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“If I Can Do It, You Can Do It:” Jacqueline Fisher Finds A Way to Exercise

Her rou/ne had been the same for a long hungry. “I don’t feel like I’m depriv-
/me: go to work, come home. There ing myself,” she noted.
wasn’t much room for anything else, like
exercise. So last April, when Jacqueline A definite mo/va/on is the posi/ve
Fisher, Quality Compliance, HCP, decided feedback she receives from her
to join the Weight Watchers group at friends at work. “They tell me how
work, she figured it might help her to get good I look, and it keeps me mo/-
a li0le healthier. vated,” said Fisher, who wants to
lose 10 more pounds and then stop
By star/ng to watch what she was ea/ng, and maintain it.
the pounds did start to come off—but
then they would come back on. At this Although she would love to do a
point, Fisher was not exercising. She has breast cancer walk, her physician ad-
chronic obstruc/ve pulmonary disease vised against it at this point. Last year
(COPD) and therefore walking out in the she a0ended the event and helped
open is very difficult and not advisable set up. “I try to give back,” said
for her, as she becomes short of breath. Fisher, a breast cancer survivor since
1975.
The positive comments she receives on her
But Fisher, 67, did not give up. Instead, weight loss keep Jacqueline Fisher moti-
she found a DVD called A Brisk Walk, vated to stick with the program. Fisher noted that it is hard work to fit
which she could do at home, while on in exercise, but added that if some-
her oxygen. The en/re disc is two miles of ac/vity. When thing is worth a0aining, it’s worth trying for. “You never
she first started it, she did half a mile, and at the end of it know un/l you get up and start moving; push the envelope
she was exhausted. Now, she does the en/re two miles of a li0le,” she said. “If I can do it at 67, someone in their 30s
the workout two to three days a week. And she o en adds should be able to do it.” Her success has go0en her daugh-
her own addi/onal moves to the different sec/ons of the ter mo/vated to eat healthier and exercise.
video as well.
People at work are also taking note. “Seeing Jackie stay on
“I feel really good,” Fisher said. “My blood pressure is great track and determined with the weight loss program has
now, and even though I s/ll need my oxygen, I can do 30 been such an inspira/on for me and her other coworkers,”
minutes of the exercise ac/vity, keep up with it, and I feel said Michele Barre . “Jackie has lost the weight at a safe
good at the end of it. I’m glad I can do that.” rate, and she has had to go out and buy new clothes due to
her weight loss, and that’s always encouraging to see. She
To date, she has lost 32 pounds with this program. She has is able to be more ac/ve as a result of her weight loss, and
learned to watch her food por/ons, yet she does not feel that’s what it’s all about.”

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