[Kitty]

Well, it seems I've put on 9 pounds over the past 11 months.

How do you keep from gaining weight when:

1) you're not able to do exercise of any kind (except shuffling around the house with my walker)

2) age (I'm 54) is not on your side anymore

3) the food choices I make have more to do with convenience and ease of preparing rather than nutritional composition

I do the best I can but I rarely have the fresh produce I crave since I can't make daily or every other day trips to the market.

I do get frozen fruit (blueberries and strawberries) and keep beans, rice, pasta, eggs and peanut butter on hand always since I can prepare larger batches then eat from it during the week.

I realize those are high carb and sometimes high calorie foods but anything else spoils after one or two days.

I bought canned green beans but they just don't taste like green beans to me.

I guess I'll just have to start making large batches of soup (veggie and/or chicken & rice) and eat from that.

I love red grapefruit and had been keeping a large container of it (cut up in small pieces) in the fridge to snack on but I read somewhere that you're not supposed to eat grapefruit or drink grapefruit juice with some medications so I just stopped keeping it on hand.

What does everyone else do to keep the weight at least stable??