[Bytsi]

Ditto everything above. You can do nothing and be nowhere further in your journey in 6 months or a year, or you can be on the way and making progress.

The tough part about weight loss (and changing your body in general) is that you can't just "become" that person overnight. If you quit smoking, you can wake up the next morning and be a non-smoker. You can't just quit being fat one day; you can't just become a ripped weightlifter overnight. It's a slow and often painful, frustrating process. It tries your body and your mind.

But it's worth it. Trust in the process. Overnight successes have usually toiled for years to become an "overnight success".

And FWIW, I think this board helps a LOT in maintaining my motivation and helping when I falter - and everyone falters along the journey.

If this was easy, everyone would do it.