Ike: As far as surviving on 900 calories a day - I guess I was in some sort of starvation mode thing, I don’t know. I spent half of 1999 and all of 2000-02 focusing on getting my financial life under control (translated work like a dog, 75 hours a week between 2 jobs to advance in “career” and use night job to be debt-free and boost 401(k), 2 IRAs) and often ‘forgot’ to eat. Between the crazy schedule and a self-inflicted barebones budget, eating was not a priority for me. My son ate and that was what was important. That’s a big contributing factor to my gaining about 20# during that time - horrid diet and NO lifting. By January of this year, I had my finances where I wanted them and turned my focus to myself. I began working out again and changed my diet from eating “whatever” to eating “whatever” cleanly. I lost a fair amount from that alone, but then hit a plateau. Duh. Around that time, I found T-mag and made some changes to the workout but didn’t address diet. Then, around 2 weeks ago I asked for some advice, took it (was HARD to up the daily caloric intake, just not used to eating that much/often), started supplementing with Grow! to get the protein up, Surge after workouts, and Methoxy-7. Since then, I’ve made the above progress.
Joel: When I say ‘modified’ 5x5, I really mean it. I wanted to do some of the basic multi-joint type things (dips, chins) but since I’m lame - I can only do about 2 of each right now. So I’m doing what I can and then moving to a similar exercise (weighted bench dips/lat pulls) to build the ability to do them in true 5x5 fashion. I change up exactly what exercise I do each time but the things I use most are DB flyes and presses, BB curls, dips/bench dip, overhead tri presses, cable pushdowns, BB military press, delt lat raise, chin/lat pulls and rows, squats, free ham curls, Romanian DL, hyperextensions and lunges. The thing I think is kinda cool is that going from working in the 20+ rep range to working in the 5-10rep range (still adjusting weights to lower reps), I have gotten the minor ego boost of doubling or more all the poundages. That’s fun. The split is usually chest/bi/tri, legs, back/delt, rolling. As for your offer of help - I’d appreciate any suggestions you can make. I’m not an expert on the 5x5 thing (or anything related to training) by any means and I know I have lots of room for improvement.
Knuckledragger: You’re funny!
Char-dawg: Alrighty then, here goes: (All measurements taken nude and NOT sucking it all in. 
Beginning numbers are from Jan, middle are current, ending (bolded) are amount of loss) Chest 39 - 38 = 1"; Rib Cage 33 - 30 = 3"; 3" Above Belly Button 34 - 29 = 5"; Belly Button 34 - 28 = 6"; 3" Below Belly Button (Hips) 36 - 32 = 4"; Butt 38 - 34 = 4"; Upper Thigh 24 - 21 = 3"; Lower Thigh 20 - 18 = 2"; Arm 13 - 11.5 = 1.5". There ya go! I took other miscellaneous measurements but these are the most representative of what’s been going on. Progress is being made and I know I am far from being done. In addition to simply losing inches, being able to actually see some musclature coming out is quite nice (especially when people at work or the gym comment on it).