Two months in
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 11:25 pm
I've been trying out No-S for almost two months now, and it's the only "diet" I've stuck with this long. Or at all, really. I've always been convinced that eating moderately and healthily, and moving around occasionally, is far better than most weight-loss diets... I've just never managed to keep eating moderately and healthy, before this.
I've always been the heavy one of the family. My Mom's American, so there was never any shortage of good cooking, but I grew up on a cattle property and had plenty of running around. When I went to boarding school in year 11 my weight was 90kg, but 7 years of residential college at uni bumped that up to 110 (220 pounds?). I'm tall, so I can carry it, but it isn't healthy or comfortable and so I thought I'd try this diet, partly as a joke.
So, six weeks in, I've only taken one week off and that was deliberate (I was interstate and half the fun of travelling is, for me, the food... but this time I made sure that if I was snacking it was on something interesting and unusual, not just standard coke or chocolate bars).
I weighed myself on the weekend and had an emotional rollercoaster-ride, as one set of scales said I'd gone from 110g to 105kg and the other that I'd gone from 111 to 109. I'm leaning towards the latter, but still that's what... 4 pounds?
Weight loss or not (and I haven't been getting much exercise), I have felt a lot healthier, clearer and energetic (the good getting-things-done sort of energy, not the nervous, easily-distracted sort). At any rate, I'm now starting to look more at what I'm eating (and what's in what I'm eating!) and to exercise, so I'm hopeful for the future. One day I'd like to be down nearer 80kg (which is above my ideal BMI range, but given height and build I'd be a stick-figure if I got below 75), but mostly I want to live healthily and this has helped amazingly.
This discussion board has been very interesting and helpful - thanks all!
Kathleen.
I've always been the heavy one of the family. My Mom's American, so there was never any shortage of good cooking, but I grew up on a cattle property and had plenty of running around. When I went to boarding school in year 11 my weight was 90kg, but 7 years of residential college at uni bumped that up to 110 (220 pounds?). I'm tall, so I can carry it, but it isn't healthy or comfortable and so I thought I'd try this diet, partly as a joke.
So, six weeks in, I've only taken one week off and that was deliberate (I was interstate and half the fun of travelling is, for me, the food... but this time I made sure that if I was snacking it was on something interesting and unusual, not just standard coke or chocolate bars).
I weighed myself on the weekend and had an emotional rollercoaster-ride, as one set of scales said I'd gone from 110g to 105kg and the other that I'd gone from 111 to 109. I'm leaning towards the latter, but still that's what... 4 pounds?
Weight loss or not (and I haven't been getting much exercise), I have felt a lot healthier, clearer and energetic (the good getting-things-done sort of energy, not the nervous, easily-distracted sort). At any rate, I'm now starting to look more at what I'm eating (and what's in what I'm eating!) and to exercise, so I'm hopeful for the future. One day I'd like to be down nearer 80kg (which is above my ideal BMI range, but given height and build I'd be a stick-figure if I got below 75), but mostly I want to live healthily and this has helped amazingly.
This discussion board has been very interesting and helpful - thanks all!
Kathleen.