I think I eat fairly right, too. I’m mostly a poached egg or fruit with All-Bran breakfast person, and I like soup for lunch.

My dinners? Well, they’re pretty much outlined in my Home Helper Newsletter, although I don’t do the desserts I’ve listed on the pre-planned menus. (Some folks like dessert after dinner, which is why I include them.)

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I eat really well I think – and since I’ve begun exercising every day (and plan on keeping that up!) I’m going to cut myself some slack on what I’m eating.

As long as I don’t eat the entire bag/box/jar I figure I’m good to go.

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Intensive complex carb-based diets, for instance, seem to cause all sorts of GI problems for me and, as an IBS-sufferer, I don’t need more of those.

On the other hand, high-protein, ultra low-carb diets don’t work for me, either. Not only do I wind up dealing with IBS problems in triplicate, but I seem to swell up with fluid retention (and, as a person who drinks 64 oz. of water a day easily, that is NOT a good thing).

I really do well with a happy medium between the two, as in an Asian or Middle Eastern diet. (I have Iranian roots, so perhaps there’s an organic reason why my body handles that type of diet better.)

I’ll definitely look into that book by Wolcott. I hadn’t heard of it before, but I’m a big believer in the principle behind it as you’ve explained it.

Thanks for the suggestion!

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I have learned that resistance exercises is very helpful when it comes to speeding up your metabolism and losing weight. While walking and other aerobic activity is good, often people who do this type of exercise are doing their body good, but are still overweight.

Another thing to look into is something called the metabolic typing diet by William Wolcott. I have a tendency to well on a diet high on carbohydrates, while others may do well with a lot of protein or a mix. Eating right for your metabolic type may be a useful way to lose weight as well as being healthy. Its worth looking into.

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From VK: You’re welcome to have your theory, and I’ll continue to have mine. One thing you are NOT welcome to do is spam my blog with your URL. Buh-bye.

And I know that you still work.

But lawyers burn off much more energy.

The problem is that, even if I keep myself to a modest 1200 calories, I don’t get enough activity in my day.

I just solved that by buying a treadmill, though. (Got tired of dealing with neighbors and weather on my morning walks.) I plan to hook my laptop up to it and walk while I work.

But I have found that my weight pretty much correleates to what I do. Years ago, when I was working in the Bay Area, I worked 14 hour days. Breakfast was a quart of milk, and dinner was poached eggs on dry toast. (The diner couldn’t serve anything else I wanted to eat.) I lost about 100 lbs. on that diet. It wasn’t by choice, exactly, it was just all I had time for. (Well, one or two days a week, I enjoyed a scotch and soda at a hotel no longer in business.)

During my thankfully short marriage, I lost weight again. Enough that I needed to have my suit pants altered. I don’t know why I lost weight, since I was finishing meals for my ex-step-daughter and my ex-step-son. And the ex-wife was, when she wanted to pay attention, a fairly good cook. Maybe she just did negative things to my digestion.

And, today, I am fairly stable at 200 lbs. That is a wee tad overweight for me, but it hasn’t changed much in 20 years.

Now, this is really beyond the pale, but, Kate, have you kept up your bar license? If you really want to lose weight, I think you should go back to work, even if only a few hours a week.

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