Eddie,
Glad to hear you're over the hump! While you're probably not happy with how you look now (I mean, looking at your contest/peak photos ... Good Grief! .... you could have ripped open a bank vault with your bare hands!) I bet in reality you're in far better shape than you give yourself credit for ... and far better than most of us.

It's just gonna take you some time, as you indicated, to get back to that level of stellar conditioning. It took you years to get there in the beginning!. All the knowledge that you've acquired over the years will be your ammunication in reaching your goals.