I had a lot of luck about 6-7 years ago in losing a tremendous amount of weight. I started off around 280 and managed to get down to around 200. That was in 2008-2009. I hovered around 220 for years but recently ballooned up to 260lbs. I came back to MFP about a month ago and am now down to 247lbs. I'm a 5'6" male and am…