5 pounds lighter and ALOT smarter!

Ok so I have lost five pounds now! Yea me! Oh the things I have learned though. Let's start first with the expression if it seems to good to be true then it probably is. I went to the grocery store, looked up and down each aisle carefully and took my time, observing each and every label carefully. Trying to find the best calories and best sugar , fat, etc..... Here is what I learned( your learning could be different than mine, but here is mine ;0) I first thought hmmm... do I really need 2 percent milk? Skim milk can't be that different can it? We drank 2 percent anyway so I probably need to switch to the skim. Lesson learned: um , yes you do need 2 percent milk! Skim milk may be wonderful for some people but I have learned I need my milk a tad whiter than skim milk looks. Since they do not make a white food coloring I can't turn skim milk whiter. I mean have you ever seen skim milk, when I poured it I thought, well shoot I could just add water to the 2 percent and be set! Lesson 2: Not all pickles are created equal! Wouldn't you know before I started my diet I had just discovered my fondness for the amazing sweet thick bread and butter pickles, oh so good! Well to my shock and pleasant surprise when I was on the pickle aisle I found these zero calorie bread and butter pickles, regular bread and butter pickles have a measly 20 calories mind you! Between these and the 40 calorie bread I found I could see myself having yummy, delicious lettuce and tomato sandwiches with big thick slices of bread and butter pickles. That was until I got home. Insert sad smiley face. :0( I like my pickle nearly ice cold and these were not cold yet but they were AWFUL! Pickles should be crisp these were almost mushy! Yuck! They were made with Splenda , I have nothing against Splenda I use it all the time, but I think Splenda and pickles just should not mingle! Nothing good can come from it!! So my lessons I have learned so far are, even though some things are less calories sometimes it is just better to have the real thing but just in moderation! Which I guess if I had learned that along time ago I wouldn't need to lose the wieght!