Hi David…
I have actually written about this on Elephant Journal. The biggest challenge for me was to change what I eat and transition from eating out every day to cooking at home.
There were multiple factors involved in making this change happen including:
1. Making cooking achieve a “top-of-mind” status.
2. Making cooking easy.
3. Creating a system that would actually help me achieve #1, and #2.
Here is the full story of what that system was about…
http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/03/how-i-lost-12-pounds-eating-chocolate-not-dieting-maria-brilaki/