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Congratulations, Sam!

I started using a Fitbit Charge HR in May 2015. I am currently >30 pounds down. My wife also bought one and she is 35 pounds down. Using the Fitbit has been fun.

I still am able to eat the few desserts I enjoy and the good stuff. My son found an Android app that would chide him that, even though he was on a weight loss regimen, that he needed to eat a snack. In other words, if he was low on calorie intake the app would make sure that his body didn’t go into starvation mode.

I would second the idea on yogurt. I also would snack on Naked Green Machine. The stuff looks awful, but it tastes really good. For lunch I ate a lot of Barrow’s pizza & salad, Subway ham 6”, and Harvest Apple Salad from Quiznos. So you don’t have to starve to lose weight.

I also ate a lot of sherbet (sugar, but not fat), fruit, and especially bananas.

I can honestly say that hunger was not a problem during my diet. Switching to denser foods higher in fat and protein satisfied my hunger. It's the added sugars to most processed foods that are the culprit and even most breads and pastas are like sugar to the body.

I can't say enough about whole-milk yogurt. I'm talking the kind with the cream layer on top (such as Brown Cow). None of that "low-fat" garbage. To me, it tastes just like ice cream. Every morning I toss some Wyman's frozen blueberries into a cup of this yogurt and also have a hard-boiled egg or two. Then a cup of black coffee. Then I'm good until lunchtime.