Oh! It is so good to be back to IE. I'm just to old too stick to anything else. It takes about 4 days of not eating certain foods and my body just rebels! Maybe that's a good thing! I was even craving apples of all things. But I did discover that sugar may be putting me into a slump at times. I will have to watch that one. Hope some of you chime in here soon.

Hang in there, Carol! I've been on prednisone before, and I know it can do nasty things to you.

I mostly cut sugar out of my diet quite a while ago because, simply, I found that it makes me want to eat more. I honestly don't miss it. I feel much better without it.

I hope the next few days go better for you. I'll be thinking about you.

Thanks so much, Fiddler. I kind of feel like I'm starting over in the losing department but your loss has encouraged us. I just get so impatient some times to see a considerable loss and then when it doesn't happen I get down. But I don't think anything else will work so I'll just hang in there.

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I think sometimes we get so caught up in weight loss we forget about the other benefits of IE. I Eat salads because I WANT to and I actually enjoy them. I can walk down the ice cream aisle in the supermarket and not feel like I am being tortured. I can go out to dinner and not feel like I have to starve myself or that I am going to binge. I decide how much and when I am going to eat.

I feel like I control my food, my food don't control me.

No diet ever gave me that feeling of control and...power.

On another note I went back to my walk away the pounds DVDs. My knees have startin hurting again and I feel like I have more energy when I do them.

Had Whetena (hot cereal) for breakfast because I wanted something hot that didn't involve bacon and eggs. Never would have done that before.

Hope everyone has a good day.

-Obie.

Obi, I agree, but I forget about those other advatages of IE. I can't find Wheetena anywhere........not even at Walmart.

Just made an interesting discovery. If you're too hungry food doesn't taste as good (you tend to wolf it down) ........just like when you eat without hunger food isn't as good either. I have 2 bad habits.....eating standing at the counter and waiting too long after hunger starts. Anyone else had similar problems? I think I eat at the counter to hide my eating from others. After years of weight loss struggle, it's hard to come out in the open with IE. You know noone would understand, especailly dh. But I REALLY think that is part of IE.....getting over what people think of how you eat. Someone mentioned eating with the family a few posts back and I would have to say that sitting and conversing with the family is just as important as eating although dh thinks I should EAT! There must be a way to work these problems out.

I know what you mean about being too hungry and wolfing your food down. Being on diets most of my life I've always ignored my hunger and that seemed normal to me. Now I try to eat something when I first feel the signs of hunger. I have discovered that if I eat when I first feel hungry, it takes less food to fill me than if I wait. I also find myself eating mindlessly and when I realize this, I make an effort to concentrate on how I'm feeling after each bite. After a while I'm hoping this will come naturally to me. Now that the weather has cooled down I have started walking again. Not because I have to, but because I WANT to.

Hope you all have a great IE day!

Re: Whetena. I live in NJ, found it right at the supermarket....

Hand raising to the wolfing down....When I get the stomach growling and rumbling in the stomach it means I have waited too long to eat. Then it is like I shoveling it in my mouth.....take a few minutes before the rumbling stops and I eat normally again. I aslo have a tendency to overeat when I have waited too long. There is a part of the overfed head that talks about it.

My secret eating place is the car. I was good for overeating junk in the car. It was my excuse to go to fast food places because of course I couldn't cook and it was on the way...blah.....Once I made myself stop eating in the car seems I am alot less likely to have it. I do have junk but not nearly as much.

What do you all think about small frequent meals as compared with one or 2 larger ones. How does this fit into IE.

Because of my job I don't really have time to deal with small meals through out the day and just naturally I am a 2 meal person.

I don't do well with small frequent meals. It makes me eat more.

And I like to get pretty hungry before I eat something. But then I don't really mind the feeling of being hungry, especially if I'm doing something at the time and don't want to stop to eat.

Fiddler, Do you think you can get too hungry and then overeat or doesn't extreme hunger affect you that way? I used to do a lot of fasting so I do know how to ignore hunger, but in the long run it didn't help my weight loss. What do you think, Obi?

Actually, I seem to be satisfied with LESS food if I wait until I am really hungry. Maybe my stomach has shrunk? But I do make sure to drink extra water if I end up missing a meal or waiting a long time between meals. And I do eat very slowly, so it does give my stomach time to send that "that's enough" signal before I've consumed an excessive amount of food.

And while I'm not advocating skipping meals as a weightloss method, I don't believe in eating just because it's mealtime if you aren't hungry, or in substituting junk if nutritious food is not available at the time. Basically, when I eat is governed by when I am hungry and when my schedule allows. Sometimes I eat 3 meals a day, sometimes 2, sometimes 1. It just depends on what else I am doing and how hungry I am. And if the choice is between eating junk food or eating nothing, I choose to eat nothing.

For me If I wait to long Itend to overeat, but the more I do IE the more in control I am. Also I think I am similar to fiddler in that I am starting to make better choices when I eat, so rather than eat junk just to get rid of the feeling of hunger I wait a little while longer and eat what I really want.

I don't think this is fasting....an example for me is my trip home. On some days I work 12-8. I have about a 20 min wait (and then a 45-60 min train ride) for my train and sometimes I feel hungry, but I would rather wait and eat what I cooked rather than grab something quick in the terminal. This is not to say I never grab something in the terminal, but again it is what I choose to eat. I had some cinibon minis last night and had dinner when I got home. I didn't need the big cinibon with all the frosting....but I wanted something sweet. I doubt I'll have another one for a long while.

I think I actually like feeling hungry. It gives me a physical cue on when to eat. One thing though...I don't get physical hunger feeling till I am about a 6 or 7 on a scale of 1 to 10. I have noticed when I start thinking hard about what i want to eat it is going to be time soon.

LOL, that was a lot for a little question. Had more whetena today. Playing hookey from work.

Happy Halloween, or just happy day if you don't celebrate.

-Obie