dontdownplease

Also, 2 hours a week is nothing in the grand scheme of things. If you have to commute, try commuting by bicycle or if you go by train, get off at an earlier station. I'm not sure what your commute is like in the USA (I suspect most people drive to work), but a lot of people in Europe get trains and buses - which does make that latter idea a bit easier.

Maybe you can find some casual running groups in and around North Carolina? I attend one and we run every Wednesday and Saturday. Even though I'm 20 years younger than the average runner some of the guys (who were on track to be the position you find yourself in now) have really turned their life around with respect to looking after themselves. I would encourage anyone of any age or fitness to do the same. Having people around you who can encourage you makes it so much harder to give up.

Looking at the picture on his LinkedIn profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/philliprhodes it does look like he may have been overweight. I suspect that is a huge contributing factor in this. I'm sorry if anyone get offended by this, but it does look like mindcrime could have been more proactive in looking after his weight. Now it's completely possible that mindcrime has some other condition which limits, or at least restrict his ability to do exercise, which makes trying to stay healthy a whole lot harder. But I would have thought for a lot of people it is caused by either: heavy smoking, heavy drinking, little exercise and a bad diet. Either way, I wish mindcrime a speedy recovery and hope he can return to good health as soon as possible.