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Fools%u2019 Journey538capacity. She said there was no way for them to properly process and store anything new until the construction work was complete %u2014 in about a year. With Amy so enthusiastic about my work, we agreed to get it touch again then.%u2022%u2022%u2022%u2022%u2022As I had gotten older, I%u2019d become more sedentary, and had grown a bit of a paunch. In college, with my five-foot, ten-inch frame, I was a skinny 130 pounds. Now I tipped the scales at 162. Lynn was still trim, the difference being that she has a well-regulated appetite, and never overeats. When she%u2019s full, she%u2019s full, and she will leave food on her plate. The opposite is also true, when she%u2019s hungry, she%u2019s hungry, and she%u2019ll get grumpy if she doesn%u2019t have a rice cake with cashew butter at two o%u2019clock every afternoon. On the handful of rare occasions when one rice cake isn%u2019t enough, she will prepare a second, although she may not eat it all. I, on the other hand, will clean my plate at every meal, even if I%u2019m full. I will also eat snacks between meals because they taste good, not because I%u2019m hungry. So, I%u2019m more likely to overeat than Lynn is.At age 75, I decided to work on my belly, so a diet and exercise seemed to be in order. I thought I%u2019d shoot for 150 pounds because losing 12 pounds seemed like a lot, yet was still within reason. I started by taking smaller portions at each meal and skipping all snacks. It wasn%u2019t too hard, but I was hungry much of the time %u2014 sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. Doing exercises like sit-ups wasn%u2019t something that had any appeal. It was too much like shooting baskets over and over, and I%u2019ve never been able to keep doing the same thing repeatedly. So I considered getting a bicycle. Our dead-end road had been paved a few months earlier, so it was perfectly smooth, and biking up and down it would a good way to get some exercise and lose weight. Most of the road follows a ridge top which has a fair amount of up-and-down rolling terrain. There%u2019s only one long hill %u2014 at the south end where the road tees into State Highway 46. In doing on-line research, I learned that there was some controversy about exercise designed to target specific parts of the body.