trying to work out

Good for you for committing to a healthier lifestyle! If you still have access to a pool, swimming is great exercise that is easy on the joints. Other than that, really anything you can start doing is a good start! Since you suffer pain from walking, I imagine that you are fairly sedentary, so starting small may give you some good results. For example, you could start by just standing up and sitting down several times in a row, or going on very short walks.

Your diet is going to be huge factor in your success. So try and eat well and add a little more activity to your lifestyle every day. The good thing is that once you get started, it will get easier! There are a lot of members on here who have lost 100, 200, and 300 pounds! If you haven't yet- try and track some of those people down for your friend list, and I'm sure they'll have some great ideas for you!

Just remember to be patient with yourself and keep at it! It's a tough journey, but it's worth it!

This mostly means, don't eat "empty" calories. No sugar drinks, soda, etc.

I have a friend who lost nearly 100 pounds by switching out sodas for water. She didn't exercise until she was down enough to not hurt.
That's a good place to start? Good luck to you. You can do this. :flowerforyou:

I am quite heavy myself and I have knee, hip and back issues. When I first started, I could only do a few minutes of exercise a day. I have a recumbent stationary bike with a high back seat that works well for me as it supports my back. When I first started on it, it was a huge effort to do 7 minutes. I have steadily added more time each week. It sometimes causes my knee to hurt a lot and when that happens I alternate with another form of exercise, the wii. I stand for the majority of the time I exercise on it, but do sit a few minutes here and there to give my knee and back a rest. I do bowling, tennis, boxing, tennis, and step aerobics on it. You may think that sitting down you wouldn't burn a lot of calories, but as a heavy person, I don't have to work as hard to burn calories as a smaller person does. As long as you are moving and doing something, even housework, it will help you lose weight and as the pounds come off it will get a little easier. Occasionally I walk for exercise but when I walk, I go someplace where there are benches and I can stop when I need to, rest a few min, then do a little more. I also eat roughly 1600 calories a day, which is quite a bit under what I am aloted according to MFP. I could eat more and still lose weight, but I chose to eat fewer calories so I can lose weight at a faster rate because I have some serious health issues going on which may require surgery soon, so I am in a hurry to get this weight off. But just so you know, like another person said on here, you don't have to starve yourself to lose weight. Good luck to you and feel free to add me if you need/want a pal to support you.

HI I started out at 468 lbs or just over 210 kg, I didn't exercise for the first 6 weeks as I wanted to concentrate on my diet. I found this to be daunting to begin with.

So I started out by eliminating all of the junk, that I ate and looked at portion sizes, eating out of boredom is easily done, so if I felt hungry , and knew that I didn't really need to eat, I chewed some sugar free gum.

I switched to diet soda, a lot of people will tell you not to drink it, but it’s not the diet soda that makes you fat, it’s the poor food choices that usually goes with it. The other thing is you need to do is drink lots of water at least 8 glasses a day. This is important to help flush your system and keep kidneys functioning properly. Work out what u like and dislike read labels on everything, stick to what MFP calories are, and don’t eat severely under that number. If you find yourself truly hungry, and you have consumed all of your calories for the day eat some lean protein, as this will help you to feel full. I try to have more protein than carbs with every meal. I am not saying no or low carbs, I just make sure that it’s less than my protein macro. I changed my macro setting to 30% carbs, 30% fat and 40% protein.

As for exercise I started on an exercise bike, just doing 5 mins each day for the first week. I then increased the amount by 1 minute each day until, I could do 30 minutes. I work out 5 days a week due to my work schedule. If I miss a day I hate it I have truly learned to love exercise. I lift weight 3 days a week, cardio and strength training all 5 days.
Just take each day step by step, rejoice at the positives that you’ll have and don’t dwell on the negatives. YOU CAN DO THIS