Welcome Lyman!! Glad to have you aboard!!
At least you are giving an effort, which puts you a huge step ahead of most people.
OD has done really well keeping spammers off the boards, (thanks Admin
). In fact, I've never even seen a spambot here, just an occasional human trying to plug something, and even that gets the smackdown within a few hours.
I don't know if you have tried, but a few of us use odd methods of motivation to keep ourselves from eating the bad stuff. I have a picture of the "old" me taped to the fridge to remind myself what I do not want to look like. Another member here mentioned she puts her scale next to her fridge. I think the admin said he chains his fridge shut and has attack dogs standing guard!
Well anyway, best of luck to you, and we have a good support group here.