Milczar, it's more a question of what
don't I eat
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Do a search of my posts (if you can) and you'll see most of them are about having splendid S-days.
Now, I don't think No-S will necessarily help you lose weight if there isn't any weight to be lost. I had quite a bit. But I ate very large meals for the first few weeks, until I realised I couldn't actually starve to death in six hours. For a while, I would have a drink of juice or milk late in the day if I was feeling a bit faded, but I don't need that anymore (although I have started drinking coffee - more related to work than hunger!).
Breakfast is anything from [a sausage and egg mcmuffin and orange juice] to [two slices of fruit toast with butter and a coffee] to [a fruit scone and yoghurt - there is a yoghurt bar near here which serves macadamia and honey yoghurt!]. The last few days, I've been having one large bowl of muesli. But if I meet someone for breakfast before work, I'll have a decent cooked breakfast.
My basic (i.e. pre-payday
lunch is soup and a bread roll, or other prepared meal, like Tasty Bite's Madras Lentils, and a glass of milk. If I'm at the shops, I'll have sushi train or a kebab or a toasted gourmet sandwich. If I'm meeting someone for lunch, I'll have whatever the cafe offers for lunch, although now I'm more often having the entree size (which is usually the size of a meal I'd prepare for myself anyway).
Dinner... If it's movie night (cheap tuesdays) I'll usually have fastfood (no softdrink, and no chips unless I'm having a very small burger). Sometimes we go to a restaurant. If I'm eating at home, though, it is likely to be small - tuna, peanut butter on celery, a carrot, some fruit.
There isn't any real pattern to it, except that I find No-S self-regulating. I don't want fastfood for every meal. Sometimes I want salad. Or fish. Or a steak. If I know I'm going to Hogsbreath for dinner, I'll have a smaller lunch. If I had an expansive lunch, dinner will be correspondingly small.
My only self-imposed limits are:
(1) If the food says on it how many kJ are in it, I'll try not to have more than 2000/2500 for a meal. This isn't a restriction so much as a learning tool. (So if I'm at mcdonalds, I won't have anything with a quarter pounder).
(2) On S-days, I'm only allowed to eat something if (a) I need it to survive; or (b) I like the taste.
(3) If at all possible, no more than one coffee a day (this is a money thing).
(4) I try to drink a lot of water.
I don't get a lot of extra exercise, but I do walk to the bus or train, and from there to work - and occasionally if I'm not doing anything else, I will take the long way home. Once I'm settled into my new place and tame my social life, I'd like to start running (I did this for about two months last year) but that is because I learned to love it, not for exercise or weight loss!
So it doesn't sound like I should be losing weight, by dieting standards, does it?! I didn't start No-S to lose weight, just to... be sane, I suppose, in my relationship to food. And when I start thinking "I could lose this by doing ..." then I stop myself and think about something else. A watched pot never boils - in fact, it keeps getting taken off the stove and having its lid opened and being stirred and having things added to it! I regard this, if I think about it at all, as a long term investment in happiness and confidence - like the stockmarket, you can't take the short term view. From month-to-month, you might not like what you see, and give up and withdraw your investment. Over years, you will very probably be pleasantly surprised!
Kathleen.