Hello all,

I'm learning more about living with the band everyday. It often seems like a mix of dealing with my obvious eating disorder (overeating), health problems (from overeating), and learning to work with a semi-restricted band to achieve the best outcome. Today I'm adjusting meal times to get better bg. Warning I'm not a perfect lowcarber, but I try. :cool:

Perhaps this won't be a huge problem once I get more restriction. (Next fill on Dec 10th)However right now I can pretty much eat anything I want and not feel full. I have been told time and again, that eating regular lc meals will keep my blood sugar from going up and down. This may be true for some, but it's turning out not to be, for me.

Eating every four hours or so is turning out to be a killer. My sugars ride high almost the whole day. I'm usually not hungry when meal time rolls around. I think by forcing myself to eat that I'm actually not giving my body enough time to compensate for the next meal.

Also in the middle of the night my bg drops like a rock and I end up at 3 am eating a bowl of carbs to stop the shakes. I think I'm going to try to stop forcing regular meal times, and focus more on when my body is asking for food.

Today's Eats

*3am bowl of fiber cereal n cream, had shakes bg's were all over the place*

1 atkins bar

1 hashbrown bite, 1 bite french toast stick (wanted to slam these down, but it would have been bad all the way around)

iced tea

1 zone bar 1tbs pb

1 pep stick

1 small slice of roll

2oz cheese

2 slice meat