Positivespin: So glad you're responding!

I'm wearing the relaxed fit 36"s now, first time in roughly 10 years. I'm still technically obese for another 5 pounds, but I'm still dropping steadily and I think I'm in better shape than when the W and I first met. The D diet is not fun, but IS effective.

I'm seeing a LCSW, not a psychiatrist. He's just been out the past two weeks with bronchitis, so I feel a little emotionally constipated, to coin a phrase. My meds seem to be pretty good right now. Almost done tapering off Lexapro. That stuff is evil.

I don't think I was on the xbox a lot in general. I would get a game and binge through it and sell it back. The W watched a lot of TV, so it's not like she was bugging me to go outside. To be honest, it was usually the other way around.

The last few weeks immediately before the BD I was playing a lot of video games. I was feeling under the weather, depressed, money was tight, and the weather was rainy almost every day. It was a way for me to escape. But I had turned off the xbox for good before the BD. Didn't play any games at all on the day prior to the BD.

My wife and my mom got along pretty good, I think. Certainly better than her mother and I did. My mom said she thought of her as a daughter. My W said she thought of her as a mother, once even after the BD!