One year in...
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 7:42 pm
...and I weigh EXACTLY the same today as the day I joined this forum and started this eating style one year ago today.
I still weigh 198 pounds. I have gone up to 201 pounds and down to 193 pounds over these 12 months.
I haven't lost weight, maybe its my portion control, maybe its too many treats on S days, maybe it's what my meals are made up of, maybe its my mods. ( I have two mods a - I have 4 small meals because of the timing of my breaks at work: typically, a yogurt and a banana at 8am, a bowl of porridge with dried fruit at 10.30am, a bagel and 2 pieces of fruit at 3pm and dinner around 7pm b) I allow myself fruit between meals sometimes.)
However... I love No S.
I feel so much better about myself, my relationship with food and my sanity towards food.
I feel happy now to say to myself and others, that its OK I just don't eat those things on weekdays. I feel in control of what I put in my mouth and when I put it in there.
I wobbled for a while in the December run-up to Christmas, but have generally been pretty good at staying on track, because it is exactly the combination of rules vs relaxation that I need.
I lost 42 pounds in 1 year with a different diet 3 years ago. At this weight now (and at the start of No S) I am 11 pounds up from that lowest weight.
I would never contemplate going back to the previous diet though, for me, weight loss or not I have discovered how to feel good about food. Confident that I am doing something that is good for me and relaxed because I don't need to count obsessively.
I have recently upped my exercise I, started doing Jillian Michaels 30 day shred and running (a bit). I feel that eating is in hand, and now I have enough clarity and space in my head to think about exercise.
To anyone reading I would say that No S may not have rescued my waistline, but it has rescued my self-confidence and my sanity, and I see myself following it for life because it has made me happier, and that is more important than the number on the scale.
I still weigh 198 pounds. I have gone up to 201 pounds and down to 193 pounds over these 12 months.
I haven't lost weight, maybe its my portion control, maybe its too many treats on S days, maybe it's what my meals are made up of, maybe its my mods. ( I have two mods a - I have 4 small meals because of the timing of my breaks at work: typically, a yogurt and a banana at 8am, a bowl of porridge with dried fruit at 10.30am, a bagel and 2 pieces of fruit at 3pm and dinner around 7pm b) I allow myself fruit between meals sometimes.)
However... I love No S.
I feel so much better about myself, my relationship with food and my sanity towards food.
I feel happy now to say to myself and others, that its OK I just don't eat those things on weekdays. I feel in control of what I put in my mouth and when I put it in there.
I wobbled for a while in the December run-up to Christmas, but have generally been pretty good at staying on track, because it is exactly the combination of rules vs relaxation that I need.
I lost 42 pounds in 1 year with a different diet 3 years ago. At this weight now (and at the start of No S) I am 11 pounds up from that lowest weight.
I would never contemplate going back to the previous diet though, for me, weight loss or not I have discovered how to feel good about food. Confident that I am doing something that is good for me and relaxed because I don't need to count obsessively.
I have recently upped my exercise I, started doing Jillian Michaels 30 day shred and running (a bit). I feel that eating is in hand, and now I have enough clarity and space in my head to think about exercise.
To anyone reading I would say that No S may not have rescued my waistline, but it has rescued my self-confidence and my sanity, and I see myself following it for life because it has made me happier, and that is more important than the number on the scale.
