Making Friends With My Sleeve, Sabotaged By PMS

Apr 30, 2012

Wow, last week was a booger!!!  Starting on Monday, I had HUNGER, real hunger....and I felt like nothing I ate satisfied me for long.  Then it hit me......PMS!!    The entire week before my period starts I want to eat a house, and then a house dipped in chocolate, then a house rolled in salt. 

My band would magically open up during PMS and allow me to eat much more food than normal.  I have had a few VSG'rs tell me that the same thing happens with their sleeve.  So, I am sure since my hormones did this to my body with the band, what I experienced last week is the same thing. 

I really kind of freaked when I portioned out 2 oz of meat, and 1/4 cup veggies and I was able to eat all of it...well, almost all of it.  I thik I had a couple of bites left on my plate.  I tried to stick with protein, but I am not going to lie.  My hormones kidnapped the good Melanie, and replaced her with a sugar and salt whore for part of the week.  Bad hormones!!

I ended up raiding the cupboards and getting in to the fried onions (the onions usually put in green bean casseroles), and I bought a few Hershey's chocolate bars.    Yeah.  I guess the good news would be that I did NOT go buy some cookies.  I did NOT get the giant bag of M&M's.  I also avoided purchasing and consuming a huge bag of Cheetos.  Those are usually my PMS necessaties. 

I did briefly get down to 180 , but as soon as I started eating more food and carbs, I saw my weight soar back up to 184.  My period finally showed up yesterday, and today I am at 182 on the scales.  That's still a pound lower than my last check-in...so, not too much damage done. 

I am praying that my restriction is back and that my hunger is gone.  I believe it is, as yesterday, I didn't have any uncontrollable hunger or urges, really.  Keeping my fingers crossed!!  Onward and forward!! 

We had a busy weekend, moving furniture from the boyfriend's house, to my house.  There is still a lot of work to do at his house to get him completely out, but we got a lot accomplished.   

I am heading back to the gym this week.  I am actually looking forward to it!   Hope everyone has a wonderful week!!  Mine should be better than last week!! 

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