Consistency Works (Picture to Prove It)

Way to be! I love/appreciate your distinction between "frantic exercise" and "working out at an intensity that lets me be active every single day".

When selling the MFP approach to friends/family, one thing I tell them was that in the past, when I exercised, it was a mad dash in a race with no finish line. I'd wear myself out and run myself to the ground and go to sleep at night believing that I hadn't done enough only to wake up the next day dreading the unfathomable torture of endless exercise and too sore to work as hard as in the previous day. Combine that with a temptation to starve myself (or severely deprive myself) and I was just setting myself up to fail with a system that was unhealthy and unsustainable.

Luckily, I found MFP and met the right people and learned the lesson you're demonstrating here...that consistency with a manageable program works! I've lost consistently each month since starting this thing in about Oct 2012 and am enjoying it all.

Thanks for sharing your success! I hope/believe it is one more piece of evidence re: consistency that will help other MFPers make the right choices and thereby avoid the bad fitness/diet habits of the past.

Kudos.