If you're laid off you have more time to walk. If you're not walking that much quit your job and reduce your outgoings so that you can get a job that helps you survive past 45 without type 2 diabetes. Walking is very calming if you have emotional turmoil.

You don't get to a BMI that was much greater than 40 without eating disorders. Walking helps calm that, too.

I think people who say they have tried walking are lying to themselves. They're like the women who go to the gym and lift 2 lb dumbbells.

Walk ten miles a day for a year before telling me you've tried it.