7/11/09

The last couple of days have been surprising. I have succumbed to cravings more than once, particularly for sweets. The cravings are much worse than before the hcg. I guess the deprivation made things worse for me now that I'm trying to integrate normal healthy foods. I did start taking a L-Leucine supplement yesterday hoping it would help maintain hypothalmic function from the hcg. Maybe it worked. Something certainly worked unexpectedly. Yesterday's weight was up 0.4 lbs from the day before, today's weight was down 1.6 lbs! Shocking to me since I ate about 300 calories and 21 grams of fat worth of ice cream last night right before bed. I still feel bloated from it. (hopefully remembering the feeling of not being bloated while on hcg will help me to control myself better, I didn't realize until the last several weeks that it had been years since I hadn't felt bloated.) 

I am disappointed that removing sweets for the hcg period didn't curb my cravings for them but made it worse. I am going to have to work very hard on self control. I'm going to exercise today and control myself better on the sweets. I hope that after letting myself have sweets, I am going to be able to control myself better by allowing a tiny bit of sweets every few days or so.