[Blindtlk] my new crazy idea

[David Andrews]

We do have a sportsandrec division with a list, 
you could float your idea there:

http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/sportsandrec_nfbnet.org

to join the list, and I think they have a web site too.

Dave

At 07:23 AM 12/26/2016, you wrote:
>I hope everyone had a lovely holiday!  We had a 
>fairly quiet dinner at home with family, opened 
>presents and ate way, way, way too much food.  I 
>still have most of a cheesecake in the 
>refrigerator, which brings me to my newest crazy 
>idea. I’d like to start some sort of fitness 
>group.  I don’t want to join my local gym and 
>I don’t know anyone locally who would be 
>interested in long, brisk walking for 
>fitness.  However, I know that I benefit a lot 
>when I have people to be accountable to and a 
>group that supports each other in a common 
>goal.  I have a business group and have made a 
>lot of progress in that area, due in part to 
>having that group.  So I’d like to find a 
>handful of other people who are committed to 
>fitness and want to actively pursue that.  I 
>haven’t sorted out all the details of how 
>exactly this would work, but I’m thinking we 
>could have phone conferences to discuss our 
>progress or to actually do our exercise while 
>chatting, by walking or lifting weights or 
>whatever suits each person.  I’ve had email 
>groups in the past and that has been helpful, 
>but it doesn’t last.  I’m hoping that the 
>smaller group with a more personal connection 
>via phone would keep us connected long term. All 
>the individual components, diet, exercise 
>method, weight loss goals, and all of that would 
>be individual to each person.  So if one person 
>wanted to walk 30 minutes a day and eat one more 
>vegetable daily and another person was going to 
>drink a green smoothie for breakfast and lift 
>weights, this would still work.  The phone group 
>is for accountability and support, not 
>instruction on what to do. It would also be a 
>way for people to share blindness specific ideas 
>on how to go about operating the equipment at 
>the gym or accessible aps for calorie counting 
>and that sort of thing.  I am aware of the 
>Sports and Rec list and if someone wants to post 
>this there, you are welcome to do that.  That 
>list has been a great resource.  I want this 
>phone group to be smaller, more personal and 
>more about support. Things I’m looking for in 
>people that want to join: available time, for 
>the phone conferences as well as personal 
>fitness goals willingness to commit long term, 
>let’s say one year of committed effort sane 
>and realistic goals, no starvation diets, no run 
>until you drop if you need to consult a doctor 
>or other professional, please do that, I’m no 
>substitute and do not want to represent myself 
>in any way shape or form as any sort of health 
>professional and perhaps most important, I want 
>people who will be kind to each other.  No food 
>shaming, no fat jokes, no excessive bragging on 
>how much you can lift or run or whatever. If 
>this sounds like something you’d like to 
>participate in, please email me at: 
>julielj at neb.rr.com I’ll collect email 
>addresses this week.  Next weekend I’ll send 
>out a phone number and instructions on how to 
>join the conference.  We can sort out all the 
>details on that call, like frequency of 
>meetings, times, additional member requirements, 
>desire for an email/facebook/whatever group and 
>anything else that comes up.  This is entirely 
>free, excepting any phone charges, internet 
>connection, computer etc.   I want to get this 
>started, but I don’t want to be any sort of 
>leader or person in charge.  All members will 
>have an equal share in the group. Keep being awesome! Julie