As I've said before, patience is not something we can call one of my good points. When I started Byetta, I really expected to feel something different-nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite-almost immediately. I was sorely disappointed when it took several weeks before I started feeling any of that.

But after a good month's worth of the medicine was coursing through my body, I started the higher, maintenance dose of Byetta, and, I'll admit, I expected to feel different almost immediately. This is really sort of silly, but I was pretty disappointed to feel roughly the same as I had the week or so prior to starting the higher dose. I was starting to wonder why we had to be weaned onto this drug if it wasn't going to make me feel any different.

While it took about two or three weeks for me to really feel a loss of appetite, I was noticing that it took much less food to make me feel full. Now that I'm on the higher dose, I often feel like I could skip a meal or two. In fact, yesterday I was so busy at work that I decided not to go home for lunch and I didn't even miss it. I thought surely that I would start to feel pretty hungry by mid-afternoon, but I didn't. And at dinner time last night, I felt again like I could skip the meal. I didn't feel sick, I just had no appetite and really had a hard time with the idea of eating.

I'm noticing lately, too, that the foods I feel like I can stomach are soft-like soups and cereal (yes, ice cream!) versus a sandwich or a burrito. Interestingly, I always seem to have an appetite for junk food!

My lack of appetite has resulted in a small weight loss-4 lb. I suspect that if I would go ahead and restart my walking routine (and eliminate the junk food!) that I could get that number down quite a bit more. I'm getting closer to that goal, I promise!