New to exercise
After years of you-yo dieting I am, at 250lbs doing something about it. I'm eating sensibly and doing my first exercises since I left school... I am 60. My ankles knees and hips are dreadfully sore and I crawl around like an old lady. My family all say that weak joints run in our family. They don't. Its a tendancy to be overweight which runs in our family and the creaky joints are just a by-product.
I don't want to go at this like a bull at a gate and drop dead so at the moment I am walking a little more each day and doing knee exercises.
Hubby and I love to hill walk but for the last few months I have had so much trouble that we have stopped and I feel guilty. This is the best motivation I have ever had to do something about my weight.
Needless to say, my feet are as flat as pancakes... even when I was nursing and a UK size 12 dress my feet were flat! I'm told that for every pound one loses the stress on the hips knees and ankles reduces significantly so here goes
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