Well I'm 53 years old and was up to 225, High blood preasure and Doc was on me about my blood sugar for the last couple years had me on blood preausre and cholestrol meds. New years weekend this year had some problems and had to go to E.R. and then go see Doc. He put me on diabetic pills and up'd the blood preasure meds. Took one of those diabetec pills and thought I was having a stroke..... Did some research and figured out I can fix this myself, threw those meds down the toilet, bought a blood preasure & blood sugar meter,Quit sugar & white bread,went back to my original low dose blood preasure meds. I ride the bicycle around the local high school track hard as I can go till I'm about ready to drop about twice a week(Cardio), Started eating a bowl of oatmeal for breakfast every morning, "hadn't ate breakfast since my school day's" , I Try not to intake any sugar unless it's natural such as friuts,and I watch the labels of stuff for high sugars and carbs. I have now lost my gut, am back down to a 34 waist Levi and weigh 195 same as in highschool, I have more energy,blood sugar is back down to normal,blood preasure is still higher than normal but nowhere near what it was in January. I'm sure I could probally fix the blood preasure totally if I'd quit smoking. Beer was never a problem as I can't stand the taste or smell of the stuff.