For me I think the problem is that the liquid diet has such a limited choice of foods that all you want to do is crunch something - maybe just chew and spit out. I haven't tried that yet because I'm afraid I'd start something in my brain I wouldn't be able to control.
Two weeks of liquid diet feels like an eternity... and then I believe I'm supposed to go to mush, which is still liquid only thicker, but still, no crunch.
I too can tolerate 6 to 8 ounces of liquid food, but over 10 minutes of eating, I get it down, either sipping through my teeth or spooning. I try hard to stretch it out by putting it down, walking away, etc, so that it doesn't seem like I'm inhaling my nourishment. (I was a former gulper so I have to relearn sipping, that's why I sip through my teeth.)
BUT there are other times when I don't feel hungry and I have to remind myself to eat (at the top of every hour I have a set task reminder) or else I can get carried away and not even sip water and suddenly hours go by and I missed out on getting in my daily minimums and suffer for it.
It's hard to get rid of that, "I can go for something" that's in the brain, that you can suddenly make yourself hungry, right down to stomach hunger, when it's really a craving, or you're bored, or you see a commercial and a pleasurable moment creeps into your brain and you suddenly feel stomach hunger that's really emotional hunger.
At least, that's how it's been for me. All issues I have to re-route in my brain and redesign my entire lifestyle over my "losing" months so that I can come out on the other side, thinner, healthier and with better
head habits. Otherwise, well, facing the otherwise is a losing proposition.
When I get to the other side, I may need to always have a picture of the old me on my fridge to remind me of my long dead other self. Re-read my journal as to how I felt weighing 350 so that in my head I never ever go backward and say to myself, it's too hard, life's too short, I give up, pass the cheesecake.
So even though I'm just getting started, those of you successful who've come before me and DID IT, I thank you to reminding me that it's: HELL WEEK and that leads me to believe that I really am
normal afterall.