Echoing what others have said, I would advise you dive head first into nutrition. Take it from a life-long exercise/diet nut, nutrition is the key to everything...you can't outrun or outlift a bad diet.
Yeah, heard so many times, I'm going to do this and going to start this.......well......when? haha.
I agree with the both of you. But if I jump all in, I will end up drowning and I'll just get discouraged. That's what happened last year with my efforts to go without sugar. Once the pounds stopped coming off I got discouraged and gave up.
I'm a big guy and have been away from excersize for a long time. This is a big ship I need to turn around.
I want success, so about a month ago I did some research on how to stay committed and faithful to my goals. And the advice was fairly consistant; small, easy to follow, measurable steps. That is why I chose jogging.
For one, I picked something I used to like that way I wouldn't hate doing it. And I purposefully wear my jogging clothes until lunch when I go run, that way I have little excuse when my alarm goes off and reminds me.
Then I made a plan to run a mile by the end of the year. That is easily measurable and can be divided into smaller mile stones for myself. This is something I can have almost complete control over the outcome, loosing weight, I found out last year, I didn't have as much control over as I thought.
So this year my goal is distance and not weight loss. However, some weight loss may end up being a side benefit, but it's not the goal.
Like I said though, nutrition may also come into play during this year, but I want to make sure I have developed a good habit and am making consistant headway towards my distance goal.
And, I want my nutrition goal to work much the same way. Small, easy to follow, measurable steps.
In other words, I can't eat a whole elephant at once, so instead I'm eating it one bite at a time.
Going this route will take me a few years to get myself back to the way I used to look, but I'm OK with that. It's certainly progress forward and considerably better than I have done during the past 15 years or so.
I hope all this makes sense.