This is also a reply for @CeliaVL

Oh yes, I know the changes are hard and the habits are HARD to break. In fact I'm not sure we ever truly break them, just "control" them better. Today was an example for me, I got frustrated this morning, didn't acknowledge that until it was too late, started eating stuff in the morning, ended up blowing off the whole day. Ate several things that were not on the plan at least on the same day.

On the other hand, without a FULL mental commitment, the loss just doesn't work for me. I've dieted so many times. Most of those times it has been a "I'm going to lose weight, going to diet starting today" thing generally based on that dissatisfaction we all experience with ourselves at times. No real commitment. When diets have worked (disregarding regains after reaching a goal) the diet process has started with significant purpose and goal and a sense of "THIS WILL WORK" in my mind.

Once it was prompted by vanity. I was facing my 20th class reunion (in 8 months) and decided I was going to attend but I was going to look "better" than I did when I was in high school. I lost about 60 pounds that time and made it to the reunion. Unfortunately, not long after the weight started piling back up.

The other 2 major losses (including this one) were prompted by health issues. The first, when I was in my early 30's and Karen Carpenter died at the age I was about to turn, initially reported as from a heart attack. I had a panic attack, thinking about my condition and I took up running the next day. Lost at least 50 pounds, largely from significantly increased exercise. Sadly, when winter came around, 9 months later, it got harder to get out and run and there were no indoor options at that time in the town I live in. By the time winter passed, so had my motivation and in time my loss was also lost. This time was also medically induced but I hope my commitment will be sustained permanently by the reality that gong back to the old habits will result in escalating heart rhythm issues. The loss seems to have brought improvement and hopefully if I retain a lower weight will continue to be stable.

It is hard to explain the difference but when I am successful at a major change, like losing weight, there has been a mental change first, a sense of determination that doesn't come by just saying "I'm going to lose weight now". That mental commitment is what keeps me on track. It keeps me from getting frustrated and giving up just because I have a bad day or two. The biggest downfall of the process is that once the goal is reached (as in the reunion) the motivation to maintain the change in behavior can wane and the bad habits will quickly reassert themselves.

And THAT is my best explanation of that that meme meant. Tomorrow will be better for me, I spent the evening making a nice chicken rice vegi soup and a big kale, broccoli salad for tomorrow.
Good day and good eating to both of you.

@DotLewis I've tried dieting as you do, but cannot do it. My diet is simpler to stay on than your, IMO. In essence, sugar, fat, and protein are high calorie foods, and carbs are lower. In fact, there are carbs that your body consumes and some it does not, fiber. The way calories are measured is to put oxygen and food into a sealed, insulated chamber, burn the food, and measure the temperature increase from the burn. Form that temperature and the mass of the stuff burned, calories can be calculated. Both fiber and other carbs are burned.

Thus, when you eat carbs the calories you consume don't all convert t glucose; thus, eating foods with high fiber produce less glucose than foods with low fiber.

Once I ate all kinds of meat. Over the years, I've cut down and some kinds I cannot eat anymore, for example a cheeseburger. The last time I had a bit, it tasted awful; my hunger for a hamburger or cheeseburger is gone, and has been for thirty years. I'm allergic to milk and switched to soy/almond milk; I have no desire for cow's milk. The last to go were fish, chicken and steak; I think my hunger for them is gone, but it's too soon to say for sure. If I don't have any hunger for them for another five years; I'm done with them too. Anyway, there are meat substitutes that are good enough that most people can't tell the difference, or if they can, they don't care enough to not eat the meat substitute.

Animals concentrate toxins in the environment. Everything has some toxins, rain has Roundup in it. Farmers spray insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, etc., and some of them cause cancer. Animals eat more pounds of feed than they produce in pounds of food. This makes me very reluctant to eat animal products.