While your timespans are perhaps a little long, I adopted a similar approach, which allowed me to lose 70lbs. Basically, I stopped looking forward to food and

While your timespans are perhaps a little long, I adopted a similar approach, which allowed me to lose 70lbs. Basically, I stopped looking forward to food and began seeing food as fuel. Like having to re-fuel your car, eating sometimes got to be more of a chore than a delight. Our society looks at food as an indulgence, when perhaps it would be better to look at it as an energy source. The Western mantra of "eat the things you love and look great doing it!" is probably cognitive dissonance at its best, not helping society at all.