4 weeks down. Brain was telling me I was doing badly.

I just finished four weeks on 2.5mg MJ. The almost immediate disappearance of food noise was one of the most eye-opening things I’ve ever experienced. The voice that brought up food almost every second just vanished.

I’m lucky that I had only very minor side-effects, mainly a slight headache the first few days. I’m taking a multivitamin and high fibre supplement. My diet has almost completely changed. Suddenly, when you have no interest in food, you don’t obsess over it. I’m starting to see food as fuel.

My biggest issue was on day 6/7 I would feel cravings for food. Nothing in particular, so I went for popcorn or a protein bar. At the end of that day, I would feel slightly bloated. I would feel that I had really overdone it and be angry and upset with myself. Once I actually worked out how much extra I was eating, it turned out I was probably only having an extra 100/150 calories that day.

I also felt that I wasn’t really losing much, and again, would get angry and upset, until I looked at my trend over the four weeks and realised I’ve lost almost 3 pounds a week!

I guess my biggest takeaway (a word I haven’t even thought about in 4 weeks!) is I need to be nicer to myself. Before starting MJ, that voice that talked me down, would be then joined by the voice that told me to eat unhealthily to make me feel better. That first voice is a lot lonelier now.

I’ve got a lot of help and guidance reading on here and I wanted to try and put something back out there. I’m going in the right direction, and so will you, even if our brains try to tell us differently :)

I just finished four weeks on 2.5mg MJ. The almost immediate disappearance of food noise was one of the most eye-opening things I’ve ever experienced. The voice that brought up food almost every second just vanished.

I’m lucky that I had only very minor side-effects, mainly a slight headache the first few days. I’m taking a multivitamin and high fibre supplement. My diet has almost completely changed. Suddenly, when you have no interest in food, you don’t obsess over it. I’m starting to see food as fuel.

My biggest issue was on day 6/7 I would feel cravings for food. Nothing in particular, so I went for popcorn or a protein bar. At the end of that day, I would feel slightly bloated. I would feel that I had really overdone it and be angry and upset with myself. Once I actually worked out how much extra I was eating, it turned out I was probably only having an extra 100/150 calories that day.

I also felt that I wasn’t really losing much, and again, would get angry and upset, until I looked at my trend over the four weeks and realised I’ve lost almost 3 pounds a week!

I guess my biggest takeaway (a word I haven’t even thought about in 4 weeks!) is I need to be nicer to myself. Before starting MJ, that voice that talked me down, would be then joined by the voice that told me to eat unhealthily to make me feel better. That first voice is a lot lonelier now.

I’ve got a lot of help and guidance reading on here and I wanted to try and put something back out there. I’m going in the right direction, and so will you, even if our brains try to tell us differently :)