OK so here's my story. I have been overweight for the majority of my life, I mean 80 pounds at least overweight. I am a 34-year-old female, 6 feet tall with two kids. I have a 10-year-old daughter and a seven-year-old son. After I had my son I got tired of being overweight (260lb), and trying all the different diet plans such as, Jenny Craig, weight watchers, FMD, diet supplements etc. At this point I began to restrict my diet, I cut out carbs, sugars and fats. I mostly ate vegetables, protein and very few fruits. I also hit the gym hard, doing mostly cardio daily and I was burning around 1000 cal and I also restricted my diet to 1200 cal. This was very successful for me. Within a year I lost 80lbs and weighed 165lbs. This was less than I even weighed in elementary school. I felt more confident, healthy and beautiful. The biggest problem was that I missed food. I was going to my bed hungry and I developed an unhealthy relationship with food. Most food had become "taboo" for me. This was my lifestyle for about 3-4 years. After a while I start binging occasionally on sweets like cakes, cookies, etc. I loved sweets and because I was restricting myself for this food group it resulted in binging behavior. I then began to gain weight gradually even when I reverted to what I did to initially lose the weight. This year I noticed that I began to gain weight more rapidly and I also most admit I was binging on sweets a lot more. I probably gained 20lbs this year and now I'm up to 208. I have not been this weight since 2010. I started EM2WL in June of this year and I'm still trying to hit my macros. I have up my cals to 2000 now (I up it 100 cals a week) and I'm trying to stay here until I hit my macros because I'm still off. I just started back working out this week since my vacation a week ago. I'm mostly doing strength training/ weight lifting and I incorporating cardio twice a week. Let me know what you think. Thanks for all of your help.