So I was talking to my doctor over at the VA hospital ... yadda, yadda, yadda ... and I'm taking a year off from work to get my diabetes under control
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Required equipment: an MP3 player and tons of interesting podcasts, a treadmill (for the same duration, a swift walk burns more calories than pedalling like crazy on the exercise bike, and the elliptical has you pressing on the exact same spot of your feet all the time)
Don't give up on the restaurants, go once a week, but avoid the fried stuff. There are lots of Thai and Vietnamese dishes that are naturally light but damn tasty, for instance.
I'm holding steady, pretty much, at about 300. Every weekday, I get about 1.2 miles of walking to and from my job - 0.6 (20 minutes) from home to train, 0.3 (about 10 minutes), twice, between subway and office. (I don't do the 0.6 coming home - I grab a cab at the train - because by the end of a day I'm just completely pshrinkillogically wiped.)
While I wouldn't recommend starting at a mile a day from zero, a bit of brisk walking isn't a bad idea - maybe you and Dian can find a nice park to ramble in, or just play tourist in your own neighborhood, or something like that.
(Whenever I can get away with it, my day is mostly sitting, as well. I'm in field tech support, so there are some days when I'm doing a few extra site-to-subway-or-bus-stop saunters. The thing is, I'm not doing my entire day's walking in one swell foop; it's broken up into smaller chunks. And I don't do them so hard and fast that I get icky.)
I'll be retiring from the NASA contractor job at the end of September, after which I intend to live on my military pension (thanks be for TriCare) and the pension I've managed to earn in my aerospace years.
You've got a tough slog ahead of you, Jim. But I know you're one tough man, so I'm confident you can do it. I've found that getting in at least 10,000 steps every day helps to keep me on the low side of 200, and I get there by combining mall walking on days of inclement weather with outdoor walking on nicer days and dancing a couple or three times a week. Vary the mix as best works for you, but make with the activity if you can.
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Required equipment: an MP3 player and tons of interesting podcasts, a treadmill (for the same duration, a swift walk burns more calories than pedalling like crazy on the exercise bike, and the elliptical has you pressing on the exact same spot of your feet all the time)
Don't give up on the restaurants, go once a week, but avoid the fried stuff. There are lots of Thai and Vietnamese dishes that are naturally light but damn tasty, for instance.
Cheers from Blighty,
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While I wouldn't recommend starting at a mile a day from zero, a bit of brisk walking isn't a bad idea - maybe you and Dian can find a nice park to ramble in, or just play tourist in your own neighborhood, or something like that.
(Whenever I can get away with it, my day is mostly sitting, as well. I'm in field tech support, so there are some days when I'm doing a few extra site-to-subway-or-bus-stop saunters. The thing is, I'm not doing my entire day's walking in one swell foop; it's broken up into smaller chunks. And I don't do them so hard and fast that I get icky.)
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You've got a tough slog ahead of you, Jim. But I know you're one tough man, so I'm confident you can do it. I've found that getting in at least 10,000 steps every day helps to keep me on the low side of 200, and I get there by combining mall walking on days of inclement weather with outdoor walking on nicer days and dancing a couple or three times a week. Vary the mix as best works for you, but make with the activity if you can.
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