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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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@artist01 Hey, good morning Laurie! Great minds... I was just on my way to check up on you. Oh my gosh, I’m so happy you’re already feeling stronger and pushed through those first couple days. You’re truly an inspiration to anyone who’s on the fence about what benefit walking can have on our body and psyche!! It wouldn’t surprise me at all if your new walking regimen has helped your blood pressure. Another great incentive to keep going, my dear! Aw, this just made my day. Do you have a little journal to log your minutes?
You just gave me the incentive to hop off the couch and into my morning walk! Thank you! Hugs, Lori.
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5 ReactionsThankyou, @jude07! Feels so good to get your motivating praise, even for my baby steps' progress. I was in a wheelchair 1 1/2 years ago so it's a bit of a climb to get back to where I want to be. I can DO this!! lol
My best, Laurie
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4 Reactions@sueinmn Ohh the warming vest sounds wonderful! I’ve often wondered about that and I’ve also seen electric socks, because those are what I need right now! Brrr.
Truly, I’m not at all motivated to do indoor exercises. Walking, I’ll drop anything and head out several times a day. However, after a shocking diagnosis of osteoporosis after all my AML chemo and bone marrow transplant, my transplant doctor gave me a year to see what I could do myself before having to take bone building meds. I was warned during all my treatments that osteoporosis could be a side effect. But since I’d never had any bone deterioration, certainly it wouldn’t happen to me! LOL. Well, it did. So I worked with a PT to target crucial areas and this last DEXA scan showed a reversal in the osteoporosis to osteopenia!!! My doctor, husband and I were ecstatic with the news. So, that is what keeps me motivated to work those muscles routinely to stay off the meds! Have fun with the munchkins today!!
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4 Reactions@sueinmn We have a damp cold this morning, with fog, 37 degrees. Snow was last week. We are outside doing projects while it is a "no rain" situation. Moving firewood, cleaning street gutters [slight in some spots, steep downcline down to corner and around] that don't get cleaned unless I do it. Today adding air vents and overhang to north side of wood shed, and final prep for the 2021 Great Roadtrip hubby leaves on Tues. Your husband's warming vest sounds like one mine has for his motorcycle. He plugs it in to an outlet on either of the bikes, or in the Jeep, which has no heater.
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3 ReactionsGood morning, Lori. Your post today has me feeling elated! Thankyou so much. Good idea to have a little journal in which to log my progress. A nice sunny day here, so great for my after-lunch walk! No wind, which is a real treat in the winter. Warmest wishes, Laurie
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2 Reactions@artist01 Laurie, your Baby Steps progress is exemplary! It’s even more uplifting to realize you were using a wheelchair for mobility and now look at you go!! How long were you using the wheels? And yes, you CAN do this! That’s just super! Lori.
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3 Reactions@fiesty76, @loribmt
“Hope you'll let us know about your first completed walk-a-thon.”
I did walk to the school and more, 2.1 miles.
Hardly my first walk-a-thon. I usually walk a half mile to over 3 miles although 3 miles plus doesn’t happen very often. It goes without saying I have candy or cookies. I also take walnuts when I go to the park or along the creek for the squirrels & chipmunks. I’m not going walking yet, to cold 49°. Lori, I have goosebumps on goosebumps just thinking of how cold it is there.
“Uphill both ways” I haven’t figured out how to do that. Just walking on flat ground feels like uphill. Obviously I don’t like to walk.
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5 ReactionsThe advantage of his is the rechargeable batteries (my daughter bought an extra.)
@loribmt He has heated socks and gloves too. As a diabetic who has been away from winter for over 10 years, he's kind of a freeze-baby. Usually, I'm good as long as I'm dressed right, but there is no "right" for -25F windchill in the middle of the day.
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4 ReactionsAaarrgh! Lori, I just spent 15 minutes typing a lonnngg response to you about my wheelchair days, and my cell phone screen froze. I lost it all! I'll try again once I recover. Maybe you received my partial response? That would be so awesome. Let me know?
X0 Laurie p.s. your post was so good for my soul!!
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1 Reaction@artist01. Grimace...alas, no partial letter has been spotted. So frustrating when that happens! One of life’s vexations. Giggle. Let it go for today. I’m a ‘stress free’ zone. 😉
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