Exercise

[angela515]

Where are you from twirl?

If I understood your post right you don't know what potato chips are...and no... pork and beans are not eaten with fried eggs.

[twirl]

texas is my home
I did not realize you where from England
but on the British staion on You Are What You Eat it shows plates with fried eggs and pork and beans on the same plate
do you eat that in England
I mean, it looks good to me----- I'd eat it
I do know what potato chips are---- but they look different------ crisps?
they only choose people who eat unhealthy  and they all have pork and beans with fried eggs

[jbeany]

I've seen that show.  They follow them around for a week, recording what they ate - then reproduce the week's worth of meals and show it to them all at once.  Scary - not a veggie in sight!

[peleroja]

I ride my exercise bike every day.  I'm now up to 80 minutes a day, 10 minutes at a time.  It's the only way I can lose weight as my dialysate contributes about 1,000 calories to my "diet."  I've lost 25 pounds so far doing this.

[AlasdairUK]

Exercise is a must - It is difficult to get in to the habit, but once you break the cycle it then becomes difficult to stop exercising as it is a way of life. Start small and keep going and before you know it, Shad Ireland will be behind you or maybe not.

[LightLizard]

the 'trick' is to make it a habit, and to do that you have to find a form of exercise that you enjoy. it can't be all 'work.'

when i first began displaying signs of kidney failure, i managed to get pretty sick. i was so stubborn that i wouldn't go to the doctor, and after i did go to the doctor, i resisted going to the hospital until i didn't have a choice in the matter.
the doctors were surprised when i didn't die, actually. i was told that the only thing that saved me was the fact that my heart and lungs are strong. i can only attribute that to 30 some-odd years of tai chi and qigong. even when i was bed-ridden and unable to stand, i found myself modifying some of the old qigong execises to help my breathing and state of mind. this is an excellent site for some of these kinds of exercises...
http://www.herbalshop.com/Xiang/xiang-gong.htm
and here is my site, for anyone that may be interested in exploring a system of exercise that's been around for close to a thousand years, now...
http://yinchuandao.bravehost.com/

as the old chinese saying goes 'a used hinge will not rust.'

love

~LL~

[Zach]

 

[okarol]

For Jenna's transplant evaluation the dietician asked how much exercise Jenna gets per week. She usually walks to the market each day (about 15 minutes each way) and also to a therapist once a week (30 mins each way) and the Farmer's Market (30 mins each way.) The dietician was SO impressed. She said 20 minutes a day - 5 days a week - would be good so what Jenna's doing is EXCELLENT.

[RichardMEL]

For Jenna's transplant evaluation the dietician asked how much exercise Jenna gets per week. She usually walks to the market each day (about 15 minutes each way) and also to a therapist once a week (30 mins each way) and the Farmer's Market (30 mins each way.) The dietician was SO impressed. She said 20 minutes a day - 5 days a week - would be good so what Jenna's doing is EXCELLENT.

That ties in with exactly what I was told too. 20-30 minutes during the week was a good level to have. I usually do that anyway and had been, plus I have been tracking myself with GPS to see how far I've been going, and it's about 2km's (1.2miles) that I walk in the morning before work. Then on the weekend I take a much longer walk (today was 7.33km's or 4.5 miles) and it felt really good. Not only do I feel good getting out and about and working my legs and heart etc, but I know it's helping to burn off some of the extra food the damn preds is making me eat !!  (yes that's right - I'm blaming those little white pills.. not my lack of willpower!!!)