Great result in only a few months! Would love to see a before/after.

Edited to reflect updated photos above.

Holy cow, well done Dingo Boy!
I could tell before I read your post you were a rider (apart from the obvious outfit...)

Wow you hardly ate anything, not something I'd recommend but your results speak for themselves. Might be an idea for those on the forum who are having trouble losing weight.

I suppose the problem would be everyone would have a different perception of where hunger stops.

So calorie deficit. What IS a calorie deficit for a a 58 year old sedentary female?

I never counted calories. I simply didn't eat enough to make me weigh more after the meals. My scale registers as little as 2/10ths of a pound, so, on average, I could eat that size meal without bumping it up. One can usually only weigh before and after meals at home, but you can quickly figure out how much you can get away with and still avoid inter-day weight gains. Most of my best results were seen after a good night's sleep without late-night snacking. I also use Art's Tender Salt sunflower seeds to satisfy the compulsive eating urges between meals, or snack on a few almonds, tediously chewed to a fine paste, one at a time before swallowing.

You could weigh your food, but I used the measuring method of eating not more dense food than I could hold in the palm of my hand. Then, eating that amount, taking small bites, chewing very well, enjoying each morsel, and waiting at least twenty minutes to see if the hunger persisted before eating another "handful" of good nutritious food. When shoveling food in, one can quickly eat much more than necessary to satisfy hunger, so you have to give your body time to react to its own system.

I've found that, at work, the rest of the crew is usually cleaning up their dishes and I haven't yet finished my smaller-than-theirs portions.  Try eating your smallest meals as you approach bedtime, and not sooner than four hours before turning in. Make lunch your biggest meal, and make it a nutritious salad like the ones I described in an above post.

I hope it helps!

BTW, I finally took a comparable "after" picture and added it to the post of the original "before" picture above.

I am going to try to post a pic from March 2009 and one from August 2009.  Then some time this week, I will take one from now and post later.

If you click on the pic, they will get bigger.  Gad I was fat, but getting better.

Currently sitting at about 145, I initially started trying to turn my body around when I weighed in at my lightest ever, 115lbs at 5'8.  I had an incredibly bad diet and was extremely inactive, got next to no sunlight, and survived mostly on refined carbs.

After that I initially began by eating copious amounts of meats but also pasta, rice, bread, basically everything bad.  This did result in weight gain but a good chunk of it was always fat, and my weight tended to fluctuate a lot.  On top of that my digestive system was in a perpetual state of distress, but it was probably still better than being so underweight.

Now I've been eating paleo for about 2ish months, cut out a lot of body fat and this is what I'm sitting at.  Still got a long way to go until I hit my goal of 180-190ish lbs, but I figure a few more years of consistent caveman diet and exercise will get me there.

Now:
These are from about 1 month after I first started to eat paleo


and most recent, from today in fact

Working on finding some good before pics