Just astounding, good for you! If I lost 170lbs. I'd make a damn t-shirt that advertised it.
I lost 17 lbs. using a combination of LoseIt on the iPhone and Couch to 5k. I can't tell you how much I recommend Couch to 5K if you want to get into running. It ramps you up very slowly and gives you increasingly hard workouts over 3 months. It starts out having you jog for 60 seconds, then walk for 90 seconds, and each workout lasts about 30 minutes. By the end you'll be running at a very impressive pace for the full 30.
The 2000 calorie/day thing worked pretty well for me. I went for 1800 while I was losing and now that I'm down I'm around 2000-2200. My weight loss was very very slow (about 1 lbs. per week), but I found the slow transition was easier on my delicate mind. There was no rapid change in diet that was hard to become accustomed to ... just focused on portion control.
Again, a giant congratulations on losing so much weight. You must look like a completely different person.
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