Weight Loss and Motivation

     I love food. Always have and always will. From an early age my brother and I were always fed a diet of meat, poultry, fish, a lot of vegetables, and small amounts of starch and carbohydrates, which was mostly at dinner and usually brown rice. We took sack lunches to school, which were always the same: a sandwich on Roman Meal whole wheat bread, an apple, some carrots or celery, and an Archway whole wheat cookie. After-school snacks were, as you might expect, carrots, celery, apples. We never had potato chips, packaged pastries, or candy in the house. On the infrequent ocassions we went out to eat it was nearly always to one of two places: Sizzler steak house, or an all-you-can-eat buffet called Sir George's Smorgasboard. At the latter my father would always say when we entered and got in line, "Don't fill up on bread!" 

On Long Walks

    I've been an avid walker for many years, although I had a period of jogging for about 2 years--a story for another day. Aside from the obvious benefit of physical activity, there is the vitamin D produced by sunlight. This is especially important as you age since your kidneys become less effective at converting the vitamin D from sunshine into the form needed by your body.