Dave,

Congratulations on your success thus far! I perceive that you are a fairly disciplined man and that is sooo essential to the long term success of procedures like the one you had. I have two friends that lost significant amounts of weight to only fall back into old habits and one has gained about 30% of the weight back and the other has gained it all back plus a few pounds. I will continue to pray for you to reach your goals and maintain them for the rest of your many years on this earth (should the Lord tarry his coming).

You have to love those almonds... so satisfying and they really keep things on schedule!

I buy raw almonds at Sam's Club in 2 pound bags... I eat them for my snacks and when I am driving long distance I will eat a handful from time to time to break the monotony.

I watch the beef jerky that is prepackaged because many of them have a lot of sugar in them. Here in LA we have a lot of meat markets that sell boudin and cracklins as well as some of the best beef jerky on the planet. Unfortunately the jerky goes for about 18 to 20 dollars a pound!