Currently I'm on my second diet bet and I've been stuck at 169, just .3 pounds under my goal weight.  I've been stressed out for the last couple of weeks, weighing myself every day to see if I gained (please kill me if I do) or if I loss pounds. Not the best mentality to have because a good healthy journey is thinking for the long-term and not just about losing 10 lbs. in 2 weeks. It's good to have long-term goals and short-term goals but you have to think more about building the right habits rather than stressing over minutia. Let me give you the analogy about how cramming for a test the day before is like rushing to lose 7 lbs. in one week. Although some people are amazing at cramming for a test and/or dropping weight really fast, a majority of people will either get a crappy grade or barely lose any weight because they didn't build the right habits from the start. I definitely was on the same boat and still am to a certain extent. I would cram a lot of my test in high school and get a shitty grade, I would feel bad afterwards because I thought I was putting in the work and thought to myself why am I getting a shitty grade? But when I look back I would have told myself to stop playing video games when you need to study and get someone to help you on subjects you struggle in. Last year I gained a shit ton of weight after initially losing 20+ pounds, so I had a short-term goal of losing about the same initial amount. The results were, I stopped my diet after two weeks and started to go back to comfort junk food. I didn't know why, I felt de-motivated and defeated, I gained even more weight the following months. Habits are keys to success, without them you are always going to be loss in a world full of minutia. Building the right habits from the beginning also gives you a way to think about the long-term and keep you from straying away from the path you want to be in. So what good healthy long-term habits will you try and incorporate in your life, and what bad habits can you take out to improve your life for the long-term?