Speyside wrote:Try some celery Frank. That fills me up and keeps me from feeling hungry for a good while. BTW, I see what you did there. Wicked smaht.
about 15 years ago I did my own modified version of the South Beach Diet, lost 40 easily, was never hungry...will power will eventually lose out... what this diet did for me was remove the urges by helping me understand the glycemic index and therefore be able to avoid the sugar/starch cravings (satisfied by sweets/chips etc) which is quickly followed by a sugar crash, starting the whole eat-though-not-hungry nonsense of binging.
For example, I was then able to go to play cards and not eat any chips or m&m's and stuff simply because I did not want them, certainly not because I had the strength to say no. Had I wanted them, I could have eaten the entire package of each.
At that time, my father's health faltered for the last time and I went there every night after work and weekends for 6 months to have dinner and visit and help my mother deal with stuff while he was in a hospital bed in the living room...our Hospice agency was a major failure for us. Got way off my diet, plus the constant stress...I had no shot.
Fast forward six months and I had put on the lost 40 on my way to adding 65. So I lost about 10 a year and a half ago, and have started to return to that style of eating in the last couple of months, so overall down 20 from 2 years ago and looking to be diligent about it going forward.
As for celery, I once again prepare snacks to keep in the fridge, one on them is celery hearts with Laughing Cow light spreadable cheese. Lucky for me I love things that are good for this diet, which is really a chemistry experiment for my system to step up its calorie burning, increase my metabolism, and never feel hunger.
Hunger. Full. I have always been aware of feeling full, but it was never a deterrent to eating until all was gone if I liked it.
So this particular way of eating sort of does that for me.
edit: didn't gain 65 in six months, it was over several years but was constant