Thanks for telling it like it is! I'm in the midst of trying to get my abs back and am doing fairly intense training 4-5 days a week for about one and a half hours each time (~1200 calories or so my HRM tells me). I also greatly reduced my alcohol consumption. I'm 30 days in and am hoping at about 90 days I'll be in decent shape :-) I'm going to follow you so I can get more great posts like this!