Hello! My name is Ann

I have poor knees which I strap up when I can exercise, i adapt most exercises due to arthritis in my back but do some yoga and gentle stretching exercises. Some of my exercise are sitting down or lieing but it depends on how I feel.
To keep fit eat healthy and that helps with weight loss.

Good luck.

Hello, and welcome! s

I'm 66, and have been here for a while, fortunate to lose weight from obese to a healthy weight, and have stayed in a healthy range for 6+ years since that initial loss. You're striving for a thing that had a huge payoff for me in quality of life, I have to say.

Exercise is a great thing for health and functioning, but weight loss is more about balancing eating (calorie intake) with whatever our manageable activity level may be. There are people who are super mobility limited, wheelchair users with even limited upper body function, and they've been able to lose weight with MFP, to the benefit of their health. It's about managing the calorie intake.

Me, I didn't particularly increase my exercise to lose weight - I was already pretty active, even training hard/regularly and competing as an athlete. Despite the exercise, I stayed obese, until I got my eating aligned with my activity. That's a thing that can be done at any activity level, even very low activity, as disabled people here have demonstrated.

I'm not saying that's necessarily super easy every minute, but it's within the reach of a committed person who takes control and does it.

Wishing you success!

I’m just here to say my first thought was walking into the web of those dang alphabet spiders that are out this time of year. Adhesive, indeed. It sounded like an intense fear of spiders. Like mine.

I won’t even take the dog into the pocket park. “No! That thing’s as big as your head! We’re not going in there in case he has friends. Pee over there instead!”

Anyways….Welcome to MFP!

Exercise doesn’t have to be elaborate or fancy. My husband has lost 40+ at age 67 via water aerobics aka aquafit, and watching his diet.

He loves it because he can crack his “dad” jokes at all the gals and they eat it up. I go with him, and it’s a lot of fun. It’s possible to get a good gossip and a good workout at the same time. Our gym has a hot tub adjacent, and whirlpools in the dressing room.

Simply walking is another great exercise.

I find that staying in motion, keeps me in motion. It’s when I sit for an extended period that things seize up.