Great accomplishment jchampl! Glad to hear you're feeling better about yourself. I've been getting closer and closer to trying (yet again) to give up cigarettes and hearing these kind of stories really is great motivation and reinforcement. Cheers!
Nice! It's definitely hard to keep motivated to keep working out; I definitely have those days when I feel like I just want to sleep and do nothing. It takes a lot of determination to do what you just did, if only the millions of other overweight Americans could do what you did. But then again, if they could, what you did wouldn't be special now would it? Again, great job.