Aloha,
I too am over 200 and dropping, I was 250 and have been as low as 199 after my first half marathon. I'm at 210 and am just starting to train for my first marathon in Dec. The best advice I've ever gotten was also the stuipest thing but worked. In the book the non-runners marathon trainer it said never tell youself that you have to run today, change it to I get to run today. Like I said it seems stuip but I tried to continue running many times over the past years and always quit, it's been over a year since I read the book and I look forward to each run. The other thing was anytime your running and you have a good experance bank it in your memory. Grate blog!