Hello friends Thank you ladies for the encouragement.
So far I believe I have my insulin under control. I am not fighting irrational hunger swings. I am eating basically 2 meals a day as that is when I've been 'hungyrish': noon and dinner at 5pm. Upon waking ( no hunger at all) I have a 10 ounce cup of coffee with 1-2 tbsp of whipping cream. I have about a fist size of meat protein at 12 (that is all...no veggies as I don't need anything else). Another coffee (decaf) with cream at around 2:30 (this is just for fun...something I find delish) That fills me up and keeps me full till our normal dinner time at 5. Dinner I have protein and 1-2 cups of green veggies and a small mixed green salad. This amount of food is actually hard for me to get down. Absolutely no hunger between or after meals so I don't have to fight any hunger. The weird thing too is that I'm not fighting cravings even like on my birthday when everyone was enjoying a big dessert. I just had a big decaf with whip cream and I was 100% fulfilled while they enjoyed their dessert. I was not drooling or felt any envy lol. I can have fresh bread on the kitchen counter and not give it a thought. Bread was my auto-magnetic food & never could resist. When I did omad I resisted but it def called me. My gage is the lack of hunger. A few times I had some black berries and I anticipated being hungry afterwards as the carbs hit my system but it didn't happen. I'm def going to keep going on this the way I've been doing because of my lacking of powerful cravings. I've been losing between 1 1/2- 2 pounds a weeks. I kind of get wooshes in weight loss and sometimes have a few days of 0 loss. But the absolute best thing for me is that I'm not feeling driven to eat. My brain doesn't go there and I 100% don't feel deprivation. Omad worked for me weight-wise but I did get the little nagging hunger about 2-3 hours before my meal. I resisted but it was nagging at me.
I started the first weeks with no dairy or cheese and the last week or so I've had a few cubes of cheese or a fat free greek yogurt instead of a meal (or supplement to a meal to up my protein). I'm going to try to cut that out again as I have plenty of fat on my body to eat towards my fat quota). Main thing is I don't want to get hungry which I have not.
If and when in the future I start getting hunger signals I will 1st look at my carb intake.
This is only working for me 'my case' because I believe I am severely insulin resistant. Everyone has to find their root cause of being unhealthily over weight...could be mental or could be physical or could simply be eating high calories and not being aware. But....for me it's grrrrrreat to not have to fight the hunger or cravings or do too much thinking.
I'll keep you posted...good or bad. This will only work for me as long as I don't mess with my blood sugar. If I slip up I'll definitely slip down the muddy mountain again.
(((((((((((((Huggggggsssss to all)))))))))))). I'll be in touch and please let me know how your journey is going.

Had a good omad day. Got my run in and ate at Cheesecake Factory...ruhohhhh...had the Thai lettuce wraps and a bit of sugar free cheese cake which was....pretty darn good! Happy Easter and hope everyone had a great day :0)
April 2: 30#'s to gooooo
April 3: -.8/ 29.2 to go
April 4: -.5/ 28.7 to go

LiLee...yep! Gotta kick it to the curb! Haha
Ahhhh Steph I'm sorry you can't do the jogging you used to love. I have been exercising my whole life and I can attest that it doesn't do much for the pounds. But...it makes me really happy. Especially being outside brings out the endorphins for me. I'll keep doing it as long as I can.
Had a good omad day. Kind of find myself waiting for my meal around 2pm. I eat at 5. I probably need to get out more in the afternoon to not just be waiting for my 20minute eat fest...Made fajitas tonight. Used 4 net carb tortillas. Pictured one but ate 2...stuffed but had some yogurt afterwards. Got my jog in this morning.
Snowed out the blue this evening after being like 74 yesterday...crazy weather. Hope everyone's day went welllllll
April 2: 30#'s to gooooo
April 3: -.8/ 29.2 to go
April 4: -.5/ 28.7 to go
April 5: -2./26.7 to go
April 6: +.2/26.9 to go

Good omad day. Got the jog in and will head out for just a walk around the hood with the hubby in a lil bit. Had a greek salad and chicken & cauliflower au gratin for dinner. Had a yogurt too. Got hungry an hour before dinner but then remembered hunger does pass and when 5 o'clock dinner time came I wasn't really hungry. I get my 2nd covid shot tomorrow and am not looking forward to it as the 1st was pretty bad for me for 9 days Hoping it doesn't throw me backwards again.
Hope everyone has a great weekend coming up :0)


April 2: 30#'s to gooooo
April 3: -.8/ 29.2 to go
April 4: -.5/ 28.7 to go
April 5: -2./ 26.7 to go
April 6:+.2/ 26.9 to go
April 7:+.4/ 27.3 to go
April 8: - / 27.3 to go
April 9: -1.1/ 26.2 to go