Anyone can exercise -- here's how.

Exercise is doing more than you're doing right now. If you're walking, walk a little faster. If you're loading clothes in the washer, do it a little faster. If you're sitting in an office, push up under the desk with your knees and hold it for a few seconds. Lean back in your chair as far as you can, feeling how your back muscles stretch. Hold that pose a few seconds.

We've all been conned into thinking that exercise is hard and that it entails great effort and pain. Exercise just means pushing yourself a notch further, physically doing something extra. Walking is an activity we can all do, whether we're 8 or 80, a hundred pounds or three hundred. Get out and walk and, as time goes on, try to walk a little faster. Not only won't it be painful, it will feel good, and you'll feel good because you can do it. And the pounds will disappear like magic. You may have to walk, a little faster (but not too fast), for a few years before you really start to slim down, but think of all you'll see along the way!

If you want to get stronger, pick up a couple of light dumbells and lift them and get the feel of them. They start at 2 and 1/2 pounds or so and go up to amounts you don't want to think about. No matter what weight you pick -- and it will feel good playing with them -- you will be doing something more than what you were doing before. Again, that's exercise.

When was the last time you hung from a bar? You don't even have to do a pull-up (though that should be your ultimate goal). Just hang there. Support your bodyweight by the strength in your shoulders and back. Hang as long as you can, then let go. You've done something more than what you were doing before. Exercise.

Squat down as far as you can, back against the wall. It may be a foot or more; it may be an inch.
Hold it. Count to whatever. Lift yourself back up. Now do it again. You're exercising, and the results will show if you give them time.

You don't have to suffer to get into better shape. Just do more than you're doing. At your own pace. No stress. You will be amazed at how much better you feel. And you won't even have noticed the change because you're doing it exactly the way it suits you best.

Not that many things we get for free in this life, with so little effort. Exercise. Embrace it.