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ScottEPond said: First off, you are already in my will... heir to the McPondy fortune in Depends investments. From a health standpoint, I'm deceptively healthy. Sure, I look like a cuddly Pondybear, but there are some high tensile strength lurking beneath my stuffed exterior. BUT I have been getting more cute and cuddly over the last few years. So I am kicking back in my two phase method of getting the weight under control: structured eating and structured exercise. This has worked well for me several times in the past (before the dark side seduced me with their damn cookies. It's very simple: just eating a lot of small meals, eating less than 2000 calories a day (corrected by calorie loss due to exercise), and weekday morning workouts (3-days of 1-hour cardio and 2-days of 1-hour weights). Back in my navy days I did this and dropped from 215 to 175 in 2.5 months. Had similar results a few other times in the last 20 years. Right now I'm not interested speed but rather long term results. So I'm dropping 2 pounds a week and am already down 8 pounds. Another 46 weeks and I will, like a butterfly from a chrysalis, emerge as a lean, mean, creative machine. Or at least that is the plan...