Don't knock it , that is still a great achievement, think of it as five pounds of butter less you are carrying around, the body loves it believe me, I know myself my energy levels are up and i run up and down the stairs many times a day now without being puffed or bothering me at all, before it really did bother me, and i walked and was still puffed, just shows you what loosing weight can do for us.

I know xmas time is always a hard one, and in my family we have birthdays galore, even harder, but I am not even worried about xmas day, I am lucky I am going to my niece's so I won't have any extra goodies in the house, my decision, and i am going to have whatever i want to have that day, dieting just is not in my vocab on xmas day, but next day it is back on track, has worked for me before and will again, and if i do stuff up, well i am NOT going to beat myself up about it, all my family will be home and that makes it hard to .