I think this is very good advice. Instead of relying on weight charts, BMI charts, etc., just see what turns out to be normal for ME.
He always comes up with something good!
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I need to do this too, I'm on No S as a maintainer, as the logical part of my mind knows that I don't need to lose more weight. However, every time I weigh myself I feel bad for being 6 kgs heavier than I was at the age of 20, even though at 20 I was slightly underweight & didn't have much muscle mass. The fact that I can still wear some of the clothes I wore at 20 indicates that my size hasn't changed much either (aside from one pair of "skinny jeans" which I can only wear if I don't plan on eating, moving or breathingmimi wrote:I have FINALLY decided to let my body determine what its weight will be.
Then again here:The official No S Diet way of determining your ideal weight:
1) eat moderately
2) see what happens.
I'm semi-serious. Actually I'm totally serious. People were much thinner before they had household scales. These numbers tend to just freak people out, and it's very hard to come up with meaningful, realistic goals. I used the above method and I wound up 15 pounds below what I thought was my ideal weight. Behavior is the problem, behavior is the solution. Weight is just a side effect.
And here:Eat moderately. Move moderately. See what happens.
That's your "ideal" weight.
My guess is that most people will actually wind up weighing a lot less following this rule than by striving for some semi-arbitrary number based on crude metrics like BMI. And they'll certainly wind up feeling a lot better about themselves.
And here:No-s will "work" if you currently overeat.
If you don't, if you already eat moderately, then it won't do anything except merely increase your enjoyment of food and ensure that you don't slip into overeating in the future. Not too terrible, I think, but perhaps not what you're looking for.
No-s isn't about hitting some arbitrary goal, but about taking concrete steps to eating moderately. The idea is to focus on behavior rather than results. Eat and move moderately, see what happens. My guess is you'll be very happy, both with the results than unfold, and (more importantly) with the process of getting (and staying) there.
no-s isn't a diet in the conventional sense. It's about eating moderately. That's a good thing to do no matter how much or little you weigh, and is perfectly compatible with accepting yourself "as you are." In fact, I think it's a big help. Instead of setting arbitrary, possibly unattainable, almost certainly unsustainable weight loss goals, you just eat moderately and see what happens. In a way, you discover "who you are."
Well, Reinhard - I guess I'm on the right track - finally! It's only taken me a lifetime...mimi wrote:I have FINALLY decided to let my body determine what its weight will be. I'm tall (5'9") and large boned - the least I've ever weighed was between 130-135 and I looked sickly - really sickly, much too thin - although according to weight charts and my age at the time, I wasn't...![]()
Now I'm older and wiser (ha!) and it's about time that I quit aiming for a *number* rather than a weight that is healthy and attractive for my body. Now I'm ready - and kind of excited to see what will happen. I'm willing to take as much time as my body needs to get there too.
Mimi
reinhard wrote:. . . I just did a search to find the exact quote and it looks like I've said it quite a number of times over the years! (unfortunately it looks like I neglected to stick it in the book) . . . quote]
and I read it wrong. . . I thought he wrote, "I've done a STARCH! I thought, how strange, how would you do that?"
You know the old saying, "You can never be too rich or too skinny?"Bushranger wrote:Is it just me or do you guys and girls find “too skinny†to be just as unhealthy as “too fat� It seems to artificially age people as well.
I cringe when I see all the celebrities that used to have good shapes and physiques but are now mimicking concentration camp victims. In my mind it's quite insulting to people who are actually starving to see these famous types flaunting it as trendy.