Permanent diet may equal longer life

I lost about 20 pounds last summer and I've kept it off. Moving in with my now wife really helped. She's a great cook, but she cooks healthy and I'm not tempted to just grab a Wendy's spicy chicken on my way home from work like I used to be. I'd say there are five things that have really helped me. (in no particular order)

- Exercise, even if it's just 30 minutes on the bike. At least 3 days of week of at least 30 minutes each time goes a long way.

- Avoid late night snacks. This is also coupled with going to bed at a decent time and getting a good night's sleep. I used to stay up all night just for the hell of it and snack away. Now I'm much more disciplined and only stay up late on a weeknight if I have to because I'm working late

- If you're hungry between meals, have a light snack. It's better to do that than starve yourself until the next meal. Because then what happens is you stuff yourself and you don't want that

- Don't deny yourself...but in moderation. I still get my chocolate fix. But instead of gulfing down an entire bar I'll just break off one piece from a dark chocolate bar and have that for dessert. After a while you get used to that being enough

- Pack your own lunch. This one is actually probably right up there with exercising. The food here at work is actually pretty good for the most part, and they do offer a good "healthy" selection. But at the end of the day you're better off packing your own lunch because you know what you've put in it and furthermore you can save a lot of money

I lost about 20 pounds last summer and I've kept it off. Moving in with my now wife really helped. She's a great cook, but she cooks healthy and I'm not tempted to just grab a Wendy's spicy chicken on my way home from work like I used to be. I'd say there are five things that have really helped me. (in no particular order)

- Exercise, even if it's just 30 minutes on the bike. At least 3 days of week of at least 30 minutes each time goes a long way.

- Avoid late night snacks. This is also coupled with going to bed at a decent time and getting a good night's sleep. I used to stay up all night just for the hell of it and snack away. Now I'm much more disciplined and only stay up late on a weeknight if I have to because I'm working late

- If you're hungry between meals, have a light snack. It's better to do that than starve yourself until the next meal. Because then what happens is you stuff yourself and you don't want that

- Don't deny yourself...but in moderation. I still get my chocolate fix. But instead of gulfing down an entire bar I'll just break off one piece from a dark chocolate bar and have that for dessert. After a while you get used to that being enough

- Pack your own lunch. This one is actually probably right up there with exercising. The food here at work is actually pretty good for the most part, and they do offer a good "healthy" selection. But at the end of the day you're better off packing your own lunch because you know what you've put in it and furthermore you can save a lot of money

Thats when I get the urge to have a snack while watching the Food Network its even worse when this is on
Diners, Drive-ins and Dives : Food Network (http://www.foodnetwork.com/diners-drive-ins-and-dives/index.html)

Thats when I get the urge to have a snack while watching the Food Network its even worse when this is on
Diners, Drive-ins and Dives : Food Network (http://www.foodnetwork.com/diners-drive-ins-and-dives/index.html)


OMG! So ****ing true. that show makes me want to eat everything in sight. I keep it turned off.

Triple D rocks

He has been to 4 places around here and one of the places he went was right on the water and me and my wife had planned on taking the boat there for lunch that day. I decided to go somewhere else and the next day we read in the papper that he was there. I had to hear about that for about a month.

Yeah, Triple D is awesome...always want to eat mounds of food while and after watching it...

Here is the master list of places he's been:
Guy's Diners, Drive-ins and Dives : Shows : Food Network (http://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/guys-diners-drive-ins-and-dives/index.html)

Yeah, Triple D is awesome...always want to eat mounds of food while and after watching it...

Here is the master list of places he's been:
Guy's Diners, Drive-ins and Dives : Shows : Food Network (http://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/guys-diners-drive-ins-and-dives/index.html)

I saw that list but did not see the place near us that he went to on that list called Chuck A Muks (sp). Its a neat little place right on the water with good food (not great) but I think its location is its attraction. Years back my buddy had his boat tied up there over night and something went wrong with his boat and it caught fire and also burned the place down.

I grew up about five miles from this place, awesome food!

YouTube - evelyn's drive in on diners driveins and dives (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t09UHzjzxfI&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eevelynsdrivein%2Ecom%2F&feature=player_embedded)

I saw that list but did not see the place near us that he went to on that list called Chuck A Muks (sp). Its a neat little place right on the water with good food (not great) but I think its location is its attraction. Years back my buddy had his boat tied up there over night and something went wrong with his boat and it caught fire and also burned the place down.
Google Toolbar with highlight on tells me in was in Episode 405...
Captain Chuck-a-Mucks
21088 Marina Road
Carrollton, VA 23314
Tel: (757) 356-1005

I remember that episode, I think we watched it not too long ago. Looks like a neat place.