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Before, I "had" to have something sweet....dessert....every night and I did. Root beer barrels, ice cream, gummy bears.....you name it. And my portions were out of control....huge. Not everyone knows that sugar increases the appetite so the more you eat of it, the more you want. This is especially true for HFCS. That stuff is addictive and it's in everything just about. Now, I still have dessert but instead of crap, I opt for naturally sweet things. Halos, honey crisp apples, prunes, tomatoes, blueberries and so on. The less of the sweet stuff I ate, the more sweet the natural stuff tastes as my taste buds adapt. I don't add sugar to anything so the sugar I eat is already in the food or drink. You asked for cliff notes and I gave you an essay but I hope that helps! I just came in from my walk tonight and I feel great. It's 30 degrees outside but feels like 22 with the wind chill. I prefer to go out with my face uncovered and by the time I come in, my cheeks are stinging but not in a bad way. I like the feeling and also the feeling of slight pins and needles in my cheeks as my skin warms up when I get back inside. I do not like the feeling when my thighs start to sting though as the cold penetrates my jeans. Stinging thighs mean it's time to come in, whether I am ready to or not. I still got a good walk in; about 2 miles. Yesterday's "bomb" snowstorm was kind of crazy. First, it rained ALL day long....some places got 4 inches! Then it transitioned over to snow, which mixed with the rain to make frigid slush and not the kind that's fun to eat. Then the rain came back and then some snow by itself and then rain again and then it stopped. So, I got a bit of a workout last night at the end of work as I had to shovel the sidewalks and clear a path so people could get onto the property without slipping or falling. I wound up getting in 9970 steps yesterday. I would have walked around the living room or something to get to an even 10,000 but I got caught up in a trash TV show on Netflix and lost track of time before my pedometer clicked over at midnight. Today was bananas at work. It was only a half day but I got in 10,000 steps in less than 5 hours. I did a lot of cleaning so I was up and down the step ladder and then I had to go salt and shovel the ice on about 20% of a 2 acre property leftover from yesterday's storm. We only got up to the mid-30s but it was sunny so the the snow on the roofs melted and the downspouts were shooting water out all day and making a mess. Tomorrow's going to be worse because the water on the ground that's spread out will freeze and it's all black ice. Luckily, most of my customers either wait for it to warm up during the day or are comfortable and knowledgeable on icy pathways but not all. All it takes is one lawsuit. So far tonight I'm at 17,004 steps but I still have an hour or two before bed so I'll get more in before it's all said and done. Last edited by Gemme; 12-06-2020 at 09:26 PM. |
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11 Minutes of Exercise a Day May Help Counter the Effects of Sitting
The sweet spot for physical activity and longevity seemed to arrive at about 35 minutes a day of brisk walking or other moderate activities. By Gretchen Reynolds Dec. 2, 2020 Walking for at least 11 minutes a day could lessen the undesirable health consequences of sitting for hours and hours, according to a helpful new study of the ways in which both inactivity and exercise influence how long we live. The study, which relied on objective data from tens of thousands of people about how they spent their days, found that those who were the most sedentary faced a high risk of dying young, but if people got up and moved, they slashed that threat substantially, even if they did not move much. For most of us, sitting for prolonged periods of time is common, especially now, as we face the dual challenges of Covid-related restrictions and the shortening, chilly days of winter. Recent surveys of people’s behavior since the start of the pandemic indicate that a majority of us are exercising less and sitting more than we were a year ago. Not surprisingly, there could be long-term health consequences from this physical quietude. Multiple past epidemiological studies show links between sitting and mortality. In general, in these studies, couchbound people are far more likely to die prematurely than active people are. But how active an active person should be if he or she hopes to mitigate the downsides of sitting has remained unclear. If you sit for eight hours at work, for instance, then stroll for half an hour in the evening — meaning you comply with the standard exercise recommendation of about 30 minutes of exercise most days — is that enough movement to undo most of the health risks of too much sitting? Some past research had suggested the answer is no. A 2016 study involving more than a million people found, instead, that men and women needed to exercise moderately for about 60 to 75 minutes a day in order to diminish the undesirable effects of sitting. That study, though, like most similar, earlier research, asked people to remember how much they had moved or sat, which can be problematic. We tend to be unreliable narrators of our lives, overestimating physical activity and underestimating how much we sit. But if large numbers of people misremember this way, the paradoxical result is that exercise looks less potent than it is, since the studies’ “active” people appear to have needed plenty of exercise to gain health benefits, when the objective amount of exercise they actually completed was less, and this smaller amount produced the gains. So, for the new study, which was published last week in a special issue of the British Journal of Sports Medicine devoted to the World Health Organization’s updated physical activity guidelines and related research, many of the authors of the 2016 review decided to, in effect, repeat that earlier research and analysis, but, this time, use data from people who had worn activity monitors to objectively track how much they moved and sat. The scientists wound up gathering results from nine recent studies in which almost 50,000 men and women wore accelerometers. These studies’ volunteers were middle-aged