After eating carbs for two days including a bagel, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, cheese enchiladas and 3 pieces of chocolate covered macadamia nuts here is what I have learned:

1. Carbs make me sleepy
2. I am much hungrier when I include carbs in my diet
3. Water doesn't taste good and I am not nearly as thirsty (down from 4 liters to 1.5 liters the last two days)
4. I feel bloated
5. I worry about the effects the carbs have on my body and how it will interact with the fats. I try to save myself with eating a couple of high fat meals but then did the carb thing again. I know you can't do both!
6. I crave coffee (which I gave up at New Years)
7 I am much moodier!

These are just some of my observations over the last two days. I have lost 20+ pounds and will go back to LCing on Monday when I leave my daughters (sushi on the menu for Sunday night - my favorite ). Just though others might have some of these reactions also.

See you all next week. Susan

wow, susan, great data collection. It's work like this that moves us out of our carb addictive past and into the bright future. Way to go!

I too find myself very hungry when I cheat. I visited my brother in D.C. last weekend and he cooked up a nacho dinner(didn't know about my diet). I filled up, but 1 hour later I was looking for something to eat, even though I had eaten way too much. This continued for a couple days(me being really hungry), but now I think I'm calming down. I loathe those stupid carbs!