Try living with others
Including a wife who wants to make sure we don’t run out of anyone’s favorites
And when the kids favorites are your favorites, that makes it tough to not have your favorites
And then grandkids, can’t run out of ice cream in case the grandkids are here
And then birthday cakes and half birthday cakes
The house always has stuff
No one in my house is overweight. Well, maybe my son, but not terribly
It’s just a constant temptation
Which I don’t do well with when I get high, so I get high less frequently than I’d like
And working from home, when things get stressful, all the things I can binge on are right there for me
but, yeah, if I lived alone, i wouldn’t have all this tempting stuff around
If I lived alone:
1 I would still have a Cal King mattress
2 Less jars of olives than presently
3 Rotating brands of toothpaste
4 No pets
5 Older stereophonic equipment
6 Smaller TV
7 An older more beat-up car and more motorcycles
8 Very few snacks if any. Are tins of sardines and crackers snacks?
9 Be a heck of a lot more lonely and unhappy with how life is going
10 More closet space
11 Fewer nice clothes
12 Go out more often
13 Full fat milk on my granola/oatmeal all the time
14 Succumbed to mobile phone ownership
15 Probably work out more regularly
16 Have a written two week menu that repeats
I have a sweet tooth.
I have found ways to satisfy it without piling on calories. Number one, like VM says, always have a tray of fruit visible. Next best trick- Chocolate Necco wafers.
Wait, what? Necco Wafers? I had no idea they still sold those. By the way, never thought to put these in the regarded candy memory file, but to each their own.
I definitely do not have a weight problem but because of family history and a heart condition my thresholds for cholesterol and triglycerides are way lower than the average person's. In the last 10 years they've crept close to border line. My doc says the formula they use for deciding when meds are necessary includes age and sooner or later I'll have to take statins. Anyone (60+ years old) have success staying out of the pharmacy?
I thought the new science says the HDL-LDL ratio is the more important number? Or am I misremembering? Probably best to have both the good ratio and the low LDL.