Five years ago I disciplined myself to stop eating between meals and skip deserts and sugary drinks in order to lose weight while on a six month overseas assignment. My average weekly bicycling mileage dropped from about 125 to 25 miles during this assignment. My work schedule of 12hours/7 days a week kept me busy but did not require strenuous activity. I never missed a meal at the available government dining facilities and ate well 3 times a day, but without desserts, pastry and the like. Never counted calories; lost about 35 lbs. in the six months and never was hungry. Have sustained the weight loss for the last 5 years in retirement by continuing to mostly skipping between meal snacks and sugary drinks and upping my weekly mileage to about 70 miles/week.