Hi r/fitness, I'm morbidly obese and trying to make positive lifestyle changes. What are the most important changes I can make?

Love this type of question, i get to serve a dose of realism! Before i start, you mentioned that you're "morbidly obese" and have "terrible self-discipline & will power". Obviously diet is a huge issue which everyone will mention. But i'm going to go out and say don't bother going on MyFitnessPal, don't bother counting calories or tracking your macros. In a perfect world every fitness guru is going to recommend you eat a healthy diet and start exercising, which they're not wrong but it's a textbook answer assuming that you can cope with the diet and will commit to it 100%. Firstly, being morbidly obese suggests that you're eating quite a lot. If you try to conform to a healthy macro range, it's going to be a huge shock to you both physically and mentally and you're going to absolutely struggle. Having self-discipline problems means you're not going to stick to this for very long. Secondly, I highly doubt that you're going to be bothered to log on to MyFitnessPal and check and count every single thing you eat/feel like eating, especially if you're used to eating/snacking many times throughout the day. My recommendation is to take take slow steps and start off by doing things that you can actually realistically stick to, then slowly improve over time as you and your body adapts. My suggestion is that you simply reduce the overall amount that you eat. Start off slow and keep slowly reducing it as your body adapts to eating less and less, make sure you're consistent and don't have days where you revert back to over eating. If you reduce the amount of food you eat and continue walking a mile each day without fail, you will lose weight. As this becomes easier then you can progress to things such as; substituting in healthier choices and eventually counting your macros. The same thing applies, in reverse, with exercise. make sure you walk the mile each day without fail, as it becomes easier slowly add a little more at a time. As you become fitter and lose more weight slowly start to run and so on. The whole point of this story is; people will give you the "right answers" but for someone in your situation, it will be completely unrealistic. I know people might rip into me for this whole short story of mine, but i have never seen anyone who was morbidly obese with self confessed self-discipline problems who from day one began counting macros and stuck with it. I have seen MANY who tried and gave up shortly after.

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