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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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@mayofeb2020 I'm going to use these recipes did canning up till a couple of yrs ago but much easier now
@wisco50 We use our cucumbers to make potato/cucumber/onion soup in winter, to eat with grilled cheese sandwiches. All I do is peel them (the peels go to my daughter's 70 lb tortoise or to the guinea pigs) slice them on a mandolin slicer and bag them. If I have extra onions, I slice and add to the bag. When ready to make soup I just dump the whole block in the kettle, add potatoes & veg broth & cook. My MIL taught me this 50 years ago. She also used to take them out of the freezer, thaw in salt water, then drain & marinate with sliced onions, vinegar, sugar, oil, salt & pepper as what they called "winter salad" - not as crunchy as fresh, but a great change from canned beans and corn.
Tomatoes, I do "lazy Mom" style - wash, dry, remove core & any bad spots, quarter the large ones. Then simply bag & freeze - no blanching, peeling or anything. When its time to make chili, rice & beans or any other dish, I take out as many as I need and toss them in the pot - as they thaw the skins float to the top and I pick them out. I freeze the Italian paste-type tomatoes the same way, but separately for making spaghetti sauce. I learned this from my Mom about 60 years ago when she & Dad were raising 6 kids & working two jobs each, no time to can!
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1 ReactionAs to walking - I find myself returning to our neighborhood roads in kind of a cycle, to see what all the yards look like that people were working so hard on in May & June. I am happy to see that most are being kept quite tidy - here are a few observations:
One young Mom told me her husband goes out and weeds before working from home, early in the morning, because their toddler saw him doing it one day and decided to help - and pulled up their veggies!
One of my neighbors shared his raspberries with me because I speak Spanish with him - much to his amusement as I search for the right words. He is teaching me more Mexican names for plants & gardening - my knowledge is limited to what I learned in Texas, so I don't know the names for some of the things that grow here...
Another neighbor covered all his sunflower heads with plastic bags, I guess to keep the birds off...the squirrels amused themselves by chewing them down, bag & all, and tearing them apart.
Sue
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3 ReactionsThanks for the freezing ideas! My freezer space is not large so I will probably cut my tomatoes down some more before freezing. It will make for good chili or goulash in the winter.
My walk today was early, with 57 degrees as the temp I know fall is on its way.
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1 ReactionWhat delightful walking stories, thanks for sharing. Love it that you are trying to learn Spanish and the fact that you received raspberries was a real bonus for that lesson!
@sueinmn. I've frozen onions before but never tomatoes. Learn something new everyday!
@jude07. It's 80 here at 9a m
@lioness @jude07... High expected to reach 98 today. Pushed myself to walk extra distance this morning at 7:30 because I know I won't be going out later. Rolling blackout is expected too. Usually on days like these, people would go to local libraries malls, and senior centers to take advantage of a/c, but now all these are closed. Not sure if public swimming pools are opened. Would love some cooler weather. I'm wilting.
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1 Reaction@lioness jude07 mayofeb2020 It is only 73 here in Iowa. I don't want summer to go, since the surgery I haven't been able to do the things I usually do, but have been walking short distances several time a day. We have had hot days and I think they are to go up to the 80's. I hate this winter here. This is our home state, but have lived in Seattle and San Diego. I miss Seattle. San Diego I miss too, We were only 5 miles from t he ocean and my daughter started high school there. The weather was fantastic, but there were too many people and they were not as friendly as Iowa or Seattle. I know it rains, but sometimes it's just overcast. Summer it hardly rained at all. My son would play soccer in the rain, but my spring softball for my daughter, I can't remember any rain during her games. Mt. Rainier and the Cascades were beautiful and all the evergreen trees made rain not so bad. We have just as much rain here, except for this summer.
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3 ReactionsWow, that’s too much like work to walk then!
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