GOAL! 11 months, 91 pounds lost! BEFORE / AFTER PICTURES!!!

I think it's great you lost weight and you look amazing. I just wonder how your body will react when you maintain. 1200 cals on your height is so little. I lost 100 pounds in 11 months and ate about 1600-1800 cals a day. I'm 5' 4 3/4". I mainly run.

You don't have to restrict your calories to this extreme but well done on setting a goal and achieving it!

Well, I have been maintaining on an average of about 1800-2000 per day over the last couple of months, and have still continued to lose. So, Maintaining is going well for me. i did need to restrict my calories to this extreme, maybe most dont, or some dont, but i did. I know me, I know how I work, I start really strong and motivated, last about a month, and im back to my old ways. i have an all or nothing mentality. I want instant gratification. I just have a personality that wants what it wants, when it wants it, or nothing at all. I needed to see a constant good amount of weight being lost. that is the way it needed to be for me, or else, id rather not do it at all. and i would rather eat a super strict amount of calories, just to have 1 day every other week to everything i wanted in any quantity. i dont want to go to a mexican restaurant and have 12 chips. i dont want to have 1 beer. i dont want to have 2 oreo cookies. i want 24 chips, 6 beers, and 5 oreos, or i dont want any at all... thats just the way i work. i failed so many times doing it the "normal" way... i succeeded on my first try, doing it "my" way!

thanks everyone! i posted this a couple months ago, and since then, have been on maintenance. i have lost 5 more pounds since being on maintenance, so i am still trying to find that "perfect balance" for me. thank you all for all of your kind words, i really appreciate it! to answer a couple of the questions...

1) no specific diet, just made sure to stay at 1200 calories for 2 weeks, then every other saturday, i had what i wanted.

2) i did it in under 11 months. i lost 90 pounds in under 11 months by just following the calorie limits i set for myself, and spending between 1-2 hours at the gym, anywhere from 3-5 days a week at the gym. i did a mix of cardio and strength training.

3) i had every excuse in the book on why i didnt need to lose weight, i even convinced myself that being as tall as i am, that i was only 20 pounds over weight, however, when i finally decided to take control and make myself happy, i realized that i had 100 pounds to lose, and any excuse i make will just hinder and slow my progress...

again, thank you so much, and if i missed any questions, im so sorry...