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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I started off with a weight over 250 a year and a half ago and realized I had about 100 pounds to lose, and that seemed like so, so much.  Didn't know if I could do it, seemed insurmountable.

I'm now working on losing that last 5 pounds, so I can tell you it really is doable.  My loss was almost completely through diet, with a little walking thrown in.

Advice:  I weighed myself every morning and used a weight tracker app called Happy Scale.  It broke down my weight loss into 10 sections of 10 pounds each, so I could see achievable goals every few months.

I found that I did need to adjust my strategies as I went further along.  It was a little easier to lose the initial 10 pounds than the last 5 have been.  I ate low-ish carb and high protein, which sounds similar to what you are doing.  When I first started I was eating 3 meals a day.  About 4 months in I changed to 2 meals a day and chose either breakfast or lunch but not both.

Something I did that I think helped me mentally was to occasionally count down my weight loss expectations in the shower, to show it was doable (i.e., count down backwards from the weight I started at to where I wanted to go).  Then after that first 10, 20, 30 pound came off, it was really cool to count down what I had already done, and the idea of continuing to where I wanted to go seemed even more reachable.

Anyway, good luck to you, don't listen to the negative folks.  You can do this!  Stick with it, the big thing is willpower.[/quote]

Wow, that's awesome!  Truly impressive.  Here's my advice for the OP, as a person whose weight has crept up slowly over the years.  I was probably only 20 pounds overweight 20 years ago, and I was miserable about it at the time.  Every year it was a little more, until I weighed in a couple years ago at 200 and determined to change.  Every time I was depressed about my slow progress I looked back at pictures of myself from years ealier - at 140, 150, 160 etc and reminded myself how much better I'd feel and look at those weights, however fat I may have felt back then.  It's all relative right?  One of my biggest regrets is how much time I spent worrying about my weight at those lower weights!  So don't wait to live and celebrate.  Appreciate and celebrate every 5 pounds you lose along the way.  Maybe look at some pictures of your highest weight to remind yourself how far you've come. 
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