Hello, My name is Gary Spitnale and I live in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. This is my most recent picture of over half my body weight loss gone of 210#s and I now weight 215, average 215 Highest weight was 429#. I live on the beach with my beautiful wife. I'm a Certified Executive Chef, I work Part-time now days ,so for my adult life I was surrounded constantly by foods as I worked mostly at major resorts,hotels and private clubs of which they had several food outlets, I now teach Commercial Foods/Culinary Arts/Professional Culinary Arts & Hospitality at a College in Miami.I also teach Nutrition and Wellness class. I have also added KETO and different WOE to my nutrition curriculum. So a lot of times I have my students do research papers to get more information on WOE of which I catalog. I have heart problems, beat the diabetes mess after 14 years, never wanted the insulin, so went on a weight loss journey. I go to gym 2-3 days a week playing pickleball, spinn and have trainer. I'm going gun ho on trying to maintain my health. I'm on a modified LCHF not so high fat. I also do the 16:8 of diets,This has been slow and steady weight loss.Just recently been going 16-8 ALL week. I'm in maintenance mode ,the hardest part is yet to come and that is keeping the weight off, I have several friends on the maintainer group, and I still log foods and still weigh myself weekly and try to stay under my original weight goals so I sometimes indulge in my favorite foods. Thank you FS and my many warriors for keeping me in check.And I'm DO N OK