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I truly envy those of you that have so much spare time. Just staying on top of things that must be done doesn't leave me enough time for things I want to do. I've never understood how people could be bored.
I tend to stop working (around the house, yard, errands, appointments) after dinner and if we don't go on a walk, we read or watch television....so not a lot of time sitting around - except when the weather is terrible -then we tend to stay in and are less active....if the weather is nice, we are not sitting around.
I've never counted how long I spend sitting but I feel no guilt because I walk for an hour a day, every day, and I chase dust, garden, etc., so I'd have to say my weight is lower now than in my younger years when I'd schlep to a job and then home, stand before a stove, then aim for the couch.
I've mentioned this before. I had a desk job. What you don't realize is how much walking you actually did during a work day at that desk job from walking in from and to some some parking lot, walking to and from some train station, walking to and from the cafeteria in another building, walking to meetings, walking to the fax machine or photocopy room, walking up and down stairs, even walking to the vending machines for a soda/water, that ceases when you retire. I got exercise at work and didn't even know it.
When we are not travelling, I am on and off my derrière throughout the day, but never sitting down at the same place. In front of the computer in the morning to check mail. Get up to cook breakfast and clean up afterward. To the armchair to knit. Get up to cook lunch and clean up afterward. Do between 25 and 50 counter push-ups, and then hike a short but very steep hill with husband every afternoon. To the recliner to read a physical book, or in front of the computer to read an eBook, or walking around with the iPod and an audiobook while doing the general cleaning. Stop to cook dinner and clean up afterward. The rest of the evening is when I knit and read in bed until falling to sleep.
When we travel, we walk for hours on end no matter what and where.
I have always been at the same weight range (5 lbs up or down) since my teen years, though everything is much closer to the ground every day. Oh well, you can't win 'em all.
Or is it that those with Alzheimer's become more inactive? I'm not trying to be cute, I really wonder if that isn't what that study actually reflects.
New studies everyday i sems. The onlt perosn i my wifes or my family who jus dies after havig it was perhaps the most active having worked to like 69 and then contimued to be very active. that makes me even wander about such a genes efect. She maintained a gerewat diet ;took little medicines durig her life;was slim ;had no heart problems and always active both and phyically. She had regualr check ups also. She was very active and it more or less sudeenly started.I have to wander has thru time i have seen several I have known where it starts suddenly happening to such people that are in good health and really active. Hasving kbow other fimily members and discussing it there are no others that it happend to i most cases withi the fmaily that is known.
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