Week 4 Hunger Pains

So I'm finishing up week 4 on Jenny. And let me tell you--I'm looking better, feeing better, and for the first time in my life, I feel like I have control over food. Food does not control me.

But the downside: This week I have been hungry. REALLY hungry. I have eaten every vegetable in the house, I have consumed popsicles like they are water, and I even one night went to the grocery store and bought a weight watcher's 200 calorie meal just because I was STARVING. I legit can't get full off lettuce. I have even been knitting just so I don't eat.

I suppose at some point on a diet, your body realizes it's on one. I have been very fortunate thus far that I haven't even noticed, and the food is so good I feel like I'm indulging all the time. I feel guilty for the 2 fries I eat off someone else's plate. I kick myself for eating an extra 80calorie string cheese. But the moral of the story is, I don't need to be eating so much. And I know this works, and I know as I lose weight, I will feel less hungry. A 170lb body does not need as many calories as a 185lb body. But it's hard to realize that eating half a box of wheat thins is not the answer to my hunger.

I'm trying really hard to stick it out and not cheat. I think if I cant get to the weigh in (possiby sometime tomorrow) that I will be rewarded with a scale that says something lower. The hard part will be if it doesn't say anything lower. Then I will be upset. Very upset, because I'll have been hungry all week and made no progress.

I'm also starting to think about the end of Jenny. Starting Tuesday, I'll be in the last 2 weeks. I'm over halfway done. And I have to decide if I'm going to stick with Jenny or try to do it on my own. We'll see, but it's definitely something I need to be thinking about.

Love love love,
M