"Bob Terwilliger"
>
> Other than those, I think the diet looks okay, and it's obviously worked
> wonders for him. Maybe it's time to buy whole grains (wheat berries,
> millet, quinoa, steel-cut oats, brown rice, barley, and wild rice) and
> leafy greens (collard greens, turnip greens, mustard greens, kale,
> spinach, cabbage, Chinese broccoli, and lettuce. I bet radicchio fits in
> there, too, even though it's not green.)
>
> Bob

Losing fifty pounds is obviously a different deal from taking off the ten
you gained over the holidays. I'm sure he did eat as restrictively as that.
I probably couldn't.

All those things on your list are worth having in the kitchen and basing
one's daily diet on. (Some radicchio is green, too, just not the kind sold
widely in the US)

I find exercise is key, but if he were 50 pounds overweight, I bet he didn't
start out running 4 miles a day. Lots of people can't run at all for one
reason or another. The good news is according to an Italian govt survey, if
you add 2 hours of walking per week to an otherwise unchanged regimen, you
will lose 12 kilos in a year.

The one thing I do know is that there is never a better time than now to get
healthy and trim down. It gets harder and looks worse every year you age.
Two years after quitiing smoking I am tackling the weight gain. Ugh. Makes
me nuts that I didn't stay quit when I was 38 and weighed 102 pounds.
Sometimes the wisdom of age comes a bit late.