I know for most people .5 lb. is nothing. On someone my size, it is. I am trying to discover why I dropped so much weight in the 3.5 days before. I *am* restricting my carbs even more than usual, but not totally. I allow myself one piece of whole wheat bread a day, or a couple of dried apricots/cranberries.
I haven't had a Luna Bar in 6 days.
What I have done fairly easily, is give up most fruit. I don't really want to do that. I don't like vegetables that much! They don't fill me up and I can't make them the main part of my meal. I always have a salad or maybe some sauteed zucchini, peppers, or other squash with dinner, but anything else either makes me gag, or hurts my stomach. Not to be gross, but it's pretty hard for me to digest most veggies and I have been to the emergency room more than once because I ate broccoli. So, I have to balance my "delicate" stomach with having to increase my veggie intake. This is good for my health overall, not just for losing weight.
Like Goldfinch, I am never "not hungry," and rarely "full." Truthfully, I can eat more than most people twice my size. Sometimes it is stomach rumbling hungry, other times, just the gnawing emptiness. I try to eat until I am just not hungry. I don't want to be one of those women who is always starving and just pushes food around on her plate.