1 Year Transformation -50lbs w/ pics

I hope my story has the same end (middle?) as yours. Started at around 210 want to end up around 160. Seeing someone post pics of that exact sequence is really helpful because some days I just want to give up and it's encouraging to see concrete evidence that it works.

Thanks also for all the work logging in your food/exercise diary. It's helpful to see days of Wendy's or Five Guys or waffles for breakfast destroying average meal calories and see that they aren't enough to tank the whole process. That's one of the downward spirals my mind goes to. "Oh well, I blew it by eating there, probably just undid 3 weeks of work, should just throw in the towel now."

More evidence to the contrary like yours is refreshing.

The mental abuse we put ourselves through is a big part of this. One of the biggest parts of this is learning to live with normal things that happen in our lives. You are gonna have to go to a party, have a holiday dinner, hit up the fast food place, wake up and eat waffles with the kids or whatever else comes along. You just have to keep it from getting to you or derailing your goals.

The thing that helped me was just doing some simple math. I put myself in a 500 deficit to lose weight. That means I can eat over my daily calorie goal by 500 cals and not have any effect on my weight. Then for 500 I go over that initial 500 is ONLY 1/7th of a pound of fat. Obviously you dont want to do this often as they will add up but going over my calorie goal by 1000 is a fraction of a pound gain and that is worse case. Hardly a reason to give up or even worry about it at all.