Strangely enough Aerolor, by stopping eating your stomach will shrink and not need much food before you feel full or hungry. It is hard at the start though…
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I agree it is hard Old Grey Fox, but I have managed it and now only eat one meal a day, but have a snack am and one pm. No food after 6.00pm and plenty of water throughout the day. I count my calories as this is the best way I have found to keep my intake stable. No matter what, once I have reached my limit in calories for the day I eat no more, This works for me and I have been doing this for the last few years now. I also pop a couple of vitamin pills a day along with Marine collagen tabs and iron to make sure I don’t miss out on the essentials.
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I don’t count calories but I do eat more or less the same things on a weekly basis.
I’ve eaten porridge every morning for about ten years. It saves me having to think about what to have for breakfast and I like porridge. Unfortunately I take mine with a sprinkle of seeds and a generous squirt of honey. I also take a multi-vitamin and a primrose oil capsule along with some medication.
Lunch usually comprises a tin of soup with a slice of toast or an egg on toast.
My main meal is around five or six in the evening and could be mash and veg, chips or pasta. I have been the same weight (69 Kg) for 20 years give or take. But since stopping running I have got a little portly around the middle, despite walking most days and jogging when nobody is looking.
I set a limit of 80 kgs, been 83 for a year now but it ain’t slowed me down, I think the family are trying to keep me Chubby 
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I don’t stand much chance of getting slim again. I have to keep taking the tablets and that doesn’t help. A bit more chubby in the face now as well but people reckon I look better for it. 
mart, 31000 paces today, 15.5 miles, had the scotch egg, 83.00 Kgs n the morning!
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My problem with weight is not what I was eating but exercise. I was working, looking after the home and 3 Old English Sheepdogs, plus teaching 8 linedancing classes a week.
When I had to stop the weight started to creep on. I knew I would never be so active again so I had to rethink my eating.
I find a slice of toast and a latte does me for breakfast after my swim, then nothing till dinner in the evening, healthy food, no chips, frys, ect ect and no pudding. Lots of water if I’m at home, if out for lunch with the girls then it’s usually a sandwich and another latte, but we only do that once a month.
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That’s a big Scotch Egg Spitty…
Well, I can eat my own weight in Scotch Egg!
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I thought current thinking is that carbs are worse than fats (within reason). Carbs turn to sugar and those get processed into body fat. Good fats aren’t so bad. (Might be wrong here.)
I wonder if the opening post question needs to be reversed - what type of foods should I not eat to become thin? With maybe a supplementary question - what other health considerations, beyond body mass, should I be thinking about with my diet?
And the answer then becomes easy - avoid any ultra-processed food.
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Last time I spoke to the Practice Nurse I mentioned the expanding middle. She reckoned a lot of fellers taking female hormone therapy drugs get the same thing. I probably won’t get back to how I used to be a few years ago. Age plus condition are against it. I think the only answer is to wear a corset. I rather fancy a pink one to co with my clothes and handbag.
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I’ve got a similar problem Mart. With heart trouble you tend to store water in the ankles and round the waist in the tummy. Eating less won’t really help the situation.
Unfortunately though, long distance running requires plenty of complex carbs. Pasta, potatoes, bread etc, and although my marathon days are over, my carb diet is not…
Sea food, then you can see how much weight your loosing. 
I used to think I’d last forever if I kept fit but then I realised that all it does is make a person feel better while this side of the ground. There’s always something going to get you in the end no matter what. I used to cheer myself up by saying “OK but it isn’t yet” …but maybe now it is.
That’s part of the dilemma, have you ever considered that you may be keeping yourself so fit, one may outlive the spouse and offspring and end up a lonely centenarian 
It is a thought Spitty 
but I’ll put it this way. I laughed when they put a 15 year guarantee on a new flat roof.
Yep, fancy living to an age where you are not allowed to drive or get credit 
Death is inevitable Mart but being fit and looking after your body will delay it as long as possible. You probably wouldn’t be here today if you were a ‘Boxed Set’ watching couch potato…Quality of life mate…
Maybe you’re right OGF . I still can’t help trying. I just got back from a ride of my e-bike to the pharmacy and back (about 5 miles). First time since the health troubles began and then stabilised to a manageable degree. Legs were jelly-ish for some minutes afterward but not bad. I don’t think I did it to prolong life but more because it was a nice day to give it a go.
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When I was admitted to hospital following my first heart attack in 2004 the general consensus was that had I not been a runner for most of my life I would not have survived.
In all honesty I have never run to keep fit Mart, I run because I love it.
Your five mile ride was a challenge because you are the bloke that you are, and that my friend is what will keep you going. Jelly legs are good, it means they needed some exercise, and how good does it make you feel once you get sat in front of the telly, to know you earned it…
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