Even though I still love it, fried foods are the biggest thing I've had to cut almost completely out. Just doesn't agree with me anymore. Not to mention that I've always hated standing over a stove to do it. I do rarely make a skillet of homemade French fries, fried green tomatoes, or fried cornbread when I'm really "Jonesing" and don't mind paying the price. Desserts are only once a week if that. Quantity has diminished, used to be able to gobble up 2 pieces of chicken or pork chops, etc., now DH and I can easily share one large chicken breast. I've started using Stevia instead of sugar in coffee. Never have sugary foods such as doughnuts or pastry for breakfast, sends the blood sugar haywire and feel awful within an hour and a half. I'm not diabetic but could probably easily become one. Many times for dinner we just have a big salad and a lean piece of broiled chicken, fish or lean marinated beef. But we've always had lots of fresh vegetables such as greens, broccoli, etc. for our main meal if we aren't having the salad. We also have beans with a small amount of smoked meat for seasoning and greens for our main meal. Our biggest downfall is carbs such as pasta, rice or potatoes. Just can't seem to cut that out.

Just fewer calories. I love the sound of your dessert. We eat grilled meat or fish, sometimes traditional French dishes as they're just so good. I love veggies and salads and we tend honest more vegetarian meals than before. I'd rather have quality and less of it. From time to time I have a good fry-up and Saturday is sacred for pizza.

I have been changing my diet so that I may lose and keep off the weight. I cannot eat pizza or drink milk at all! Not even a little bit. Can't figure that one out. Other than that, I eat fewer calories and it's coming off. I don't think I'll ever get to add milk back in, and it's my favorite. Cheese and butter are ok, but no chugging ice cold milk? Thems the breaks. I have lost 28 pounds and more to go, but dang, I miss pizza and milk. I keep thinking, "You can cook things that taste good. Just make that, and make it look good. Make it special!" Not enough.

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I find that I'm eating a lot less, and have to have a big salad at least once a day or my body feels deprived. I invested in a really good Breville Toaster oven that I use for just about everything; the big oven doesn't get use but a couple times a year when company arrives for a Feast. I have been known to have a small bowl of ice cream too frequently, but at my age who cares.

Eld, that is funny about the water. I am like that as well. I always joke I could never have become an alcoholic because I could never drink much of anything.

Such a depressing topic, but I'm in the thick of it. Back in 2010 was feeling ill and had allergies galore. I had to give up wheat/yeast, potatoes, onion, garlic and a load of other goodies. I tried to hold on to dairy, but recently have given that up too. I also don't eat any corn, it gives me almost as many issues as wheat/gluten does. I basically follow a type of Paleo regime, but one that's tuned for an auto immune protocol. So no more cheese or yogurt and no more night shade veggies- white potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant or peppers. It sucks, but my weight is basically stable after losing 60+ lbs in 2012. I feel much better with no grains, so I try to stick with that too. I definitely eat more fish than I ever did and less red meat than when I was younger. I just don't have the taste for it any more. Give me chicken/fish/turkey or occasionally lamb and I'm happy.

I can't seem to kick chocolate and last week I devoured way too much of a King Arthur gluten free brownie mix that my grandson baked. I finally had to toss it, too tempting!

If you make your own pizza, then i don't see why you can't eat it. Bread dough, tomato, ham and a little cheese........

I "can't eat" pizza because I gain weight. Even I've eaten well all day and it's only one medium sized slice. I can eat it, but it'll put the pounds back on.

Rob, I can relate, no pasta, bread, rice, corn, little cheese and agggg no milk. I too loved to chug ice cold milk. I lost 60 lbs, but as soon as I go visiting or partying and have a bit of cake, a scoop of ice cream, potato salad, pounds get right back.

I am only 75 years old, but I promise staring with my 85th birthday, diet be damned, I will eat! I will eat and eat any and every thing in sight. Ohhh for a big bowl of spaghetti with garlic bread.

