frettish, I'm not humongously overweight, but I need to drop a few pounds after switching to a new job that made me really lazy, so I need to diet/exercise too.
What I really wanted to say was, keep up the good work man, I know you are being very humble on this forums, and that the 4 pounds you just gained is more alarming then you're letting on (maybe), but keep at it.
When gaining weight, it's amazing what a day of eating makes, and it turns into an "innocent" week, next thing you know a month rolls by fast and I just gained a lot.
I admire what you've done, and I hope the slow down didn't ruin your focus; keep at it, I'm going to monitor your posts here and help encourage you while you deal with this shit. It's fucking tough, I know, I have to drop about 40 lbs. myself.
What I've learned is that it makes it a lot more helpful to think about what good things I've done in the past, then it is to constantly worry about the future. It sucks to think to yourself, before a diet/exercise plan, "man, this is going to take how many months?" when I should have said to myself, "cool, I've kept it up for two months so far, I feel better, and I survived the holidays".
It looks like you think better about yourself, you've kept at it for 4-5 months now, and you survived the holiday with only a minimal weight gain: don't forget that.
Keep going dude.
Mind you, I started out at something ridiculous like 15 minutes. Just kept adding and adding until I got where I am at now.
