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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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Stepping (as in moving your feet and covering ground)
Mary Frances
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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!!!
Mary Frances
cl-maryfrances40
Co-CL Diabetes Board
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.
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
cl-maryfrances40
Co-CL Diabetes Board
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.