not too big to move

If you live near a school/hotel with a pool, they might charge a small (a $1-$2) fee to use their pool. Water walking would be great.

If not, how about Yoga? walk off the pounds videos?

Sorry I'm not more help, others might have better ones.

You can use resistance bands! If you need to sit down while using them...that's fine. Just get your body moving and burning. The rest will come later once you've dropped some weight, gotten stronger, and ready to move forward with something new.

Any and All movement can be exercise, so start slow and have fun. You could start by adding more movement to your everyday chores. I turn on the music, or just sing my own, and dance around while I vacuum, cook dinner, wash dishes, everything. My kids think I am CRAZY but I say "hey, what the heck, needs to be done so might as well be fun!" Besides the better you feel, the more you'll do and the healthier you'll get and low and behold... you feel even BETTER!!
Good Luck, YOU CAN DO THIS!!

You can do simple things in chairs.
Like torso twists, use bottles of water as weights and work on your upper body strength.
There are also some yoga dvd's I've seen that are for chair users.
It takes you through workout routines that keeps you sitting in a straight back chair.

Start slow..... any repetitive movement you do will help you work to your goal and get you to a more traditional workout.
Take it slow and don't get discouraged, it'll come to you!!
Building up stamina takes time, you'll get there! :flowerforyou:

i would totally recommend leslie sansone's walking dvd's!!! i know how you feel about wanting to work out at home.... when you already feel big you don't want people watching you try to work out!!! :embarassed: they are great videos with alot of different levels for beginners and stuff... and when you get stronger you can add weights and stuff. they are only about $10 at target!

Well you do want to do something that will raise your heartrate to an extent. So if you are walking just make sure that you walk fast enough to where you do raise your heartrate. If not you wont be in a cardio zone and really wont be burning much fat. Also you do want to get better endurance.

Connie

You need to build up your self confidence and just KNOW YOU CAN DO IT!

I have a really large friend who has the same issues, she is now going to the pool a few days a week, feels better and started walking.

Here are some fun & very easy things I am doing.
- Stand up & high step in place while watching a tv show or music or movie, video etc.
- Do stretching and yoga moves during commercials.
- Keep a fitness ball nearby, when I find myself couch potato-ing, I use it!
- Take longer strides to stretch hip flexors, it feels good too!
- Load the ipod with dance tunes & dance while cleaning, esp. fun with the broom, mop & vacuum. My kids & I crank up old 80's dance stuff and jam thru the housework, its allot of fun esp. when you take air guitar breaks.
- Same as above with gardening & raking the yard but I make exaggerated lunges and stretch while doing it.

I found this stuff really hard to do at first but I am determined & have been at it daily, just 30 mins a day. My posture has improved immensely and I can feel my balance is so much better along with my self confidence. I am getting more limber & I feel like dancing ALL THE TIME and I have lost almost 5 pounds!

Good Luck YOU CAN DO IT!
hit me up anytime if you need someone to chat with!

I hate to admit it but Sweating to the Oldies is a great work out tape. They are low impact and there are people of all sizes on them. You could start out just doing it for about 5 minutes. then work up to 10 then up to 15.

Really as long as you are doing something. You could even get a step and step on and off of it for a couple of minutes and work your way up from there.

The more you lose and the more you move the less pain you will have, so it is worth suffering a little extra now to get a lot of relief later on.

I hate to admit it but Sweating to the Oldies is a great work out tape. They are low impact and there are people of all sizes on them. You could start out just doing it for about 5 minutes. then work up to 10 then up to 15.

Really as long as you are doing something. You could even get a step and step on and off of it for a couple of minutes and work your way up from there.

The more you lose and the more you move the less pain you will have, so it is worth suffering a little extra now to get a lot of relief later on.

I was going to suggest Sweatin' to the Oldies too..
They're so fun to do.
Even on days when you don't feel like doing anything, its easy to workout with silly Richard Simmons!
You can pick them up cheap on Ebay!

hahhahah
he makes me laugh
i wonder if i will burn extra calories giggling to him as i dance:laugh:

Oh I definately giggle at him, but it really is a good work out especially for someone who has trouble getting around. But some of those people on there are really big, and I always feel that if they can do it so can I.

anything is better than nothing, but you need to get your heart rate up. not only do you burn more calories, BUT you are also strengthening your heart. We do intervals, after warming up for about 5 or 10 minutes, they blow the whistle and you go as hard as you can for 30 seconds, then rest for a minute and go 30 seconds again. we do 3 or 4 intervals and then go at a good pace and then do more intervals. as you go along you make your intervals longer and the rest time shorter. You can do it. I was running on the treadmill for 60 seconds at a time, and I weighed 370 lbs. When you don't feel like you have one more ounce of energy left you can always find it.

It seriously IS the difference between life and death when at higher weight... excercise is vital...for many many reasons but if you're feeling vain (ok, that's not exactly vain, it's merely looking ahead) think on what your skin will do if you skip the excercise and lose the weight. SAG, sag, tons of loose skin and not anyplace to hide it from yourself.

Moving your body even if all you can do is walk to the end of the driveway....your body will thank you!! next time walk a tiny bit further, it does work, keep reading the message boards!! You'll see some folks here that have some large weight losses that have shared how they only wish they had excercised from the beginning because now they have to have plastic surgery because of the hanging skin. Learn from all of us here.... we're here to support you and push you if you need it.:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

FC

Ok....I will admitt...here anywayy..lol
i have got a LOT to lose
Im 5'0 and weight 250
ugh,,,,
so i wanna drop about 150 i think
I know I KNOW i must exercsie.But with this weight...Its hard for now
and Im on my feet at work alllll day
So im in a lot of pain...back and knees kill me always
I cant afford a proper doctor for now(working on that)
Does anyone have an idea of SOMETHING i can do until i shed a bit more and
then would be easier to do a more extensive work out?
No gym,,etc...something at home...etc
hope you can help,,,Thanks

Often just simply dropping some weight can help a person get more mobile and feel they can have more endurance to do more. I bet your back and knees will hugely improve as the weight drops off!:drinker: Amazing all the things that extra weight can do...pain, keep us from being ourselves, we seem to limit ourselves more because of lower self-esteem etc.

Kudo's to you for wanting to get moving! Lesie Sasone's (think I got the last name correct?) walking off the lbs is definitely something you can do at home. I found the full set on ebay for under $15 where as in a local store that's how much 1 DVD is from what I've heard.

I really never understood how that DVD worked until I saw it. She has music and works with several folks and has to walk, move your arms etc. while doing it. Walking in place is what's it's like. Something you can try out at home and feel comfy while doing it, fit it in whenever you have time etc.

She has various distances and levels.....let me know if you'd like to know more about her DVD's..nah, I don't sell them!:laugh: I bought a set not to long ago and finally was able to take a look, makes much more sense now that I've seen one.

Trust me your knees and back pain will likely lessen adding excercise in.....you won't be so stiff and will sleep so much better!

Let us know what you find that works for you...oh and dancing while cleaning is a bunch of fun too...turn up that fast paced music and you kill two birds with one stone!:drinker: :laugh:

FC