Been Living A Sendentary Life

[thanrye8710]

nurses promotes health and do patient teaching to prevent diseases and do exercise.. but i myself needs to be taught.. it is hard to preach when you are not practicing what you preach...

Gained weight and don't do any exercise... Now i decided to change...

I am planning to enroll in a fitness gym... can anyone tell me what to do and what to bring during your first day???

[HmarieD]

I have a problem with chronic joint pain, so high impact exercise is very difficult for me. I have recently found a local hotel that allows me to use their pool (and hottub!!) which is fantastic for me. They charge me $5 every time I use it, but at 3 x wk, it works out about the same or less as a gym membership in my area. And I enjoy it.

[thanrye8710]

I feel your pain! Im 5 foot 4 and I currently weight 175 lbs .... I used to weigh 115 lbs before I started nursing school. I feel SO out of shape right now. I had my body fat % tested and its at 42%! WAY TOO HIGH, and Im only 24 years old!

I would love to lose about 50 to 60 pounds but it just seems to daunting...I work 4 on 5 off and I am exhausted. I only could work out on my days off and even then probably only 2 or 3 days at the most because I would need time to recover.

I also started gaining weight when I entered nursing school.. I think it is because we concentrate more in reading, exercising the brain not the body.

Previous replies are helpful. Limiting your calorie intake and doing simple exercises will work. Join me in starting to change for better health. It is time to start taking care of ourselves, not only our patients.

I think setting a goal of "lossing 50-60 pounds" is a bit unrealistic and unattainable. I suggest you revise it to "loss 1 pound every week" which is more attainable and you wont get disappointed. You can do it. We can do it.

Let us apply to ourselves what we learned at nursing school on how to have a healthy body.

Start with simple exercises such as:

• walking
  
• using the stairs instead of an elevator or escalator
  
• when going to the mall or work and it is not raining/snowing: Park your car FAR enough from the entrance so that you can walk your way from your car to the building....
  

[Baloney Amputation, BSN, LPN, RN]

It wasn't until I lifted weights (heavy and progressive weights on a barbell is what I do) that I felt like my exercise was accomplishing something and really changing the appearance of my body for the better.

I lost 123 pounds several years ago with eating less and the occasional walking stuff, but I lost a significant amount of muscle. I was really deconditioned, and no amount of cardio was going to help that deconditioning.

I have gained 10+ pounds simply by gaining muscle mass, but my body looks so much better already. My pants are still size 4 and my body fat is remaining stable, so I know what is happening is positive.

My advice is to not skip the free weights, and increase the weights as often as you can to stimulate new muscle growth and strength (in the presence of the necessary rest and nutrition). I increase my weights lifted each and every workout at this point. I had a heck of a time getting over this positive weight gain I had because it felt like I was relinquishing some of my hard-earned and highly prized weight loss. That is mentally very difficult. If you do the weights in the first place, you won't experience that, and the benefits to your body and mind will rock.

Good luck to you :)

[dtsh26]

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Dee