Bruce, I understand your displeasure with your weight--at present I'm the heaviest I've ever been--but I really wouldn't have guessed.
My little soup diet is coming along nicely. I didn't expect to lose quickly--my goal was sensibly. I'm eating fewer carbs and fewer calories overall. The pounds are starting to come off. And I agree with DR JohnG about the numbers on the scale not being the whole story. I care about how my clothes fit--not the numbers.