...I don't mean your diet plan, I mean mentally what did you do? How were you able to tell yourself "no" when you wanted to say "YES"? Do you think that you'll be able to do it for the rest of your life?
These questions may seem odd, but I am actually questioning whether we tend to take the easy way out and don't ever want to really feel any physical or emotional discomfort. I have noticed a big push on this forum where everyone is expected to walk on eggshells and not say what they might really be thinking.
I don't know about anyone else, but I didn't get this far and maintain for this long by babying myself and people telling me only what I wanted to hear. That type of thinking was what got me to morbidly obese in the first place. There is a difference between someone calling you a fata** and giving you tough love.
Was there a point where you finally started getting honest with yourself and realized that in order to change your life you were going to have to white knuckle it through some discomfort?
I hope it's ok to discuss this topic on this part of the forum, since I am a maintainer and have been for more than "just a few months".