I am sure no one here wants to hear it but my eating habits haven't changed much at all over the years. I still eat and enjoy all the same things I did when I was much younger.......I just can't/don't feel the need to eat as much at a single setting ;-))

I try to eat healthily and have never cared much for sweets but carbs are my big downfall. My older sister and I are sure french fries are their own unique food group but I do try to limit their intake to once a week or less. And I find I prefer to eat my largest meal early in the day, often just having some crackers and cheese and a piece of fruit for dinner. I am seldom inspired to do much cooking late in the day either.

One big discovery I have made is that after a lot of dental work, I find I need to chew slowly and carefully. At family dinners, I am always the last one eating and tend to feel full much faster after less consumption. And that's a good thing - portion control/ eating less is key when you have a reduced activity lifestyle like many seniors do.

gardengal, my eating habits haven't really changed either, and now I'm 62. I still drink lots of coffee, am not allergic to anything and the same things give me acid reflux that always have, things like hot peppers or the mixture of tomatoes and onions.

I haven't changed my activity level either, I still walk my mile long fence nearly daily, have a garden that's about an acre which I weed and hoe by hand. I've also planted a couple hundred asparagus crowns and a couple dozen raspberries, which gives me more weeding. I don't ride since Copenhagen died, but I still clean barns and shovel calf pens and prune fruit trees and whatever else needs to be done.

Elery and I mostly eat two meals a day because I'm not a morning person. A late breakfast, between 9 and 10 am and supper around 5. Elery has a 9 o'clock snack, sometimes I do.

We eat healthy, but too much healthy food is still too much, so I still have that 20 pounds that I've needed to lose for the past 30 years. Elery has had both a knee and a hip replaced, so that's changed his activity level for the better.

I haven't been to a doctor in nearly two years because I'm just never sick, thank goodness. Must be all that grassfed beef and those organic vegetables that we grow!

Annie

Our eating habits have changed quite a bit in the last few
years. I don’t cook in the quantity I used to and now if we have a steak it’s
just with a salad or baked potato but not both like we used to. We don’t eat
red meat as much mostly stick to chicken and sea food or sometimes just a
couple of different vegetables. Hardly ever have any sweets but DH still likes
his cookies and I still love a dish of ice cream. This summer we have just
about lived on sandwiches I still make bread every 2 weeks.

In our mid 70’s we have slowed down quite a bit my cast iron
is getting heavier and heavier. DH had a melanoma scare, stage 0, recently he
has been so tired lately I worry about him but the doctors say he is good. Neither
of us takes any prescription meds so I consider us pretty healthy.

We found a house to buy in Arizona a few miles from DGS and
great grandsons but at the last minute decides we will stay put. Keeping up
with one house is enough I don’t need 2 kitchens to look after and keep clean. Unless
California goes totally socialist with heath care we will be ok. We go and
visit ever month or so and face time a few times a week. We have started to rid
the house of junk but DD said she consider my house of antiques a museum, my
sued furniture that was all I could afford 50 years ago, that she plans on keeping
LOL. We live in a resort town so maybe she will use the house after we are gone
but who knows.

All I know is this getting old thing is not what it’s
cracked up to be. Whoever said life get easier after you retire is full of it.
And Annie I had horrible acid reflux for the last 4 or 5 years. A couple of
months ago I stopped drinking any soda, anything with carbonated water, and I haven’t
had any stomach or reflux issues since. Plus I lost a few pounds and sleep so
much better. Don’t know if you drink any soda but if you do give it a try maybe
it will help.

partst, you're probably right, it would help if I'd give up coffee and Diet Coke. The doc keeps telling me that I could lay off the Prevacid if I did, but I haven't. Truthfully, I probably won't. Every so often I think I should just stop drinking soft drinks, and go back to tea and coffee. I do all right for a few days, then it's back to the Diet Coke.

Elery drinks it too, so it's always in the fridge. If I didn't have it here I probably would be more successful at giving it up, but I'm not particularly motivated....

Annie