I was 5'5, now after LL I'm almost 5'8.
I too was caught up in numbers before LL, but once you do it, it will lose importance. Most people are satisfied by gaining less than what they initially aimed for. What matters at the end is how you'll feel when you stand up amongst other people. Realizing that you're at other people's eye level (even though you're still slightly shorter than them) is very comforting and suddenly being shorter doesn't matter anymore.