I'd like to dedicate a full post to congratulating Mr. Kiser on achieving a personal milestone for his health! As my two frequent readers know (my mother and the Google crawler) that I, too, have battled the bulge and won. I can read the self-satisfaction in his post and would like to wish him well maintaining his current weight level and dropping to the goal weight!
The love handle part sucks, I hope you fare better than I am doing.