or older and lived in Europe or the United States. Combining and collating the nine studies’ data, the scientists found that most of the volunteers sat a lot, averaging close to 10 hours a day, and many barely moved, exercising moderately, usually by walking, for as little as two or three minutes a day. The researchers then checked death registries for about a decade after people had joined their respective studies and started comparing lifestyles and life spans. Dividing people into thirds, based on how much they moved and sat, the researchers found, to no one’s surprise, that being extremely sedentary was hazardous, with people in the top third for sitting and bottom third for activity having about 260 percent more likelihood of premature death than the men and women who moved the most and sat the least. (The researchers controlled for smoking, body mass and other factors that might have influenced the results.) Other combinations of time spent sitting and moving were less alarming, though, and even heartening. People in the middle third for activity, who exercised moderately for about 11 minutes a day, were significantly less likely to have died prematurely than people who moved less, even if all of them belonged to the group that also sat the most. Crunching the numbers further, the researchers concluded that the sweet spot for physical activity and longevity seemed to arrive at about 35 minutes a day of brisk walking or other moderate activities, an amount that led to the greatest statistical improvement in life span, no matter how many hours someone sat. Of course, this study was observational and does not prove that exercise caused people to live longer, only that physical activity, sitting and mortality were linked. But the results strongly suggest that if we sit all day, as so many of us do, we should aim, too, to get up and move, says Ulf Ekelund, a professor of epidemiology and physical activity at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences in Oslo, Norway, who led the new study. “Brisk walking is excellent moderate exercise,” he says, and, in half-hour stints — or even less — might help to lengthen our lives. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/02/w...gtype=Homepage __________________ Unaltered text is from NYTimes.com. 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I'm glad they redid the study with better data. Subjective memory is usually wrong. We can look forward to more and better studies with so many wearing tracking devices. I have noticed that my watch, which I wear whether or not I'm paying attention to it, shows my step counts down a lot since last year with the shut downs. I will be glad when life can get back to semi-normal.
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– 35 miles – 2.63 hours – 20 Arm rolls Shoulder is better and will start slowly adding on arm rolls. |
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In addition to PT, I have made it up and down the stairs 3 x a day for the past two days!
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I've been doing pretty good myself. Last night's count came to 13,330 steps. Tonight, I'm only at 7543 so far. It rained nearly all day so I had substantially less opportunity to get out and about during the day. I'll go for a walk tonight but won't hit such a high mark two nights in a row. |
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Had a good workout this morning. Stayed with the beat of all music.
I like doing a little upper body workout but have shut down the arm rolls. Need to let my shoulder fully heal. Maybe it will be good by the end of the year. It's feeling better than it has in weeks, I know I could easily do 60 or more arm rolls, but I'm not going to rush it. No arm rolls till the beginning of the year, if then. In the meantime, I bought a resistance band with handles (and a door thingy) and it's working well. Have found some videos like this at youtube and am just focusing on biceps and triceps. Nothing that affects the shoulder. Today I rode: – 5 miles – 21 minutes – 40 curls (20 each arm) |
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Shoveling and shoveling and shoveling oh and some more shoveling.
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I think easy and I are on the same workout program right now. I shoveled 'til the cows came home and the front porchlight came on. 16,050 steps for the day. Boy, are my dogs barking.
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Seriously. And the upper body from using a snow rake to clear the roof. Jeeze louise. I feel like I should have woken up ripped but I just feel sore and old.
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– 35.8 miles – 2.75 hours – 200 curls Had a good exercise this morning. Did a cardio workout on the bike. That's the hardest for me but the one I enjoy the most.
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I was busy the whole time I was at work but the numbers don't show it since I did a lot of scraping and mopping and my pedometer doesn't record backwards steps. It's only showing a little over 6000 steps now.
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Currently, I'm about 15,200 steps into my day and about to rollover into a new one. My snow boots that I've been wearing the past few days aren't the best fit (too big) and my feet slide around even with super thick wool socks. Tonight, one of my ankles was rubbed raw and I now have a friction burn on it. No bueno. Looks like I'm back to sneaks tomorrow! That is bad for traction and good for fit. My tootsies will feel muuuch better and I'll be able to get more steps in. I'll just really need to watch the black ice. I will say that I hit a patch of it as I was walking the night following the storm and I wobbled but I caught myself. I had a customer watching and he applauded. For my next trick... |
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This week I rode:
– 35.5 miles – 2.63 hours – 22 minutes of curls Am using 5 lb hand weights along with the resistance band for the curls. I'm all over the place when curling with the hand weights (posture isn't good, elbows aren't at sides, etc. LOL), but it will improve with more practice. |
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