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Let’s Go Walking! Join me for a virtual walking support group

Posted by Becky, Volunteer Mentor @becsbuddy, Feb 19, 2020

Many of you living with cancer or an autoimmune disease, like me, deal with daily fatigue. You know that exercise is so important to your health, but it’s so hard. There’s always an excuse: it’s too cold or hot, it’s going to rain or it’s raining, or it’s snowy and icy, or I just don’t want to. I, too, have all these excuses, but I have a new rescue dog who wants to go out and who doesn’t care about my excuses! And I’ve got traction devices for my boots.Now I just need a walking group who will keep me accountable. People who say, ‘let’s go for a walk.'

And I thought: What about my virtual friends on MayoClinicConnect?

Mayo Clinic has an easy 12-week walking program to get us started! Here’s the link:
- Get walking with this 12-week walking schedule https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/get-walking-with-this-12-week-walking-schedule/

So let’s form a virtual walking group. We can agree to walk every day and encourage each other through Connect. We can walk outdoors, in a mall, or in the red center, or in the hallways of our apartment building.

Who’s in? Who’s going to join me?

Come on, Let’s Go Walking!

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Becky, Volunteer Mentor | @becsbuddy | Mar 22, 2020

Hey, everybody! Looks like everyone is doing well with exercising or, at least thinking about it when they can’t. I heard a doctor on one of the news channels, say that now is a good time to get outdoors and try to exercise. You’ll be in better condition to fight off the virus if you do get it. So let’s keep going!
We’re starting wk#4: 5 min warm up 11min exercise and 5min cool down. Becky

“Walking gets the feet moving, the blood moving, the mind moving. And movement is life”

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Becky, Volunteer Mentor | @becsbuddy | Mar 22, 2020
In reply to @gingerw "@fiesty76 It was great to smell the earthy fragrance. Trying to figure out which of the..." + (show)
@gingerw

@fiesty76 It was great to smell the earthy fragrance. Trying to figure out which of the green things might be plants, which might be weeds ;)) Our neighbors across the street are experiencing their first Spring here, also, but she has a lot more experience with gardening, so I lean on her for tips.

Back on the walking subject [see, @becsbuddy, I am trying to keep it on topic!] since my husband is now working from his condo down south, his daily step count has gone down dramatically. He was routinely doing 12-14,000 steps per day including several flights of stairs. Now he finds it easy to not put his fitness watch on because the step total is discouraging.
Ginger

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@gingerw That must be difficult for him. But, I did just read that you don’t have to move fast or a great distance, you just need to move!

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pollyanne | @pollyanne | Mar 22, 2020
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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.

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My younger daughter who is 44 does intermittent fasting. She is healthy but finds it a good way to control her weight. It seems to suit her so it's great. She has been doing this for over a year so it seems to work.

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pollyanne | @pollyanne | Mar 22, 2020
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My friend had been on intermittent fasting for at least over a year, he had lost a lot of weight (over 35 lbs), even though he is not overweight to start off with. Now he looks very scrawny, not as robust as before. He told me he recently had a 3 days fast and plans on doing it once a month. But he seems to be lack of energy and he sleeps very poorly. Not sure if there's anything connected to this fasting. He is also a vegan and one would think his lipids would be ideal but it's not. Actually his fasting glucose was over 100!

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@mayofeb I think when someone is a vegetarian they are in this sort of danger with the sugar because many of them tend to eat too many of the bad carbohydrates. This was what was happening with my daughter and she had put on a lot of weight. After 20 years of being vegetarian she started to eat a little chicken and fish and along with the intermittent fasting she is now at a good weight. Sorry this isn't really about walking although I guess it all helps with the general health which also helps the walking.

