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Who Needs More than Cooking for exercise?

Marianne72

I don't know if this is an age thing or general malaise due to this seemingly long stretch of winter. After peeling and coring a pineapple, chunking it then putting it in a dish in the fridge, I feel exhausted. Worse, there is far more in the compost caddy than the dish after all this work! I'm now too tired to eat it Rolling eyes. Any recipe that says, 'beat eggs until they form a thin ribbon' [which takes ages] or 'peel, core and dice..' I feel a need to lie down for a couple of hours. Being virtuous and trying to eat healthily is an exhausting routine of chopping, slicing, par boiling, watching and waiting, to say nothing of the scrummage to do the shopping and dodge the usual connected social issues. These days, when I find a recipe that says, 'preparation 5 mins, cooking 10 minutes', which is very rare, I  almost dance with glee. Well, I think about it anyway Relieved.  I don't know why going to the gym and other forms of aged-body exercise punishment are recommended for older people, when eating, cleaning and shopping are so tiring. Anyone else of my years [73] experience this? Or does this happen for younger people too?

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  • Marianne72 said:
    Anyone else of my years [73] experience this? Or does this happen for younger people too?

    I’m in my 60s but I sympathise with you because cooking exhausts me, although it has always been that way.

    I cook out of necessity but I don’t cook dishes that require much preparation or those that have multiple stages throughout the cooking process because that sort of organisation exhausts me. From spring through to autumn I eat mostly salads because they are easy to prepare even though they can have lots of different ingredients. I batch cook chicken breast strips in the air fryer for the salads and they last over a few days. Sometimes I have salmon or pasta with a tomato based sauce and a tin of anchovies.

    Since beginning resistance based exercises with weights and exercise bands last year I have found my joints are less troublesome and I feel stronger and less likely to tire physically. Adding that into my exercise regime has increased my energy levels so I think the difficulty with cooking complicated dishes is more to do with executive functioning. I’m highly organised in many aspects of my life while things like cooking complicated dishes leave me struggling and exhausted.

    Occasionally I buy M&S Nutrient Dense Tandoori Chicken which is fresh, not a processed food and it doesn’t have preservatives or fillers. It’s expensive but not more expensive than a carry out and it just needs three minutes 40 seconds in the microwave to heat it up.

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  • Marianne72 said:
    Anyone else of my years [73] experience this? Or does this happen for younger people too?

    I’m in my 60s but I sympathise with you because cooking exhausts me, although it has always been that way.

    I cook out of necessity but I don’t cook dishes that require much preparation or those that have multiple stages throughout the cooking process because that sort of organisation exhausts me. From spring through to autumn I eat mostly salads because they are easy to prepare even though they can have lots of different ingredients. I batch cook chicken breast strips in the air fryer for the salads and they last over a few days. Sometimes I have salmon or pasta with a tomato based sauce and a tin of anchovies.

    Since beginning resistance based exercises with weights and exercise bands last year I have found my joints are less troublesome and I feel stronger and less likely to tire physically. Adding that into my exercise regime has increased my energy levels so I think the difficulty with cooking complicated dishes is more to do with executive functioning. I’m highly organised in many aspects of my life while things like cooking complicated dishes leave me struggling and exhausted.

    Occasionally I buy M&S Nutrient Dense Tandoori Chicken which is fresh, not a processed food and it doesn’t have preservatives or fillers. It’s expensive but not more expensive than a carry out and it just needs three minutes 40 seconds in the microwave to heat it up.

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