Green tea works for me

drink or capsule?

Drink. I've read that the capsules are less effective because they don't contain all the epigallicatechinadingdongs that work best in synergy, or something. Never used them, anyway.

Now that the weather has broken, I can get back to the tea. That will be good anyway, but all the better, since I did not know that about the pills.

I had to giggle at this

epigallicatechinadingdongs

Given my dyslexia, I read it 5 times, assuming that it was an actual word. heh.

Lots of ~ma, ND.

Just talked to my mom. After they dropped me off, Frankie whined all the way home and nearly chewed through his harness strap, which is seatbelt material. But he's okay now. She actually called to ask if there's a trick to getting Frankie in his crate. Yes, the trick is you pick him up and put him in.

ION I can has Nora! Or she can has me. Or whatever. We has us.

Diagnosis and cure ma for Drew. And punctuation to Perkins. And - Argh! World. Give. The. Buffistas. A. Fuckin. Break.

Much ~ma to Perkins and ND!

I've never taken an appetite depressant but what has depressed my appetite has been being on a diet where I'm so restricted that I'm eating a lot of the same things each week. I just start to lose interest in food at that point.

A doggy lama client this week struggled with the crate entrance issue too. My best advice was to make going in more fun/rewarding than staying out. Like a charm, now the little woofer goes in by himself.

Good for you, smonster, coaching your mom to be directive with Frankie.

I just start to lose interest in food at that point.

I wish. Losing interest would be good. I tend to eat the same things all the time anyway, just too much of them. Peanuts, for instance. That salty crunchy thing gets me every time, and 4 servings a day just doesn't help.

Yeah, it only happens after I've been very good on a low glycemic diet and there are no cheat foods in the house. And I'm in control of my environment enough that I'm not around much temptation. By that point I start to get bored with my choices (I'm a really picky eater so any diet limits my choices even more than for the avg person, I think) and eating becomes more of an "I need fuel" activity.

Actually, a natural appetite depressant that I think actually works is grapefruit. The Scarsdale Diet used those for breakfast for a reason, I think.

I have lots of limitations (including citrus) too, which makes it rough sometimes. But, when I find something I like, I can eat it for weeks...especially if I make a big batch of something and don't have to cook.

Many years ago, when I lived in San Diego, my husband found a book by a local author called 'Jet Fuel'. The premise was that thinking about food as anything BUT fuel is where we get in trouble.

I can't find the book anymore, and I really wish I'd kept it!