I started some pounds over 248 - that's my highest recorded weight, not my highest weight.
Getting to 199 took a while. I hadn't seen a 1 where a 1 should be in decades, so I cannot express the joy and triumph I felt when it finally happened. So wonderful! Not 200 pounds! At least one digit was correct!
But I knew that later that day, if I hopped on the scale, there would be a two again. So it wasn't a done deal. I jumped for joy with 195 and when I hit 193, I really celebrated. That meant I wouldn't see a 2 again.
Even now, as I continue working on the tens place, every once in a while I look at that 1 and remind myself how far I've come.
Keep going. Never surrender.