Sarah's Weight Loss Adventures

[Patti]

Since my last post, I have had some interesting results.
Well, first of all- I switched over to the second stage about 6 days ago,
and I realized today that i have been noticing something for about the last FIVE days that is very odd, for me...
Along with a much stronger feeling of always being full (even though I'm eating even LESS all the time), I have noticed that I have not been experiencing any "nicotine fiends".
I thought about WHY that was...
and I realized that I really have not been smoking very much, definitely not very much at one time...
And when I started thinking about this, and thinking about smoking in general... well, let me say first that lately every time I have contemplated stopping smoking , I have felt a STRONG almost panic reaction that I did NOT want to stop. But when I thought about it again the other day, guess what? I still want to smoke more than I want to stop, but the idea of stopping was just like- yeah, okay, whatever... no panic whatsoever.
but OH HOLY CRAP!
i did not even THINK about it until just now... wow... the last time i smoked a cigarette was two days ago! Partly because thats when I ran out of cigarettes.. but yet, I have not gone and bought any more, have I? Wow.
Kind of weird, though... I can understand perfectly why the sub would influence me in terms of reducing my appetite and making me want to make healthier food choices, etc. But... cigarettes? Why would the sub be helping in that direction? What do you think, Shannon?

Wow, I also i just thought about what i have eaten today... I am in the process of cooking some ham for my dinner... other than the ham I am about to eat, you know what i have eaten today? One small coffee from Mcdonalds, a handful of peanuts, 3-4 pieces of cheese and some sausages. Thats it. And I'm not even that hungry now! LOL
Just this little bit of ham will more than fill me up. Pretty drastic change from only a little over a month ago. I have to say, I am loving this process!

Hey Sarah, I’m not sure how your doing with not smoking, but I thought of something interesting that I had forgotten about. I’m sure Shannon has something in this program to decrease sugar intake and I don’t know if you know this, but they add sugar to cigarettes for addictive purposes (I guess). So it would make sense that you would be smoking less. It’s fascinating to me that the subconscious would make that connection. I’m sure there’s other factors like it’s pushing you to do what’s good for you too, but I just thought that sugar thing was pretty cool.