Well I always had “bad” eating habits. I am a junk food junkie. My weight crept up after having my children, working and raising a family, and getting settled into a sedentary lifestyle. It was a lot of factors not just overeating. Actually I ate “normal” amounts just of the wrong foods.
One belt hole is good. Like I say - we did not start out running, we had to learn to crawl before we could walk and walk before we could run. Everything in baby steps. The weight did not come on overnight and will not come off overnight. We just need to encourage each other.