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lioness | @lioness | Mar 22, 2020
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@becsbuddy

Hey, everybody! Looks like everyone is doing well with exercising or, at least thinking about it when they can’t. I heard a doctor on one of the news channels, say that now is a good time to get outdoors and try to exercise. You’ll be in better condition to fight off the virus if you do get it. So let’s keep going!
We’re starting wk#4: 5 min warm up 11min exercise and 5min cool down. Becky

“Walking gets the feet moving, the blood moving, the mind moving. And movement is life”

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@becsbuddy Did my Walk my outside around building felt good to get out and talk to those who journeyed out

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mayofeb2020 | @mayofeb2020 | Mar 22, 2020
In reply to @becsbuddy "Hey, everybody! Looks like everyone is doing well with exercising or, at least thinking about it..." + (show)
@becsbuddy

Hey, everybody! Looks like everyone is doing well with exercising or, at least thinking about it when they can’t. I heard a doctor on one of the news channels, say that now is a good time to get outdoors and try to exercise. You’ll be in better condition to fight off the virus if you do get it. So let’s keep going!
We’re starting wk#4: 5 min warm up 11min exercise and 5min cool down. Becky

“Walking gets the feet moving, the blood moving, the mind moving. And movement is life”

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The sun was out this morning so I got moving, slowly but surely. Actually I was painless, I would have walked longer because it was warmer outside than inside my home. I did managed to reached 5000 steps! Fitbit said I nailed my goal! Weather reports said it is going to be wet for the rest of the week. Yuck! Made some Cuban spicy black bean soup for lunch, waiting to video chat with my children when everyone is ready.

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Rosemary, Volunteer Mentor | @rosemarya | Mar 22, 2020
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@mayofeb2020

The sun was out this morning so I got moving, slowly but surely. Actually I was painless, I would have walked longer because it was warmer outside than inside my home. I did managed to reached 5000 steps! Fitbit said I nailed my goal! Weather reports said it is going to be wet for the rest of the week. Yuck! Made some Cuban spicy black bean soup for lunch, waiting to video chat with my children when everyone is ready.

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@mayofeb2020, Good for you! Sounds like a lovely day.

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pollyanne | @pollyanne | Mar 22, 2020
In reply to @mayofeb2020 "The sun was out this morning so I got moving, slowly but surely. Actually I was..." + (show)
@mayofeb2020

The sun was out this morning so I got moving, slowly but surely. Actually I was painless, I would have walked longer because it was warmer outside than inside my home. I did managed to reached 5000 steps! Fitbit said I nailed my goal! Weather reports said it is going to be wet for the rest of the week. Yuck! Made some Cuban spicy black bean soup for lunch, waiting to video chat with my children when everyone is ready.

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Yum, I love the sound of the black spicy soup. You have made me feel hungry. It is my morning here and so now I am going for my walk. I have more energy today and I'm feeling good!

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mayofeb2020 | @mayofeb2020 | Mar 22, 2020
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Yum, I love the sound of the black spicy soup. You have made me feel hungry. It is my morning here and so now I am going for my walk. I have more energy today and I'm feeling good!

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I found this 3 ingredients soup online. Super easy, 2 cans of black beans drained, one can of diced tomato, one cup of broth or water. (I used a little more water), 1/4 teaspoon crushed red peppers, cooked 15 to 20 minutes. I added some cumin too. I put the soup in my Vitamix blender and it came out nice and smooth. A stick blender would work too. Season to taste.. I crumble some totilla chips on top.

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Leonard | @jakedduck1 | Mar 22, 2020
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@becsbuddy

Hey, everybody! Looks like everyone is doing well with exercising or, at least thinking about it when they can’t. I heard a doctor on one of the news channels, say that now is a good time to get outdoors and try to exercise. You’ll be in better condition to fight off the virus if you do get it. So let’s keep going!
We’re starting wk#4: 5 min warm up 11min exercise and 5min cool down. Becky

“Walking gets the feet moving, the blood moving, the mind moving. And movement is life”

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@becsbuddy
“Walking gets the feet moving, the blood moving, the mind moving. And movement is life”
So does walking from candy dish to candy dish or to get some cookies and the reward is much more pleasant.
Your soup sounds good but I suppose it has to be cooked. Oh well, it was a nice thought while it lasted.
Jake

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