Weighed my cereal this morning (Fiber one) and milk... going to skip the last stage 3 workout (I HATE 3B) and just start 4-A1 this morning. My work schedule changes June 1, so this will be the last week of getting up super-early (for me, at least) and trying to lift when I'm not as awake as I should be and then rushing to make it to work... I'll be getting off work at 2:30 on M/W so I can just go right after work to lift - YAY! I don't mind early cardio, but early lifting sucks.
The scale didn't make any big jumps, but it was probably about 1/2# lower today... still going for trends and that's hardly enough to feel secure in my program, but at least it didn't trend up even more today.
Thanks Susan, for the encouragement and ideas... I don't know why I didn't think of tea!!! It's worth a try... I've never tried glucomannan - I know Cassandra is big on it (or am I remembering wrong?) but it's gotten such mixed reviews... can I find it at GNC?
What food satisfies me? Wow... sadly, I'm not sure I have a good answer... volume, I guess, is the best answer. Sugary foods can be nice, but they ALWAYS make me hungrier and are quite likely to start an overfeed... same with salty carbs (I don't do potato chips, but baked chips, tortilla chips, even popcorn) - my worst overfeeds are when I have a "small" snack of sugar or salt in the evening, and then I go for the other one (if I had sugar, I then want salt, or vice versa) and then I go back and forth. Fats can be filling, but I think I overeat them because they are so small for the calories...
Cravings - for whatever I can't have
. In the evening (which is my worst time for eating) it's sugar or salty... Often it's whatever's in front of me that I can't/shouldn't eat, that someone else has... Sometimes I crave a nice big cheeseburger, and FRIES (probably the salt/fat/carb triple-bad whammy there)...
Karla - thank you for all the trouble-shooting... between you and Leigh's book, I hope to figure this out eventually...