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It sounds like you need more stimulation and maybe not necessarily exercise. Do you have a hospital nearby? They always need volunteers and you can volunteer for as little as four hours a day one day per week. Or at the library they have reading programs where you help people learn how to read it only takes an hour or two of your time or however much you want to put in. How about volunteering a few hours a week at a homeless shelter? Sometimes you just need to get out of your own head and into something else and volunteering is a great way to do that. In fact there is a volunteer website that you can put in your zip code and it brings up all the opportunities around your area. I'll find it.

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It sounds like you need more stimulation and maybe not necessarily exercise. Do you have a hospital nearby? They always need volunteers and you can volunteer for as little as four hours a day one day per week. Or at the library they have reading programs where you help people learn how to read it only takes an hour or two of your time or however much you want to put in. How about volunteering a few hours a week at a homeless shelter? Sometimes you just need to get out of your own head and into something else and volunteering is a great way to do that. In fact there is a volunteer website that you can put in your zip code and it brings up all the opportunities around your area. I'll find it.

I'm looking for things that burn ALOT of calories, but also are productive in other ways. My metabolism is such that I need to burn alot of calories plus keep my intake low in order to maintain. Being disabled and in a poor, rural area limits opportunities. For now, what I have been doing, is work out as hard as I can throughout the morning, then keep busy/moving the rest of the day. I'm checking that volunteer site, right now, thank you!!

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