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Help! I have so much weight to lose
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Errrr, what exactly would you define as exercise?
Could I maybe do an hour on alternate days?
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I will! I need to get moving again. I did 50 mins today with my new pedometer on.
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So this morning I missed my walk....and I mean really missed it. A few short weeks ago it was a real effort (which I resented) to just get out there and try. Now I am miserable because I have to rest my knee (and ankle too.) I know I have to just rest for a while. I have ploughed on through the pain in the past and damaged myself more. When we moved into this house some of the floors were covered in small staples (the heavy duty galvanised ones, not the type used for stationery). I spent hours removing over a thousand of them with a small hammer and chisel from a child's toolkit, and after the first couple of hundred or so it hurt, I carried on through the pain and gave myself tennis elbow in both elbows. I couldn't grip anything properly with my left hand for months and the pain didn't go for three years. I am posting this for me, so that I can read it in black and white. My joints have done too much work in the past carrying all this weight, I need to be kind to them now so that I can carry on with my plan soon. It irritates me that Pedro won't get all the steps he needs today.
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Dear Zand
You have been making excellent progress but, from personal experience, I would advise you to gradually build up your exercise regime to ensure you stay on course. I'm the type of person who is prone to obsessing about things, exercise included. This time around I have made sure I look after my knees. Without them there will be no walking. I follow the LCHF regime now and limit my walking programme to 30-50 minutes daily. I walk at 4mph and my knees begin to feel it after 40 minutes. I am desperate to jog but when I tried it my knees suffered for a few days after.
Please make sure your exercise goals are realistic. That is the key to remaining positive and on track.
I hope you are soon up and out again. Take care.
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You have been making excellent progress but, from personal experience, I would advise you to gradually build up your exercise regime to ensure you stay on course. I'm the type of person who is prone to obsessing about things, exercise included. This time around I have made sure I look after my knees. Without them there will be no walking. I follow the LCHF regime now and limit my walking programme to 30-50 minutes daily. I walk at 4mph and my knees begin to feel it after 40 minutes. I am desperate to jog but when I tried it my knees suffered for a few days after.
Please make sure your exercise goals are realistic. That is the key to remaining positive and on track.
I hope you are soon up and out again. Take care.
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Zand,
Sorry you are in pain. My joints are permanently knackered, partly due to car accident (spine damage) but probably also due to carrying massive weigh in the 20 years since. I am not able to walk very far or very often, and I miss the long country walks I used to do frequently. Have you tried exercise in water? I know it is difficult because you feel so self conscious in a swim suit, but the benefits to aching joints are worth it. It also helped weight loss. I am back to it this week after a break following surgery. So will attempt 30 mins a day challenge. Days I don't get to the pool I will do physiotherapy programme and pilates at home.
I find it is being kind to my joints when i go swimming and aquafit sessions. The water bears the weight, and it is so invigorating to be able to move freely. Where I live there is a group specifically for obese people to exercise in water, without being observed by spectators. Maybe you could find something similar?
Sorry, don't mean to trivialise your current discomfort. It is great that you have been taking Pedro on long outings. Pedro is not your only way to exercise though. Housework, chair based exercise etc are alternatives. Maybe you just need a bit of a rest, and some pampering.
Hope you feel better soon.
Pipp
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Um....yes....I can be a 'little' obsessive at times too! My own walking speed varies from 3-4 miles an hour, usually it's just over 3 as I can rarely manage 4 for any distance.
OK, are you sure you are not my hubby in disguise?!! This is what he has been saying to me and I haven't been hearing it from him, but I am listening to you now, so maybe I need to scrap the plans I had for next weekend. They are extremely ambitious for me, and it's caused an argument at home because he doesn't think I should even try it and I still want to. Maybe it's too soon. I also have an even more ambitious idea for 2-3 weeks time too. Well, I will try to listen to my body, thanks for the comments. I am not sure I can even 'do' realistic it doesn't suit my personality, but yes the whole point of eating healthily and exercising is to improve my outlook for the future, if I mess up my joints in the process I am not doing myself any favours.
