I (41 M) recently had an injury to my hip that brought into relief the changes I should make. I'm 6'2 and weigh 265 lbs. In high school I was 183. I've been sedentary besides the occasional walk as an adult. I weighed 216 at 24, lived in a walkable city for a year and lost 18 lbs to 198. Then my mom got sick so I moved back to my home state and a small non-walkable town and within a year was 238. She passed in 2010 and I've lived in apartments ever since. By about 2013 my weight got up to 265. Since then, I've fluctuated between 248 and 268. Right now I'm 263.
I've had jobs where I have to be on my feet, but never physical labor and I've never made a gym commitment stick. My daily habits are sedentary and my current job involves maybe a mile or two of walking but mostly desk work. And my diet sucked (which didn't help my diverticulitis). I recently tried ADDING walking, but on day 2 my foot got plantar fasciitis. For the next month I walked with a limp favoring the good foot, until one day I twisted wrong and it felt like a baseball had been taken to my left hip.
I couldn't sleep except in a chair for five days, couldn't walk or lay down. I went to an urgent care and for x-rays and they said everything was negative. They said there was age related narrowing of certain things, but basically that I'm too out of condition to even exercise: I have to lose the weight first.
So now I'm bummed about myself, but hopeful. I've already made some dietary changes.
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