Nice to see people getting in shape. I recommend reading, among other books, The Pleasure Trap, if you want to be shocked into eating better. It explains the evolutionary basis for preferring fatty food, and why we keep eating crap even though we know it's bad for us. I never thought of a French Fry as a vegetable oil delivery system (Yuck).

Here is a preview:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxf4kj8Rb....

No $ affiliation here... just interesting to me why sometimes I can't seem to skip the fries and coke.