My Journey, so far, One year and 180 lbs lost

Incredible. How did you find the discipline to stick with it at first, and what has been your key to long term success?

The program wasn't cheap and I wanted to get the most out of my investment. The first day was tough cause I went to long in between meals before I regimented my day properly. One thing I learned along the way is building up your resistance to temptation is key. This allowed me to realize that I would be just as happy with a steak and veggies than I would be with a burger and fries. I travel frequently for work usually doing about 6 to 8 overnights a month and ate out all the time, cause my wife and I would go out to dinner at least once a week on the weekends. Once I was convinced that I would be just as happy it was easy. Plus, when you're losing on average 5 lbs a week, it becomes easy to stick with something. The keys to my long term success has been learning actual serving sizes not what's on the box as well as planning meals accordingly. I usually know 3 of my 4 meals in the morning of each day. This allows me to plan my calories and dinner accordingly.. Dinner changes a lot from day to day, it depends what my wife is looking to cook. It's always a healthy option.

I do cheat from time to time, but it's a planned cheat, like if we have a wedding or a birthday party to go to, but on those days I make sure I don't go too far over my allotted calories including exercise calories, I never eat back all of them, cause now I realize that my body only needs a certain amount of calories to be happy and anything excess is just that excess, I don't need it, would I like to try it sure, but do I need to try it. No. I have tried a greasy Royal Red Robin Burger or a Deep Dish Chicago Style Pizza, it's alright, but a nice lean Filet Mignon is not only more filling but tastes better.

thanks everyone for the kind words and well wishes.

thanks again everyone, alot of the motivation came from people leaving comments on my posts.