Hi all.  Just a note to let you know that I am still going.

I am glad to hear that I am not the only one experiencing hunger.  Sometimes I feel that I just MUST eat something, but I can tell it is a 'mind' thing because when it gets to be 5-o'clock there are times when I am no longer hungry.  Go figure -- now that I can eat, I no longer need to eat.  I have gone back to drinking diet soda at those times because I really don't like black coffee all that much and don't drink tea at all.  I'm a little sad about that because I really don't want to drink soda with all it's chemicals.

I am experiencing something else now, too and am wondering if others have felt this way.  I feel like I spend my day JUST WAITING for 5PM to roll around.  I'm checking my watch all the time.  It's not that I'm not doing anything, but just that it is constantly on my mind all day --  5 more hours, 3 more hours, 1-1/2 more hours to go till I can eat.

But I can also tell you that when I am with others who are eating, I do not sit and long for what they have (except pizza lunch on Wednesday sometimes just a little).

All in all, I still find it freeing in the sense that I don't have to stop to fix and eat meals and clean up during the day and I am still enjoying fixing a dinner meal, which is something that I have never enjoyed.  I hated cooking.  And I am still slowly losing weight--probably because I do cheat on the 10PM end of the time sometimes and run over once in a while as much as an hour--though more often 15 - 13 min.  I need to be more disciplined there.

Thanks for asking, Tara.

Arlene