Diets & Dieting: What Finally Worked For Me (and What Didn’t)

Illustration of a plate with steak, greens, and an egg wrapped by a yellow tape measure, with a bathroom scale on a blue card.

In the Marines, fitness wasn’t optional. It was your ticket to promotion and the difference between making it or not. Twenty-mile hikes at route step (forty inches heel-to-toe), regular PT, and at 5’9″ and 160 pounds I was a lean, mean, fighting machine. After I got out in ’72, the pounds crept on. I fought … Read more