I also have a beach deadline (6/22) so I'm coming up on it. When I started back in March I thought I had plenty of time, and I set a goal of 25lbs. I've made the 25lbs, but BOY was it 10,000% harder than I thought. As you get older it takes much longer to lose weight. I still have 20 more to go till a Labor Day BBQ which is my next goal. The thing I didn't plan for was the intermittant plateaus......