Oh yeah, here's the key:

d - dairy
f - fruit
g - grain
m - meat
v - vegetable
/p - protein

drinks are freebies, though I'll use them to fill dairy or veggie or fruit slots.

1/17
breakfast: Rice Chex (g), milk (d/p), apple (f)
lunch: bratwurst (m/p), bun (g), sauerkraut (v), diet pop
snack: peanut butter (m/p), crackers (g), Spicy V-8 (v)
dinner: cheese pizza (m/p, g), yogurt (d/p), buttermilk (d/p), banana (f)

1/18
breakfast: 4 french pancakes (g), yogurt (d/p), banana (f), coffee
lunch: zucchini bread (g), chai tea (d/p), cole slaw (v)
dinner: focc bread / cream cheese (g, d/p), salad (v), turkey melt sand (m/p, d/p, g), beer

That didn't last long.

I'm still floating around 235 - but with a new sense of purpose - latest issue of Prevention offers up a 3-food diet. Odd premise - every time you eat, you must eat from at least 3 major food groups (dairy, meat, fruit, vegetable, grain), and one of the 3 must have protein (dairy or "meat", which includes fish and legumes).

It was originally set up as a nutrition regimen, but the nutritionist noticed a lot of people losing weight. Her further investigation showed that it seems to work on a few levels - (1) it controlled cravings - a lot of overeating involves mixed body signals about your intake - by always balancing, you wind up closer to what your body needs, (2) related - the 3 things you eat will undoubtedly be more balanced than that Snickers bar you were gonna grab, and (3) by always having to have 3 things, the extra work in assembling a snack may lead you to decide you're really not all that hungry.

So, per Prevention, I could lose "20, 40, even 50" lbs. 50 would be good, I'd settle for 40. We'll see how it goes.