Dieting

Well done Vinny for sticking to your diet. You have far more willpower than most of us.

I don't look on it as a diet veggie, it's just become a way of life.Its regimented i.e I have the same stuff to eat every week for every weekday but it gives me a seven day break from eating the same stuff again. I enjoy cooking. so the cooking of the OMAD is as enjoyable as the eating of it.  Its not as boring as it sounds because each day I have a base element which can be cooked in loads of different ways and with various additions.
Many years ago I was like you in that I enjoyed a glass of red wine in the evening. The problem was it turned into a bottle of red wine every evening and acute kidney pains during the day. At first I didn't associate the two but when I realised I had a problem I stopped drinking alcohol completely .