Important things first, what I always tell my friends about how I managed to lose weight and look how I am today is that I never got tired or gave up. There were days when I ate unhealthy food, but I am human and I understood that these urges tend to creep up in all human beings.
I always picked up from where I left and kept going. I could sense at times that I wasn't making any progress but still kept going. I kept reminding myself of the goals I had set and what I needed to achieve until I lost 40 pounds which was my target.