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- Mon Nov 16, 2009 6:38 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Spleener's back
- Replies: 1
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Spleener's back
You probably didn't miss me--I wasn't a huge poster--but I knew I was gone. I found the No S Diet back in June and had some really solid success with it for about six weeks. Eventually I saw Intuitive Eating as the next shiny new diety thing (or the next stop on my evolutionary path toward becoming ...
- Sat Aug 01, 2009 12:24 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: WebMD's solution to keeping a diet simple
- Replies: 11
- Views: 18236
I'll join the "I hate food diaries" club. That's one aspect of No S that has been genuinely freeing. Whether I was counting carbs or calories, I had to account for every single thing I ate. If I ate out I needed to either visit the restaurant's website for the calorie info or try to estimate the dam...
- Fri Jul 24, 2009 9:43 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: You know your plate is too full when....
- Replies: 35
- Views: 37636
- Fri Jul 24, 2009 8:40 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Lost after Day 21--any suggestions?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 33344
I've had a lot of success with the habit-based approach Reinhard mentioned, and that's a major theme in the book. It's hard not to be focused on some particular goal--such as 21-day compliance or a certain amount of weight lost--but that's the thinking that got us into this collective mess to begin ...
- Sat Jul 18, 2009 3:17 am
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: The 21(day) Club
- Replies: 839
- Views: 1262134
I'm happy to say I hit 21 days and have kept going. This is day, er, 25. It's been amazing to me how quickly this has become such an ingrained habit that I don't think about it anymore. I'm rarely hungry in between meals, and when I am, a glass of whole milk completely satisfies me. I have $150 wort...
- Tue Jul 14, 2009 5:13 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Back on the Wagon!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 16267
- Tue Jul 14, 2009 5:04 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Three kinds of Failures
- Replies: 8
- Views: 15454
I just completed 21 days, green and yellow across the board with no extra S days. I am absolutely there with all of the issues people have mentioned--mindless eating, defiance (and who am I being defiant against, exactly--more to the point, who gets hurt?), hopelessness, all of it. Prior to stumblin...
- Tue Jul 14, 2009 1:10 am
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Spleener's Daily Check-in
- Replies: 22
- Views: 30597
Day 21: SUCCESS. No funny stuff. Well, here I am...I've stayed on track for the whole three weeks since I started. There were challenges the first couple weeks, but as Reinhard says, this starts hard (or hard-ish, maybe) and gets easier; every other diet goes the other way. This does have the feel o...
- Mon Jul 13, 2009 12:15 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Spleener's Daily Check-in
- Replies: 22
- Views: 30597
I've been keeping a No S blog since I began the diet three weeks ago; if you're interested (and I mean, why wouldn't you be?), you can check it out here.
- Mon Jul 13, 2009 12:09 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: No S Diet Blogs (add yours too!)
- Replies: 88
- Views: 777907
Today is my 21st day of the No S diet, and it's been going well so far. You can check out my No S Diet blog, Soylent Green is People (Only Two Grams Net Carbs).
- Sat Jul 11, 2009 12:34 am
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Spleener's Daily Check-in
- Replies: 22
- Views: 30597
Day 18: SUCCESS. No funny stuff. Today was completely uneventful from an eating perspective. That's a really nice part of the No S Diet; it's becoming part of the fabric of my day, and not something I have to give a lot of thought to. Day 19: S day Day 20: S day Looking at the scale, this is the fir...
- Thu Jul 09, 2009 11:40 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Spleener's Daily Check-in
- Replies: 22
- Views: 30597
- Thu Jul 09, 2009 12:55 am
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Spleener's Daily Check-in
- Replies: 22
- Views: 30597
Day 16: SUCCESS. No funny stuff. We went to an Italian place where the dishes were actually normal size, but they piled the pasta on them pretty generously. I should have asked for a box right away. I ended up eating it all--not a disaster, and it wasn't an insane amount of food--but it was more tha...
