If you got yourself a pedometer or better still an app if you have a smart phone and clocked your footsteps you will probably have some pleasing results.Today I pushed the vacumm cleaner round the lounge for a while, then for good measure, walked around the air conditioned shopping mall for 10 mins. Didn't buy anything just strolled.
I have a pedometer, no smartphone.If you got yourself a pedometer or better still an app if you have a smart phone and clocked your footsteps you will probably have some pleasing results.
Hi @Pipp if you are self propelling it might work from your arm or wrist. Seems that some folk do this: http://www.nchpad.org/368/2064/What~is~a~Pedometer~and~How~Can~I~Benefit~from~Using~One~I have a pedometer, no smartphone.
Slight snag, pedometer doesn't work on my wheelchair, which is needed for any distance worth clocking.
TeamBG are going to be doing Parkrun Harrow on saturday 1st August - come along and join us! (Really it's just a good excuse to get together afterwards for a chin wag over a cup of tea and well deserved slice of cake!) www.teambloodglucose.comI'm doing a 3 mile circuit in my local park set up by Park Run for their Saturday activities. see http://www.parkrun.org.uk. I also do stair climbs, abou 25 a day. Seems to work.
Not self propelling.Hi @Pipp if you are self propelling it might work from your arm or wrist. Seems that some folk do this: http://www.nchpad.org/368/2064/What~is~a~Pedometer~and~How~Can~I~Benefit~from~Using~One~
I think @dunelm could be right there @Pipp - I wear my activity tracker on my wrist, and whenever I do the hoovering it tells me I've run a marathon!
I'm off cycling across Spain next week - setting off tomorrow. Wish me luck because I fear I may develop a walk resembling someone wearing a nappy.
Actually, I have a question that I wonder if everyone could help with. Team Blood Glucose try to help motivate everybody to get more active. For some, it takes very little encouragement but for some it's really pretty difficult to do. May I ask, what helps motivate you? (aside from this brill forum!) and if you could put yourself in the position of somebody overweight who has just been diagnosed with T2D, what do you think would be the best way to get them motivated into action? What message would you like to hear? If it were me, I think I would certainly appreciate being given a pedometer or activity tracker for starters.
I would love to hear your thoughts, because it seems to me that anyone following this thread has already found their 'motivated' switch.
Would love to @Bebo321 but will be on a bike meet this weekend and I am leading the ride on Saturday through the Yorkshire Dales. I also live in the dark and dangerous north.TeamBG are going to be doing Parkrun Harrow on saturday 1st August - come along and join us! (Really it's just a good excuse to get together afterwards for a chin wag over a cup of tea and well deserved slice of cake!) www.teambloodglucose.com
I'm still trying to locate my motivation! This thread, and the forum in general, are really helpful. Not that excited about a pedometer, have 2 already but have found that they are not very accurate attached to a leggings waistband (under a tunic/dress top, my daily "uniform"). A funny thing I quite enjoy is watching bits of those teleshopping ads for exercise programmes, like Insanity, and imagining that one day I would be able to do something like that...I think @dunelm could be right there @Pipp - I wear my activity tracker on my wrist, and whenever I do the hoovering it tells me I've run a marathon!
I'm off cycling across Spain next week - setting off tomorrow. Wish me luck because I fear I may develop a walk resembling someone wearing a nappy.
Actually, I have a question that I wonder if everyone could help with. Team Blood Glucose try to help motivate everybody to get more active. For some, it takes very little encouragement but for some it's really pretty difficult to do. May I ask, what helps motivate you? (aside from this brill forum!) and if you could put yourself in the position of somebody overweight who has just been diagnosed with T2D, what do you think would be the best way to get them motivated into action? What message would you like to hear? If it were me, I think I would certainly appreciate being given a pedometer or activity tracker for starters.
I would love to hear your thoughts, because it seems to me that anyone following this thread has already found their 'motivated' switch.
I found the 'This Girl Can' advert that was on TV at the beginning of the year very inspiringI think @dunelm could be right there @Pipp - I wear my activity tracker on my wrist, and whenever I do the hoovering it tells me I've run a marathon!
I'm off cycling across Spain next week - setting off tomorrow. Wish me luck because I fear I may develop a walk resembling someone wearing a nappy.
Actually, I have a question that I wonder if everyone could help with. Team Blood Glucose try to help motivate everybody to get more active. For some, it takes very little encouragement but for some it's really pretty difficult to do. May I ask, what helps motivate you? (aside from this brill forum!) and if you could put yourself in the position of somebody overweight who has just been diagnosed with T2D, what do you think would be the best way to get them motivated into action? What message would you like to hear? If it were me, I think I would certainly appreciate being given a pedometer or activity tracker for starters.
I would love to hear your thoughts, because it seems to me that anyone following this thread has already found their 'motivated' switch.
Thanks for that @Pipp - so really your initial motivation was fear of the consequences if you didn't take action, and since then it has been more that you enjoy the activity and the benefits it brings. Could anything your doctor have done, or anyone else have done to make your initial steps into exercise easier? - so that it wasn't just left to your own strength of character?For me @Bebo321 the motivation to go to the swimming pool is that the exercise in water is the only way I can move fast enough and long enough to get my heart rate up. Having a spinal injury makes walking and moving about painful and difficult to manage for more than a few minutes at a time. Being big doesn't help either. In the water I don't feel disabled. I feel free. Oh and it doesn't hurt if I fall over in the water.
Motivation to start swimming again after a long time being miserable after the accident that disabled me was that I had gained weight had T2, and was afraid if I didn't take action I was doomed to progressive complications. Once I started the water based exercises it was probably the endorphins that kept me going.
I think your Team Blood Glucose is amazing. Good luck with your cycling trip to Spain. Enjoy.
Lol! You're off the hook for now then, but I don't want any excuses when we venture up to your part of the world!Would love to @Bebo321 but will be on a bike meet this weekend and I am leading the ride on Saturday through the Yorkshire Dales. I also live in the dark and dangerous north.
Thanks to everyone for keeping me on the exercise straight and narrow. Several times over the past week I wasn't going to bother doing my half hour stepping but reading your posts about all the things you are doing, however big or small, has seen me diligently stepping away in front of EastEnders. Ta!
I think @dunelm could be right there @Pipp - I wear my activity tracker on my wrist, and whenever I do the hoovering it tells me I've run a marathon!
I'm off cycling across Spain next week - setting off tomorrow. Wish me luck because I fear I may develop a walk resembling someone wearing a nappy.
Actually, I have a question that I wonder if everyone could help with. Team Blood Glucose try to help motivate everybody to get more active. For some, it takes very little encouragement but for some it's really pretty difficult to do. May I ask, what helps motivate you? (aside from this brill forum!) and if you could put yourself in the position of somebody overweight who has just been diagnosed with T2D, what do you think would be the best way to get them motivated into action? What message would you like to hear? If it were me, I think I would certainly appreciate being given a pedometer or activity tracker for starters.
I would love to hear your thoughts, because it seems to me that anyone following this thread has already found their 'motivated' switch.
Good advicesHi Bebo I would tell them
1/to get on DCUK and get fab advice
2/ slowly reduce their carbs ... Not cut out but reduce slowly
3/ get myfitness pal and map my walk apps
4/ try lots of different activities that mean you move to your own ability, it's not a competition, it's about finding something you enjoy and keeping at it
5/ don't give up , when you can't be bothered do something, anything , even walk up and stairs a bit more or dance around your living room.
6/ post on here lol
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