Anyone 5 2 or 5 3 that has gone from 120 to 105??

Obviously everyone is different but this is my story, I hope it helps:

I have never been small or slim or skinny in all my teenage to adult life - my weight has gone up and down depending on how active I was as in out clubbing every weekend and dancing my butt off to sitting at home paying a mortgage instead of being out. I never really dieted or watched what I ate, I would eat what I wanted and when I wanted without too much concern although I was never happy with my body. I would go through phases of going to the gym or starting Zumba classes before my wedding but that was it for me.

In Feb of this year after moving from the UK to Australia and gaining LOADS of weight I decided that was enough and I had a few goals to motivate me - a friends wedding in May, I wanted to look good for that. Then at the end of May my parents were coming to visit and taking me on a shopping trip to Singapore and I was determined not to be buying size 12 clothes and hating every moment of it and my final goal was to not hit 30 (September 2013) unhappy and overweight.

I found MFP and a month later my dance exercise classes and this has been my life since. My diet was restricted to the 1200 calories but still contained quite a lot of processed foods to start with, but I did it by being under my 1200 goal everyday - I know this is not ideal and I'm not promoting it but it worked for me. I lost 1lb per week without fail. When I found my exercise classes I would do 3 - 4 classes a week some of which were doubles totalling 100 minutes - rarely eating back my exercise calories. I would walk and jog with my dog as well as this. My weightloss did stall a few months in but by chance my class instructor went on holiday for a week and I ended up not exercising as much and obviously not burning too many calories and the weight started to come off again. The second time the loss stalled was around August and I went on holiday for a week - obviously reduced my exercise and ate A LOT more and that seemed to jump start losing again.
I haven't lifted weights although I know I need to as I don't look like I'm 100lbs, as my exercise has come mainly from cardio but my diet has improved drastically, I rarely eat anything processed, I do still have my sweet treats pretty much every day but they consist of dark chocolate, homemade healthy desserts etc. Over the past 2 months I have been trying to maintain but with a BMR of 1145 and a sedentary TDEE of 1430 my calories are still pretty low. Although I am back on the 30DS and trying to regain the muscle lost during my weight loss journey.
Overall I would say that I did it by being obsessed, I mean I track EVERYTHING! Since I bought my kitchen scale everything is measured perfectly, I rarely go out to eat so that I can be sure of what I'm eating, I don't drink alcohol anymore (I'd rather eat) I make lots of healthy food and try to meet my macro's each day. My husband will tell you I need to back off and not worry that one cheat meal isn't going to hurt and I know he is right but I am still learning, I ate what I wanted for almost 29 years and now I have to re educate myself that I can't just grab a chocolate bar or a quick takeaway once a week to make my life easier, I need to be in control of what I consume to maintain my loss.
In my opinion losing it the easy part - maintaining is HARD!

Obviously everyone is different but this is my story, I hope it helps:

I have never been small or slim or skinny in all my teenage to adult life - my weight has gone up and down depending on how active I was as in out clubbing every weekend and dancing my butt off to sitting at home paying a mortgage instead of being out. I never really dieted or watched what I ate, I would eat what I wanted and when I wanted without too much concern although I was never happy with my body. I would go through phases of going to the gym or starting Zumba classes before my wedding but that was it for me.

In Feb of this year after moving from the UK to Australia and gaining LOADS of weight I decided that was enough and I had a few goals to motivate me - a friends wedding in May, I wanted to look good for that. Then at the end of May my parents were coming to visit and taking me on a shopping trip to Singapore and I was determined not to be buying size 12 clothes and hating every moment of it and my final goal was to not hit 30 (September 2013) unhappy and overweight.

I found MFP and a month later my dance exercise classes and this has been my life since. My diet was restricted to the 1200 calories but still contained quite a lot of processed foods to start with, but I did it by being under my 1200 goal everyday - I know this is not ideal and I'm not promoting it but it worked for me. I lost 1lb per week without fail. When I found my exercise classes I would do 3 - 4 classes a week some of which were doubles totalling 100 minutes - rarely eating back my exercise calories. I would walk and jog with my dog as well as this. My weightloss did stall a few months in but by chance my class instructor went on holiday for a week and I ended up not exercising as much and obviously not burning too many calories and the weight started to come off again. The second time the loss stalled was around August and I went on holiday for a week - obviously reduced my exercise and ate A LOT more and that seemed to jump start losing again.
I haven't lifted weights although I know I need to as I don't look like I'm 100lbs, as my exercise has come mainly from cardio but my diet has improved drastically, I rarely eat anything processed, I do still have my sweet treats pretty much every day but they consist of dark chocolate, homemade healthy desserts etc. Over the past 2 months I have been trying to maintain but with a BMR of 1145 and a sedentary TDEE of 1430 my calories are still pretty low. Although I am back on the 30DS and trying to regain the muscle lost during my weight loss journey.
Overall I would say that I did it by being obsessed, I mean I track EVERYTHING! Since I bought my kitchen scale everything is measured perfectly, I rarely go out to eat so that I can be sure of what I'm eating, I don't drink alcohol anymore (I'd rather eat) I make lots of healthy food and try to meet my macro's each day. My husband will tell you I need to back off and not worry that one cheat meal isn't going to hurt and I know he is right but I am still learning, I ate what I wanted for almost 29 years and now I have to re educate myself that I can't just grab a chocolate bar or a quick takeaway once a week to make my life easier, I need to be in control of what I consume to maintain my loss.
In my opinion losing it the easy part - maintaining is HARD!