you did great thing and one main thing for your health success is you keeping away from negative vibes and stay with positive thinking. meditation is really good for everyone, its learn lot of thing for stay happy and calm in life. for weight its really important thing is what you eat because most of person dont know what nutritious we need and how much but with all this you did great and made success. as you mention you are born in 1960 so according to it you should now 57 but from photo you not look that kind of all. very wonderful success story.