As one who has lost a lot of weight in the past and is in the process of loosing said weight again I know what you mean. However they way I plan on looking at things in the future is going to be simply a modified way of how I looked at my eating habits in the past. I'm going to keep a 5-10 pound window in which I must stay within, if I go outside of that window I know to cut back and exersize more again. Beyond that and keeping portion sizes down to something reasonable I'm not going to worry too much about it. Getting obsessive about it is what got me down to 135 lbs last time (I'm 6'1 1/2). Every now and then I'll splurge. In fact I'm thinking of setting one day a month as a fat ass eat whatever the fuck I want day. I'll also have my cholesterol and blood sugar checked on a semi regular basis (by cholesterol was REALLY high last time I checked). I don't really want to become a health fanatic, I'm much more an enjoy life to its fullest type of guy than a health nut. I want to keep things that way for the most part, I just want to look more handsome than I have in the past for a change.