Me and my mom

Hi!

Nice to have you with us :flowerforyou:

I think you should start exercising ex 3 days of cardio and 3 days of weights training each week.
By cardio I mean walking/running, swimming, riding a bike etc.
The best way is probably to make one day of cardio, the other of weights and so on, with one day a week rest.

Try browsing www.shape.com and www.self.com (if you register here you can watch some exercise videos etc) and find sth for you there.

And of course if you want to exercise at home dvds are always a good idea

Good luck!

Welcome! Workout ideas: first there are many good sources online for weight (resistance) training. Instead of fancy weights, try soup cans or other small cans of food and then work you way up with what you find at home. You could buddy with your mom to push agains each other as well.

This is a great time to start and if you get discouraged, we're here!

I guess the only thing I can suggest right now is that you don't think of this as a "diet plan" this community is really a place where you will find out to adjust your portions and think healthy with regard to food and exercise in your daily life.

We have a community of people who are experiencing success and failure on a daily basis and willing to share those with you and we're all here virtually to give you any support that you may require in our own personal ways.

Welcome aboard to both of you. Start slow, live each day one at a time and it will eventually all come together for you.

Hi brownie! Congratulations on beginning this change! I hope that you are able to find encouragement and useful tools on this website to help you and your mother.

Since you are somewhat restricted in what you can do, I think that you should begin doing exercises that incorporate your own body's resistance. I know that it sounds strange, but when I was a cheerleader (ages ago) and in very great shape, I had to have a surgery to repair a broken wrist from tumbling and I was unable to do some of the exercises that my drill sergeant of a coach would make us do...so she made me stand and do resistance using my body. To start with, either sitting or standing (preferably standing) extend your arms to where they are parallel to the floor, flip your palms up facing the ceiling, make fists and bend at the elbows. This is basically a bicep curl, but with your arms extended outward so that you have to work to keep them parallel to the floor while curling inward. The key to doing any resistance work is to really engage your muscles and to focus on the squeezing motion as you contract. During this movement, you can also engage your core (stomach and lower back) by keeping it tight. I would do 3-5 sets of 10 repetitions, but you can either increase the reps or decrease if needed.

I know that this is only one exercise, but there are others to do as well. I am unsure as to what your ability is, but let me know if the one I mentioned above helps out at all. If not, I can give you examples of some other things. Just remember, don't quit when your muscles begin to burn and tire. If anything you do becomes too difficult, try to do as many reps as possible on one set and then on the next, just do as many as you can. You can do it! Good luck!