Tom, how do you track your calories expended? Do you use a HR monitor to track the cals (when doing weights)?
Yes, I use an HR monitor - for all the exercise I do.
Most impressive Tom. I'd like to hear about your food sometime. I usually hear about your exercise and I'd like to know what you're chowing down on.
Breakfast: almost always oatmel made with non-fat milk, fruit, and chopped nuts. Centrum Silver vitamin. 3 cups coffee with Splenda.
Mid-morning snack: fruit or Wasa crackers with hummus, or veggies with hummus
Lunch: typically salad + fish/chicken. Whole grain bread with hummus, or a chicken patty burger.
Mid-afternoon snack: protein shake made with whey powder, non-fat milk, fruit, ice, lemon juice. [I have to admit, a lot of the time my workouts are late in the afternoon, so I skip the mid-afternoon snack or don't have time for it]
Dinner: typically 8 to 10 ozs of protein: fish 4-5 times a week, chicken 1-2 times a week, steak once a week; veggies - salad, or spinach, green beans, artichokes, etc.; brown rice or whole wheat pasta.
I usually have one glass of red wine for dinner.
I generally avoid "white carbs" like the plague - the only bread I eat is whole grain bread and I only eat brown rice or whole wheat pasta.
If I do have dessert, typically its a 100 calorie yogurt, plus fruit, plus ground nuts.
I should also add that this diet ( I mean diet in the nutritional sense ) had changed my tastes. I really don't like fatty, greasy foods at all any more. I seem to crave fish. I still like a good steak, but once a week is more than enough. I'm beginning to abhor fried food of any kind, and on the rare occasion that I do eat it, my stomach revolts.
I could still binge on cookies, chips, and the like, but we keep that stuff out of the house, and when we go out to eat, we tell the servers not to give us that stuff.
In the summer, Marlene does most of the cooking; the other 9 months, I do most of it. We shop every day, and generally buy only what we need for that day, and what is fresh. We avoid processed foods as much as possible. We find we waste far less food this way.
Hope that helps, Cannon!
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Either way, you're alredy FIT 
