Weight loss and changes to eating habits...

My family MD said the metformin (or metformin hydrochloride or glucophage) would help me lose weight. I thought this simply meant a reduced appetite but I now think it had more to do with changes in my eating habits. In the past, when I work the 5 am to 1 pm shift, I would get up at 4:15 am, walk our dog and eat something about 4:30 am. Then, I would be quite hungry by 8 am and have a second breakfast. Lunch followed at 1:15 pm and I'd eat dinner between 6 pm and 7 pm. I was eating too much but then I was trying to blend my schedule and my
wife's. Well, with the need to fast before the blood test at or about 7 am, I couldn't eat that 4:30 am breakfast. I decided that if I ate then on non-blood testing days then my body would be expecting breakfast at 4:30 am. I quit eating at 4:30 am and have gotten used to feeling hungry till I eat between 7:30 am and 8:30 am.

I am now used to being hungry in the late morning and early afternoon before going home to eat lunch. I do confess to occasionally having a snack or two during the morning. I also have given up on eating snacks before going to bed when I'm on the 3 pm to 11 pm shift. That may have been the real reason for me losing weight.

Anyway, I went shopping for summer shorts and it appears that I've lost about 4 inches of girth. (Of course, my trousers don't feel any looser so I have to question my optimistic assumption.) I'll go weigh myself tomorrow and see what the past month has led to...