what smart women!

Seems to me that the ideal goals to have about this WOE are 1) behavioral and 2) health.

If you're doing the behavior and feeling better (or getting better blood sugar/lipids numbers), then you've suceeded. You're a success story, now. Your body will decide how, where, and when to shed the fat.

We're all valuable, wonderful people no matter our weight or clothing size. And not every woman can be 130 pound or a size 5--and that's okay too. There are wiser forces in the universe than the fashion industry.

And we should have many more goals and interests than our food and the scale, too. As long as we're meeting some goals, making progress in some area of our lives, we should feel good about ourselves, eh?