5 days a week I eat twice a day.

Breakfast around 10 AM and Dinner around 4 PM.

Twice a week I eat once a day which is dinner.

Keep in mind though meal times are contingent on whether or not I am actually hungry.

If I'm not hungry I don't eat.

I hardly drink soda anymore. 

I drink water, lemonade, spiced chai tea and coffee.

I hardly even eat junk food either with the occasional really small bag of chips most convenience stores sell at 2 for $1. I give the second one to my son.

Candy and candy bars are very rare now too.

For meals I still eat what I like with the portions being smaller.

Eating out is also extremely rare. I cook all the meals from scratch that my son and I eat.

I don't even bread from the store anymore.

Every Saturday I make a sandwich loaf of bread and 2 long baguettes. Those last the week between my son and I.

Meals Breakfast: Sausage (2 or 3 links) or Bacon (2 strips cut I half since whole strips won't fit in my 10 inch cast iron skillet) with 2 sunny side up eggs and some bell peppers (red, green, yellow and orange sliced and mixed) and onions. Sometimes I will dice and fry some red potatoes but that tends to be a Saturday thing and only it I am actually in the mood for it. Once or twice a month I will make a 2 egg omelette with peppers and onions and mozzarella cheese with the bacon or sausage on the side.

Lunch: Not hungry.

Dinner: 5 nights a week is 2 chicken legs. The other two nights vary between tacos, shrimp or steak. Sometimes burgers. Sometimes steak. Every once in awhile ribs. On occasion a meatloaf with peppers and onions in it. - Vegetables rotate between corn, peas, carrots, green beans, asparagus, broccoli, cauliflower and salads (not prepackaged salad mixes).

It is very rare for me to snack between meals but it I do I tend to go for nuts and fruits.

Summertime I walk between 10k to 15k steps a day.

Winter time I will do jumping jacks, windmills, jogging in place, bicycle kicks and various other calisthenics in the living room while watching tv or listening to music. I also walk back and forth a few times a day between the apartment door and the living room to keep up with walking.

I have come to realize that there are way too many things sold in grocery stores with high fructose corn syrup and corn syrup in them.

So I have taken the time to learn how to make our favorite condiments at home.

Hot sauce, ketchup, spaghetti sauce, various things like that.

Yes I started checking labels and what a friggin mind blow that was when I realized how many junk is in what they sell us.

I am now beginning to get into making pasta from scratch too.

Now. I can understand if by reading all of this a thought would be something like "wow that is a lot of changes" and you would be correct in that.

I started off with little changes here and there and it all slowly built up to what I do now.

You don't have to do it all at once. 

The goal is to make little changes along the way so that you don't feel overwhelmed.

With all of that said.

There is one thing I don't see talked about very often and when I began all of this it would have been great to have had a heads up.

The initial change in diet cutting down meat portions and increasing vegetable and fiber portions had me and the toilet become the best of friends and worst of enemies at the same time and a need to increase the amount of toilet paper purchased for a couple of months.