[Stewart Way]

Jack
Glad to see you have joined the workout crowd. Keep at it and you will see a difference. I'm no expert but do know a little about it. After heart issues I am back at the weights and have the bench back to around 275lb. At 63 I think I will try for 300 and no higher. Shoulders too old. You feel better when you workout because endorphins are released. Thats the runners high you have heard about. These are the bodys own happy drug as well as a pain killer of sorts. Working out is a plus when you are dieting because eating your "happy foods" can release these endorphins but you may have removed them from your diet. Thats why some people are grumpy on a diet. The exercise will release endorphiins. Claude mentioned diet drinks as something to be avoided. Not totally true but they can trick the body into thinking it has gotten a sugar fix and when it realizes it hasnt gotten the sugar it craves it and you might eat something to stop the craving. Thats how it has been explained to me.
Hope you stay with it as even if the results are hard to see they are real.
My grandson is sitting beside me having a choc. milk which reminds me of the endorphins the choc will release and he will be on a sugar rush shortly because of those pesky endorphins and get his brother wound up as well. Life is good.