All week long, including Monday through today, I've been eating these fiber bars and I haven't HAD to eat. Okay to break it down a little more I have a small sort of breakfast (one morning I had a bagel with cheese and turkey, another morning I had some Total Brand cereal, another I had the Carnation Instant Start breakfast {it has twice the protein of egg and doesn't taste that bad either}) then when I'm in my first class around 9:30 to 10:00 or about the same time when I'm at work I eat one of the fiber bars then I kind of eat a fruit or yogurt about an hour later, then on tuesday and thursday I didn't feel the need or anything to eat lunch, but tuesday I had some cheese and crackers I purchased from the store next to one of my classes. Then around 2 or 3 I have another fiber bar and I'm satisfied all the way to dinner. I kid you NOT! I didn't even feel the need to eat dinner. I'm not going into starving myself! I love food too much, but this is kind of like nicorette gum for smokers. It helps you to ignore the urge to just eat or to eat that bad fried food, or chips, or just all the stuff sitting around that gets to you as you start to get hungry. I've been able to completely avoid my hunger and have had MUCH more control over what I eat and at what time I eat. I don't ever feel hungry and when it's time to eat, say noon or 5:00 I go ahead and grab me something and in these past 5 days I haven't felt hungry at all. I'm completely shocked. I've been eating when it's necessary instead of when I just simply had to. We'll see how this affects my body going into next week, but right now I feel in control over my eating.

I feel like I'm able to say "NO" to fast food just because it's convenient, or "NO" to the cookie ice cream sandwhich that was offered to me roughly 20 min ago. I don't even have to ponder about it. I feel like I can conquer this, like it's actually achievable! Damn it I'm going to loose these 70 to 140 lbs by next new years. This goal can be accomplished and the food is NOT going to win!! Anyways, thought I'd lend a helping hand so you can conquer your own battle against food!