![]() Courtesy Amy Dolloff She’s adding in healthier food choicesĭolloff made a mindset shift at the grocery store: “Over the last year, I’ve learned there are some foods if I have a taste of, I can’t stop. I don’t want to lose that muscle mass,” she said. But I know that as you get older, strength training is more and more important. “That’s what I’m struggling with right now. She would also like to incorporate some strength training. She’d like to add in weekend walks, but those days are hectic, and she finds she gets her steps in when she’s cleaning or tackling household chores. Instead of sitting on the porch swing watching the neighbors walk by, I’m going out and walking.” If she doesn’t manage to get her walk in, she’ll walk laps inside her house. “In the evenings, I feel like I need to go walk. And she’s added in walks in her neighborhood for at least 20 minutes, five times a week. In 10 minutes, I would be tired and out of breath.” She slowly increased her walking time.īy August, she was walking up to 30 to 45 minutes during her son’s therapy sessions. “It’s probably 100 yards, and I would just walk that back and forth. She started walking the driveway where her son had therapy. “I guess at that time, I was ready for the information. In early spring 2022, Dolloff was sitting in her car catching up on TODAY segments on her phone while her son was in a therapy program. Courtesy Amy Dolloff She carved out a few minutes for walking and built on them Here are some of the changes she’s made: Amy Dolloff lost 10 pounds in 6 weeks by adding walking to her routine. She uses MyFitnessPal to track her exercise, food and water and she’s seen her scores there improve. My belt is at the last hole, which is four holes down from where I started,” she said. I’ve had to go down to medium shirts from large. My daughter is 15, so in a few years, she’ll be graduating, and all she’s known is me being tired, unhappy, overweight and grouchy,” she said.įinally, earlier this year, she found the motivation to get healthier. And I didn’t want my kids thinking all I did was sit on the couch and not do anything fun with them. ![]() ![]() And finally, I realized I wouldn’t be around much longer if I didn’t do something. “In the last few years, with the stress of life and being down on myself, I haven’t been feeling great. I was grouchy and tired all the time,” she said. My clothes were telling me, the mirror was telling me, and the way I felt was telling me - I didn’t want to do anything. The last time I got on the scale, I was 188. “When my son went into the hospital, my weight was in the 150s. Her husband was working a lot, and with three other children to care for, she was under a lot of stress. Years passed, and her son often needed surgeries. “That’s when I started putting on the weight.” There were days when breakfast, lunch and dinner were peanut butter M&M's from the hospital store. When her son came home, Dolloff said she served as his doctor, nurse and respiratory therapist: “It was like we had a NICU in the house.” Eight months later, he was diagnosed with leukemia and hospitalized again. “My water broke, and suddenly I was gone for five months,” she said. The hospital was two hours from where the family lived, so Dolloff stayed there with her son most of the time. Her son was born two months early, with Down syndrome, and he spent five months in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
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