I found out about NoS diet on another forum (Ttapp) and almost skipped the post because I thought the NoS represented No Sugar and I most certainly wasn't interested in that.
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I've enjoyed browsing past posts and decided to introduce myself and my story for future NoS'ers.
Unlike many others, although I have been overweight for a number of years (5 kids, 10lbs/kid), I *knew* dieting was bad so avoided most "diet" plans. Also, we live overseas and couldn't follow "prescribed" menus because the foods simply aren't available. I've educated myself well regarding nutrition and managed to avoid most fads. Frequent snacking on "non-foods" is not much of an issue here because there is very little (some but nothing like the aisles upon aisles of "convenience" foods found in typical US grocery stores). Neither is frequent dining out; most of our meals are homecooked. Plus, we eat 3 square meals a day.
So, I thought I was doing everything right and couldn't figure out why I still had the excess weight--and finally decided that I would *have* to go on a diet to lose weight because our normal good eating wasn't doing it.
Fortunately, that first day of looking, I found NoS--the diet that is not a diet. YES!
One week into it and I now know why my good knowledge and reasonable eating habits didn't lead to weight loss.
1. Snacks. No, not the junk food kind, but even with "healthy" ones. Just too much food was going into my mouth. The books that suggest snacks often say "take a part of a main meal and save it for a snack." My problem is that I was eating a full meal AND a snack. Also, the No Snacks rule has shown me how often I ate the last spoon of (healthy) green beans, licked the (healthy) peanut butter knife, tidied up the (healthy) cheese end with a little sliver, etc.
2. Sweets. I routinely make a sweet treat for Friday (Family Night) and Sunday lunch, and not much else, so I seemed pretty good regarding Sweets, but realized that "Special" times came around far too often. In the country in which we live, if you drop in on somebody, they almost always offer you coffee and a *small* cake/cookie type item--all homemade. Of course, the mere fact that we were visiting made the event "special" and down went the treat. I will have to learn how to negotiate the offers--I am thinking a polite "I have health issues" will go a long way, especially if I accept the coffee....
3. Seconds. I never realized that I took small portions several times in a meal, and thus lost sight of how much I was *really* eating. The one plate rule has been the most eye-opening for me, and therefore, the most helpful.
I can see myself following this plan for life--it has seamlessly slipped into my already reasonably ordered life and eating, and has already made a difference in how I feel.
So, No S has something to offer even for the person with reasonable habits--No S is just the tweaking I needed.
HTH,