Counting calories for the past few days definitely sped up my weight loss late last month. I didn't make any new progress but it did get me back to my lowest. According to Calorie King I need to eat 1200-1400 calories per day to lose weight, so my goal is to keep that up for the month.
SW: 156.6
GW: 153
2/01: 156.6
2/02:
155.8 finally
2/03:
155.4
2/04: 156.0
2/05: 155.6
2/06: 156.0
2/07: 157.0
2/08: 157.4 TOM start
2/09: 157.4
2/10: 157.4
2/11: 157.6
2/12: 157.2
2/13: 156.8
2/14: 157.6 Over by a low sugar lemon cookie
2/15: 157.8 Why do I keep gaining weight after TOM? I refuse to see 160 on the scale this month.
2/16: 157.0 One all purpose flour cookie = weight gain. Three bean flour biscuits and a serving of ice cream = weight loss. Fascinating.
2/17: 157.6 Are you kidding me?! I was still within my calories. I had plain popcorn, but so what? This is BS! I dunno anymore.
2/18: 157.4
2/19: 156.2 Ice cream is my friend
2/20: 155.4 More props to ice cream. Wish I could have reached this weight earlier in the week.
2/21: 155.4 Must've been the wheat. I know better but still thought I could have a little.
2/22:
154.8 I read about a protein in dairy that helps with weight loss. I wonder if that's why the ice cream has made a difference.
2/23: 155.8 Lack of sleep. I woke up at 2 in the morning...why?! I swear my body will do anything to not lose weight.
2/24:
154.2
2/25:
153.6 
2/26:
153.2 I wasn't sure what to expect. I think I was over 1400 calories, but I've still been doing the ice cream daily.
2/27:
153.0 It's been a long time since I hit a monthly goal. Part of me wants a hearty meal or toasted sub. Part of me wants to keep restricting.
2/28: 153.6 Didn't restrict as much. Over by unknown amount, and I'll be over again tomorrow.
2/29: 153.2 I was over again, but I guess it didn't matter. I was "bad" too and had a full container of Ben and Jerry's 1/2 Baked instead of my usual serving or two of Turkey Hill natural.
After several months of failure I'm glad to have finally hit a goal weight. I think that counting calories has helped me eat more veggies and smaller portions but may not be the deciding factor for loss because I still had gains/stalls on days I was within my target calorie range and progress on some of the days I was over. Looking back at my food journal I noticed that I lost weight the days I had ice cream, so I kept it up just to see if I'd make progress, and I did. I just read an article that says it's because I'm getting the calcium I was otherwise lacking, however I eat cheese fairly often and milk on occasion but they don't seem to help nor hinder me.
