Hi I just wanted to add my two cents in the hope that it might help. For one, I've lost 135 lbs. Unfortunately I have more to lose, but by now I feel like I have a good sense of what I'm doing. What I suggest is this. Losing weight is about started new habits and changing old ways, but it's a gradual process. My sister and I joined a gym together a few years ago and she had all these ambitions of working out an hour a day and two hours on the weekend and eating perfet all the time. I knew I couldn't do all that. I had no desire to change how I ate on a drastic level nor exercise so much. I fully planned on getting gastric bypass surgery. But I joined and made my goal to be consistent with working out. My sister tried her ambitious plan for a few weeks and then gave up because even a marathon runner doesn't go from running one mile to running 28 overnight, it's a process that you build up to. I stuck with my plan of consistency just trying to go three times a week and trying to not workout any less then I did the last time. After a few weeks I started feeling better dropped a few lbs and started challenging myself to work out longer. After a few more lbs came off and working out started to become a habit I started making diet changes. At first it might be no regular sodas... just diet (a change I made years before I actually started loosing any weight), then it might be trying to eat a light breakfast every day, then you might watch your calories. It was a bit of a struggle at first, but I've learned some tricks... protein and fiber aka meat and vegetables are more filling than carbs and don't leave me feeling as hungry... healthy snacking keeps you from being starving and feeling starving leads to making bad choices, and lastly it's ok to not be perfect and eat a bad meal now and again. A diet only works if you'll stick to it and you won't stick to it if you can't eat the things you like sometimes. I'd usually plan a bad meal. A bad meal would occur on a day I knew I was going to work out. I might work out a little longer on that one day and eat light at my other meals. Dieting isn't about being perfect. You're only human, but you just have to do well more often then not and you'll see changes. The more you do it becomes a habit and the easier it is to do. When I started out too I was so big 375lbs that I cut my calories to 1800 and that was enough to see change, but these days I'm closer to 1000-1200. I could not have eaten this way to begin with, you have to give your body time to become accustomed to your new lifestyle. Lastly, the scale is important, but at the same time it's about the net loss. Over the past couple of years I've had weeks when I've lost half a pound, weeks when I've lost 5 lbs, weeks when I've gained 3 pounds and many weeks in a row when I've lost nothing. But to date all the losses, gains, and stalmates have lead to a total loss of 135lbs and I can say that even though I'd like to lose another 40-70 lbs. I'm still a million times better off all around where I am now, then where I was when I started. Good luck.