Re: Re: Re: Exercise -- was I need DESSERT!!!!

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At 10:04 AM 3/19/2010, you wrote:

I was totally wrong on

that. One problem I had then was that every little thing I did

(weak muscles I guess) caused me to have to run to the restroom. I

wouldn't have even tried walking far outside back then. Of course,

now I will walk up to the store because there is something about the

endorphin kick even with taking a nice walk when possible.

Sometimes I just like to walk up to the store instead of drive--usually

when I feel bad. Before all of this, I used to walk a lot at the

park and it's like walking on air afterward. It's good that it's

warming up and the time change now.

I can't find the emails on the exercise for the first six months. I

doubt I could have done very much.

Actually, I think that the question of exercise is as variable as the

foods we are able to eat.

It's true that exercise creates endorphins (which are good for us) and

from that point of view, it's a good thing.

However, it's equally true that in the fist 6-9 months of SCD, our bodies

are using a tremendous amount of energy to shift from rumen digestion to

human digestion, and we may not HAVE the additional energy for

exercise.

So you can have people who find that they have to get their yoga fix,

their tai chi, their water exercises, or they feel lousy. And then you

can have people for whom exercise increases their symptoms.

I remember someone who ran marathons before he developed IBD. Started

SCD, was doing better, and then, around the first month or so, started

training intensively for a marathon he wanted to do... and completely

relapsed. His system just didn't have enough energy to heal AND train.

Don't think he made that marathon -- but he did the next one.

—

Marilyn

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