Slow & steady progress check-in

It's been almost three years since I began this journey. It has been slow, but not terribly burdensome, to loose weight. I am a 5'3" 66-year old woman. I have always struggled with weight to some extent, but after a major illness and 6 months of steroids, I was technically obese for the first time and felt like a whale.

So, after I regained my health, I started my journy by quitting drinking (which likely contributed to the health catastrophe), and focused on that for about a year without worrying about my weight. Then, when that was comfortable and easy, I began what I think of as another lifestyle change rather than a diet. I began logging my food and keeping to within a couple of hundred calories of the myfitnesspal-selected calorie goal for losing weight every day. Regardless, however, I logged whatever I ate, even if I blew the goal completely. According to MPF, I've logged a 466-day streak so far.

My highest weight ever was 194 (Jan 2014), including pregnancies. On Mothers' Day of 2015, this picture with my brother inspired me to start working on loosing weight. By July (second picture) I was down some from my highest weight and feeling better. I have gradually come down to picture three: today the scale read 157.
My goal is 135, but more important than that is to continue with this way of eating (and probably tracking) for the foreseeable future. I stay (sort of) within my macro goals, I eat mostly veggies & fruit, whole grains, healthy protein, and only occasional fatty, carbiforous treats. I allow the occasionally cake or cookie indulgence, but always track it. I've also tried to add some exercise, but I'm not too regular about it--walking, occasional bicycling, or lap swimming. Still trying to add a regularity to the exercise regimen--that's a work in progress. If you do the math, you will see the weight loss has been VERY slow (about a pound a month, sometimes even less), but I figure I am getting older regardless of how much i weigh, so I might as well eat this way as that happens.

So there you have my story.

Margaret