@majorcatfish , congratulations on the weight loss!
Men ALWAYS lose weight and keep it off pretty easily.
If it Helps, DH and I are on vacation in CO. We are staying at a cabin a making almost all meals. Our snacks are fruit, and our meals are Real Food, bacon, eggs, salads, lunchmeat, cheese, trout, hamburgers, steak.

Sorry about the trout and the steak.
DH thinks he has lost weight after one week--we still have another week to go. I may have lost 2 pounds.
During the mandatory shut down for Covid, all of us were still working, atty DD was full pay, required to come in 2 days/week, 3 days/week no real work for almost 2 months. So, we started decluttering. It is now a brutal habit. We are throwing away clothes that have been sitting in the closet for Years, cleaning up the yard, tearing up the basement clutter, etc.
Finally, our church had a real service in July, and I noticed that our pastor had gained, like, 25 pounds, in 2 months!!
He was never a chubby guy.
So...being blithely innocent, I post on FB:
"Went to church and saw that people had formed a new relationship with their refrigerators. I Lost 5 pounds. WHAT does this MEAN?!?!?!?"
I thought everybody would read this as "Area 51", or "X Files."
Nope.
You would have thought that there was a new ice age.
When you are all healed up we need a new picture of your svelte self, with the bunny ears, of course.