgeous summer spot .

I have been running more with a mix of walking and weights. I have shed a couple pounds recently, but the most impactful measure was food. I watched a series of videos called Bright Lines Eating by Susan Pierce Thompson PhD.The idea is to rewire your brain about when and what to eat. It’s a simple plan. I’m planning on making it a new habit so it becomes automatic like wearing a seatbelt.

Oct 5, 2020 05:34PM sweetandspecial wrote:

oh, and I got in an hour of deck rail painting before the walk. Not strenuous but I get up and down from sitting on the deck while painting the interior side as well as standing and squatting while painting the exterior side of it. Feel it a lot in the shoulders and back when I spend a couple hours or more on it. One additional hour down, about 13 to go. Nice weather predicted this weekand 70s on the weekend so hoping to knock it out😊

Oct 6, 2020 06:36AM pat01 wrote:

My friend's husband is having a biopsy today (suspected bladder cancer), so while he is in the hospital (they said 4-5 hours) I will meet with her and we will go for a nice beach walk. And she is a new pickleball player, so we will bring our paddles and balls and maybe find a court!

Oct 6, 2020 11:26AM M0mmyof2 wrote:

Tok Nugget for a stroll today.

Oct 6, 2020 11:38AM MinusTwo wrote:

Took a 'holiday' yesterday and didn't walk my 3-1/2 to 4 miles. I was reading a book I didn't want to put down. And I managed to do that without guilt - woo hoo!!! Back on track today with day #182. In six months I've only missed 7 days due to doc appointments & one "hurricane day". When I missed I generally walked 6 miles the day before & after to make up.

I really believe - at least for me through-out my life - if I put the exercise or classes first in my priorities, it will become an easy habit. Still - I really missed water aerobics this summer.

Oct 6, 2020 02:40PM - edited Oct 6, 2020 02:43PM by M0mmyof2

Nugget laying on his blanket earlier after his walk

Oct 7, 2020 06:11AM edj3 wrote:

Thanks, karen1956, but would you quit sending us your high temps? We're supposed to get to 89 today :(

Oct 7, 2020 09:56AM TrmTab wrote:

It is going to be low/mid 80's in SE Virginia today with temps staying in the mid-70's for the next 10 days. That is a happy place for me temp wise...especially next week as we take our annual Columbus Day week trip to Outer Banks. I love the beach, but hate the hot of summer in VA/NC, so we take the family cottage in May and this week of October, perfect!

Oct 7, 2020 06:36PM Wonderland wrote:

edj: LOVE your picture! And how cool that the company will be using your review. You look Fabulous!

GoKale: Thanks for compliment. Sometimes I feel 65, sometimes I feel 25, and sometimes I feel 95.

M0mmy: Nugget is precious!

Ruth: Good picture of WWW. Looks cold!

TT: Love the Outer Banks. Have fun next week.

Pat: How is your friend's husband?

Minus Two: Your book must be captivating for you to miss your walk. Only missing 7 days of walking in 6 months is impressive!

cm2020: Welcome! Here's my exercise story: I'm 65. Was active in high school and college with everyday activity. My weight stayed stable. It's when I started my job after college and packed on pounds that I knew I had to get more active. I joined the Y and started taking aerobic dance classes and floor exercise classes. Loved the classes! Felt strong, lost the weight and was able to maintain a good weight for me. So for many years I took high impact aerobic dance and low impact aerobic dance classes plus I scheduled in walking. When my children were born I continued taking classes and walking with the kids in a stroller. Then at some point I stopped the classes but continued with my fast walking with a little running thrown in. Plus, I do yard work. Lots of push mowing and other thing in the yard!

I'll add this: I did chemo in the winter months and I mainly walked in the house. Just didn't want to get sick. Radiation was during the summer and I was able to walk outside until it became too hot. I had a lot of fatigue during the last 3 weeks of the tx so I stopped until energy slowly returned.

With all this being said, I walked/ran today in gorgeous weather which motivated me even more. Love a good, healthy sweat.

Oct 7, 2020 09:32PM karen1956 wrote:

cm2020 - welcome to the club no one wants to join, but glad you found us. This is a great group. I've always been active - did Jazzercise in the 80s - skied - first cross country then downhill. Hiked and rode bikes. DH got me walking during chemo - sometimes it was only to the corner and back. The more I walked, the more I wanted to walk. I strive for 3 walks/day (15K steps is my goal)- before work, mid day or right after work and in the evening with DH. In the past few months, I've started running before work and I'm hooked. I always said I'm not a runner and wasn't when I was 20, but now I guess I am. I've always had a good weight.

86 predicted for tomorrow - but my Monday 60s.

Oct 8, 2020 02:25PM cm2020 wrote:

Thank you all very much for both the warm welcome and your stories. I really appreciate you opening up to me. It is helpful and inspiring. I didn't get any sleep last night and woke up so dizzy that it has kept me in bed all day. No fever, no other symptoms at all, just exhausted feeling and dizzy. Yet I can't sleep. I am taking benadryl tonight (typically I take melatonin) and am praying for a good night's sleep and feeling far better and no dizziness tomorrow. I am not one that gets dizzy and am blaming it on lack of sleep (though that doesn't usually make me dizzy) and not on Letrozole or other meds.

Hopefully tomorrow morning I will be able to report what exercise I am doing.

Oct 8, 2020 06:19PM sweetandspecial wrote:

Welcome cm2020 to the exclusive club that we wish you didn’t have to join but are so glad you found us. I was always a skinny athletic kid but gained weight steadily after high school. Just a few pounds a year but it added up. Lost 50 lbs with weight watchers in my mid forties and got into weight lifting class called body pump for several years as well as doing a little running (was a sprinter/hurdler in high school but always hated distance running). Absolutely loved it and was the buffest I had been since high school. Then BC came at 51 and threw me off track. I’m currently the heaviest I’ve ever been. I’ve always been athletic no matter my weight, and recently started walking each weeknight with a friend from work. Am always hopeful that I’ll be able to drop the weight again but don’t beat myself up about it.

That being said.....I realized tonight I haven’t checked in since Monday. Tuesday was an hour walk, last night the steep hill workout I’ve previously described. Today I knocked off work an hour early to get in some more deck rail painting (3 hours). Getting tantalizingly close to being done, have logged 71 hours so far since starting the project on Monday, Sept 14 and estimate about 8 more to go. Planning to finish up over the weekend during a great weather spell. Also a 3.5 mile walk with friend. Bought a nice head lamp for walking after dark so we did one of our favorite routes which is a 1.25 mile walk to local city cemetery, 1 mile around the cemetery road, and 1.25 mile walk back. Haven’t been in the cemetery after dark since, like, high school, and it was actually quite pretty. Many solar lights scattered about at various gravesites make it seem like little glowing guardian angels are hovering everywhere 😊.

sleep well my friends

Oct 9, 2020 11:08AM M0mmyof2 wrote:

Walked Nugget around the block.

Oct 9, 2020 02:58PM M0mmyof2 wrote:

Yep. When we got back, he passed out on his puppy bed for an hour and I snoozed for a bit

Oct 9, 2020 04:45PM cm2020 wrote:

karen1956....I'm glad your appointment went well. I am sorry you have had a hard week. Sending you hugs.

I felt better today but still not right. However, I did get a short walk in which felt nice. Something is better than nothing.