Restricted Mobility.. how are you losing your weight?

Walking around is out.. I'm full time wheelchair user. I will be going shopping in November for afternoon out (nearest flat shopping centre is some distance from me), a friend takes me as I can't afford the taxi fares there. I can push msyelf out there.. usually around 4hrs not sure how many caloreis that will burn.

I have been told I can't lift weights it would be too dangerous due to the arms stiffening suddenly from the dystonia and me not been able to stop myself dropping things... I'm not sure what 'Isometric' means?

I do boxing style games from sitting in chair, tennis, bowling kind of things. Exerbeat is a new game I found recently that only really counts what your arms are doing so as long as you copy the arrows with arms can get good results on boxing, karate and dancing and has a good pilates section of floor exercises for core muscles.

I can stand for short time on balance board and do the basic leaning left/right on balance games, holding onto a walking frame around the front, if need to hold controller too I have to sit on the board to play it. It's taken me a few years to get this far.. recently this year I managed to do the 'plank' exercise and can lift head of floor for crunches where I couldn't before.

I got EA sports too but have difficulty saying still enough for it to register my moves on the ones I can do, even with weights on arms.. I get 'Hold still' message very frequently... having to repeat some up to 10 times in a row.

I'm sure having under active thyroid slows metabolism too, I don't even sweat when exercising unless I take Capsiplex to get an energy boost then can keep going for about 2 hours instead of only managing 30mins... I just find it frustrating when other people say they lost a stone in 4 weeks on this or that diet or with certain supplements or diet pills and they never seem to work the same for me.

I'll try re-introducing more carbs and bump calories a bit my BMR is only about 1300 and something, so 1400-1600 would make me put weight on eating more than I needed?

Thanks.. I had a carb meal after having just apples and carrot sticks all day with jalapeno hummus!... did egg fried rice with chicken dippers and bit of a curry sauce.. not very healthy I know but haven't had rice for about 4 weeks usually I substitute it with cauliflower, whizzed in a processor to about size of rice and steamed in microwave.

I throw a few surprises in once a week so body doesn't get used to all very low carb & low fat. Back of leg is still swollen from last weeks injury so hopefully once swelling goes down body will let go of few more pounds of water maybe?

I'll check out the chair yoga DVD's and see if can get them from UK Amazon.

I was watching show 'Fat Families' today and the guy was expecting them to lose 3lb a week which I was surprised.

I don't have enough fine motor control to juggle.

I keep trying back on the EA sports I can do the bicep curl with resistance band but its so sensitive and I have difficulty keeping arm still long enough, your arm has to be still before you make the curl and hold still after so it can sense 1 definite movement, but with jerky and involuntary movements its harder to keep still than move! ... I'm doing well with the boxing games though.. cos can just randomly fling your arms in the direction of the bag to hit it.. lol!

I might see if I can get another boxing game for xmas from family or friends as it gives me a good workout without me having to be very accurate. On the programme the contestants were doing boxing and presenter said can burn about 500 cals with boxing but can't remember whether he said half an hour or an hour!

I do blogs for 'Accessible Gamebase' too and someone on there was saying that they had one and had a family member in wheelchair and it didn't even recognise them as a player because they were sat and unable to stand so couldn't join in.

The Wii is more accessible in general, someone in Canada has invented a platform that fits on balance board so you can push chair onto it (Manual chair) and do the balance games from sitting in your chair and leaning left and right.. it's not come over here yet and would be really expensive to import cos of its size and weight. Another member had manged to mount a wii wheel onto something.. i forget what, but so it could be placed on floor and their son could use his feet to steer and play MarioKart!

There's several clips on YouTube off Wii Fit been used in hospitals and rehab centres in US they are calling it 'Wiihab'.. lol! (I first got mine with the orignal Wii Fit after seeing one of those clips)

I know the PS3 can be converted to work with switches, via one of those arcade style controllers with joysticks and lost of buttons (often used for fighting games) I know a boy who can play Sonic Racers this way via head switches. But the Kinect is not really disability friendly and the voice actived games wouldn't work for me either as my speech is affected by my condition also, so no plans to buy an X box/Kinect... I'm sticking with my Wii!

I have seen a Neuro physio she showed me a few core muscle exercises which at the time I was already doing as they were on the Wi Fit game and I already had that, she said Wii Fit was good for Ataxia cos of the selection of balance games on it. Several members of my Ataxia group also bought it after I reviewed it on the site!

Here's link to my own blog and last April's post on my Wii and Balance Belt:
http://katilea.wordpress.com/2011/04/

Hi there i have only just joined mfp, & i am loosing weight very slowly & i would love some new friends to help me along this slow journey to loose weight to become a fitter & happier me, any advise & inspiration would be very much appreciated

Hi

do you have difficulty with restricted mobility too? I was thinking of starting a group for adapting exercises but didn't get much of a response so didn't think anyone would join! :embarassed: :sad: