Let's create our own Olympics. How ma...

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Mon, 08-16-2004 - 6:49pm

Let's create our own Olympics. How many steps are you taking a day?



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Mon, 08-16-2004 - 6:59pm

Stepping (as in moving your feet and covering ground)

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Wed, 08-18-2004 - 11:52pm
Whomever selected 10,000 steps gets a Gold Medal. Congratulations. I wish I could join you.

Mary Frances


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Thu, 08-19-2004 - 9:01am
Thanks Mary Frances, it took me quite a while to build to that level but now I see the benefit in both my bs and my weight so it's worth the daily push! I believe it also helped me in my recent recovery from surgery, I only missed 10 days. Jan
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Fri, 08-20-2004 - 12:58am
I dont have a working pedometer so all i could do was take the steps from when i go on the elliptical. that does vary anywhere from in a really bad week 3 days up to as many as 6 days in a week, usually try to do it between 4-5 days. the average of steps on that comes to right about 4950, and i know i take at least another 50 steps for sure in a day, so i rounded that up to 5000. have no idea what it would be if i added in the rest of the steps one of those days.

i have also been doing the presidentschallenge also and have gotten the active lifestyle(i started at the bottom); the bronze presidential challenge award and am within about 5-6 exercise days of getting the silver too.Then I will go for the gold!!!

after that i will go on the the advanced presidential challenge awards, which will be another bronze, silver and gold!!!

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Fri, 08-20-2004 - 12:39pm
Absolutely Wonderful! We all do the best we can within our limitations but the important thing is that you are moving and doing it. You get a Silver Medal.

Mary Frances


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Sat, 08-21-2004 - 1:13am
I admit i have to laugh sometimes. Seems like every medical professional I have been seeing since i got diagnosed with diabetes, a little more than a year ago...all seem to say the same thing. "I don't do anywhere near that much exercise."(these all appear to be healthy,thin, younger people.) The others I talk to at the Y and elsewhere usually can't believe i do as much as 55 minutes on the elliptical. I confess...sometimes 30 minutes is all i can handle, but lately have taken to starting out with a 30 minute run and then if i still have the energy i can add another 15 minute run on it. For a 56 year old lady who is still woefully overweight and I confess can't go that far on solid ground...can really do a lot more on the ellitical. I know i have done over an hour on the treadmill, but i am much slower on that, its a push to get over 2mphour but can do almost twice as fast on the elliptical. i can't get my heartrate up that fast on the treadmill or the ergometer(arm cycle) but if i get going fast on the elliptical my pulse gets up as high as 132 beats per minute(which i guess is the max it should be given my age).

Also have to confess that it seems like depression seems to go away when i am really consistent on the exercise. mood gets lower if i go too many days without. Since we seem to be getting cooler and cloudier this month than usual my mood has in general been lower(i do really struggle with SAD depression.).

I may have said this here, but if i ever win a lottery or something and have a place to live big enough i am going to get me one of those elliptical machines. the used reconditioned ones run close to $3,800 and they could use a whole room to themselves....but can get so much better a workout than on any other machine i can use.

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Sun, 08-29-2004 - 11:45pm

As you have seen, exercise does help with moods. But SAD is really difficult to deal with in the colder darker areas and I don't know of anything to help with this. I really hate it when it is dark when I get out of work and I look forward to the longer days. It was very pretty today where I live and not as hot as yesterday and so I was nice to be able to take a walk with my husband after dinner. Can't do that too often because it is so windy here and really uncomfortable except int he middle of the day.


Hope you had a great weekend and enjoyed the Olympics.

Mary Frances


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Mon, 08-30-2004 - 1:39am
I will have to be sure and remember this for the next time I dont want to exercise for a few days and am also feeling a little down! This is the kind of thing that I can recongnize very well when I am doing fine but then forget to pay attention to when things aren't going well!


A few years ago i was having a lot more problem with arthritis pain, and if anyone asked me i would have said there was NOT EVER a day when i was not in pain, and it always was really bad. FINALLY when summer came and the weather wasn't going crazy, and the temps were not swinging wildly, I finally stopped and realized I really am NOT in any pain right now. I made it a point then to remind myself of that time when I started hurting again. I think pain can seem much worse if when you are having it, you really cannot think of ANY time when you don't have pain! It has helped when the bad times come that I DO have memories of when the pain is NOT there.

I'm betting now, that maybe reminding myself that the exercise seems to defuse a lot of the depression may at least get me there! Usually once I get to the Y I can talk myself into staying longer than originally planned.