Twenty-three years ago, after many unsuccessful attempts at weight loss, I embarked on a diet called "controlled cheating". The author’s premise was that as long as you stuck to a rigid diet and exercise plan for six days a week, you could "cheat" on the seventh day, and eat anything you wanted.

The author was correct! Following the advice of the book, I lost ninety pounds over a period of eight months. The weight stayed off for a few years, but gradually, I regained all that I had lost. I tried (many times) to duplicate that diet, but I was never successful again. It seemed like I had lost my will to diet. I have known for some time, that I am grossly overweight, but I have been loathe to take the appropriate measures to correct it. This year, I decided to try again a variation of the one diet that I have had success with.

This time, I decided to begin the diet on the same day that I began my diet over twenty years ago. I have followed the same principles that I used so many years ago, and in a period of thirty days, I lost thirty pounds. Since then, I have not lost any more weight for almost a month. I have no desire to balloon back up to my original weight. I feel that a Transformation would enable me to change my eating and exercise habits so that I could achieve my goal weight and maintain it forever.

I am fifty-five years old, and I currently weigh 255 pounds. Weight loss is imperative. At the start of my current diet on November 1^st, I weighed 285 pounds. My goal weight is 200-215 pounds. My biggest fear, is that I will become frustrated at my inability to increase my weight loss and fall back into my old eating habits.