So the shakes taste terrible (it is mostly the aftertaste) and they can come through your pores (like garlic), but I haven't been hungry on this - yet. The last time I dieted with a program I was always hungry and light headed, neither which has been a problem on this diet. Nor have I had much in the way of cravings of other food.
But that doesn't mean I don't miss food. I do. Alot. When TH makes eggs I miss eggs, when TH makes toast I miss toast, I am sure you get the picture. But just on my own with no food cues around I don't miss anything. I don't know if this is unusually, but to me it tells me that I eat alot with my eyes. I don't spend my whole day thinking about food and I don't think often (I think about it sometimes) about what I am going to eat when I get off the diet.
On those days that I think about what I am going to eat when I get off the diet is usually triggered by a picture. But it has a lot to do with when I last ate also. If I haven't had a shake for a while and I see food I am triggered, but if I have had a shake then not so much. They say that there is no appetite suppressant in the shake, but I am not so sure. However, in group I hear about 3/4 of the group are hungry all the time - so I guess that is what makes a horse race.
One of the things people complain about in group is the amount of food ads there are. I already knew this from 30 years ago when I did my first major diet. I sat in the group stunned that these people didn't know that. Was I the only one who had dieted before? It kind of bothered me. Was everyone else virgin dieters?
The only thing negative so far is I am bit depressed. I vaccilate between thinking I have to do this for the next 82 weeks or I am going to fail. Sometimes I just want to burst out crying not because I am hungry or tired, but because I have this huge hill in front of me and I don't know if I can make it to the top. I know I only have 12 more weeks on the shakes and that freaks me out. In some ways I wish that I could just lose all the weight on the shakes and then try real food, but that isn't how the program works. I can, though, stay on 3 shakes a day and the rest regular food - but what is regular food. Well I have 3 more months to figure that out.
And that is it so far...
Very interesting. I admit I didn't realize how many food ads there are. I suppose if I stopped to think about it, it would make sense. Everyone has to eat, so the food pitch pretty much goes to everyone. Therefore, lots of food ads. But I don't think I'm actually aware while I'm watching. That's probably what advertisers count on -- the subliminal message!
ReplyDeleteI'm not surprised that T2 doesn't notice food ads - T2 once offered to "split a pea' with me (even though she did eat all of a Gold Mirror Canneloni, rate one of the BEST in SF.
ReplyDeleteT3 is up & down and, as the human in the household, I'm trying to cook stuff that doesn't totally tempt the olfactory organ. I've been eating pretty bland stuff & TH shared his newly made chili with THE MOP - Tanya thought it was gross (even though she trades licks on an ice cream cone with Taya)
Tomorrow a walk.
Tonight the Great Books!
TH signing off