This is so much the way I feel about doing lc for life. I'm still in the losing phase, but every year my daughter and I make iced sugar cookies. They're beautiful and tasty and we've been doing it for generations. It's a tradition I will continue. I will have one or two, and then move on, just as I did this year. But, the difference is - I don't see this as an excuse for a carb fest and go all out with every kind of carb available. I see it as one of very few treats I will have all year. I plan the cookie ahead of time, tied to a meal, so it doesn't raise my blood sugar as much as if I ate it by itself.