Reduce your portion sized by about 20% and take long walks.

When my oldest brother died and I went to the funeral, I discovered I barely fit into my suit. When I got home, I reduced my meal portions by 20-25%, and started going back to the gym 2-3 times a week, and lost 15 pounds over about six months. I had let myself go when the gyms closed for the pandemic, and only just started going back at the end of last June, or beginning of July. It's amazing how making just a few minor changes can make a big difference over time.

@snytiger6 True, but, oh it is so difficult to reduce the portions I find.

Thanks to you generation mine had it so much better, sorry you had to fight so hard for against so many idiots.

Only a couple of years ago, my mid twenties aged niece went with my sister to pick up her new Mazda car that she had bought.

At the car yard, the sales rep asked if she needed any help. She pointed out what she thought was her car and said that she had come in to pick it up. The salesman said that it wasn’t hers, clearly assumed that she was too young to be able to afford the car. Neice politely repeated that it was her new car, still no change of attitude.

My niece had worked hard (She’s a midwife) for a couple of years after graduation to save up the deposit and negotiate a sweet repayment deal for the vehicle, which was also going to be used for client visits..

My sister was understandably furious. She didn’t say anything as she didn’t want to derail the purchase process as it wasn’t over the line.

Unfortunately, bias still exists.

Yeah, many people find it hard to believe that as late as the 1970's a woman could not get credit without the signature of a husband or father. For some institutions it took until the late 1980's for women to be granted credit in the same way men were/are.

@snytiger6 ME!

@snytiger6 New Zealand is the first country that gave women the right to vote in 1893.

Paul Lynde was also Mr. McAffee in the movie "Bye, Bye Birdie". Most people who remember him, do so as the center square on Hollywood Squares. He was consistently a funny man.

Paul was indeed hilarious!! He might as well had come out when he was young, not like we didn’t know he was gay…..

@Aaron70 as with his contemporary Charles Nelson Reilly, complicity in their open "secret" was a part of their comic charm and our admiration and love for them.

@LenHazell53 Indeed, I had almost forgot about Charles, lol….