Week 8, Day 6 MMM, looks good

Not that I am craving anything but some food is looking interesting.  I think it is the texture.  Buttered toast popped into my head...I'm not hungry for it, I really can't imagine the taste, I just think the roughness on my tongue.  Isn't that weird?

I think my mouth, rather than my stomach wants to run things.

Smells are very interesting and I want to know what I am smelling, but it is not turning on the stomach for it.  I do get a hungry feeling right after eating and want more but I think it is a head thing. The hungry feeling only lasts for a minute or less actually.  It is like it lasts just long enough for me to think about it and realize how unrational it is because I just ate, then it goes away.  When I am busy I often don't even realize it is time to eat.  Yesterday it was 3 pm before I realized I needed to eat my 1pm lunch and my 3 pm snack.

Week 8 April 11 - Dreams!

Classmates are starting to have dreams of eating food this past week 7.  One woke up just after dreaming about eating eggs so she got up and made eggs, beans, tortillias.  Others woke up worrying that they had ate something other than what we are allowed and were happy it was just a dream.


A classmate tonight told how he just got back from a 2 week trip to Europe and stayed on the program the whole time!!  Uplifting to hear!

April 11     172.5     - 1.5      I have lost 14.5 lbs on the program so far.

Week 7, April 4

A couple are starting to struggle with the idea of actually giving up food, and are gaining!!!  I mean, what is a brownie that  you can't give it up???  This is an emergency step we are taking to get our knowledge, our head and new habits to turn around and do food correctly.  These 2 are young and having their parents pay for the program, I think that is the difference.  But, I did sort of want to shake them because I know what will happen if they don't "get on the program", and they are young yet.

I have been getting a bit hungry before meals, really looking forward to the next meal.  Hunger is on about 1 in 1-10 scale.  It seems to be mostly a mind thing because as I am eating the meal I am looking forward to the next.  After eating though I am not hungry.  I think I am going to need some hypnotism to tell me amount of food is not the equal to hunger or not because it seems to be the length of time eating that is sort of causing this.  Weird.

We are all on a proscribed food and we all are supposed to drink a gallon of water a day, these are not to change.  So the only variable besides how each body works is exercise.  So if you are gaining, you are not following the diet program.

Thought I would put down all my weight loss to this point.
                 189      Before the program started and when I decided to sign up!  My highest weight.
                              -5    I lost on my own (gained on a wonderful art trip to Pacific Grove with friends)
Feb 22  -  184                 Program starts but not the proscribed food but the water. They just said, "just watch what you eat this week and drink your gallon of water each day.
Feb 28 -   187        +3    My "last supper" tastes caught up with me.
March 7 - 181        -6
Mar. 14  - 180        -1
Mar. 21  -178         -2
Mar. 28  - 176.5     -1.5
April 4   - 174        -2.5

week 7 - The week of the Big Freeze

week 7 - The week of the Big Freeze...just kidding, mostly

This week most of our class experienced being cold.  I mean really to the bone cold, kind of the opposite of hot flashes, only cold.  It is supposed to be the result of loosing a lot of our fat insulation.  It really is like menopause in the opposite direction because sometimes it comes on quickly.  But I must say, it lasts longer that hot flashes did and doesn't do the on-off thing that often.  It is just that I feel cold, a lot.  Better than hot flashes though, I can always put on sweaters or coats.

Still going down!

Week 6, Day 4, April 8

Rain and hard to get out to do exercise much.

This week I have not been having craving exactly, but just the idea of eating certain things is interesting.  It is not than I am hungry, it is just like I am hankering for chewing more than the bars!

I am starting to feel like I am getting smaller in places, like hips, stomach.  Pants are fitting much looser and I am fitting into pants I couldn't before.  I had made a skirt for Ardenwood at the beginning of this program and had to take it in at least 2 ".

Week 6 April 4 - lost 2 lbs for week 5

2 lbs lost!  I thought for sure it would only 1.5 again.

This week I  had a bit of a struggle to drink all my water each day.  

Week 5, March 29 -hunger?

 Lost 1.5 lbs  and was full of water when I weighed.

Week 4 was the "hunger week:.  About everyone at the meeting said this was the first time they had any feelings of hunger.  For me it was just hunger just before the next meal  was due.  After eating the meal, no hunger.