New to No S!
Posted: Fri May 12, 2017 8:24 pm
Hello All!
I'm a newb here, and I've got a long way to go.
The funny thing is, I started this diet before I had even heard of it. I decided to weigh myself on Monday and was at 271 (Male, by the way). I have gone on several health kicks with varying success, my greatest success has been with South Beach but I was derailed last time by a severe stomach pain problem which may or may not have been caused by the diet. On Monday I basically just came to the realization that I needed to overhaul my relationship with food. If I am ever going to be healthy I have to stop eating as a hobby (literally...if I was asked what my favorite hobby was and I was being brutally honest, it's eating. My other main recreation...watching tv...is also enhanced by eating). It probably comes as no surprise that I have had a weight problem for most of my life...at was at my thinnest in high school while playing football and that was probably between 200 and 210. I haven't been under 200 pounds since I was a freshman.
So as I said, I was on this diet before I had even discovered it online...I just decided that if I was going to be healthy, I needed to eat the amount of food that a healthy person would eat (or my perception of a healthy person's portions). I was so happy to find this website because it essentially puts a form and structure to the goal I had already set in my head. In other aspects of my life I try to apply the principles of minimalism/moderation, and food needs to be a part of that.
These last 5 days have been a struggle...I've been holding the line so far, and when I encounter trouble I basically approach it almost like meditation...I recognize the feeling I'm having, I re-envision my goal, I remind myself of the fruits of the spirit, one of which is self control (my own religious thing, obviously) and I move on. One of the things I look forward to after these first few weeks is not thinking constantly about the fact that I'm on a diet. It's just my nature to obsess, but I know that through meditation and repetition I will eventually overcome. Just have to stick with it.
I weigh in on Monday...hopefully I'll have some good news!
I'm a newb here, and I've got a long way to go.
The funny thing is, I started this diet before I had even heard of it. I decided to weigh myself on Monday and was at 271 (Male, by the way). I have gone on several health kicks with varying success, my greatest success has been with South Beach but I was derailed last time by a severe stomach pain problem which may or may not have been caused by the diet. On Monday I basically just came to the realization that I needed to overhaul my relationship with food. If I am ever going to be healthy I have to stop eating as a hobby (literally...if I was asked what my favorite hobby was and I was being brutally honest, it's eating. My other main recreation...watching tv...is also enhanced by eating). It probably comes as no surprise that I have had a weight problem for most of my life...at was at my thinnest in high school while playing football and that was probably between 200 and 210. I haven't been under 200 pounds since I was a freshman.
So as I said, I was on this diet before I had even discovered it online...I just decided that if I was going to be healthy, I needed to eat the amount of food that a healthy person would eat (or my perception of a healthy person's portions). I was so happy to find this website because it essentially puts a form and structure to the goal I had already set in my head. In other aspects of my life I try to apply the principles of minimalism/moderation, and food needs to be a part of that.
These last 5 days have been a struggle...I've been holding the line so far, and when I encounter trouble I basically approach it almost like meditation...I recognize the feeling I'm having, I re-envision my goal, I remind myself of the fruits of the spirit, one of which is self control (my own religious thing, obviously) and I move on. One of the things I look forward to after these first few weeks is not thinking constantly about the fact that I'm on a diet. It's just my nature to obsess, but I know that through meditation and repetition I will eventually overcome. Just have to stick with it.
I weigh in on Monday...hopefully I'll have some good news!
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