>Exercise is great, but if weight loss is part of the advice to lower BP, then the in hole needs to be smaller than the out hole.

That last part of the last sentence reminds me of the "m.dot" discussion going on over on the parent network :)

For the last 18 days, I haven't had a beer, chips, fast food (in reality, I never did fast food as often as I bragged, but I haven't had it at all), milk shakes. ice cream, etc. Like I said, I allowed the stress of work to impact how I was eating.

I did break down over the weekend - made jambalaya for the family and then had ham on Saturday. But it's mainly been fruits and vegetables and skinless chicken (I can't stand fish). I've eaten more bananas in 3 weeks than I have in 20 years.

Sorry - I just don't like wine, period. My wife loves red wine but I just cannot get into it. So I've been drinking water and some Sprite Zero here and there. I've dropped 15 lbs (mostly water weight, I guess).