Fall/winter weight management thread

[shootingstar]

Shootingstar - I think she must, she's 55, post menopausal, 5'1 ......., and not eating dinner. She's really happy with her energy levels and stable body weight... .

Um...this is tongue-in-check, of course Pax. I DO eat supper. Please, folks. I stress that I have just found it's better I have dinner earlier, not late into the evening. I'm not rigid about it but generally it's helped me a lot in terms of timing my dinner better.

I actually eat a slightly bigger breakfast now for past few years even though I cycle only 40% less the distance one way to work compared to 20 years ago when I biked to work a much longer distance ride route when living in a different city.

Nor am I rigid in the way how I cook. Just tryin' to outline this:

a) light stir-fries ---compatible veggie combinations, occasionally with meat
b) consommé soups or veggie pureed soups. Cream soups are at restaurants, hence rare.
c) don't like pop. Never have even as a kid.
d) deep fried foods --only a couple times per year. I'm happy to try someone's home deep fried chicken but I don't deep fry myself. Neither does dearie. (My mother seldom deep fried food.... she was really afraid of deep oil frying danger with 6 children running around the house. She invented her own Chinese baked crusted chicken pieces with oatmeal-flour topping and who knows what. It tasted good. Dearie's mom seldom deep fried...except for beignets...a French-German jelly yeast donut.)
e) Coffee, tea -- last 30 years without sugar. But often with milk.
f) Butter at home ..is only 2-3 times per year when dearie makes crepes. Chinese cooking traditionally does not use butter. So I'm used to being butter-free.

The point is to find our own personal healthy food and activity hooks and build on it. We probably each have something to build from naturally, if it works, use it and not overthink it. A number is...just a number.