Weight watching or not really watching at all

I mentioned that at one time in my life I was a Division 1 athlete.  I played basketball at Columbia University in New York.   I was a very fit person in those days.  We worked out 4 hours a day.  I would lift weights in the morning before class and then come back later that afternoon for practice.  When you work out that much in a day, you get to eat pretty much whatever you want.  Well, I should have been eating high energy foods but I ate whatever I wanted.  My metabolism was so high I had problems gaining weight as you can probably see to the right.  My coaches put me on weight gainers to try and "bulk" up a bit.  Nothing really worked, that is, until I graduated and stopped working out 4 hours a day.  The real problem was that I stopped working out 4 hours a day but kept eating "whatever I wanted".   Gaining a little bit of weight was ok with me.  I felt I was too thin in college.  I still worked out while I lived and worked in New York, 1 hour a day at least 3 days a week.  When I moved to Philly I stopped all physical activity, except the physical activity of chewing my food.  Once you get into the routine of not working out, even for 1 hour a day, it is a very hard routine to get back into.  As a former college athlete, you mentally feel like you are still that athlete.  Like you can pick up where you left off.  Since I was a college athlete 12 years went by and 45lbs came on.   Now that I've changed my focus to include balance I have made changes to correct this.  You will soon see how.