Sal, there's a TV campaign here at the moment to prompt people to lose weight. They say to simply trade a lot for a little. Instead of having a large bowl of pasta, have a little bowl of pasta. Instead of having a large bowl of ice-cream, have a little bowl of ice-cream, etc. Even reducing the size of your dinner plate can help. They say that it's not necessary to give up the foods that you enjoy, just to reduce the size if the portions.

If you want to do some exercises to help lose some weight, there are programs for wheel chair and bed bound people.

The best thing that would help is to go to your Dr and get the OK. Maybe ask for a list of things you can do, and maybe ask for a physical therapist evaluation. They can really help you with exercises that would be good you to do,

Any movement is exercise and whatever you can do helps, such as any cleaning you can do, but use a manual wheel chair instead of a electric if you intend to exercise, and don't forget to put the brakes on.

Try doing a web search. Look for exercises for wheel chair users. Apparently there are dvds for bed bound people, but you would need to look that up.

Here's some on YouTube :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqILr...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CdwO...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7zCD...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAQFi_l2r_o


There are more down the right hand side of the YouTube page.

Good luck Sal.