Happily ever after?

Once upon a time, a beautiful young woman was unhappy. She was... shall we say... big boned, or rounded at the corners. She looked high and low for a way to lose the weight. She exercised, she ate low fat, she tried to eat low calorie but hated being hungry, she ate high fat (Shangri La diet), she obsessed, she became envious of her thin sister and friends, she became accustomed to avoiding mirrors and ducking out of photos.
And then, one day, she realized she had passed from "normal" to "overweight" on the BMI charts. She did not like this. She redoubled her efforts, she researched, she read online. She found Dr. Herring and Gary Taubes and Dr. Lustig. She experimented with her diet. She changed her eating patterns completely, adopted a new a lifestyle! She eliminated sugar and flour, and her pooch started to flatten. She started Fast-5, and her arms gained definition. Her face thinned, her eyes brightened, her smile widened, her hipbones peeked out from their chubby obscurity.
And she and her lifestyle lived happily ever after.
Not.
It's never over!
Unfortunately or fortunately, I'm not sure which, staying on this program requires constant attention. It certainly gets easier with time but it's never over. I suppose it's like a relationship -- you settle into a routine but it still takes energy. And we all know that Hollywood endings don't exist.
This musing is brought on by a two-month plateau. I think it's just a normal plateau, prolonged because I switched from an evening to a morning window for 10 days (external circumstances) and the switch back and forth made my appetite skyrocket. I'm four pounds up from my low, which was about three weeks ago. I'm working on getting back on track but it feels a little like starting over from scratch. On the plus side, I'm still 154 lbs instead of 183 lbs, as I was this time last year. That really is something to be happy about!
Sigh. Back to work.