[IMissPresidentReagan]

Thank you! Some people can diet and are great at self denial; but food is one of my vices.

Life, in sum, is all about balance, or so I’ve come to believe. lol.

[Finny]

Food is not a vice, in my opinion. The real vice -- which you have so SMARTLY side-stepped the best way possible -- is living life either feeling deprived or guilty with regard to what you eat. That's no way to live.

You have found and embraced the CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLES applied to eating and exercise that make it so you leave the constantly alternating state of deprived/guilty behind. That you've done it from a place where you lost 56 pounds -- wow, color me impressed. That takes real strength of character.