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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jpscloud" data-source="post: 1927629" data-attributes="member: 232698">Aha!  Thanks for this thread.  I was thinking of starting one about failing to manage diet and weight but hesitated because I didn't want to be a moaner in a sea of positive threads... but if there are more of us in the same boat, sign me up!I suffer with binge eating disorder, and in 2015 was diagnosed with T2.  Initially had some success with diet and exercise but bellyflopped (ah, yes, literally) and gained, becoming more ill as I went along.I'd also tried pretty much everything but I can't last more than a few hours on lchf, fasting or any other methods others find useful.  With diet clubs I lost a stone or two then always regained it with more besides.I was started on Trulicity last April, and I am genuinely surprised at the results, stable almost-normal sugars, other levels back in the normal range and a very slow but steady weight loss.  The best I had been able to do before was maintain.It does seem that the appetite reducing effects are wearing off now, though.  I've returned to feeling false hunger and being unable to stop thinking about food, and clearing my plate then looking for more.  I feel as though I've been given a glimpse of life without my eating disorder, and it felt wonderful.  I could leave food on my plate, feeling full and knowing I wouldn't be hungry again in an hour.  No cravings, no obsessive thoughts about eating every waking minute. I am going to do my utmost to use that experience to continue doing well, but already I feel bereft of the gift of feeling satisfied with an appropriate amount of food.I feel as though this is a cliff edge, or a point of no return.  As so many on this thread already know,  no amount of positive thinking can help me, no little mind tracks like a small plate, drinking a glass of water, etc. will change what happens.  One thing, and one thing only, made me realise what it must be like to be able to say the things successful weight losers say, and that was this brief time my appetite changed to what could be called "normal".</blockquote>

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