Well I have to tell someone! Since only one person has even noticed I've lost 23 pounds. Geesh! I bike 8 miles a day and live on 1500 calories. I'm trying for 40 pounds which would make me a svelte 193. That sounds good.
I know it isn't easy. I'm doing it. I wish more could. The food pushed in your face every day is tiring to resist. Go out to dinner -- entrees are huge, you feel obligated to eat, you eat, you feel insanely guilty. I think it's just other people's way of having some kind of revenge on you who are on a (so far) successful change in your life style diet. I have gone. I have resisted. It can be done. Hang in there.
When you lose 15 pounds, 20 pounds, 25 pounds -- you feel it. You're lighter. You have more energy. Most of all you must keep focus and do it -- not for anyone else -- do it for yourself.