Still going strong!
That title sounds so silly for only 5 days on a diet but I really am impressed with myself since diets and I have never been good friends. I usually only last a couple of days. I am not sure what is so different this time. I keep saying it is the diet but I don't know. Maybe something in me has changed. I am for sure tired of not having any energy and I definitely don't like my clothes not fitting.
But I think I have also realized that if it takes me a year to lose this weight, then at least I will be fitter in a year instead of weighing the same or more. I can choose to stay the same or I can choose to look and feel better. But no one can do the work for me. Unfortunately. 
I have also set up a rewards plan for myself, for being consistent with my food choices, for exercising, and for pounds lost. I have to have incentives when the pounds are coming off slow. Otherwise, I am going to get discouraged really quick. So I am still at five pounds and five days on the diet and that sounds wonderful to me!!!!