@ldg001

When you say weight bearing exercises for your upper and lower body, what kind of exercises are you referring to?

Like you I avoid beef and do intermittent fasting which also works well for me. My husband is the one with osteoporosis. I'm going to look into the Garden of Life calcium. We too take a variety of supplements, all OK's by our doctors.

I'd like to learn yoga and start slow. I am not someone who exercises regularly. I do childcare and spend my days with babies and toddlers so I'm quite active, do lots of squatting and careful lifting. I also love nature so any chance I get I'm out walking.

My husband has always done an exercise routine. He used weights for years and in the last couple years has been using resistance bands. He gets pretty intense with his exercising. I should say he got intense. Now he can't exercise at all, can't lift anything over 5 pounds and can't bend at the waist until his three fractures (and God help us he doesn't have new ones again - he goes for another x-ray next week). Those restrictions will be reduced once his fractures stabilize but the doctor said that might be 6 months to a year. It's driving him crazy not being able to exercise. So we try to walk on trails that have benches available every so often so he can sit and rest his back. He certainly can't do long walks, so we do a lot of shorter ones. It's been rough.