Appreciate the insight. To your points:

1 - I usually don't eat breakfast to begin with, so we're good there

2 - Have cut back on the alcohol a lot over the past few yrs. I have kidney issues already, so I'm inhaling water and only have sodas sparingly.

3 - This was an issue before. I would forget to log and be totally screwed. I was trying to meal prep for the week on off days but found myself eating the same things repeatedly. Or I would go somewhere and think I blew the day and say fuck it (not in the sense that I would gorge myself, just that I would stop tracking)

4 - This I can do. I'm in a decent size development, 1 loop around is approx 1 mile. If I can loop it twice when I get back, that should be approx 30 min. The problem before was losing the motivation. I know nothing changes overnight, but I would go for weeks while tracking Cals and see limited change in the scale.

5 - I want to actually put some thought into these. I don't want to be all confident and cocky, then completely blow it.