I'm 6'6" tall and I used to weigh 270, but an emergency surgery and lengthy hospital stay back in November and a follow-up surgery the 1st week of January changed that. I'm now down around 225 and am comfortable at that weight, although I wouldn't be upset about losing a little more. My biggest fitness goal this year, however, is to not put the pounds back on as my weight hasn't been this low since I was still a student at OSU (30 years old now).
My diet has been really poor the last 8 years or so, and I've been working to change it while recovering from the January surgery. In the past, I tended to eat a lot of animal protein and very few veggies. I still eat some sort of animal meat most days (typically deli turkey at lunch), but I've upped my veggie intake and cut way down on my portion sizes, which was the biggest culprit to my weight gain over the years. When eating dinner now, I've learned to ask myself if I really need to get a second or third helping of the main course or not. If we go out to eat, I've learned to accept that I don't need to finish all of my food at the restaurant. And if we're out and about on the weekend and get fast food somewhere for lunch, I've learned to order 1 or 2 less items than I used to. Basically, I've been trying to stop eating at the point I no longer feel hungry as opposed to eating until I feel stuffed. Additionally, I've tried to stop snacking on starchy items throughout the day at work and cut my soda intake down to 1/day max.
Working out right now is difficult as we have a 2-year old who we can't get to fall asleep until around midnight every night. But in my current physical state, I know that I can keep the weight off as long as I don't revert to my old eating habits. As my son gets older and develops a more "normal" bedtime, I'll planning to start working out a little bit more since I know my metabolism will begin to slow down as I get older.
Overall, I've found myself to be a lot less hungry throughout the day than I was before last November. My energy level also seems to have picked up as of late. I used to snore a lot every night, but my wife said I only snore for around 10 minutes now when I first fall asleep. The weight loss has been a big consolation prize for all the health issues I went through.
