RE: saw bones said.

[Guest guest]

Perhaps your doc will use you as a positive example when he talks to his

other patients.

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From: blind-diabetics

[mailto:blind-diabetics ] On Behalf Of Mark Ruth

Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 6:30 PM

To: blind diabetics

Subject: saw bones said.

I just wish you all to know who struggle with over weight as I do, the saw

bones said to day that more then anything I have changed that helped lower

my A1C was exercise! He said in only the first 3 months any of his patients

could do as I done if they would only do some type of exercise every day for

the rest of there life. he said he continues to tell them how important just

30 minutes a day of any kind of exercise could have a big change for there

lives. he said the meds help and the insulin does what it can, but with out

any exercise the pills or the insulin would be fighting a losing battle. I'm

not sure if any one of you hated exercise any more then I 3 months ago. you

don't get to 300 pounds plus with exercise in your daily life. I hated the

thought of walking up the street or across the yard. then my heart attacked

up just one more time and that was the time that got my head out of my butt.

they told me again for probably the 115 times that some day soon I wouldn't

pull through my ticker messing up. they said more then likely it was high

out of control sugar that was mostly causing my trouble and the problems

would get worse every time. I simply made up my mind to do something about

my A1C of 13 and 317 pounds. of course I have hard days that I try to talk

me self out of riding my no where bike or I try and not go the time I wish

to go, but I don't allow my self to be thrown off course. I made up my mind

3 months ago to fix my problem by what ever means I could control. use to if

I worked real hard at eating right and doing the exercise of some kind and

then the scales said I didn't work hard enough? well I use to throw the tale

in when this news I heard. I told the saw bones to day that this still makes

me mad when the scales tells me I didn't try as hard as I should have. he

said the same thing those who know will tell you. don't give up! muscles are

getting bigger in your legs and arms and muscle weighs more then fat, so

this week you may gain one step in reverse, but the next week you not only

get the step back you lost, but 5 or more you gain. one back and five

forward is a pretty fine trade off if you ask me. this is why I don't give

up when my scales won't say what I wish to hear. as of Monday of this week I

had 92 hours on the no where bike and 117 hours total rode. this number will

continue to grow and I will continue to add it up. just like the pounds will

drop off. maybe not as fast as I would wish, but they will come off as long

as I'm living in this body! I realize now after more then half of my life

gone by, that the one most important one thing that I or you can do for our

health is simply daily exercise. I have read more then once in all kinds of

fitness books that those have wrote that got in shape and lost weight. they

all say you should never spend more then a total of 2 hours in a day sitting

down on your back side. I had to keep track of this one time to see if they

were nuts or did I actually sit more then 2 hours a day? well when I wrote

down when I sat and for how long I was shocked to say the least! I did sit

for twice this amount and I was at the time working a eight hour day with a

stand up job at the time and still I found the time to sit on my pig butt

for 4 hours in a day. I've timed my pc time just like I'm doing here and it

always adds up to no less then 30 minutes or longer every time. now when I'm

not on my no where bike I just do all kinds of things that need to get done

that requires me to stand up and walk to and fro. if I have nothing to do,

then I just stand and walk in circles if nothing else. my legs are getting

larger from riding my bike and sitting legs burn no calories, but moving

legs will burn calories. do you sit and talk on the phone? most people do.

then walk around as you talk and get some extra exercise this way. like to

sit on the couch and watch TV? well most do. so stand up and you can still

see it or listen to it, but you might find it isn't as interesting when

standing up. after I put in my 2 hours every day on my no where bike, some

times I go sit on my bike and just peddle. I don't turn it on or make the

peddles tight. I simply sit there and make the peddles turn around and

around. I may only do this for ten or 15 minutes, but I do it maybe 3 or

more times in a day. it all adds up?! get you some small hand weights and

just go fetch them through the day when you got a minute and play with them.

up and down a few times or just carry them around for a few minutes. all

this movement adds up and puts your muscles where they will like it and

demand you to do more. also I have noticed that the exercise also helps me

to not crave as much desire to over eat as once I done. eating smaller

portions isn't a thing I got to plan so much as it just comes more natural

now. I think the added exercise to my daily life is why. now I don't know

what you do when you exercise, but I listen to my Bose radio and I find some

getty up and go music that makes me get up and go! I love country music and

lots of that slow dancing holding my honey tight kind of music, but it isn't

the kind of sounds that I can exercise to and dig it. I need some sounds

that will jump out of the radio and try and slap me off my bike. I put the

phone right by me and if I need to answer it, then I do and I continue to

ride. now if the door bell rings, then it can ring on. I have even learned

how to talk with my honey as I ride. not as easy to talk and have enough

air, but it can be done. I use to look and think of any old excuse I could

think of why I couldn't exercise and I'm here to tell you no one on this

list or 3 like it can have as many as did I have! now I have done a complete

turn about. I now can't hardly find a reason not to ride my no where bike. I

use to try and fit exercise in to my day. now I fit my day around my

exercise. riding my no where bike for 2 hours a day is just as important to

me as my insulin and my 3 meals that I do not wish to skip! this is the same

attitude that you got to find for your self if you and exercise are to

become buddies just like you need to be with your meter. I'm also here to

tell you that one of the greatest free medicine you can take for stress in

your life is, exercise! I've used it many times and it will slap stress down

and stomp it's head in the ground. people ask me why all of a sudden did I

get with the program and now I'm doing it like I should have many years ago?

I never thought this would be my answer that I'm here to tell you right now,

but as God as my witness it is the one whole truth of it. you got to just

want it bad enough is all! how bad do you want to lose weight? how much do

you want to lower your A1C? how bad do you want to stop your over eating

habit? once you want it bad enough, then you will have it just like 3 months

ago I changed my life and I wanted it real bad! I wanted it bad enough that

I made it happen and I'm still making it happen. no excuses, because I want

no excuses.