- Tue Jul 07, 2009 11:01 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Spleener's Daily Check-in
- Replies: 22
- Views: 30597
Day 15: SUCCESS. No funny stuff. Today I had my first instance of really wanting to eat in the afternoon. I had my breakfast at 5:30 AM instead of around 10:00, as I've been doing on weekdays. The weird thing was that I wasn't really hungry after lunch; I just wanted to eat something. I think it's t...
- Tue Jul 07, 2009 7:27 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: New to No S. Questions about portion sizes.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 17789
- Tue Jul 07, 2009 7:19 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Salad and other bowl foods
- Replies: 8
- Views: 14702
I've started doing that with cereal--I had it for lunch yesterday, and for breakfast today. I start with some kind of healthy cereal in a biggish bowl (not cartoon big, but bigger than a regular soup bowl) add some fruit, and call it a meal. I've done the virtual plate thing with a smaller bowl of c...
- Tue Jul 07, 2009 2:22 am
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Spleener's Daily Check-in
- Replies: 22
- Views: 30597
Day 14: SUCCESS. My appetite was just not there today. I've been eating a fair amount of fruits and veggies, and maybe that's the reason why. Whatever it is, I'm just not that hungry. I'm on a medication that can have a dampening effect on the appetite, but after a few weeks on it, I managed to over...
- Tue Jul 07, 2009 2:08 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Advice to beginners
- Replies: 9
- Views: 16369
Hi Chris, I'm a fellow newbie (today is day 14) and a recovering low-carb dieter. I know the Atkins and Protein Power diets inside and out, and I can really relate to that feeling that noessing is, well, wrong. I took Reinhard's advice and just concentrated on the rules the first week, not really wo...
- Sun Jul 05, 2009 3:53 am
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Spleener's Daily Check-in
- Replies: 22
- Views: 30597
Day 11: SUCCESS. No funny stuff. Overall, a very uneventful day from a No S perspective. I had originally decided that today would be an S day; it was a Friday, and my day off for the fourth of July holiday (which falls on a Saturday this year). I realized there was really no reason to make it an S ...
- Sat Jul 04, 2009 3:57 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Discuss the influence of low carb diets here.
- Replies: 55
- Views: 47487
I discovered Protein Power around 1996, and have done that and/or Atkins) off and on for over a decade--and hey, I'm a good 30 pounds heavier than I was then. At my heaviest I was about 70 or 80 pounds heavier than when I started dabbling with low-carb diets. I've also done Nutri-System, Slimfast, M...
- Sat Jul 04, 2009 3:32 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Probably shouldn't but thinking about making a Mod.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 12625
I think failure is part of the process (it's part of life, after all). With the pie thing, you know what you did, and why; you made a conscious decision, and didn't let it cause your whole day to spiral out of control. That's all really good. Seeing that red day on your calendar is a reminder of the...
- Fri Jul 03, 2009 8:28 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Random thought - compensation for marginal failures?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11688
Personally, the all-or-nothing approach of the diet really works for me. I've been tempted to do some similar things, but I think the whole thing can go south pretty quickly. With only three rules, I don't want to start thinking up exceptions to them. I think part of the point of having "failure" da...
- Fri Jul 03, 2009 1:15 am
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Spleener's Daily Check-in
- Replies: 22
- Views: 30597
Day 10: SUCCESS. No funny stuff. After 10 days, this is becoming more natural, and I think I can feel it beginning to settle into a habit. I'm definitely eating less I went to McDonald's for breakfast and ate less than I had last week. This evening I put some off my food back after I started eating....
- Thu Jul 02, 2009 12:21 am
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Spleener's Daily Check-in
- Replies: 22
- Views: 30597
Day 9: SUCCESS. Funny stuff: minimal. I did taste some beans I was making (after dinner) for seasoning purposes, but I'm not going to stress over two spoons full of bean soup. I suppose I could have found a spot on my dinner plate for four or five pinto beans. I can see that my portions are starting...
