Need Fit Female Role Models!

My journey started in February 2013, 280 pounds and miserable. I decided to try Weight Watchers (again). I felt good about losing some weight but when I recently had reached 75 pounds lost, I started to wonder if I would ever make it to goal (another 55 pounds away). I was starving all of the time so I decided to track my food intake in MFP as well as WW. I was shocked that I was only eating around 1100 calories. I knew this was not a path I wanted to continue down so I started looking into other options since I have also plateaued. I've discovered IIFYM and Eat More 2 Weigh Less and had recently upped my calories to 15-1600. As of today, I am upping to around 1800. I am in the Burn phase of Chalean Extreme and enjoying lifting some weights. I feel like I am on the right path. I would love to hear from/be friends with ladies that can relate and have had success without starving themselves. Please tell me that even though I still feel huge, I will get there someday!