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Chromium supplements can help keep your blood sugar level even while you get off the carbs. Also, making sure you get a high protein breakfast and eating 4-6 small meals a day instead of 3 big meals. Brushing your teeth 3 times a day is a deterrent. Drink a ton of water as that helps flush toxins and makes you feel full. Sometimes thirst can be disguised as hunger.

ETA: I would avoid artificial sweeteners as they trigger your insulin the same as sugar. Use stevia or erythritol instead.

I totally second everything lilyfaith said.

I should add... I eat really all week and then on weigh-in day after weigh-in, I splurge on whatever I want. Guess what: you can't add back on all the weight you've lost for the week, and usually it's so bad and you feel so good from eating good food that you eat pretty healthy anyways.

I still get the bite of candy or pizza while at a friends' while watching the game, but I definitely have lost 14 lbs in the last month, too! :) and it feels AMAZING!

Haha girls... I just eat often! I eat a Special K bar or light wheat toast w/light cream cheese for breakfast, for lunch a turkey sandwich w/ fat free cheese, lettuce, onion, tomato and honey dijon mustard on light bread with a 100 cal pack of chex mix stuff, an apple for snack or some carrots (thats usually morning snack) and a cheese stick for afternoon snack, and then dinner is usually chock full of veggies so I eat more veggies than carbs or protein. Oh, and I drink water like a mad woman.

I couldn't eat like that 24/7 though. That's why my splurge day has kept me sane. And reminding myself that I'm human, of course.

My sis and fiance are on the same diet and both have lost around 12 lbs, and they're much thinner than I am, so I know it has to be the fact that we're just eating less calories and eating the right things.

@sunnygal yeah, i'm plus sized so I am losing weight fast, but my sis and fiance are normal size (my sis is an 8 and my fi is a guys size M) and they're losing weight almost as fast. I really think it's just because we're all too busy to eat much more than the little that we eat during the day, and our meals are portioned correctly. We ate a lot more fast food before, so I think the jumpstart of healthy food has made a huge difference in how fast we're losing. It came off quickly in the beginning and now is slowing down a bit, but i'm ramping up my exercise!

I'm really motivated by how much fiftyfootbride has lost... I know I can do it too, so it's finally kicked my butt into gear. I just read your other post... Good luck this week! I know I haven't been checking in, but I'm still with you all in spirit and am trying really hard myself!!!