Hi Norma. Thanks for your concern. Actually it was not my ankle. I have plantar fascitis and bone spurs... AND a tricky knee. So it was my feet which were in so much pain, but I'm giving them the old treatment.
They pretty much always hurt but most of the time I can just grin and bear it and keep going.
As for exercise, my advice is to start slowly and do NOT feel badly if you don't crank out as much as some of us. We are all at different levels and by nature very different. LOL when I started in again after my surgery and horrible weight gain, I could walk a block or so without leaning on a pole or sitting on the rocks, etc. to rest. I was soooooooooooo proud of myself the first day I got in 10,000 steps! Yesterday I had 8,000 and considered it a total goof off day!
Also, even though with my commute I am gone 11 hours a day, I am single so don't have other people to take care of when I come home. So it is easier for me to go jump into the pool or take a long walk, even if the house does look a shambles.
Don't compare yourself to others... just set a SMALL goal that will work for you and commit yourself to sticking with it. It has to be a DECISION -- if you base it on a feeling or some mysterious "motivation" you won't do it. Try to find something you enjoy... but even if you don't just DO it as you do other things you don't particularly want to such as go to work.
But wait wait wait
-- you seem to think the rest of us are just RARING to get up and get out there and exercise! Well perhaps we are learning to think that way but believe me... most of us have to force ourselves to get up off our butts and get out there just like you do! LOL otherwise we would not be this fat to begin with.
We have just learned to enjoy the results so much that we are learning to enjoy the actual exercise.
Example: Tonight after work I wanted sooooooooooooo badly NOT to go to the pool but just curl up with a book. But I forced myself to go... and once I got out there I was SO happy with myself that I was saying to myself "I'm DOING it! Yay for me!" I didn't particulary want to stay out there for 80 minutes doing water aerobics... but I am SO thrilled with how much more limber and energetic I am that I could rejoice in it. But this is NOT an easy process for ANY of us... it is HARD HARD work.
BTW your quote reminds me of one I saw posted here when I first began my weight loss journey... "If you love the results, learn to love the process." That has been SUCH a blessing to me and I don't even remember who posted it. I work at enjoying the journey. You CAN do it too! Congratulations on your 7 pounds loss... great start!
Blessings
lol)
15-19mph 11 miles GREAT DAY SO FAR!!! 
