I always tried to keep in shape during my career. Except for a few years in my 30s, where a traumatic injury limited my workout abilities, I did a pretty good job of it. Now, I'm edging up on 60 and put on some weight during the last four, post retirement years. I still work out every morning at work before I go on duty, but it hasn't seemed to keep the weight under control. I hadn't gained any more, but I couldn't seem to lose it either.
I decided to change things up and started to take the stairs at work instead of the elevator. When I'm not in court or standing a post I'm roving the building. It's a century old building with steep flights of stairs and five floors. Up and down, along with a turn outside the building takes about 20-30 minutes and i do that three times a day on average, along with my morning workout. In shape or not I'm a big guy. In shape or not, with my body armor and other gear I'm edging up on 300 pounds. The first few times I felt like I was summiting Everest. 😀 (Or Shute climbing the bleachers with a telephone pole. Pop quiz: movie reference?)
It's been two months and I'm having to tighten my belt and my legs are feeling much better, as I was getting routine leg cramps at night which have disappeared. We just have to do what we can when we can and try to maintain a semblance of life balance.