You have to look at it terms of percent of body weight. For you to go from 179 to 165, you need to loose 7.8% of your body weight. To drop 14 pounds when you start at 301, one only needs to loose 4.6%. The closer one gets to their ideal weight, the harder it is to loose. Besides that, if you are fit at 179 pounds, you probably do not have 14 pounds of fat to loose. You will have to loose muscle mass to get to 165. I realize that 165 is the midpoint of the "normal" range for someone 6'1", but depending on your fitness level, it might not be the right weight for you. It is better to go by percent body fat than weight.