Trying to get back into Shape, I don't know where to start?

I've always been hugely glycemic sensitive, pretty much from the age of 12. I haven't ever been tested, just something I noticed through trial and error. Especially anything gluten based. Then of course all the other starchy things I love, like potatoes, rice, sweet potatoes, lima beans (I think). Cereal-fa get ta bout it. I can have oatmeal if that's like the only thing I eat that day.

Anyway, I'm not getting as much exercise I used to get, I was good for a 3 mile walk every day, and well things change. I'm trying to get back into shape, and It's been so long since I've had any regimen. I don't know anymore if I should be getting my food squared away, so that I have a plan where I can sustain my weight regardless of how much I exercise, or if in wanting to lose a few pounds I should automatically be thinking about exercise, and making sure I incorporate that every day?

I know if you exercise more, you can eat more, but I really don't want to get back into that game I used to play, "well I exercised this amount, so I can eat X thing"......

The diets that have always worked for me were; No carbs, meat, fat, vegetables, maybe rice once a week, or a potato now and then but definitely not more than a couple of times a week. I'm sure I'm missing something, but that's what I thought I remembered. I just want to make sure that whatever food plan I devise for myself is something I can actually live with. The whole thing makes me feel insane, because when you get older , your metabolism slows down so much that you feel like you have to monitor every single thing you put in your mouth. Wah. anyway......trying to figure out if I should go back to the mentality that if I exercise more, I can eat more........sigh., or is that just stupid? Seems to be true? If it is true, then I'm back to walking 3 miles a day, but that's pretty tough on your body, if you're older. See where this is going, that whole game of ........wanting to exercise so that I can eat like a normal person, and not a giraffe.

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