Hi - An Update!
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2018 10:22 pm
Hello everyone,
Hope you are all well.
Well, in a second I will change my profile. I am now 17st 4lbs and so have lost 33lbs since last August 2017.
How? All sorts of ways but the biggest change has been stopping all medications for Bipolar as I agreed with my doctor that that was a misdiagnosis. So that was stopping, beta blockers that slowed my heart rate, mood stabilisers that increase appetite, two anti depressants and reflux medication. There were some others but in the main that was what I was on and I estimate that when I started these medications I put on about five stones in weight.
My confidence boosted, I then stopped sucking Nicotine lozenges which had become a real issue and something I had done for years.
I started this detox beginning Nov 2017 and the two months after were hell and no lie, horrendous. I went totally cold turkey, no weaning off and it was dreadful but I stand by that as the best way of knocking it on the head.
In January I bought a Fitbit that measures heart rate. I have unconsciously become more active and started new hobbies with new toys. I bought a steam generator iron all singing and dancing and took up ironing as a new hobby! My Fitbit clocks up so many active minutes standing ironing for two hours.
I have counted calories for a month so I got used to what portions should be like and what foods should be on the plate and then when confident ditched counting and have three meals a day. Not specifically No S as I have got through cravings with fruit between meals, but I feel ready now to put the fruit on the plate at mealtimes and drink more between meals.
I am confident that the weight will continue to come off. I have started doing some exercise DVDs at home as well every now and again and am doing a sponsored 5km walk in May for Cancer Research.
I am ready to recommit to No S now, without the meds and cravings for high fat high sugar foods, I think it will be a lot easier than previous attempts. I have never given up my belief that one day No S would work because the sanity of the system is beyond obvious. I am proof that even if it takes seven years to start to see the results, just keep going doing the best you can, 10% compliance is better than 0% compliance!
Have a good week friends!
Anne x
Hope you are all well.
Well, in a second I will change my profile. I am now 17st 4lbs and so have lost 33lbs since last August 2017.
How? All sorts of ways but the biggest change has been stopping all medications for Bipolar as I agreed with my doctor that that was a misdiagnosis. So that was stopping, beta blockers that slowed my heart rate, mood stabilisers that increase appetite, two anti depressants and reflux medication. There were some others but in the main that was what I was on and I estimate that when I started these medications I put on about five stones in weight.
My confidence boosted, I then stopped sucking Nicotine lozenges which had become a real issue and something I had done for years.
I started this detox beginning Nov 2017 and the two months after were hell and no lie, horrendous. I went totally cold turkey, no weaning off and it was dreadful but I stand by that as the best way of knocking it on the head.
In January I bought a Fitbit that measures heart rate. I have unconsciously become more active and started new hobbies with new toys. I bought a steam generator iron all singing and dancing and took up ironing as a new hobby! My Fitbit clocks up so many active minutes standing ironing for two hours.
I have counted calories for a month so I got used to what portions should be like and what foods should be on the plate and then when confident ditched counting and have three meals a day. Not specifically No S as I have got through cravings with fruit between meals, but I feel ready now to put the fruit on the plate at mealtimes and drink more between meals.
I am confident that the weight will continue to come off. I have started doing some exercise DVDs at home as well every now and again and am doing a sponsored 5km walk in May for Cancer Research.
I am ready to recommit to No S now, without the meds and cravings for high fat high sugar foods, I think it will be a lot easier than previous attempts. I have never given up my belief that one day No S would work because the sanity of the system is beyond obvious. I am proof that even if it takes seven years to start to see the results, just keep going doing the best you can, 10% compliance is better than 0% compliance!
Have a good week friends!
Anne x
