from Dad

[edited slightly]

Chances seem good that you have made a significant break-through in your battle of the bulge.
My concern is that by skipping meals and dumping pounds you have got to be restricting calories - indoing so one must be careful to focus on the ON part of CR-ON.
Optimal nutrition - the data that is convincing suggest that when restricting calories you can't afford to eat much fat not even the good stuff - like virgin olive oil and/or canola and one must be very choosy with animal protein as it is so often laced with obvious or occult fat.
Once you get well below 200 lbs all the perks will be a powerful reinforcement to continue.