I've been on a diet drug prescription for about a month and have lost about 20 pounds. I assume that the first ten pounds, lost in the first week or so, was water weight from inflammation. I have done a few diets in my life and always drop at least ten pounds pretty quickly at the beginning. The difference between this diet and the others I've used is that I am not hungry, and I have some self control. I always used to give up because I got too hungry and couldn't help but crave what wasn't on the diet fad plan. Now, I'm a lot less hungry, and since I can eat whatever I want as long as I don't go over my calorie limit, I don't crave foods I'm not 'allowed' to have.
Some things that have helped me, beside the prescription: Eating every 2.5 hours, using premeasured processed foods, and saving up my calorie binge for the end of the day. When I eat, I know I only have to wait another 2.5 hours before I can eat again. I also fill up on diet soda in between meals/snacks. The diet soda really feels like a treat and doesn't sit like lead in my stomach the way tap water does. I eat about 200 calories per meal for the entire day, eating things like a frozen bean burrito, a stick of cheese and a piece of jerky, coffee with heavy cream and artificial sweeteners, a low-calorie frozen breakfast, or two tablespoons of peanut butter. By doing this, I 'save up' my main calories so that I've only eaten 750-800 calories by the time dinner comes around. I budget dinner to be about 450 calories, making my total for the day 1200, but I usually eat a treat for dessert and end up around 1400-1600. In the past, I have found that if I start off the day eating a lot, it's harder to maintain self-control throughout the day, so if I save up my binging for the end of the day, I can better control my calorie intake.
Hunger has always been a huge issue for me. When I was eating raw food I would eat constantly because nothing made me full. When I was doing keto I would stop eating because I was full but I would still have no energy and I'd still be hungry. The medication has given me the freedom to do CICO in a way that I was never able to do it before - I've tried small meals and counting calories but the hunger always got to me in the end. I have never felt so competent in weight loss before. I feel like I could continue this for a very long time.
I think that the medication is helping my ADHD too. I have only recently begun to realize that I may have ADHD, and I think it has been part of my inability to lose weight. ADHD can give you impulsiveness and a lack of self-control, two things that are very bad for weight loss. The medication they gave me is in the same family as other medications that are used for ADHD, and I think that might be part of why it's working so well.
I am 30 pounds down, overall, from my highest weight after breastfeeding my first child. I am looking forward to continuing this trend. I seem to be losing .2-.4 pounds every day, and I think that at least the low end of that kind of progress is sustainable. I would like to lose 72 more pounds in the next year or so, to get down to my teen weight of 135 pounds. If I add two pounds for the extra inch I've grown since then, it'll be exactly 100 pounds total ;-)
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