Exercise and diet whether you feel like it or not

Yesterday I saw a friend that was exercising and dieting last year on a consistent basis, but a family tragedy kept her from her program. She stopped dieting and exercising and was probably all the weight she had before and more. She said she stopped all together in January. Now we are in August. I just thought to myself if she had just kept up her program instead of give it up, she would be at goal or almost at goal by now. It was an incentive for me to not stop my program. I have done it time and time again because I do not like what the scale says and I especially don't like having to work so hard to have the scale show little progress. It is like when people say I look like Whoopi Goldberg. Not that I think she is ugly or anything, but I work really hard to do hair and makeup and dress up and when people say I look just like Whoopi, I think, "I worked really hard to look like Whoopi, and she gets up in the morning and does nothing and looks like herself" I feel it is like that, however, I will keep working out until the scale says something better I will know I will progress when people start saying I look like Halle Berry. Ha! Ha!