It’s amazing isn’t it? This shit really works. I’ve never seen any fitness program or diet with so many success stories. I guess the reason you don’t hear about IF more often is because there’s no money to be made.
Anyway, congrats on the weight loss!
Amazing when that happens. Same thing happened to me. Hit my first goal weight and just kept going. It just became easier the longer I did it. I never thought I could be back to my 20 year old weight at 47. And really I am probably in better health today because then I was consuming without control and using exercise to maintain. I yell at people that middle age is largely self inflicted because of poor eating habits that I and many other people have. Get those things sorted and you can get back much of what you list. There is nothing better for anti-aging then doing that.
I’m at a 48lb lost I almost gave up a month ago because I was at a plateau for over a month but I finally kicked that in the butt and lost another 3lbs this past week and a half. I have 50-75 lbs to go depending on how I feel at my first goal weight I might do maintenance for a while at that point or keep going but who knows lol I know me I’m pretty addicted to counting cals and doing IF, being in control of my own weight feels amazing.