[rzrbks]

Here's the situation:

I have gained a lot of weight lately, 12 lbs, admittedly mostly due to knee surgery and sitting on my posterior for three weeks. I also find that I'm getting hungry at night and eating a third or fourth meal.

I have been reading that drinking liquids, even tea and sodas, with artificial sweetners are causing the body to feel that it's not getting what it needs.

1) I KNOW that before going on insulin, I never gained much weight at all even during the coldest part of the year because I didn't eat much extra BUT I did drink all the tea, hot and cold I wanted and I always used sugar in either kind.

So, here's what I'm trying, go ahead and have tea with sugar rather than Splenda, Stevia, etc, but inject to cover it.

I've been doing it for two days now and I'm finding that I'm not getting hungry at night. It's as though the calories/carbs that the sugar is putting into my system is shutting down the "craving" for more food.

I'm gonna try this for several weeks and keep y'all apprised of the results, but I'm hoping that I've found a way to kill the "Night-Time" craving.