I have mostly been pretty disciplined for the past few months, with a few slight exceptions here and there. For instance, at my niece's wedding, she did a traditional Chinese wedding banquet that is 10 courses. I could have been disciplined and just partaken of small amounts of just a couple of the healthier courses. But on the flip side, they are all expensive dishes that you don't really have an opportunity to have in any setting other than a Chinese wedding banquet, and those only come along in my family once every several years. So I just went into it with the mindset that I was going to enjoy as much of it as I liked, and just continue to be disciplined outside of that meal (which I have). I also told myself that once I broke under 190, the first Friday after that (which is today), I would go ahead and reward myself with a breakfast from the cafeteria downstairs at my work, which has really awesome breakfasts. It is way too many calories for one meal. But once in a great while, if it is something I really enjoy and I can exercise enough self-control to not let it develop into a bad habit, I see nothing wrong with doing that. And on a day like today, I'm skipping my small between breakfast and lunch snack, limiting lunch to mostly veggies (I say "mostly" because my salad is sprinkled with some seeds and a tiny bit of lowfat bleu cheese crumbs for flavor/texture), and I'll burn 1200-1500 calories on my bike ride home later, so... Small reward and commensurate setback this morning with that, but with the physical activity and keeping disciplined the rest of my meals, I'll be back under this weight before the weekend is over. Anyhow, I'm rambling. tl;dnr version: I'm making good progress and made a conscious decision to reward myself today in a way that is slightly counterproductive, but not detrimental to my overall goals.