horizontal jogging which I think you are referring to only puts muscles on the thighs.
There is of course to old joke about a child watching their parents do this and asked why, to make him slimmer his wife said. Then saw the woman next door blowing him up again
Seated exercise may be an option for you. I run fitness classes for over 50’s. I use a wheelchair due to a disability, i adapt exercises so they can be done safely. I have a Facebook page called Active-Ability with a few clips of the exercises i teach. As for dieting, i lost a lot of weight with Noom, which is based on mindful eating techniques. Healthy foods dont have to be boring at all.
Thank you. I will have a look at the site. I think I am simply lazy when it comes to exercising.
It is much easier to do nothing than to make an effort to exercise.
Lazy bones. 
I just realised, I am not with facebook.
Never mind, I can look on youtube. I am still the same weight I was 2 years ago.
73.4kg.
I used to be like you. People often asked me if I was pregnant, even though I wasn’t at an age, they should assume that. Losing weight was difficult for me until I started learning from YouTube. I continued eating all food groups but in the right amounts, increasing protein and fiber
I’ve never actually tried to loose but I have lost a bit recently, ever since giving up the beer.
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You need to wash your mouth out!
That’s good. Have whole unmilled oats. Careful with the milk (almond milk is good) and no sugar, honey or syrups. I usually slice a small banana onto mine or a couple of peach halves,
The family keep buying Scotch eggs and I have one a day.
Who had a scotch egg during lockdown?
I had some corned beef - does that count?
Drinkers in tier two areas of England could order a Scotch egg with their pint to keep in line with post-lockdown rules, a cabinet minister has said.
Decisions decisions, one big one or five small ones 
I noticed they call them ‘Savoury Eggs’ Spitty…Is that a PC woke thing… 
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One big one Spitty, mayonnaise should be banned! 
Maybe some people thought that with the name ‘scotch’, they were being mislead. No whisky in them.
I have a long history with weight. I was a chubby kid, an obese teen & by age 25, 405 lbs, around 220 lbs overweight for someone 6 ft. In my photo from a few years ago, I’m at 185. I’m now at 170 & have stayed there ever since. So I know a bit about weight.
Genetics do play a role; I never ate more than my skinny friends; we all met at our favorite fast-food places & ate the same burgers, fries & Coke. They stayed thin.
Exercise is great - for flexibility, circulation & joints. Mostly not for weight loss. I walk every day & lift light weights.
95% of weight loss is what we eat; not what we use. Like all living things, we run mainly on glucose, not fat. That’s why 100% of carbohydrates we eat are quickly converted to sugar (glucose). We do store some fat in case of a lack of food; that’s how our body protects us from starvation. You may be wondering about animals that are carnivorous - how do they get sugar or carbohydrates when they only eat meat? Their digestive system is designed to convert a large percent of the protein & fat in their diet to carbohydrate.
There is a big difference in how we metabolize processed food & whole food (fruits & vegetables). Foods with a list of ingredients are processed foods - addicting & more fun to eat, but contribute to a weight problem. Processed foods - bread, or anything made with flour, chips, pasta, etc.) cause a fast spike in blood sugar, which forces your pancreas to secrete a lot of insulin quickly. Insulin is a fat-storage hormone, & as we age, we can’t be as active as when we were young, so the more insulin we require, the more fat will be stored. Unprocessed foods (also known as “Complex Carbohydrates”) are metabolized slower & less insulin is required.
I occasionally eat a handful of chips or a couple of cookies now & then, but I have to be disciplined & know when to stop. And I have to make sure that unprocessed food makes up 70% of my diet.
Nobody said it was gonna be easy. 
Metabolism does change with age and as said, some of us will find one of the changes is weight gain. Not to be desired or completely accepted without some control of course but I think not to the extent that it stops enjoyment of life.
I find that one compensation of aging is that appearances don’t matter quite so much. Looking a bit overweight because you enjoy eating nice food isn’t as important as it was when in the prime of life trying to look good for everyone. Life is finite and if eating the foods you like makes you feel good, go for it and don’t take too much notice of the science of eating.
I developed achalasia a few years back, which basically meant that I regurgitated much of what I ate. Naturally, it worsened and most meals would lead to me finding a bin or a loo every second mouthful (even drinking liquids wasn’t always possible). Naturally I lost a lot of weight.
Then I had an operation (Heller Myotomy), which, after a few subsequent dilatations, means that I could and can largely eat as normal. Trouble is, I’d become so used to eating a lot of food, safe in the knowledge that not much of it would go down, that it’s taken me the best part of two years to retrain my habits, during which time I gained a lot of weight.
So, I’ve started to eat more healthily nowadays, avoid snacking and going for a swim or the gym a few times a week (apart from the last few weeks due to illness).
