RobArt Penguin

When I was a kid, I remember my parents trying all sorts of diets, some of them were wacky, and some made them sick. They wanted to restore their youthful trimmed selves. None of the diets worked. I told them they needed exercise and should start with walking around the block. We lived in a beautiful neighborhood. They were consummate couch potatoes and scoffed at my suggestion. Decades later I face my own weight struggles and my advice comes back to haunt me. I don’t try wacky diets, but I scoff when my wife wants me to join her when she walks the dog. I’ve regained all the weight I lost when I became a stay-at-home Dad–35 pounds. I used to count calories, but it never worked, because I would get depressed over everything I couldn’t eat. Now, I see all these adds for injections that help lose weight without doing anything else. Magic? Apparently not, but people with pre-diabetes are struggling to get enough of the same medicine. This latest trend points something out, that sugar intake and blood sugar are key factors in weight control. Focus on sugar intake not calories. So, I looked at my diet, and found too many cookies, donuts and chocolates in my daily intake. I’m a big consumer of M&Ms. I’m finding out that I eat almost all my safe added sugar allowance in just this chocolate. Wow! I’m three pounds under my all time high–so for now, it’s less sweets and I’ll see what happens. And I may help walk the dog.