@contentandwell I so agree with everything you say and yes we need to maintain that muscle. I have always thought the step thing was a fallacy and a marketing tool for the fitness watches and Apple watches. It doesn't make sense to me to be counting the steps you take all day towards your fitness level. I stick to walking my mile or two at a brisk pace each morning and then my exercises at home after my walk. I would probably go back to the gym 2 or 3 days a week if things were safe right now. I'm sure the weights at the gym did help you keep your weight down. They certainly kept mine down but I don't use such heavy weights as I was using at the gym. I also have to watch my energy level as I get very tired. I am a good hiker.
I have a problem with frequent bathroom visits in the morning and then I settle down. Like you, I don't want to use public bathrooms. I am always very careful even without the virus around. It is something that concerns me about flying right now. We are booked to fly to London and on to Athens in November but I read to not use the plane bathrooms. How can you not on a flight that length. We shall have to see if we will be able to go or not. We are supposed to be taking a cruise [Small ship] from Athens to Dubai and we would be visiting the Valley of the Kings and Petra and Wadi Rum which is one of my goals in my lifetime. We shall have to see if it is sensible.

As for the cholesterol, I know I am not too bad but it is difficult to know what to do for the best. Remember how the medical profession were handing out hormones to all the menopausal women and then some years later they stopped them because they changed their mind and said they were wrong and that they caused cancer. I always refused to take them but I went to a Naturopath Dr and was given plant based hormones made with completely different processing. So who knows, they may change again about cholesterol. If I start having angina pain I would definitely be taking them but so far so good.