Thank’s for the words of support. Keep working at being healthy.

Fast food was the first thing to go for me. I do get a turkey sub from Subway, no cheese, tons of veggies though. That’s the fast choice. Can’t drink any alcohol because of one of the medications I take but I’ll need to look at grape juice. I cut out juices too to keep my weight where I want it.

Man, I remember now caring at all about what I ate…

I’ll check it out Don. Thanks for the suggestion. I’ve certainly scaled back on meat and fat but still am a ways off being a vegan. My daughter and son-in-law are both long time vegans. They’ve surprised me a few times with some really great food.

Lose bread?? Say it ain’t so!

I’ve read some about wheat and gluten and have spoken to believers and others who think outside of genuine celiac disease that there’s no such thing as sensitivity. I”ll have a look at Wheat Belly though. Thanks for the head’s up.

The rest has been evolutionary: I gave up cheap fast food some 25 years ago, and most processed foods a few years after that. Fried food is kept to a minimum (no one in these parts, it appears, knows how to make good fried chicken anymore anyway). But I pointedly don’t eat like a Trappist monk: a favorite drink is enjoyed with dinner, and a decidedly non-fast-food burger and fries makes a nice occasional treat. The upshot of this being what my GP told me quite a while back: other than general advice on what obvious bad stuff to avoid (smoking, excessive drinking, pork-rind binging), there’s no silver bullet that covers everybody. (Okay, there’s Mom going on about “eating your veggies.” I’ve stuck with that one too.)

Of course, stuff that lifts one’s spirit is a healthful tonic as well…and, for the monent, I can’t think of a better one than the days getting noticeably longer. Certainly does my heart good.