[gardener]

Here's a postscript. I responded to your post pretty frankly, and worried that it was too brutal, so I looked up your other posts, discovering that you've been through a transformation that YOU wanted, the kind of change that you hope for in your intended. You stopped smoking. You altered your diet. You started working out--and you're pleased with the result. And you did all this in your mid- to late-20s. I can relate to all this, as an ex-smoker and former chubby couch potato, who much later in life (mid-60s) lost weight and became a gym rat who now can bench press 80 pounds more than I could a few years ago.

For years, my wife was disturbed that I was overweight and got no exercise. And I was pretty bad: couldn't walk half a block,slowly, without stopping to rest. When I made up my mind to work out regularly, my wife didn't think I would last a month, maybe not even a week. When it was apparent that I was changing for good, there was a brief period in which there was a little resentment that I was following through.

Question. Reading about your diet, I wonder how food choices will be made in your household to be.In any case, take care and good luck!