Experimenting on me

[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.

[rzrbks]

I had to quit the experiment.

I just hated the taste of sugar coupled with the fact that I didn't ever "feel quite right" when I was drinking the sugar sweetened tea. I would try 2-3 days, being feeling so "Yucky", quit, then try another 2-3 days.

Oh, well, it was worth a try.

[Penny]

I tried having sugar with tea before bedtime, hoping it would stop the DP. It did not work, and I also cannot stand the taste of sugar in my tea. Almost anything I have with sugar gives me that "sick" feeling. Maybe when your Knee heals enough that you can be more active, the weight will come off. I have been trying to increase my activity a small amount every day, but so far have not lost any weight...it's only been 5 days though. :)