Hi Bill.
Congratulations! It seems 'everybody' is getting heathier around here Not to influence your progress, but when in a diet the first pounds can be lost very quickly. It frequently means a water loss, not a fat loss. After a certain time the weight loss slows down a bit; that's you rbody getting rid of the fat.

I found out recently that "our" Kurzweil (yes, Raymond Kurzweil, the pioneer of Kurzweil synths, also the author of many other inventions) wrote a book about healthy living, back in 1993. It's freely available here: http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/meme/memelist.html?m%3D10

Good luck for your diet, Bill.

-- José.