keep up the good work! And, when you start eating the "right size" portions of your meals, your stomach will eventually shrink back to the size that it's supposed to be. Keep it up!

yea the portion size im at now is weird. Before it would have just been the starter coarse. I feel weird at a restaurant im done while everyone else is still eating. I just get full or at least satisfied so fast.

i know exactly how you feel. My family had a barbeque, and I ended up only barely being able to eat the burger, when normally, I could eat everything on my plate. It feels weird for a while, then you realize that hey, I'll still feel comfortable in a few minutes. They will all have to unbutton their pants 'cause they feel so full!

well im kinda running a day behind due to to the internet fouling up. the half sandwich this morning was one slice of turkey bacon at 50 cals and one slice of white bread at 70 cals and just alil sour cream t 40 cals.

breakfast was 160 cals

late lunch was spam sandwich with some mayo. so lets see 140 for the bread the spam single was 270(ouch) and salad dressing was 40.

latelunch was 450 cals(again ouch)

dinner hummmmm havent had it yet prob some roast beef a few spoons of mashed potatoes with buttermilk rather than the milk and butter and a little horseraddish just because my grandmother did it that way.

well thats only 610 cals before dinner and im trying to stay around 2500-3000 till my weight stalls anyhow so i should be fine for today. But if that dairy queen comertial comes on one more time advertizing their blizzards im gonna, im gonna, well im gonna get one thats all. or maybe just have a glass of water instead ( oh nothing to drink but water today so its been a liquid cal free day

Turn off the tv, then you won't have to see the DQ commercial anymore! Do you have any hobbies that would get you away from the TV for a while? (oh, and by the way, the "monster cookie" blizzard aint' that good ) When I start craving something, I sit down at the piano and play whatever the heck I want! (rather than doing my scales like a good girl) Or, I write something, or sing. Whatever I can do to get away from the sense of craving. But that's just me.

Yay for the water! I do believe that i've drunk enough today to fill an elephant, but that's ok, cause lots of water is good for the soul!

wow cant sleep again. Its odd when i think about how much time i used to spend eating then sleeping. The eating was something i would look forward to. now its just something i do because i have to. Sleeping was something that i would spend 12-14 hours doing i just couldnt stay awake. That was one of the things that got my butt on this diet it was a strange feeling. Now i get from 5-8 hours sleep a night and i feel great. I had about two days of feeling sluggish but that passed. Ahhhh well welcome to a brand new day..........

hi...
was reading thru your posts and other's replie's ...

good to know...you had been successful so far....

good luck..before you check with your scales......

im still putting off buying the scales. i really dont them that close at hand. ill prob pick one up in a few weeks

Breakfast- one slice of white bread -w- one slice of turkey bacon= 120 cals
Lunch- one bag of veggie chips= 170 cals
Dinner- Two tuna steaks, Boiled carrots -w- sour cream sauce= 556 cals
Snacks- Bowl of cereal -w- milk= 240
Drinks- sugar free energy drink,water= 0

Total= 1086 cals
well thats not too bad when im allowing myself 2500-3000 a day. I started planning my breakfast and lunch which gives me some leway durring the night for dinner snack and drinks. That way i know how much room i have to work with to keep the fat and calories in check. well so far everything is going ok. The only day im skipping lunch is tues,wed,thurs when im on the campus. today i had to grab a baggie of veggie chips my stomach wouldnt take no for an answer. It used to be i could put off food all day and eat whenever but now when im hungry my stomach tends to do flip flops and throw a hissy fit lol........

well i never got around to the cerial with milk. wow if you told me i would ever be able to take in less than 1000 cals and not be starving i wouldnt believe you.Thats way too few calories for me. Im so full right now. How i could hold 6000 cals a day i have no idea. This is the first time i have been on a diet and wasnt nawing on the furniture. I think it has something to do with the lack of sugar. maybe since thats what alot of my food intake was my body dosent want anything else. That could be a bad thing as well as good.

Watch yourself, now! You go too low in your calories you can starve your muscles, and you know what is a big muscle??? Your heart. We don't want anything bad to happen to you!

yea im not sure who told me to write my meals down and now i can see it works both ways. I can see too many or too few calories. I dont want to drop it too quick because i dont want all of that xtra skin thats left over such as when people have the surgeries. they just lose weight sooo fast their skin cant keep up. I think thats why my my doctor told me to cut my cals just in half for now. My diet pills call for two before each meal and i couldnt eat at all. now im down to just two a day. think ill drop if off to one to see if some of my appetite will return......

It is bizarre how one's capacity decreases. I too find that I am able to eat only about a half to a third of what I used to in a sitting.

Your calorie intake does seem awfully low. I have had days around 1000 to 1100 but my body told me fairly quickly that this was not a good idea. I do not count calories too carefully but I think I take in about 1500 to 2000 per day these days. I have read that men should not be eating less than 1500-1800.

Do you feel OK on so few calories? And how tall are you, by the way?

Im 6'1"... yea i have been giving myself closer to 2500-3000 then all of a sudden i just cant eat that much. yesterday was just one of those days the cals ended up on the low end. yea i feel fine till about mid afternoon when i really need some sleep. most of it is my weird sleep schedule. I norm lay down about 8:00pm and get up between 11:00 and 01:00 am. Its probably just im not used to having any energy and now its through the roof. I do count calories on the foods that have it on the label. But things like Chili or stews or things more complex i cook here, i dont break down every calorie. I just mainly cut out sugars where i can. A large part of my calories in the past were sugars.... cokes,candy, more cokes..... so i never did really eat alot. I probably took in bout 75% of my cals from sugar snacks and im not getting that anymore. I eat breakfast,lunch on most days, and dinner. I try to get in a snack at night plus a few juices through the day.The last snack is norm a bowl of cereal or some fruit and the last few nights i have just been going to bed before i get that last meal.....

It is good that you are switching to eating more actual food rather than coke and candy. I am sure your body appreciates it. Sometimes I think that eating "real food" in sensible amounts is more important than counting every single calorie that passes through your mouth.

Why are you going to wait a few weeks to get a scale?