Those few extra pounds

Why is it that each new decade (sometimes just a new year) brings with it new pounds that are getting harder and harder to shed?  What worked last year, isn’t working now.  And I’m exercising more than usual – walking, yoga, the elliptical, doing something different many days of the week. 

My daughter insists that my metabolism needs a jumpstart - that I should be eating earlier in the day.  I recently heard Dr. Oz say that you should have the bulk of your food intake by 3:00 P.M. That is exactly the point in my day that I begin to feel hungry, and the hunger only gets stronger as the day goes on. I tend not to have anything to eat except coffee until around 12 o’clock, and then I’m satisfied with just an apple and a banana.  Three o’clock comes, and I’m starving.  I’ll usually try to eat some carrots, celery, humus, maybe another banana, and then I eat a pretty good dinner.

I wouldn’t care so much about these few new pounds but all the pants I wore in the fall are just a little too tight around my belly.  Perhaps it is just the winter.  (Another thing to blame on the winter.)  There’s no gardening, less walking around, and more indoor moments. But with spring on the horizon, and having started eating earlier in the morning, I plan on defeating those pounds.