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Eat hearty in the morning and sparingly in the evening and never at night.

Those of us that work from 9 to whenever have the most trouble with this...but I've heard that too.

I'm on a weight-loss plan now that's just based on reasonable portions and somewhat better food choices, nothing insane, no tofu or flashy workouts...just common sense. We'll see how it works.

I'm on a weight-loss plan now that's just based on reasonable portions and somewhat better food choices, nothing insane, no tofu or flashy workouts...just common sense. We'll see how it works.

You're probably on the right track. I remember from some previous thread that we are about the same age (30ish?), so maybe your weight issues are similar to mine. I mentioned in post #9 how I gained 40 pounds when I was 28-29. This was because I was eating the same way I had been eating since I was a teenager and didn't recognize that my metabolism had slowed down. Once I realized I couldn't eat that way anymore, and moved towards a normal 2000 cal/day diet (that didn't rely on eating out all the time), the pounds came off in a few months.

Those of us that work from 9 to whenever have the most trouble with this...but I’ve heard that too.
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Let me recite a typical day’s food for a poor farmer in South Carolina who walked behind a plow all day. I lived this way myself until I graduated high school and went straight into the Navy to get out from behind a plow.

Breakfast: two fried eggs, ham, grits with the ham drippings poured on, biscuits made with lard, whole milk, some sorghum molasses over biscuits, butter, coffee.

Dinner: (lunch to you city types) vegetables,(usually field peas, green beans, butterbeans, corn etc. more pork, more biscuits, corn bread, butter, iced tea, maybe some more molasses and or milk, maybe pie and or cake.

Supper: (dinner to you city types) often just some corn bread and milk, maybe some field peas, this was the light meal of the day, you don’t want a full stomach when you go to bed with the chickens and rise with the chickens.

This diet coupled with at least 12 hours of strenous manual labor including at least 25 to 35 miles of walking during the day will keep you as skinny as a broomstick! A lot of people ate this way and lived to be well past eighty and I know whereof I speak.

“Eat hearty in the morning and sparingly in the evening and never at night.
Those of us that work from 9 to whenever have the most trouble with this...but I’ve heard that too.

I’m on a weight-loss plan now that’s just based on reasonable portions and somewhat better food choices, nothing insane, no tofu or flashy workouts...just common sense. We’ll see how it works.”

I work 8-to-5, mostly at a desk, and live on a 106 acres. I strongly urge you to add exercise to your daily habits list. I want all freepers healthy and fit if ever there is a need to call.