I'm timidly raising my hand *G* - I did get a kick start on losing weight when I had my lung surgery, but in the two years since then, I've routinely counted calories and not only kept the weight off that I lost back in 2007, but lost an additional 20 pounds and kept that off. Well, so far. I wouldn't call it dieting though, because it isn't. I only count calories so that I know if I can afford to eat another cupcake on a particular day or not, as an example. I did change the way I eat and what I eat, but that was easier than it should have been because after I got my appetite back (somewhere about six mos. after the surgery) my taste buds had changed radically.

So, lose weight with routine dieting - no way. Fall off a virtual cliff, that worked.

I think a more important question is - do you feel comfortable in your own skin? Is your BP and so on within good limits? Can you move around and do what you want to/need to? I think that's the key, rather than what a scale says. I kept on with losing weight because I was miserable physically and I wanted to be able to run around with my granddaughter instead of watching her play.