good changes
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good changes
Eight and 1/2 weeks on strict vanilla, I have noticed some great changes. These changes did not happen last year when I lost 12 pounds with a calorie counting mod. I have decided to give vanilla a good long year to see what really happens.
I just wanted to mention two good changes: I used to eat until I felt full. Huge mistake. With no seconds, I have come to really accept that "fullness" is coming in about a half-hour to an hour. I leave the table feeling like I could still eat, but I have a calm confidence that I don't need to. In the past, without No S, I found it hard to skip seconds because I had not fully realized this fact. I think a big part of the reason I notice it more now is that I was really hungry to start with, and the contrast of hungry to full is so obvious and pleasant. It's no longer about waiting to feel done tasting good stuff at a meal (which never happens). It's about going from hungry to full.
Change two, maybe even bigger: I don't like to spoil my appetite. After weeks and weeks of getting hungry before meals, I much prefer a good appetite.
Sanity!
I just wanted to mention two good changes: I used to eat until I felt full. Huge mistake. With no seconds, I have come to really accept that "fullness" is coming in about a half-hour to an hour. I leave the table feeling like I could still eat, but I have a calm confidence that I don't need to. In the past, without No S, I found it hard to skip seconds because I had not fully realized this fact. I think a big part of the reason I notice it more now is that I was really hungry to start with, and the contrast of hungry to full is so obvious and pleasant. It's no longer about waiting to feel done tasting good stuff at a meal (which never happens). It's about going from hungry to full.
Change two, maybe even bigger: I don't like to spoil my appetite. After weeks and weeks of getting hungry before meals, I much prefer a good appetite.
Sanity!
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I agree that food does taste much better if you are actually hungry rather than just feeding yourself constantly!! There is a balance between having a little hunger and getting so hungry that you go over the edge. It took me a couple of months to find this balance.
The journey is the reward.
Maintenance is progress.
Maintenance is progress.
I very much second the sense that being hungry can actually help you eat less at the meal. I find it is the exception that I want to eat more when I get ravenous. I just want to eat faster, but I fight that urge, and satiety comes with about the same amount of food, or even a little less. So I think sometimes getting really hungry can be good, but it's all about the ups and downs smoothing out to the average.
Count plates, not calories. 11 years "during"
Age 69
BMI Jan/10-30.8
1/12-26.8 3/13-24.9 +/- 8-lb. 3 yrs
9/17 22.8 (flux) 3/18 22.2
2 yrs flux 6/20 22
1/21-23
There is no S better than Vanilla No S (mods now as a senior citizen)
Age 69
BMI Jan/10-30.8
1/12-26.8 3/13-24.9 +/- 8-lb. 3 yrs
9/17 22.8 (flux) 3/18 22.2
2 yrs flux 6/20 22
1/21-23
There is no S better than Vanilla No S (mods now as a senior citizen)