Originally Posted by tallbikeman

I have found that a really nice balance beam scale is so important on weight loss verification. I weigh a couple times a week at the same time in the morning. I use myfitnesspal to keep track of calories and nutrients. Your bourbon comes up on myfitnesspal so you can keep up with all your caloric intake. I'm glad to hear that you are reconsidering your decision to drink alcohol. I have found that our devious little brains will very quickly either get you started drinking again or fall into some other addictive trap. By that I mean everything from fast food to heroin can be an addictive trap. It took several years to break the alcohol addiction for me and I've not had any for over 30 yrs now. Good luck. I can't say why I allowed myself to keep eating until I was a blimp but I did. Changing this permission for overeating is as hard as quitting addictive behavior. The hard part is you don't get to quit eating altogether, you must moderate and keep a sensible outlook about what you are eating. So possibly diet/nutritional education and self realization about the consequences of what you are feeding your body is the best anecdote to overeating and destructive addictive behaviors. I hit 254lbs a couple of weeks ago and my blood pressure finally tested in the safe range. I'm keeping a tight control on calorie intake every day so as to continue losing weight. Having done this cycle once before I now realize I won't be able to stop using a calorie diary for the rest of my life, otherwise my devious little brain will figure some way to fatten me up again.