Struggling and need to lose a huge amout of weight.

I'm in the same boat. I'm a 49 year old mom and need to lose 100 lbs. I have arthritis in both my hips and knees and find it hard to do anything more cardio than walking at this point. I walk up and down my street in the evening and I downloaded some exercise apps to my phone, anything just to get moving, even if it's just marching in place.

Good luck to you!

I have about 80lb's left to lose feel free to add me I'll try to support and motivate as much as I can, also dont think about how far you have to go, I have 3 sets of goals, the short term goal is always to the next 7lbs, midway goal is 2 stone down by september/october time and then the final goal that I dont think about much!

I'm about your age, I'm about 80 pounds overweight and I have dodgy joints, so I understand what you're going through! Walking in particular can be pretty painful. I'd recommend Leslie Sansone's exercise DVDs to start with. There's some on youtube so you can try them out and see what you think. I think they seem to be suited to people who are very overweight and older. They mostly consist of walking on the spot, but I think it's better to do that than nothing!

I've taken up cycling again, which seems to put less strain on my joints than walking. Your weight is supported. Swimming might also be good.

I'm also doing weight training, because at our age, our muscles are wasting. I'm hoping I can reverse the process by lifting weights. I find the weights easier on my joints than some other types of exercise.

Diet-wise, I'm roughly following the No S diet, which means no snacks or sweets on weekdays. I just eat three nutritious meals a day. I'm also logging my calories here, but was losing weight before I started logging. I ate fairly healthy food, but don't cut anything out (apart from the sweet stuff and alcohol during the week). I'm slowly but steadily losing weight, and starting to get some energy back as well, which is great!

I know you've probably already considered this, but thyroid problems can often start at our age, so if you haven't already done so it might be worth getting checked out. You shouldn't be constantly exhausted just because you're overweight. There might be something else happening that you could get treated: thyroid, anaemia, etc.