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@johnbishop Thanks for your input. I do have a hiking stick that I used to use when we went to Maine, the terrain there was very rough, but I also have a walker from when I had TKRs and for me that would probably be high enough -- I'm shrinking daily.
One of the advantages of your stepper is that you can easily tote it around to any room you want to use it in, and store it easily. I could use it in our family room when watching TV, or if my husband is watching something I don't care for I can use it upstairs.
I will wait a bit longer to see how you are doing with it, or I will buy a treadmill which of course would be more expensive than the SandDuneStepper. Decisions, decisions.
Good luck with your intermittent fasting. How many days a week do you do that? I think it is not recommended for some people and I but I can't remember why. Probably if you have diabetes but at this point, with an A1c under 5, my diabetes seems to be in remission.
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@contentandwell I started intermittent fasting on Feb 25th and do it every other day. I learned about intermittent fasting from @LeeAase on his Health Journey - https://social-media-university-global.org/my-health-journey/. I watched a video by Dr Jason Fung that was linked in Lee's blog entry An Unfortunately Named Book (The Obesity Code). The video kind of struck a chord with me and gave me the motivation to try intermittent fasting. I did a 24 fast the first day and then read how Lee does the intermittent fasting by just skipping breakfast and lunch, eating only dinner. Here's the link with the video - https://social-media-university-global.org/2020/02/an-unfortunately-named-book/. I'm planning to keep doing intermittent fasting until I reach my weight goal of 215 pounds which is what I weighed when we first were married. I've got a little over 20 pounds left to go so it's given me some optimism for a struggle that I've had for 30 years. I'm anxious to see what it does for my Triglycerides, HDL, LDL and A1C numbers. I have a blood draw appointment for next Friday but according to my daughter Mayo has been cancelling a lot of non critical appointments and I'm not excited to visit the clinic right now anyway so it may be awhile until I know if it's had an impact on the numbers.