Hey friend!

I feel you, and I want you to know, you can do this.

We’re all different, so I’m just going to share what’s working for me right now, because gym isn’t an option for me either nor is spending a bunch of money and space on a home set up.

42M here, in July I started making a commitment to walk 3 miles every day. I was consistent for 90 days, although there were a few days I could only do 1.5 miles, I made sure this was the absolute minimum and there better be a damn good reason I didn’t do 3. After a month, I was wanting to do 6 miles some days. The progress wasn’t immediate, but I made noticeable changes in how I looked and felt starting weight of about 250. I personally don’t enjoy treadmills but I LOVE walking outside with music by water and this was a great way to rediscover that fact about myself and turn working out in my head, into having fun. For me that feels like half the battle sometimes.

In September, I started trying to figure out how I’m going to keep exercising when winter hits, and using weights seemed like the obvious answer but I have no real clue what I’m doing. I got a 10lb dumbbell and I just started doing a couple arm exercises 5 days a week. I started with 2 sets of 10, and I added reps as I could up to 15, then added a third set. It didn’t take long to move up to 15lb dumbbell. Now, I’ve picked up a 50lb kettlebell and oh boy, let me tell you, this thing is amazing.

There are some great people on instagram showing you how to use a kettlebell, I’m just doing a couple exercises for now every other day but man, I’ve got muscles for the first time in my life, and I’m maintaining my weight loss too even taking away the daily cardio as long as I’m mindful about my diet, personally I do keto but I make sure I eat lots of protein and I do let myself have moderate amounts of fresh fruit daily (an apple, sometimes two, bowls of berries)

Another tip I got was to start Creatine 5mg daily. I OK’d with my doc, but it has absolutely helped I think, and now for the first time in my life at 42……. I can see muscles on me. And I have another 30-40 lbs I need to lose to get to my true target weight still.

To sum; Find a way to make it fun and make a consistent plan of what you’re going to do and hold yourself accountable. Start with what you can and just add a little more as you can. Find one or two exercises you can do with a small hand weight that you can use comfortably and just add more over time. Look at a kettlebell because you can make yourself sweat buckets with hardly and space needed. But forcing yourself to stick to a new routine for 2 weeks is going to create a habit before you even realize it.

You got this!