I am happy that I no longer seem to have those ravenous feelings of hunger that have often caused me to overeat, even in public situations where I felt people were being judgmental of what was on my plate. Sigh.
I recently went to a buffet where I have, in the not so distant past, eaten at least 2 plates full of food, promptly got too full and nauseous, and threw up---mainly because of the extreme feeling of being too full.
But now that my appetite has decreased immensely (sometimes I can subsist on just my coffee-drink and a toasted bagel from 8am-5pm) my weight does not seem to be wanting to do the same. Granted, I have been tracking my calories, and even though the volume of food is down, the calories are still easily over 1800 per day. Sigh.
Is anyone else dealing with what they thought would be a great side-effect of the meds---loss of appetite? Only to find that being not hungry isn't making their weight decrease as much as they would have thought previously?
And how do you overcompensate for it? I am thinking that not being hungry is a good thing, and to instead use it to have just protein and veggies and fruit, and see if I still feel non-hungry at around 1500 calories or so.
Please wish me luck as I am feeling pretty sad about my weight gain, and I just feel sort of out of control in my life in general. Getting my weight below 300lbs would be a great boost to my damaged self-esteem for sure.