One week back on Shangri La
It’s been a week since my last post so here are my observations:
It took about 4 days for the SLD effect to start kicking in. I first noticed it after eating a fairly light dinner and feeling satisfied, if not full. For the rest of the night I kept thinking of the two molasses cookies I had in the fridge and how I’d like to eat them but I just couldn’t muster up enough desire to actually get up and eat them. It actually would have required more effort eat them than it did to avoid them.
Since then I’ve noticed a gradual lessening of hunger between meals and feeling more full after relatively less food. I went to a ballgame today (damn Padres lost!) and ate a slice of pizza with lemonade and felt pretty full for several hours. Dinner at 6 was pasta, which I couldn’t finish, and now at 10 I’m still feeling stuffed. More importantly I think I’m getting over the psychological need to eat snacks, like a cookie or ice cream.
Tomorrow is my first day back to work since the SLD effect came back. It’ll be interesting to see how it holds up to all the fast food temptations I get at lunch time.
I haven’t stuck to my exercise plan but at least I had a few days of activity. I need to step it up in that department.
I’ve also upped the walnut oil to 3 Tbsp, trying to jumpstart the SLD effect. The walnut oil is still less greasy than the olive oil and goes down easier.
I’ve also noticed I sleep better lately. I tend to sleep soundly right up until my alarm goes off, rather than waking a few hours early and drifting in and out. I think it’s getting me more REM sleep because I’m feeling refreshed when I wake up. I think that’s due to the Omega 3s in the walnut oil and the flax seed oil in my morning shakes.
Oh yeah, my weight. I finally started losing weight 3 days ago. I’m down to 254.4. It’s a start anyway.