I bet most of us are like this... I get hungry at night.  I actually do alright with breakfast and lunch. right now im having 2 very small turkey patties and a little yogurt and some grapes and my decaf. Then for lunch I normally have soup. If I want to loose a little weight I normally skip breakfast and lunch (replace with shake) and then have light dinner. Its hard for us to loose weight because of our metabolisms being so messed up. If we don't exercise we practically have to starve ourselves. At least I find it to be that way. I literally have to eat soooo little to drop a few pounds if I am not exercising. These last 20 pounds I shed have been soooo hard to get off. Even when we do exercise its hard. I find I eat sooo much less than the normal sized person and struggle not to gain. It's frustrating and just seems to be not fair but thats just how it is. Anyway... Once I start back at the gym I'll see how it affects my metabolism and if I loose weight by eating breakfast and lunch AND dinner I will be ecstatic!   Hunger... hunger is a whole other issue! I don't even know where to start to tell you how BAD my hunger was. I have only one way to curb my hunger where it isn't raging out of control... I rememer caffeine use to help me with hunger when I was younger, but I cannot have a drop of caffeine in me. So I have resorted to other means by doc prescribed help. No it isn't a miracle pill. It is just to get that bizzare insatiable hunger to a dull roar, but that in itself is a miracle to me because the insatiable hunger was almost painful, if you can imagine, and VERY distressing. I still get hungry yes, but its now a normal hunger. Nothing insane as before. (Maureen email me). If anyone is having issues with this...some insurance covers certain meds. I would most definitely talk to your doctor. Again, it isn't a miracle cure to loose weight by any means at all, it was more for killing that unnatural hunger and it really was unnatural. anyway... for many exercise helps with the cravings. Not so much for me. But for many others it does. Everyone is so different.  ((hugs!))

Hi Lady
 So glad to see your smile on here today. Glad you are doing O.K.  We are for sure all
struggling with weight in some way or another. I had 30 of my regain off, now it's only
15 off of my regain with all the health crap I have been through of late.
Don;'t be a stranger & please post more when you can!!

Oh, how I've worried and wondered about you... so nice to see your face again! Many of us are struggling. I have changed things up a bit this past week and am feeling better, I think - and have lost about 6 lbs.  For the past 3 years or so, I always have my protein shake in the a.m. on my way to work (around 7:30) - I feel pretty full with it (yogurt and fruit added) and it holds me quite well until mid-morning snack (celery and PB).  But by the time I get home from work, I'm on the rampage for food, food, FOOD. I'm starving. And stressed from the day. So what I've done this week is start my morning with a good 'ol bowl of oatmeal with a small peach sliced into it. I bring it to work with me and zap it, at around 8:30 - now I'm feeling pretty satiated until lunch! I will eat my usual small salad for lunch (with protein), and for dinner I am now having my protein shake. Four days later I'm down 6 lbs. and feeling so much better, less lethargic, and I'm working out on my lunch hour again. I really think it's important to shake things up - kind of rattle your body out of complacency. I see my surgeon on 9/21 and will be talking to him about this insatiable hunger, and how hard it is to lose weight no matter how little I'm eating. Will share his insight with the Board. I've missed you, Elizabeth. Maureen

Actually this is the same back trouble I have had for sometime. I needed the dexa scan to see how bad the osteoperosis is. I already knew about the fracture & the surgery
will fix that. Get some of the bone loss back, but, not all of it.
I have started paperwork to see if I can get ssi disability because of all of this. Even
for a temporary period of time, would be some income while I re-coup from the
back surgery.
I might not get it, but, i won't know if I don't try.
I see my spine Doc on the 15th & will see what the next step is & whe the surgery might be.
Might as well get it out of the way before I do get a job, as I would have to quit to have this surgery anyway. Not a good start to any new job. Oh BTW I have to have
back surgery next week. I don't think they would appreciate that too much.

Good for you!  Keep it up and you'll be back in the size 10's in no time.  Judy