When you feel to tired to exercise

It is common to feel a loss of energy during cancer treatments in particular as a result of chemotherapy or radiotherapy.  This loss of energy or fatigue can be severe and limit activity which leads to muscles wasting and losing their ability to function.

It has been shown that a good, regular aerobic exercise programme can help reduce this fatigue, which in turn allows you to do more of your normal daily activities with less limitation.

You can start the aerobic exercise programme during or just after treatment.  Just ensure that you progress gradually and listen to how you are feeling.

It adds up

Over the space of a year the smallest nutritional indiscretions can add up and lead to a small gradual increase in weigh and waistline.  Just one slice of sponge cake a week will add up to the equivalent of 2.5kg of fat or nearly 20,000 calories in a year.  Which means you would only have to walk about 200 miles to burn it off, which is equivalent of walking from St Peter Port to Paris. Over 10 years a weekly cake would provide enough energy to walk to Cairo.  If you don’t fancy wither of these expeditions but still want your cake and eat it, do a little bit every day.  About 900m a day would burn off the cake or a walk from the main road, past the model yacht pond, past castle cornet, out to the light house and back every other day.  If you do this, and do not have your cake and eat it you will lose the 2.5kg a year.