I returned yesterday from a 17-day trip to Europe. Before leaving I weighed 207 pounds. I am not quite 6’4”. When I reluctantly got on the scale this morning, I weighed 196! While in Europe, I pretty much ate what I wanted to at meals. I didn’t snack much except on a few M&Ms. I ate plenty of croissants, pain au chocolat,…
Leading up to early June I considered myself to be in reasonably good shape for a man in his early sixties. I had lost 40 pounds in the last year, was riding a stationary bike 45-60 minutes six days a week, and I was getting between 15k-20k steps a day (per my Fitbit--my bike riding is included in that figure). I walked a…