This may be a minor victory and it might be short-lived, but I felt better about myself today than I have in years. I have quite a ways to go before I'm close to the shape that I want to be, but I've been making positive progress this year, a trend that I hope that I can continue. One of my main concerns is that I will become overconfident and start backsliding again.
In the end, I just have to stick to ... one notch at a time.