Didn't know where else to ask this question but I was looking for answers or advice from people who live or have lived a sedentary lifestyle and started to try and fix that.
And I mean sedentary.
I'm 6'2" - 295+/- lbs - with my frame I should be about 200-220 if I had muscle or lost all of my fat.
My normal day consists of waking up around noon, walking out to my living room and sitting/laying on the couch and watching tv or using a tablet. The only time I get up is to either make something to eat, go to the bathroom or help/retrieve something for my mom. She's handicapped and I exist at this point as a live-in caretaker because of limited her mobility is from Rheumatoid Arthritis and anklyosing spondilitus(sp?).
Around 5pm or so I go back to my room to lay down (because I usually develop some kind of back/leg pain that typically lessens when lying in bed) and play video games or nap (rarely) and usually return to the living room between 8-9pm where I remain, laying or sitting, until roughly Midnight when I go to bed. The roughly 12 hours I'm in bed is spent playing video games for a few hours and then sleeping terribly for 6-7. Rinse. Repeat. For 8 years now.
Was recently diagnosed as having moderate depression to which I responded "lol ya think?" because I have zero drive in life. Haven't since probably high school (am mid-30's now).
In the last few months I've begun to feel physically horrible almost 24/7. Dizziness/lightheadedness, leg pain and discomfort, headaches and I get out of breath easily for a year now to name a few. Apparently I also suffered a few panic attacks in the span of a few weeks because after having a dozen tests and scans done my heart and lungs are in great condition despite me thinking I was having a heart attack several times. I was legitimately thinking "I've eaten like shit and done absolutely nothing for so long that my body is shutting down." But several doc/specialist visits over the last month seem to say "everything looks fine, you're just embarrassingly out of shape and need to exercise" which is great in the scheme of things. I have desk peddler that I tried out for five minutes today and my legs did feel better already but my chest started to feel sore and I was very winded. The leg pain/discomfort came back within an hour.
My actual questions are:
• Does or has anyone else live(d) a lifestyle similar to mine (or been immobilized for a period because of injury maybe) and were aches and pains in your legs a constant or recurring thing? The pain/discomfort I'm experiencing now is annoying AF.
• Does anyone have any stories or experiences of escaping this hell I put myself in? Despite being so unhealthy, physically I felt fine for the most part and only in the last few months have I constantly felt bad.
TL;DR: Embarrassingly sedentary man wants to know if others in the same boat experience(d) constant or recurring leg pains and aches and what it was like for them in the beginning (getting active).
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source https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/osivij/living_a_sedentary_lifestyle_but_want_to_get_in/
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