Add weights to lose weight

My heart goes out to really obese people when it comes to exercise. Their size and mobility make it extra difficult to do most exercise. They’ve got a lot of weight to just move around and the poor old heart and lungs have a hard time coping with normal activity.

Still, the harsh reality is that you can’t use this as an excuse. Do that and you’ll get fatter still.

You’ve got to get that metabolism stoked up and one great strategy to do that is to engage in some exercise. Now because of the obesity, cardio work may be limited but you can and should still do things (like water aerobics for instance) which improve your cardio-vascular fitness.

You won’t be raising your metabolism with high intensity interval exercise for a while (which is excellent for raising metabolism), so the best exercise you can do to raise it is weight bearing exercise. Be sensible, start light and gradually increase the intensity.

Some great people I know in my weight support group start with food cans and shopping bags. Build up from that. It'll do you good. I know you can so go for it.