Thanks for the advice and encouragement. I'm using a smartphone program called Good Habits to track my exercise and eating along with guitar practice. It's easy to use. You just enter your goals and each day check off those you completed. It keeps track of your longest streak of days without a miss and compares it to your current count. I also started using "Lose it" to track weight and food consumption. These two together seem to keep me on track and a tough goal will give me the extra push I need to get in extra workouts and look the other way when there are foods I shouldn't eat. This will probably make some people say "yuck" but I found a replacement for salty snacks which are my weakness. Trader Joe's has Wasabi Roasted Sea Weed for $0.99 which has very low calories and keeps me away from the chips.