Let's Post our Daily Exercise

Thinking of you today, Vargadoll.

Subbing today & yoga tonight.

Ruth,

😂😂😂

Got a couple of miles in yesterday around the neighborhood with hubby - he rolled his ankle a couple of days ago, so we only did two loops instead of 3, but it was a beautiful afternoon for a walk. Hope to get another one in today. Snow predicted for tomorrow, and more next week - UGH! Didn't conquer the car electronics yet - tried to connect the phones and was only minimally successful. Need to spend some time with the manual.

Venison Roast in the crockpot for dinner.

Yesterday was fun- invited my little one's babysitter over after work and we did an hour of yoga together. It felt good to practice and share it with someone else. By the nighttime my knees were shot, though! Is the AI starting to do its number on me?

Today I had time for a two mile jog before I had to pick up the baby boy. Felt fine so not sure what happened last night.

Karen, I know what you mean about being so tired. Weather changing throws me out of whack, I guess.

Ruth, hope you feel better. Kapalabati can be good for clearing out the sinuses... do you get that in your yoga class?

Vargadoll, hope all went well with the birth of your new grandchild. Ruth feel better quick!

One of the ladies who attends pink ribbon pilates is a retired nurse - on Al's, said to us a few weeks back, that she with scepticism, had been on glucosamine for a few weeks and she felt better for it, was less achy and creaky. So, my own little trail I've been on 500mg glucosamine sulphate and too have found it does reduce achy joints (particularly my knees), especially upon waking in the morning (I take it before bed). My husband has been on it with me and he is not so convinced. He finds it wears off (his dose was before leaving n the morning) and can sense, that near noon it's out of him, and has worn off. The online findings on glusosamine have been so - so to not so great, yet I'm sticking with it as it's cheap to buy and I seem to have no adverse side effects from taking it. Love to hear if anyone else is taking glucosamine. Today, is catch up day on course work for me, have to get lesson plan worksheets started and completed, must also vacuum up dog hair (so desiring a dyson v8 animal cordless to run over kitchen tiles and foyer laminate flooring, yet the eye wateringly high cost nixes that) and weekend grocery shop.

Have a good start to the weekend everyone!

Nats- that sounds yummy. Thanks for the recipe. I am home sick AGAIN. 3rd time in 5 weeks. Waiting on a strep test. I am sick of this, it is putting a crimp in my exercise plan for sure! I do not usually get anything that is going around school.On the plus side, watching the snow fall but not having to drive in it is good.

wishing everyone a good week-en

Feel better all you under the weather people. Knock wood, so far has been a pretty good winter for me healthwise.

After 5 inches of snow yesterday, it has turned brutally cold and windy, so no neighborhood walks for me for a few days. Went and saw a local community musical last night, Carousel. Very well performed, but had forgotten what a dark side that musical had. Today is off to the fishing show (dreaming of warmer weather), then dinner and Irish music tonight with some friends. Lots more snow on the horizon for next week. Don't forget to change your clocks tonight!

But you will make it back, Falconer, and really, really appreciate it all so much more!!!!!!

I also went to yoga this morning. A friend from Facebook shared a fun hip hop routine from a program called 'Fitness Marshall". So I checked it out online and have spent the last hour dancing to some of the videos. There's a fun, flamboyant instructor (Marshall, perhaps?) who explains moves in a fun way so I can understand them "eat your cake, smash it in your face, rub in on your body", "honk the hour, switch gears, spill your coffee" etc. etc., up to date music, and he even has his grandmother (who is no doubt about my age) dancing with him in some of the songs. So....that will be a fun option for some days.

Cold here, snowy here, and l am still dealing with my own cold...blah!!!! Once I can force myself out to buy groceries, I will be in for the rest of the day.

Hi Ladies,

Don't mean to hijack your thread. I'm just wondering if any of you ladies had a really good body condition when you were diagnosed.

The reason I ask is that since my surgeries I had gained some weight (fat) over the course of a year. I stopped taking Tamoxifen due to SE. Now, a year later, there's "something suspicious" in my yearly mammo and I have to go in for another look in a couple of months.

Last autumn, I started a program called "Healthy Role Models" and lost 11 inches. My belly fat is nearly gone. But I'm wondering (and this is probably a very stupid question) if I reduce my body fat significantly, am I still at risk for recurrence or a new primary?

Does anyone know? Or is this one of those "cancer is a crap shoot" and no one really knows the risk...

Thanks for reading and your time.

-Piscean

hi Piscean and welcome! I was in OK but not tip-top condition when dx. Gained 25 chemo-pounds and it took three years but whittled those off. Down a bit more over the years since then and have another 10-15 to go but it's slooooow going.

Body fat is correlated with estrogen so it's good for those of us who are ER+ to keep it at a minimum.

Hi badger, thanks for your response.

I guess you're right in that us ER+ ladies need to keep the body fat low. Do you know if estrogen negative cancer is affected by body fat?

A lovely thin and fit woman in my cancer support group with stage 1 grade 1 IDC with er/pr + her2- disease developed mets 2 years after her bmx and died within two months of diagnosis.

I wasn't really freaked out about bc until then.

I guess I'm hoping she was not a normal bc patient

Welcome Cloesmom, I think if you can MAKE yourself get some exercise (whether you want to or not), it will really help with bringing up your energy and help with the letrozole aches too. One of my friends started Arimidex about 6 months before me and her advice was "just keep moving" & I am glad that I did!

Welcome Piscean (are you another March birthday?). Yes, exercise is the biggest non-medical thing we can do for ourselves to reduce recurrence risk, and yes, it is important to keep the fat off because estrogen feeds off fat (that is the same reason a person should limit alcohol). I imagine that the more estrogen positive, the more important it is, but I would say it's important to all. Tumors has been known to change characteristics for reasons of their own. And, yes, even with doing everything 'right, it is somewhat of a crap shot. By following medical advice and by making life style adjustments as needed, we can improve our odds, but (like all of life), nothing is absolutely guaranteed.

Speaking of fat, I am trying VERY virtuously to take off the excess vacation weight before it finds a permanent home on my hips!

Hi all: I know I have been a bit quiet here, mostly because of a crazy travel schedule, but need to be posting as I need to be in good shape for a big trip coming up end of May....today I am getting my exercise walking and chasing after grandchildren!!!! The most fun exercise I can think of...