Thanks for the welcomes and all your insightful posts! I hope to learn a lot in these forums and to find motivation to keep on the right path to health. I hope to start a journal at some point to keep you updated on my weight loss and other progress.

I agree that fasting is the best thing to begin with. Once I'm hungry enough I'd probably eat tree bark let alone delicious ground beef, so in the next few days I'm just going to drink water (not orange juice cause that can be very addictive to me). What's weird is that I prefer the taste of raw meat to cooked, yet it doesn't satisfy my addiction at all so it makes it psychologically "useless" to eat. Which is a good thing to me. But it's gonna be extremely hard, and I know that already.

As far as the idea of eating raw fruit, maybe down the line, but for now I'll be eating meat and fat only. The idea of getting a lot of my calories from fruit doesn't appeal to me, and I just wanna focus on animal products. Raw eggs I might consider eating too. Brains and liver are pretty decent tasting too but I have a hard time eating them raw at this stage.

I already kinda have a protocol with dealing with addiction. When I go to the supermarket I go straight to meat section without looking at anything. And then I just flee the scene. I don't have a hard time refusing offered food, but if they insist it might make it harder to refuse. I live basically alone, with some roommates but they don't cook or offer me food. And since I'm not a super social person it makes it much easier for me than for someone else, I guess.

Blimpie, if what you say is true, I will definitely work hard for the next three months to fix my habits completely. I really want a body I feel comfortable in, and I don't want to end up like my dad who has heart disease. Or other members of my family who had strokes or diabetes. Once stuff like that happens so close to me I start taking it more seriously than after reading some article online.