I did much the same, except that I never got to the feeling crummy stage. I lost almost twenty pounds with exercise and moderate dieting and was feeling good. Then my doctor discovered a tumor in my bladder and I had to have surgery. That knocked another three pounds off me even though I wasn’t allowed to exercise for a month and was eating normally.

The month is over now and I’m easing back into exercise and have been eating even more, but getting back those three pounds has been very slow.