So, now I'm back on a losing track. I've been tracking my food on Weight Watchers, counting my points and trudging along. One of my on-going struggles is that I am so hungry all the time. One day I decided to try eating every two hours, but I couldn't even wait the whole two hours before I was hungry again. When I asked my therapist what she thought, she suggested that its because I'm eating almost all carbs. I start my day with oatmeal, usually have either an apple or banana as a snack, have a Lean Cuisine for lunch with either a salad or carrots on the side, it is all carbs. My first serving of real protein doesn't come until lunch time and that is usually a pretty small amount in the frozen dinner. So, the next day I tried eating as few carbs as possible. Sure enough, I wasn't hungry all day. I ate every four hours and had no hunger pangs at all.
So I've done some grocery shopping. Got some stuff for omelets, stuff for chicken salad and tuna salad, more vegetables to eat at dinner time. I've been eating low-carb for two days now and I'm not nearly as hungry. Something I always notice when I start to eat low carb is that i have an immediate change, my clothes get baggy instantly. So I'll give this a try for a while. I'm sure I'll get burned out on it eventually and have another meltdown. Stay tuned.
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