The good and the bad

I've been using IF for about two weeks now and I have to say, it's far easier than any other diet I've been on. I could see doing this the rest of my life just because I think I prefer eating this way to eating three meals a day every day. I have lost some weight, still not sure how much because my scale still says "EE" which means I'm still over 335. I noticed that I can now button a pair of pants that I couldn't button when I first started IF and my shirts fit better. That being said, I received a reality check when I went to Texas Roadhouse to eat last night. I normally get a table because, at most restaurants, I have difficulty getting into the booths due to my size. Well, they were really packed last night so we had to settle for a booth and I could not sit comfortably in the booth so I had to use a chair at a booth table. I have not always been this large - I weighed about 280 up to a couple of years ago which still made very overweight since I'm 6 foot 2. I divorced in 2007 and lost about 50 pounds - down to around 230 (I just basically did not eat for about 5 months). I stayed around 230-250 until 2008 when I met my current wife. After about a year of marriage, I ballooned up to around 350 lbs. Unless you've every been approximately 150 punds overweight, you can't imagine what it's like. You have no energy!! I'm going to start incorporating a little exercise every week into my routine and see how that goes. What I've really been curious about is why IF and alternative day fasting seemed to be really popular about two years ago and then the excitement around this eating style just died down. I fast 6 p.m. to 6 p.m. every other day and it really has been easy to do. I've only seen a couple of people stick with IF long term, one of whom is Dave Ward who has been doing IF for a little over a year now and has had great results (you can see Dave's blog at www.retireddieter.com). Anyway, I'm still waiting to hit my first major milestone which is the scale showing me an actual weight. With some luck, hopefully I'll see a weight instead of "EE" on the scale this time next week. Weight loss to date??? I'm guessing around 8-12 lbs.