[Evans, Marv]

I've always been a lean person, who's weight only varied by a few pounds throughout the year. A couple of years ago, I noticed I'd developed a bit of a stomach - like going from 32 in. to 34/36 in. & it gave me a little round tummy of visceral fat - nothing on the outside. I realized it had crept up on me without being noticed for quite a while. I figured it was a function of age (mid to late 70s) and eating sweets without thinking about it. So I've pretty much cut out anything classified as a sweet or dessert. I've cut way down on carb rich food & eat meat, veges, & a bit of carbs. So over the past year+ I've started to get back toward a 32 in. waist and now my usual 32/32 pants fit well again. At this point I am pretty much in a groove of eating the way I have been over the past year+ to get rid of that 5 or 6 pounds. I find I don't think much about ice cream, cake, or any of those other sweet things, although I eat a cookie or something once in a while. But mostly, I've lost the craving for that kind of thing. I think that's where you have to get in order to establish & continue a decently healthy diet regimen.