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Peacetrain is right. Don't set yourself up to fail. That is so demoralising.
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I have injured myself countless times in the past, simply because I have tried to do too much too soon. Not this time because There are three in this relationship - me, my weight and my diabetes. I try not to lose sight of the fact that whilst the extra weight can be reversed, the diabetes condition is probably life long, so I must be kind to it. If I can't exercise I can't help my diabetes in the same way. Be patient and invent a new mantra to train your brain to be happy with a more moderate programme. And the swim suggestion is a good idea too!
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Yes....... I am my own worst enemy. This is what I do all the time. I just don't like doing things gradually. If something is easy I don't want to do it, if it's difficult I am interested, if it appears impossible that's when I think....'I wonder if....' It's not always a helpful attitude.
To answer your earlier post..... I love being able to do long walks and am so grateful that I can, I am sorry to hear about your joints, I am so fortunate only have one small one (in my left foot) that's permanently messed up and that is bad enough to try to work around.
No, I don't like swimming at all. I can swim but I don't enjoy it and you are right I would be too self conscious to do it now anyway. I was put off even more when my kids were little. I swam possibly the farthest I ever had (yes.... having not even been near a pool for the previous 10 years....) Afterwards my husband took our eldest son to change, and I took our 2 year old in with me. I dressed him first and then pulled a muscle in my back when I was trying to get myself dressed. Reading this back, I can see this is an excuse, not a reason. If I liked swimming I would get past any fears I had, but the truth is I don't want to do it. I may have to do it in the future, but I hope I can get a bit thinner first.
Lastly, you are not trivialising my discomfort. It's impossible for you to do that, because it is in fact trivial......compared to what I have already gone through and what others have gone through/are still going through, it's extremely trivial. I will be kinder to myself, I will revert to ironing etc. whilst sitting for a while.
Thanks Pipp and I wish you all the best with your personal goals too.
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Seems to me that you know yourself well, Zand. Perfectionism can be so destructive. I too like to take on the so called impossible. My mum and dad used to say "when they say to Pipp 'it can't be done', with a chuckle she replies, "maybe it couldn't", but she wouldn't be the one to say so until she tried'. So true, but such a burden! I have since learned to forgive myself for the stuff I am not able to solve, and accept nobody including me is invincible.
Take it easy a bit, then have another trip out with Pedro when you are ready.
Pipp
P.s. Ironing counts as exercise, so you are in on Jamrox's challenge.
Looks like I'm in after all then Jamrox. I will do at least 30 minutes decent walking for 42 days starting 29th May or is it 19th May?. I may have a problem with one particular day but I will do my best.
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For a moment, I was worried there. I thought you were going to pledge 30 minutes ironing a day. I mean; there would be something just no quite right about that.
I am allergic to ironing. Thankfully, my OH is the household custodian of the iron and ironing board, and he does a sterling job.
For a moment, I was worried there. I thought you were going to pledge 30 minutes ironing a day. I mean; there would be something just no quite right about that.
I am allergic to ironing. Thankfully, my OH is the household custodian of the iron and ironing board, and he does a sterling job.
I could (but won't ) pledge 300 minutes of ironing a day - it still wouldn't clear my ironing pile. (I have recently renamed it as this, it used to be called the 'don't bother with pile')
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Hang on a minute. What have I missed? I didn't notice a start date, so can I bank the hour I spent ataquafit yesterday and the half hour walking round shops today?
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i used to have an iron, I think. Is that the heavy thing that we use as a door stop?
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Ditto!
I am trying to give up being manic Miriam and currently aspire to become moderate Miriam.
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I go to an aqua aerobics class twice a week. It's free which is good - some money from the government I think "well being " classes. My doctor didn't know about it but I got the info from a friend, and I can go because I am diabetic and overweight. The rest of the class are fatter and older too, so no-one feels silly, and WE HAVE A GOOD LAUGH. I go home and have a sleep.
