Weigh in Day 6 from VLCD day 5

Good Morning! Down another 1.2 this morning which brings me to 214.7 from 222. 7.3 pounds in 5 days. Wonderful! I felt great yesterday, other than I may be coming down with another cold or I'm having a bout with allergies.

There is one thing so far that I really struggle with on this plan, and that is driving through town and seeing the places I used to frequent for food. My mouth waters, but I keep driving. Yesterday I so wanted some KFC, which I never eat. I wanted a huge frappucino. I wanted to load. lol. BUT....I didn't. I kept driving and ignored those signals. Those emotional signals, not physical signals. Though I don't doubt for a minute that I'm actually addicted to that stuff and to some degree, my body still craves the food.

This morning, my husband and daughter are off to meet family for breakfast at a diner. A diner full of the smell of bacon, biscuits and gravy, eggs, hasbrowns. All of which I know I can't eat, therefore I opted to stay home. Home with my 1/2 of a grapefruit & coffee and supplements. lol. It's well worth it, however. I know if I go to that diner, I'll lose my mind with all those smells. I'm not yet strong enough to endure that, but perhaps I will be at some point.

I AM learning to figure out the difference between real hunger and emotional cravings. I never realized how much I ran to food before. For various reasons, I was always grazing. We have some events coming up, next weekend a 3rd Birthday party for my daughter on the 4th of July. There will be lots of good food, cake, and homemade ice cream. I haven't decided what I will do. I may take some morsels of it and pay the piper the next day. I would like to conduct an experiment with that situation. We load on this diet, we load for 2 days gorging ourselves to gain so that we're not hungry and so that we lose more efficiently.....we do that before we begin VLCD. I want to know what happens if we have a day where we eat sort of normally, not gorging, but once and a while do it while on VLCD. While I realize it will make you gain, what are the results after vs. if we don't do that. I'm wondering if it helps or hurts. Maybe I'll conduct my own experiment with it with the party. I'm probably just crazy, but hey we'll see what happens.