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I’m up but right now it’s about 1 lb. It was 3 lbs about 2 months ago. If this keeps going I’m planning a post on the tiny change that I think has reversed the slow much upward.

Start the coffee.

Detroit Lions is now my team for the rest of this season.

I’m generally better off when I’m busy. At least up to a point. It’s been a long time since I’ve been busy enough to just grab the first thing I see. Best thing for me is to be too busy to stop off at the fridge every time I pass it.

Saved my marriage. Including the alone time. If I didn’t drop dead, I was on my way to a debilitating stoke. I also became an actual dad able to do stuff with my kids.

Try to make a plan around things to do. It’s better than a bunch of dont’s. I’m better at waiting than saying no. All I’m really trying to do is live with some reasonable limits.

About a month ago DW discovered Costco mixed frozen veggies. I was going to say they are huge bags but saying Costco and huge in the same sentence is redundant. Looks like this will be a regular thing for a while.

Pumpkin pie. 9 1/2 yrs of meetings. I drew up that paper plate every way I could think of but the only way to get pumpkin pie (well, my idea of pumpkin pie) to fit was to organize my entire week around it. After a couple of goes I decided it wasn’t worth it & just quit tracking Thanksgiving. Never hurt me. And my idea of…

Number on the scale.

Early. The 1st time.

Read or TV. Right now I’m binging series Babylon Berlin. It’s wearing me out. About 8 to go.

I’m a creature of habits. And my current habits are reasonably good. My ongoing and seemingly permanent challenge is point creep. I’m not going to lose it & spend 2 weeks eating pizza, ribs and chocolate cake. What I do is mostly over snack. Or sometimes fit too many treat like indulgences into a week. Eventually point…

Yikes. My plan is never see another actual flake.

No meds. But way back I gained 25lbs in a year taking Zoloft. According to the drug company there was no connection between the medication and weight gain. But the internet was loaded with people claiming there was. As soon as I stopped taking the meds, I lost what I had gained. In my entire 100 lb loss that was my only…

DW found a large bag of mixed veggies at Costco. Also found some microwave blend of quinoa & brown rice. At dinner I make those, mix them together & eat it with some soy sauce. Round it out with grilled chicken. If I making eggs, I usually throw in some broccoli slaw. I don’t measure portions of veggies but I’m pretty…

Pickleball is a great way to meet people. The game is fun. A lot of people a very serious about playing well. But what I like is the people part. Adults getting together to play a game. There’s a limit to how long people will wait to play. But with 6 courts 24 people play at a time. It’s not unheard of for there to be 50…

Fort Myers. If you like hurricanes it’s the place to be. We’re spending a few days in Miami.

Exercise. The entire project took me from couch potato to gym regular. Plus I walk in the park about 1 hr+ most days and play Pickleball 2 times per week. Sleep has been a struggle but I get between 5 1/2 and 7 hrs nearly every night. I stick to a regular bedtime and the hour before is no electronics. It helps a lot.

Grilled chicken. Eat it everyday. Recently I started making my own chicken sausage. So most days I have chicken twice.

Chocolate I eat a frozen treat nearly every evening. Usually some kind of fudge bar. WW brand is good. Yasso too. Other times I go through this Is it a craving or is it an urge thing. My feeling about urges is they pass. But a craving will eventually have to be indulged and managed.

Thanks Charlie.

Our kids, now in their 30s, both exercise regularly. I’ve never really discussed exercise with them in terms of sitting them down and suggesting they do it. They just know exercise is something DW & I do.

I eat quite a bit of soup. I’m currently taking a break from zero point soup after 4 or 5 batches in a row. Today at lunch I had vegetable soup. Something I like about the diner where we go for lunch 2-3 times per week is you can get soup for a side dish. My favorite is probably lentil. But at the diner that’s on Sunday.…

Back in the day I watched a lot of football drinking beer with the guys. No doubt the pace of beer drinking would increase in the final minutes of a close game. Snacking too.

Wow. Congratulations Al.

Nearly every day I have an ice cream treat in the evening. An earlier treat, say office birthday cake could knock out the ice cream when I went to an office. It’s not a degree thing but I try to limit my indulgences to absolutely no more than 2. Pizza for dinner doesn’t cancel ice cream. But pizza for dinner is pretty rare.

Strength. I want to set a goal for the chest press machine at the gym for my 75th birthday in May. I started out for 150 lbs x 4 reps but actually think that may not be ambitious enough. I think I’ll resist the temptation to go for more weight and try for more reps. Working my full body but this is the only exercise where…

@crewahl Studies say what they and this is the Harvard Med school. But way back when I started WW I started to pay close attention to where my diet & fitness info was coming from. I noticed the MSM would do this thing I thought of as the weekly twofer. Monday’s story was walk 30 min every day and it will improve your…

Have to check that out. My workouts usually send me to the couch for 2-3 hrs. Sometimes pickleball does the same. But I do try to get my late afternoon walk in.

Turn it around. What do you suppose happens if we take a caveman to Old Country Buffet? Our lives are mostly miracles by historic standards. But we have bodies that are designed to survive hard times. We have a pesky calorie storage thing that rather suddenly seems ill suited for our lives. But this- ran into an article…