Only losing 1 pound a week, working my tail off?

Your doing well. Don't get discouraged. We have gotten a bizarre picture of weight loss though the Biggest Loser and other weight loss shows but those are done under extreme conditions with VERY overweight people. Yes it is hard work and is slow and you can do this.

I am in the same boat you are. I have lost about 33 lbs and it feels like I should have lost way more by now. I know my problem is probably that I don't log as accurately as I could, so I am eating more than I account for. But at the same time I am viewing this weight loss journey as a lifestyle change. I haven't felt deprived so far during weight loss, and I have still gotten to eat the things I want to. Just try not to get discouraged and stay on track! Small changes, even that lb by lb per week, are what lead to the bigger ones.

If you have 65 more pounds to lose, why are you only eating 1350 calories? There's literally no reason for you to be eating that low.

There's also no reason for you to be killing yourself at the gym to lose weight.

As an example: I lost 70lbs about 8 years ago. I was only eating about 1,200 calories a day on average and killing myself in the gym every single night, trying to burn off the calories I'd taken in. I got thin, but it had some pretty negative health effects.

I kept the weight off for about 4 years, then in 4 years, I put the entire 70lbs back on and I dreaded the idea of going back to the gym and killing myself to lose that weight.

Instead, I found MFP and started becoming "obsessed" with calorie counting (by obsessed, I literally just mean that I bought a food scale and hit my calorie goal, without going over, almost every day). And I run maybe twice a week on a 5k program.

And in the past 4 and a half months, I've lost 45lbs.

I've never gone below 1400 calories, and when my "lose 2 pounds a week!" goal dropped me to 1400 calories per day, I dropped my goal down to 1.5 lbs per week which took it back over 1,600.

And I'm still losing weight ... with hardly any working out, and without starving myself.

I'd honestly just advise you to revise your goals and how you're getting there. Only eating 1,350 per day while doing hard exercising could be very bad for you.

If you have 65 more pounds to lose, why are you only eating 1350 calories? There's literally no reason for you to be eating that low.

There's also no reason for you to be killing yourself at the gym to lose weight.

As an example: I lost 70lbs about 8 years ago. I was only eating about 1,200 calories a day on average and killing myself in the gym every single night, trying to burn off the calories I'd taken in. I got thin, but it had some pretty negative health effects.

I kept the weight off for about 4 years, then in 4 years, I put the entire 70lbs back on and I dreaded the idea of going back to the gym and killing myself to lose that weight.

Instead, I found MFP and started becoming "obsessed" with calorie counting (by obsessed, I literally just mean that I bought a food scale and hit my calorie goal, without going over, almost every day). And I run maybe twice a week on a 5k program.

And in the past 4 and a half months, I've lost 45lbs.

I've never gone below 1400 calories, and when my "lose 2 pounds a week!" goal dropped me to 1400 calories per day, I dropped my goal down to 1.5 lbs per week which took it back over 1,600.

And I'm still losing weight ... with hardly any working out, and without starving myself.

I'd honestly just advise you to revise your goals and how you're getting there. Only eating 1,350 per day while doing hard exercising could be very bad for you.

1400 calories is quite low for a man to be eating.

I think you have unrealistic expectations of how this is all going to go down...your progress is great...you didn't get fat overnight and you aren't going to lose all of the weight overnight. Put your expectations in check.