MONGO -- Dude! You are awesome. Keep it up --

JIM -- My wife tells me that pomegranate (spelling?) juice has about 70% of the beneficial properties of red wine, and green tea has the missing 30% (not precisely... but for those who don't prefer wine...). I like wine, but like a change sometimes as well. On those days I have green tea (over ice) with my lunch, and a pomegranate juice in the evening (...also... if you want to up the 'relaxation factor', pomegranate mixes nicely with vodka or gin...)

My update.... the holidays took a bit of a toll. I went back up from 194 to 201... but am back down to 198. If I survive until January in the190's I'll be happy --- and have decided I'm going to go on down to 185-ish in the spring.