Weight Loss

Maybe it's a silly way to feel, but having lost 50+ lbs so far (and no sign of slowing down), I've been getting progressively more annoyed with people asking me "how'd you do it?" - as if there was some secret formula or magic wand. They *know* how I did it; it's the same way anybody who loses weight does it. There's no magic wand - although there are better ways of thinking.
The hard part to losing weight is not the eating less, or the exercise (I actually haven't been exercising at all, in part as an experiment.) The hard part is making the commitment - and then, making the second commitment to Keep Your Eye On The Ball. You'll slip; you'll make mistakes (if you didn't have the habit of making them, you wouldn't be fat in the first place); you'll forget and do the wrong thing. As long as you Keep Your Eye On The Ball, none of that will matter.
Learn to have pride in yourself; attach it to the commitment that you've made if you have nothing else to be proud of. Eat only the things/amounts that wouldn't shame you if the whole world knew about them. Build your sense of self while you're at it, and design that self out of the best, cleanest, sanest parts of who you are. Then, grow (or shrink) into it.
See? Dirt simple.