I am WINNING at this!  How do I know?  Because the scale is going down even though I'm not preoccupied with food and losing weight.  I am focusing on the habits that will get me to where I want to be but I'm not going crazy.  I feel good.  I feel balanced.  I feel empowered!  I am utterly amazed at the amount of food I can eat and still lose weight.  I am amazed that I can do easy or moderate workouts and still lose weight.  I'm feeling very confident, because I know there is room to take it up a notch if things slow down.  If I gave it my absolute all right from the start and it didn't work, what more could I do?  That's why I like where I am right now.  I feel like I can easily cut back on my eating a little and ramp up my workouts without it being too painful or crazy-making.  I've got those tweaks in my pocket waiting for when the scale tells me it's time.  In the meantime, I'm enjoying the ride!  Gone are the days where I count every calorie down to each freaking piece of lettuce.  Gone are the days where I barely eat because I feel "fat" (and then binge like crazy later).  Gone are the days where I kill myself in the gym and then give myself a hard time for not doing enough.  No more!  That is all NONSENSE.  It doesn't have to be that way.  It doesn't have to be hard.  I was making it hard!  And it's really not.  I don't have it all figured out, but I do know this:  make reasonable changes that you can live with for the rest of your life.  You will thank yourself!