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.
I have a pedometer, no smartphone.
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~
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
Not self propelling.
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'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.
Still very, very far from that level of fitness, though!
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?
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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 advices
