Greetings from Tokyo Japan

Hi all, I've been using the MFP iPhone app since June 14th, which is just about 7 weeks now, on July 28th, I've lost 22 pounds, but I have a lot more to go, I want to be 185 pounds, and now I'm 278 pounds, so that is 93 pounds to go. Still it sounds a LOT better than 115 pounds to go :happy:

I live in Tokyo Japan, right downtown, with my wife and our two daughters. I've been here since 1990, so twenty years!
We run my wife's family business, a liquor shop, it is retail and open 7 days a week, I work from about noon until 1 AM most days except on Sunday when we only work from abut 6PM until 1 AM. The shop is full of snacks, and chocolate etc, this was my biggest problem, I'd be sitting alone in the shop from about 8PM until maybe midnight, when my mother-in-law would come down to close the shop.

By using MFP, I've been able to really get a handle on what I'm eating, I've cut out somethings from my diet, but nothing too radical, basically if is comes in a box or bag, I don't eat it anymore, way less processed food on the table, way healthier. All soda pop is not gone, I drink tea, my favorite is Mugicha (tea made from roasted wheat) I call it "Pre-Beer" and I really do enjoy it, no caffeine and no calories either.

I'm 46 years old and I think I've been on every diet you could name, I have yo-yoed all my life, but with this lifestyle change, I really don't see it as a diet, I see it as an attitude change on my part, so I really do think that this time, I'll be able to stick with it.

One week into this I had a very funny thing happen, right next door to the liquor shop is a take out Pizza Hut (talk about temptation!!) the size of the pizza here is smaller than in the US or Canada, but I could easily eat a medium pizza by myself, that is like a small pizza over there. A buddy of mine came by to work on his motorbike, he has known me for about 15 years, we often work on bikes and when it is his bike, he buys lunch, always pizza. He usually buys a large size pizza and we split it. The last time he came I told him there was no way I could eat half a large pizza, so he bought a medium, and I had only two slices and I was (amazingly!!!! ) full, he told me he could not eat it all, so I did stuff down a third piece........ and felt like a stuffed turkey, man I was miserable the rest of the day, I really should not have eaten that third piece :sad: I did learn that my stomach has certainly shrunk, this is a great thing, I now feel FULL when only eating a little bit.

Well enough about me, I'm just happy to be here!

Stu