8 years I think, maybe 7 and change. I actually have co-workers that don’t remember me fat. Took about 18 month to burn down to target (70 pounds down, I did not put myself on the strictest regimen because I knew I couldn’t stick to it), and the worst I’ve bounced away is about 15 pounds before knuckling back down to work. And of course there’d been plenty of attempts before, it takes a lot of commitment to really hit it to drive through the hunger and exercise. One of the big things was finding out how few of my “naturally thin” friends actually were, turns out most of them have strong exercise and diet regimens, the biggest difference was they didn’t get fat first.
How old are you? How hungry do you get? Is it a difficult challenge to maintain your exercise regimen?