- Wed Jul 01, 2009 12:38 am
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Spleener's Daily Check-in
- Replies: 22
- Views: 30597
Day 8: SUCCESS. Funny stuff: minimal. I did virtually plate a meal at Subway, but I've put their subs on an actual plate often enough to know that you can cram a footlong and some chips on one. The sub was a veggie (and the chips were baked Lays, which I actually like), so my calories weren't excess...
- Tue Jun 30, 2009 3:23 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: How did you first Hear about No S?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 34799
- Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:27 am
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Spleener's Daily Check-in
- Replies: 22
- Views: 30597
Day 7: SUCCESS. No funny stuff. My wife is counting calories, and I told her I'd eat whatever she makes for dinner...don't know if I'll be able to do it, though. The low-fat recipes she's using strip pretty much all the flavor out of the food she's cooking. One of the things I'm really enjoying is t...
- Mon Jun 29, 2009 2:17 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Spleener's Daily Check-in
- Replies: 22
- Views: 30597
Day 5: S day Day 6: S day S Days: I won't kid you--I ate a lot over the weekend. It was probably in line with what I'd eat on vacation; we ate out several times and I got stuff I liked. I also took home food from one place and got a half order at another, so I wouldn't call it a blowout. I found tha...
- Mon Jun 29, 2009 2:08 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: I'm an idiot.
- Replies: 20
- Views: 25169
Hey, it's awesome that you realized what the problem was, and that you came to the BB for support! I think that's spectacular. You can feel really good about this. I've done the low carb thing on and off for years, and I've had the same issue with it; after a while you don't want to look at another ...
- Sat Jun 27, 2009 2:06 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Spleener's Daily Check-in
- Replies: 22
- Views: 30597
Day 4: SUCCESS. Funny Stuff: minimal. We went to a restaurant where stuff was served on something between plates and platters. I virtually plated my food by kind of arranging it in the middle of my plat(ter)e. They served me four pieces of fish, and I put two on a bread plate until I got a carryout ...
- Fri Jun 26, 2009 9:33 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Celebrate Eating
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8789
That's great! I've only been doing this a few days, and my experience with breakfast was similar today. I went to McDonald's after I'd been at work for a few hours, and instead of taking it back to the office, I ate it there. I read "In Defense of Food" after reading Reinhard's book, and one of Mich...
- Fri Jun 26, 2009 2:32 am
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Spleener's Daily Check-in
- Replies: 22
- Views: 30597
Day 3: SUCCESS. No funny stuff. I got really hungry between lunch and dinner--not because I miscalculated my lunch portion, but because dinner was about 90 minutes later than I was expecting it to be. I had a small glass of orange juice and a couple glasses of water to tide me over. I also had a gla...
- Thu Jun 25, 2009 11:25 am
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Spleener's Daily Check-in
- Replies: 22
- Views: 30597
- Wed Jun 24, 2009 6:43 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Spleener's Daily Check-in
- Replies: 22
- Views: 30597
Thanks for your encouragment...I think the strange thing has been that, having spent literally years counting calories or avoiding carbs, I would have thought I'd have a much better sense of what a reasonable portion looks like. I guess there's a psychological element to the thought that no more foo...
- Wed Jun 24, 2009 4:13 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: No S "mods" (add yours!)
- Replies: 167
- Views: 329562
No PB
I'm only on day two, and I don't plan on doing a lot of mods. I'm the poster child for everything Reinhard wrote about, and I've pretty much careened between the calorie accountant and good food/bad food extremes. My one accomodation is that peanut butter is an "S" food for me. I already know it's a...
- Wed Jun 24, 2009 12:41 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Spleener's Daily Check-in
- Replies: 22
- Views: 30597
Spleener's Daily Check-in
Yesterday was my first day. I found out about the No S Diet a couple days ago (ironically enough, from a low-carb blog); I bought the book yesterday and read the whole thing pretty much in one sitting. It's absolutely amazing. Day one (yesterday): Sucess! Yippee! It actually wasn't that hard. I ate ...