Look at it that way:
It takes one day
Everyday you make progress
One day of eating 500 calories is progress.
It’s 1500 calories burned
That’s 0.4 lbs lost
2 more of these and it’s more than one pound of fat g o n e
It’s only small progress
But the small builds the big
In the end everything is about small things
Everything in the universe is made of the smallest thing- an atom
And the universe is huge
Small progress builds big achievements