I am hungry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Permalink Reply by Tony S. on August 21, 2009 at 1:04am

Just thinking aloud: Are you eating 5 small meals a day: 3 larger, 2 smaller? Every 3 hours have something, a snack perhaps might stave off feeling ravenous. Drinking 8 glasses of water a day was also recommended to me. I am on 10mcg of Byetta twice a day. I am not starving, but I do get cravings for certain things, like pizza. Last night I bought 3 big, thin crust slices for dinner. I took my shot. After 2 pieces, I knew I was getting full and maybe should or could have stopped, but that third piece kept calling to me, so I decided: go ahead. Sometimes I think fighting a craving makes it worse. I won't need a pizza-fix for quite a while and it wasn't that damaging. It's hard to analyze what's happening with you, if you were craving some food item, or if you're experiencing the Byetta nausea as hunger signals. I would say just go ahead and eat if you're hungry; just remember to stop when you feel full. Maybe remembering my 3rd slice of pizza will remind you to slow everything down. Be kind to yourself: you're body's adjusting to a new drug. And remember: the perfect is the enemy of the good. We're going to make mistakes on the way to getting it right, All good luck to you, Penny. ---Tony

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