About 6 years ago (when age 54), I realized my stressful sedentary job was quite unhealthy. With encouragement of my daughter, enrolled in a local couch-2-5k walk/run class. My only goal was to run (with some walking) the culminating 5k race. I’ve continued running about 3 miles a few times a week.
After a few months of running, I had only lost a few of my 20 pounds of excess wait. So I starting watching diet too. I started using MyNetDiary app to track food/exercise and got also interested in better nutrition, partly due to a high A1C reading (borderline for pre-diabetes) at annual physical.
I lost 20lb over about a year’s time and have stayed within about 5lb of that. I continue MyNetDiary for tracking food / exercise. I’m pretty good now on keeping calories in check, but I like the nutritional breakdown and the reminder of the exercise benefit. Also I’m a nerdy numbers person, so it’s kindof fun for me.