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Let’s Go Walking! Join me for a virtual walking support group
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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We can go right here to discuss food and chocolate! Then our walking group would be just for walking!
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/recipes-food-tips-healthy-eating-more/
Take a look and start eating and cooking and.........
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2 Reactions@lioness I am sitting here laughing with tears coming out of my eyes. I am just thinking about all the subjects we have been covering and now we are onto cooking with Romaine on the grill and pot roasts, which sounds awfully good by the way, and we did enjoy those soups from earlier on. My husband is wondering why I am laughing and of course he doesn't get the joke.
But back to walking. It is so hot this morning I don't know if I can do it. I need some encouragement. I need to hear how much better I will feel if I do it. I can always set up the pot roast on my return or better still, hubby will do it. Am I walking or am I not?
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1 ReactionThat sounds good, but do we get the friendly chat too?
@pollyanne YOU can start the friendly chatting (if it’s not already there)!
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2 ReactionsGet out there and walk Polly and I don’t want to hear any bellyaching about it. Put your husband to cooking. That will be punishment enough for anything that he may have ever done or said that you didn’t like. You may not feel any better but just knowing it’s good for you is worth a lot. I almost almost need someone to beat me down the street with a club to get me out and keep me going so I know how you feel.
So it’s hot, so you’ll sweat a little maybe you’ll lose a nano pound. Now hit the streets sister.
Jake
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4 Reactions@pollyanne
Abdolutely....check it out!
FL Mary
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3 Reactions@jakedduck1 after 2 months of solitary confinement, it would be my great pleasure to come and beat you down the street, and I will even bring my own club. Just let me know!
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4 ReactionsHope you got your walk in. I just walked an hour, overcast day however it felt good to get out!
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2 ReactionsViolence on Donald Ducks cousin. Good thing Walt Disney is not living to read your post.
What did Donald’s cousin do to make you so mad? And to hit him with a club. Is that a bottle of CLUB SODA?
Funcountess
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2 Reactions@jakedduck1 Its been more then 4 months now jake or did you skip the 1st 2
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