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60 pounds in 20 weeks is pretty aggressive weight-loss (3 pounds a week). This isn't really long-term sustainable. What is your plan for losing the weight (how are you going to do it)? And how will you feel if you don't hit your aggressive weight loss goal?

Losing weight a bit more slowly is more sustainable - meaning you won't be tempted to eat the entire contents of your cupboard if your plan is to severely restrict foods and calories. Let me tell you my story:

I had 70 pounds to lose, and it took me nearly 2 years to do it. Not because I wasn't motivated, but because I refused to give up cookies and chips. I wanted to learn how to have a healthy relationship with food rather than just crash-diet to get rid of the excess weight. It was a long road for me - I had tried keto and the body-type diet and a bunch of other fads that did indeed get results, but didn't teach me anything about how to keep it off. If you're going to keep the weight off, you have to realize that this isn't a 'diet', it MUST be a life-style change. For me, it was easier to move slowly and figure out what my lifestyle needed to be to maintain over a period of months and years. SO - I lost 70 pounds over 2 years while I figured out what I needed to do. And I've kept it off for 3 years. It helped me to remember that as long as i was doing what I needed to do and not putting weight on, I was doing better than I would be if I gave up. I didn't gain 70 pounds over the course of a few months. I gained that weight over several years. It's not realistic to expect to drop it super-fast.

Im trying for just half that to start, WAY 2 GO!