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just found the group and am turning 51 soon(gulp). Not sure how I got there.. but I am taking my goal(s) a step at a time, literally, but have about another 5stone to loose on top of the five already gone. I don't feel like an old man yet and want to try and get and stay fit into my older years and also do some scuba…

Biggest motivation is to get to a healthy weight, which I have never been pretty much all my life. Also to look normal so feel better about things but primary its about health for me rather than looks..

I weight in on a Sunday morning early and only once a week now as started doing everyday but got disheartened. Then I got some techno scales and can now see progress on my phone which is a driving force for my weight loss whether it be up or down..

Thats how I started, got off one stop early and then that built up to 5miles quite quickly and in Summer did both ways. When I first started walked really slowly as didn't want to sweat but then as got more into it was going around 4mph..

I saw myself in some photos at a parents wedding anniversary and didn't recognise myself, kind of.. I knew I had been putting weight on but I just didn't care. It was that moment that I got on the scales and saw I was 285lbs and decided to do something about it and get my life back. I'm now 210 but still have a long way to…

Hello, I am working through my 100+ WL and one of the things I found useful is to start with small steps and work up. I chose walking as I didn't want to go to gyms etc and was very body conscious but I did think that I would incorporate little things that added up over the week like walking to toilets on other floors at…

I took no offence to this, short and to the point :smile:

Current fitness is I try to do 5miles a day at brisk pace 3-4mph sometimes I manage 8 miles sometimes less and once or maybe twice I will do a 10 mile walk Good point! although I exaggerate a bit when I say far from civilisation :smile: but none the less good call on leaving a route etc as hadn't thought of injuries..

Thanks for your encouragement and app advice, and I am in very similar position just a bit older, but I am starting from scratch and take strength from your post. At the moment I am perfectly happy to give this a go on my own as there is no one in a similar position and I am definitely not ready to go out with a club…

6/11 +5.41m Walking tot: 37.2m

Again many thanks all for all the encouragement and advice.. I tried 3 short burst on my walk to see if I could and find out how it feels, can report still alive and enjoyed it so first I need to get some proper footwear before I start this and lookup stretching.

Ok I have C25K on my Runkeeper :) So here we go......

Many thanks for all the answers and support! I don't know why I have been worried giving it a go guess thought being this weight would foobar the knees and ankles, but shall take on board the advice to start carefully and not over do it. I am going to look into some running shoes. Where I would run is a grassland mostly…

4/11 +3.54m 5/11 +10.15m Walking tot: 31.79m

4/11 +3.54m Walking tot: 21.64

3/11 +5.34m Walking tot: 18.1m

A nickname given to me by then young niece.. who dreamt up and drew copious Boobleland drawings

Well done, a great story and although I'm not sure I want to go running Marathons :) your story is spurring me onto my goal.

Done my first 3miles and saw Deer!

I'm in and will try for 90 Miles as I am doing about 60 a month at the moment and want to bump up a bit.

+1 for the Kallo Choco ceiling tiles :smile:

Hi, just joined MFP and have a bike thats been sitting in a shed for the past 10 or more years. I have had it checked over and brought a new tyre :smile: but am trying to work out how I am going to start using it as where I lived before was flat as a pancake and now I am living in the opposite. Think TdF land. I have…