Someone very close to me made changes in the past three months. (it isn't me, but it is motivating me to do so!)
They started walking outside for an hour a day, pretty much seven days a week at a decent pace. There are no hills in our area. They also made some changes to their eating, but nothing extreme.
The health benefits from doing this for three months are amazing!
-reduction of systolic and diastolic blood pressure-fifteen points each-now in normal range from hbp
-reduction of fasting blood sugar by 39 points-now in normal range from being diabetic
-reduction of total cholesterol by 46 points
-reduction of triglycerides by 128 points
I am extremely proud and motivated for this person, and now I need to try to get myself together to do the same!! I don't have diabetes or hbp or high cholesterol, but I don't want to end up with them.
I wanted to post this to encourage those of us who cannot do extreme workouts, or choose not to do extreme workouts. For some people, long and steady state cardio really does work in making wonderful changes to our health!!!
Sherry