Hi

A walker is a good walking companion, you can sit anywhere, if you don't have one, a folding stool is convenient although carrying it might be uncomfortable. I'm never far from my walker or a chair.

It's great you can still walk, but start slow,, better ten minutes a day, than an hour a week.

Be well, Alma

That happened to me once. I went on a 'hike" with my daughters brownie troop. Nothing hillie or tricky, but on the return trip I ended up with one of the leaders staying back with me and flagging down a car for a ride back to camp.

Leads me to ask myself, "What was I thinking"?

This was 8 years ago. I wouldn't dream of it now. I have to use a rollator to get to my van and that's about 25 feet away.

I sometimes look at people walking and think to myself "value your ability to walk, you may not always be able to do it".

So glad I have full use of my hands!

You can consider yourself an inspiration! haha. I have been thinking of using walks more to help with my weight. My goal was to walk to the end of the street and back too! Great minds think alike.

Keep up the motivation. Any amount of exercise is so important. You know the old saying, "use it or lose it?" That is what has been worrying me lately, so I want to start exercising more like you. I haven't started yet. Don't know what I'm waiting for. So that's why I can say you are an inspiration. I hope you will update your post in the future with how your walking exercise is going.

Hi again. . . I just reread this, and took a strange comfort in seeing that I haven't necessarily gone so downhill, but rather was feeling frustrated 11 months ago.
At that time, I wasn't going out hardly at all since it was a month I was fully, surprisingly, and unhappily unemployed.
Being a teacher, I have only worked on and off the past year with temp work or subbing. I had a longer stint of unemployment starting from June, but I have worked to get exercise of some kind all the time. (I am meant to start up a new job next week!)
Now, I have a goal to walk around the block once if I don't have to go out, and I take a break halfway, then at the bottom of the stairs before going up, pulling my left leg up the steps. Yesterday I also promised myself to NOT cry every day about it. And we are in the process of downsizing all of our stuff so we can eventually move to an apartment with no stairs (ground floor or with an elevator).

Sounds like you have a goal good luck!

As with all exercise, start small!

Look, if you were aiming to be a world class knitter you wouldn't begin with the most complicated pattern you could find, would you? If you did you would most likely fail and decide that you couldn't knit.

Same with walking. To the end of the block for at least a week, then two blocks the next week etc

I'm speaking from experience. When I started I could barely make it to the end of our drive, but I was determined to continue.

All the best to all those who are giving their best effort.

sounds like a good plan to me -- the only true way to improve ur walking is to walk

I found that too - starting small and building up. I have also found that if I stop exercising for a number of days, I lose some of my ability. For me, I get my walks through campus and there is always a restroom nearby which helps so much with the bladder urgency.

Walking outside in the FL summer heat is out of the question. If I can make it to my car - off to a shopping center or Walmart type store - there I can use the shopping cart to hold onto to walk around in a/c comfort. I just need to remind myself not to over-spend. LOL

It's been a while since I have practiced this, but I'm just getting back on track myself and it's my goal for today to get out and do just this. Yessssss - starting out small & growing seems to be the way to go. Baby steps, my friends. Be happy - be well

Good luck with your walking goal. One step at a time, right? I'm also in Florida and it's really challenging to move in this heat. Felt like coming home and crying today but the cool weather is almost here, such that it will be. :)

It's actually hotter here I think . . . 35 to 40 degrees centigrade (low 100s fahrenheit). I go out as early as possible (before 10).

For the past several months my sister would do the grocery shopping for me. Since I had a huge tiff with her I decided that today I would do the grocery shopping myself.

Since this upcoming weekend would be my weekend with my kids I thought I would put a lot of thought of what I could make them for lunch and supper. So it took a long while to look for stuff and to also ask the cooks who were there some questions.

Overall, I think I will have some good stuff for them; my ex-wife is into a lot of junk food so this is a good change of pace for them.

By the time I bought the groceries I was physically devastated. I needed help taking the groceries to my car. Then it was a huge effort lugging them from the car to my house when I got home.

I then realized that I did a lot more walking than I anticipated; and it was only buying sixty clams worth of groceries. Needless to say, I was so worn out today.

If you can where you live, try internet grocery shopping. I do it once a month, and it is definitely worth the 7 they charge!