I’d love/need before and after pictures of around 150 pound loss.

I'm 65 years old and it took me ~4 years to lose 160 lbs. It was done with aggressive low carb eating and lots of gym time. I religiously followed the Adkins book and it worked for me, but if there's one thing I've learned, it's that what works is different for everybody. I weighed 355 pounds at my heaviest and now weigh 195 +/-. I'm 6' and I've gone from pants with a 54" waist to a 32" waist.

To be honest, it was a journey of two steps forward and one step back. It's all about the eating: Period. That being said, the gym time was the real motivation that kept me on track. I became a gym rat to keep me busy during down times when I'd normally reach for (lots of) food. I had high blood pressure and was on two different medications for that, I was pre-diabetic and checking my blood sugars 3x/day, and I was on medication because my cholesterol was through the roof: classic metabolic syndrome. All of that no longer exists.

No one can fully understand how hard it is to lose weight and keep it off. I participate in the National Weight Loss Registry to support research on this issue. To my brothers and sisters who are out there fighting this fight: You don't know me, but I'm there cheering for you every day that you give it your best shot. Some days are better than others, but you've got this!

When I set out to lose weight, I didn't set a 'goal'. I just knew that I had to weigh less than I did.
2 years and 145lbs later - here I am. Loose skin - oh yeah, but it doesn't matter to me. My 'womanly features' have literally disappeared - that makes me sad, but in the long run - being healthy, feeling good - and now doing whatever I can, at any cost, to keep it off - that's the goal. This was all done without exercise - food alone (eating 6x a day, low carb, low sugar, lean meat). Prior to my weight loss I was exercising 5x a day and quite literally to injury thinking if I just went harder, I'd lose the weight. News flash... you can't outrun your fork! The part I wasn't prepared for is transfer addiction (now its shopping), and people telling me I am 'too skinny' now (currently 5FT 4IN and 116LBS)... but it's my life, my journey and unless they want to quite literally be ME, they can mind their own business.
This year's goal is to lean up - work on the loose skin the best I can and in 2024, have skin removal, implants and BBL.
I always remind people the key is to not beat yourself up over 1 meal, or 1 day. Indulge if you feel so inclined but remember a few things:
1. Some days you need to take it hour by hour - just make it to the next hour, and the next hour. It was all I could do sometimes was remind myself it was just another 30 minutes, and I would eat again, that I wasn't going to starve, and it wasn't necessary for me to stuff my face right this very second.
2. When overindulging, its 1 meal/snack/day - not meals/snacks/days, so do it and jump right back in the next meal/day. Do not linger or wallow in that feeling of doing yourself with just 1 'off' meal.
3.You CAN eat whatever you want, just because you are 'dieting' doesn't mean you can't, BUT, when you do have that one bad meal, take note of how your body feels - because I know the discomfort I feel after an overindulgent day and these days, I'd rather not spend a whole day feeling like trash, when I can eat well and spend the whole day feeling well.