Exercise Help

if you can or have access try UTUBE look up beginner Zumba or workouts try pilates, or old school workouts they are low impact and still help!

Also (walking,squattuing,doing lunges,use small weights a big exercise ball)
so many at home workouts

Dance! Just dance around at home to your favourite music, get your body moving.
And once you start getting used to it, introduce other things like gentle walking.
Build up gradually......every little helps.

I weigh 229.2lbs. I started out at 246 last year and lost 31lbs just by eating right and the exercises I did low impact because I have a disability and bad balance. So all this fast stuff and hardcore workout is near impossible for me right now still. lol.

Start out doing beginner yoga and beginner pilates. Trust me, it works you, just isn't as harsh as the more experienced types.

Youtube has TONS of videos and I like a few videos on the Fitnessblender channel that have low impact cardio, yoga, and pilates.

Also, I understand walking is tough. It is for me, so I was doing the Leslie Sansone videos. I bought one online for my ps3 through Vudu for 2.99. It's the beginner one, I think it's 5 mile walk or something.

And I'm going to be totally honest with you. You are going to hurt regardless when you first start. It's going to hurt like Hades, but the more you do it, the easier it gets and the longer you can do it. I always pushed myself further each time and each time, I felt myself getting a little more better.

Giving up is only what your mind is TELLING you to do because of self doubt. You have to push past that and tell yourself YOU CAN DO IT. Because you know what? YOU CAN! You can do it all! Don't let pain keep you from getting healthy, don't let it rule you. YOU CONTROL YOU. I'll add you, trust me, I struggle daily, but I make something happen every day unless I absolutely can't tolerate it. Just do something every day. AND SIGN YOURSELF UP FOR A CHALLENGE!

I'm doing a 30 day squat challenge. It's not a lot, but it's SOMETHING. I suggest you sign yourself up for one and go by it for 30 days. I can email you a picture of the challenge I go by. You don't go by any single one really. You can pick any challenge. There's TONS on pinterest. lol.

Rebounder or mini trampoline .... just jog on it ....I started out at 15 minutes., and now go 1 hour its great exercise., and easy on the knees.

The walking is a great exercise, especially in the first few months you start...it's something you can do in both indoor environments and out. Walk as much as you can, whenever you can, and challenge yourself! Also sit-ups and push-ups, stretching...however many you can at first. Whenever I've lost weight (this time, approx 24 lbs so far, from when I started last Jan), it's been from eating a close-to-vegetarian diet (cutting down on meats, replacing proteins more with beans, some nuts, etc), cutting out most processed foods and a lot of carbs, walking much more and (for me) going to the gym and doing cardio (swimming, machines) when I can. Lots of counties and cities now offer free aerobics type classes in outdoor parks in nice weather (zumba, step cardio, etc). Also Y's are often more reasonably priced, and I think many have sliding scale pricing?- especially that would be good for swimming, which is also great weight loss exercise. Town or city pools can often, also, be very reasonably priced in nice weather.

Standing and cooking healthy meals, and doing household chores, can also be great exercise! The more one is on one's feet, and not sitting in front of a TV, or at a club/restaurant/etc, the better. In the spring and summertime, I also lost a lot of weight gardening (at my community garden, very very cheap to rent a plot through my city), then I saved a lot of money on vegetables too, and ate very healthy. When I was done gardening, I often wanted to go swimming, too!

Walking! I know it may not seem like much when compared to 30DS or P90X, but walking really is an awesome way to get in exercise. It's natural, low impact, free, and you can do it anywhere. Walk around the block, walk in place watching TV, go window shopping, whatever.

I know it's easy to get caught up in the whole "you need to bust your butt, pour sweat, push through the pain" hype, but that kind of exertion is unnecessary for weight loss - and for someone with a lot to lose, can be downright dangerous. There is no reason to push til you puke in order to lose weight.

Do what your body can handle. If you can only go for 10-15 minutes at a time, rock that 10-15 minutes! If you do 15 minutes three times a day, that's a solid workout, and you won't be beat up from it. Consistency is far more important than intensity. Good luck!

EDIT: Just reread the first post and saw that walking hurts your shins. I'm not sure of anything more low impact than walking, as that's what I did for exercise when I was at my heaviest (nearly 300 pounds). If I were you, I would focus mainly on your diet and not stress about exercise until you drop some of the weight and it's more comfortable to do basic exercises like walking. Exercise is NOT required in order to lose weight - it's all about calorie deficit. Exercise just helps achieve that deficit.

I have back problems so I have to pace myself so I don't get bogged down with pain. Some of my favorites are Turbo Jam and Hip Hop Abs. They are effective but don't make you feel like you've been hit by a truck the next day.

I echo the *dietdietdiet* refrain. Stay within your daily net calorie goal and you will lose weight.
With a goal like yours, I'd definitely check in with your doctor or a nutritionist.
But yes, exercise is good for your heart. Check out Walk Away the Pounds on YouTube to start. It's boring, but very low impact.

Anything you do that makes you breathe harder would be cardiovascular exercise.

Repeating movements that you do already such as getting out of a chair, walking

upstairs, getting up from the floor or getting out of bed etc are all movements

that your body is used to making and therefore you should be able to repeat these

movements with a low risk of injury.

Also doing boxing movements quickly with your arms while stationary will increase

your heart rate and the twisting motion will strengthen your core muscles.

Lying on the floor and lifting your legs one at a time will also strengthen your core

and elevate your heart rate.

Just a few ideas.

I found an article that may be of help to you:
http://www.fit-pro.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?type=Publishing&mod=Publications::Article&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=CDF71F1F3B044BF9AED819DA2AD0CCF5


http://www.laparoscopic.md/exercise/stretching
This one has photos as well as specific stretching exercises for obese people.

http://exercise.about.com/od/weightloss/a/obese_exercise.htm
THis one has great links to other sources, including ideas about "online personal trainers" instead of face-to-face trainers which may be out of your economic range.

An earlier Poster said that weight loss is about diet, exercise is about fitness. There is a great deal of truth to this.

Change your diet, a lot.

If you will honestly log here on MFP, you will begin to see how foods that you thought were low cal and healthy are not. You will learn to make better choices. This approach will become a lifestyle instead of a diet, if you will do it regularly and with consistency.

As you lose weight, you will be able to increase exercise, which will help you even more.