Am I in Bandster Hell?
My first question is are you sure its just not head hunger ?? head hunger is my worst enemy !!!
I can actually talk myself into being hungry if I want to and I let it get that much out of control.
I fight head hunger every night , nights are my worse time especially on the weekends. Weekends was very well known around our house to eat snacky foods and graze all day long.
Sat and Sundays are a witch for me I wish I could just lock myself up in the bedroom those days
When I find myself thinking about food I will go find a game on my computer and start playing it , that takes my mind off food and I get so involved in my game next thing I know a good hr or two has passed by .
I'm not saying you are not hungry but head hunger can be just as bad . Like I have always told my son who has asthma . He can sit there physically if he thinks about it put himself into a asthma attack. I have seen him do it a million times, I think we are just like that but we use food instead.
I can and have done it get so worked up with head hunger I will make myself physically wanting to eat that I'm hungry and to be honest I really wasn't.
this is just me and my experience though :o)
I love this site. So much better than the other ones.I really appreciate the responses. I just needed some support....
Jewels
Also one of the posts mentioned eating more dense protein, so I am eating steak, chicken, pork, etc., straight, not with mayo or sauces. If I chew very well, (meaning to a PULP) I seem to do just fine. Also, I eat crunchy veggies and NO MASHED POTATOES, even though they are on my diet sheet!
If I eat too much, the band lets me know right away.... I really feel it, with the denser foods, not with the more mushy stuff.
I've tried this for a week now, and no movement on the scale yet, but I didn't put it on in six weeks and it's not going to come off in six weeks.
I hear that bandsters lose more slowly anyway... I guess we just have to prepare ourselves for that.
I see it asbeing on a very strict a diet, but with the tool of the band to help.
I am due for a fill on Jan 20 and am looking forward to it.
Best of luck!
Hang in there, it isn't easy but you can do it. Tell your self that while you may not be able to keep this up for life, you can for this week, or even this day or hour. Then move on to the next. I did well by doing that and it saved both my sanity and my success because I was ready to cave and would never have made it back. I knew that then and know it now.
Good luck, feel free to whine, complain, stomp, or throw pillows, just keep on keeping on and come here daily. It will be worth it all.
Sue