It looks like just plain common sense, but I never put it into rules for myself and had nothing to cling to for guidance.
I'm taking today as an S day but the way I am choosing to interpret S days it to have a choice between the 3 s's. I can either have a snack, a second helping at a meal or a sweet at the end of the day. Haven't decided what that will be yet. DH thinks cake sounds good
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Actually yesterday afternoon was the start of my first nosing. I was starrrrving for my eveining dessert/snack but then after reading everyone's post and the main page Reinhard composed, it just didn't seem worth it.
I am expecting setbacks. DH works a lot and I'm here by myself with a 2 yr old and 3 month old. I am breastfeeding her yet so I am not going to go overboard with limiting my portions just yet, since I hear that dieting affects milk production more than it does fat loss and I want her to have the best for now.
I haven't started shovelgloving but DH has weights downstairs that would work. I have a nice treadmill for the cold days when taking the kiddos out in the stroller isn't a good idea. I LOVE the idea of the timer for 14 minutes and the shovelglove exercises aren't complex where you have to do a lot of thinking.
I've tried the body for life (which worked for a few weeks when I kept it up) but so many sets of this and that and then write it all down and then do your meal plans and count this and that... oy.
I hope you don't mind me coming to the boards for support, days when dh is gone for a few days at a time will be my hardest, and some days I have a lot of anxiety that it seems food allows me to cover up and forget- temporarily.
I am also noticing how the noS is a lot about managing yourself psychologically- since mindless eating for some seems to be a way to push down feelings rather than acknowledging them and moving on with your day.
We just moved to the area so I find myself with no friends just yet and no where near family but hopefully I'll find some through playgroup and whatnot.
My long term goal is to get down to 170, it's very long term and I'd even be happy with 180 if it came right down to it. Right now starting weight of 240. I'[m only 3mo post partum, so trying to not be too hard onmyself but I spend much of my day worrying about my weight, my appearance, how painful my hips have become, how ugly I look/feel. My dh is adoring and supportive of me but I still don't feel very attractive to him. There are some things that were said to me as a child (the fat kid) that haunt me to this day, and I'm hoping I can overcome those in time.
I usually introduce myself everytime I start a new diet/fitness program as the queen of failure- give it a shot for a week, and give up when the scale doesn't even budge. So here I am trying yet another way of eating.
Plan to use the stoplight calendar for my N and S days.
Tell me the basis of the 21 days? I hear it mentioned but what is the general idea of that? You try really hard for 21 days, see where it gets you and then decide to stop or continue? Do all 21 days have to be successful or do you start over if you fall off the bandwagon?
Thanks for letting me introduce myself.