Changing my lifestyle

So after  several years of fighting myself with my weight, this past year I finally decided on a lifestyle change.   I figured I'd start out small so that I don't get discouraged.  Simple yet easy diet modifications and voila!!!  I started this new me  on  January of this year and I'm already down 5lbs!  My first goal was to loose 17lbs so I'm only 12 away now!  I've joined fitday dot com to help me keep track of my intake and guess what I soon realised????  I've been sabottaging myself all these years without realising it!  A small bite here and a scoop there!  I knew it all added up but I never realised how much!  I hoping that I keep up my trend till this summer  of loosing 2lbs (or more) per week.  I will be so much more comfortable   in my skin and maybe might even sport a bathing suit!  lol  I'll have so much more energy and be able to do more with the kids.  Couldn't ask for anything better then that.  This so far has all been accomplished with diet alone.  I'm pretty active to begin with so I haven't had to add any intensive workouts just yet.  I figure I'll do this till I plateau then add more and tweek more as I go.  :)