@rosemarya All of these are very good but are things I already knew. It's just following through on them that can be a problem. I am working at using myfitnesspal again to track my calories. I sometimes despise going to the health club but I force myself. Once there I am glad I went. Today I did water aerobics for almost an hour and then about 15 more minutes of water jogging.
I find if I can keep myself to recording everything I put in my mouth, it really does help -- even the half-ounce of dark chocolate I ate today. I too am doing more selective shopping. It's so difficult to walk by things I love but so far, so good.

@johnbishop If you are trying to really track your weight, something I do, then a scale that also measures fluid retention and BMI helps because when my weight goes high some days I look and see that I am retaining water so I know it's not a permanent gain, and I also know to cut way back on sodium. It's definitely not a medically accurate scale, if the BMI is low the fluid retention is high, it balances those two things. I know approximately what my BMI is though so if that varies much from what I know it is then I know the fluid retention is probably fairly accurate. There are days when it says my BMI is in the teens. That will never be the case.
This is the one I have but that same brand has some for as little as $42 which is about what I paid a few years back. I would say I've had it for at least 8 years. I find it really does help. Recently I had been retaining a lot of fluid, but today I was almost back to normal, not quite.
https://www.amazon.com/Tanita-BC533-Innerscan-Composition-Monitor/dp/B0007Y6BS4/ref=sr_1_9?fst=as%3Aoff&keywords=bmi+bathroom+scale&qid=1579031464&refinements=p_89%3ATANITA&rnid=2528832011&s=hpc&sr=1-9
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