I just powered through the hunger and would have been willing to continue powering through it if it resulted in some weight loss, but it didn't. My health would be better if I lost weight. I'm worried about my knees and hips in later life. I cannot understand why all these things that everybody swears by -- IF, low carb, exercising, Whole 30, you name it -- have not worked for me. What did work was getting divorced and having a stomach too upset to eat for several months, but I'm not keen to repeat that. One thing that might help, I theorize, is fixing my sleep issues, but apparently there is no known way to make your body spend more time in deep sleep: I go straight into REM and barely spend any time in the deep sleep we all need. Or maybe that has nothing to do with it -- I continue to try different things. I really hoped, after reading Fung's writing, that this was going to be the right thing. Before that I really hoped that low-carb would be the thing, and before that lots of exercise. It's discouraging!

I have noticed that the worse my sleep is, the hungrier I am in the morning. Yesterday I felt really, really bad -- teh power was out all night and it was very hot and humid -- a huge tree fell across the street etc -- and I was weak and ravenous and decided to go ahead and have breakfast. Last night I took a sleeping pill because I felt like a zombie, and my husband dealt with the dog's midnight pees. I woke up about as refreshed as it's possible for me to be -- it's 11:30 and I felt fine with plain coffee. So I think maybe it's a sleep thing. But who knows. Bodies are weird.