Where to start?

I am not a yo-yo dieter. I have tried to lose weight once before and I was successful, I lost 60 lbs. I went from 280 to 220 in 6 months. It felt good and I was doing consistently well.
When Christmas time came around I decided to take a "break" from my plan to enjoy the holidays. Big mistake!

I told myself I would go back on program and lose the remainder of the weight before I turned 40. And then I would live happily ever after...

That was the end of 2006.

I wandered back to my wicked ways; eating poorly, eating too much, and eating unconscientiously. Not a good way to maintain weight loss and certainly the worst way to try to lose weight. Needless to say I gained back the weight I had lost, all but 8 lbs.

So here I am, back again where I was, my clothes are too tight and I am out of breathe after walking less than a block. In mid-March I decide to finish what I started and fulfill my original goal of weighing 140lbs. I won't make it by the time I am 40 because I am now 42. I realize that the age milestone doesn't matter.

This time I am setting the goals based upon my weight and physical abilities. This isn't a place in time in my life. This is the rest of my life.