Welcome Debbie! It's refreshing to know there is someone out there that really wants to make some healthy changes.
It would be most beneficial to you and hubbie if you decide to make these changes for your "lifetime". Some, I believe are doing it just temporararily to lose weight. I think that's where some people go wrong and might possibly end up with some serious health problems after all.
Glad and her hubbie and myself and my hubbie have made these changes because we HAD to because of serious health problems. We had no choice in the matter if we wanted to prolong our life.
It sounds like you are on the right path to making some of those changes.
Try to weed through some of the articles as there is some great information there for you to pick from. Some of it you may want to print off to keep in the kitchen.
I don't know how serious your joint problems are but in some cases if you don't exercise you may lose some "range of motion". In some cases, exercise will help. It's a painful thing when you lose that range of motion.
If it's arthritic, then exercise will help. But, if you need surgery for a problem, that's a different story.
Good luck in making right choices.
