What I want, when I want.

[ThomsonsPier]

Prompted by another thread, I feel the need to be positive. I am annoyed by negative people.

I've come to realise quite how much of the diet industry is reliant on the attitude in the thread title. I've found, at least partly through No-S, that my main problems were laziness and impatience.

As most of us have now seen, if we can wait for the weekend before we eat that cake/chocolate/brie, the results are far preferable to eating it now and wanting another tomorrow. Folk often want results immediately and are reluctant to work and accept what achievements they make, favouring an extreme approach in short order and then reverting to what they find easy, wanting to achieve their goal with minimal effort and go back to doing things as they wish.

I've largely overcome my impatience now, through assorted methods, am still battling my inherent laziness (and winning, for the most part) and generally seek a balanced approach rather than results. I'm achieving what I want to achieve at a reasonable rate and can (and will) continue to improve with time. I sometimes think I want to eat things during the week and, on reflection, find that I don't, particularly. I want to improve myself, continually, for the rest of my life.

The general upshot of this rambling nonsense is that, by considering what I actually want and when I want it, I find that I can have both. Splendid, isn't it? Sorry for any excessive twee.

[kccc]

The general upshot of this rambling nonsense is that, by considering what I actually want and when I want it, I find that I can have both. Splendid, isn't it?

I quite agree. I feel more "free" following No-S rules than I ever did before. Though I maintained my weight prior to No-S, it was through an "armed truce with food" - I never felt "allowed" to just enjoy food, especially "bad" food.

With No-S, I've made peace with food, and begun to genuinely ENJOY what I eat. And yes, that includes root-beer floats on S-days, but it also includes N-day meals... my salad tonight was incredibly good, and I didn't second-guess the sprinkle of feta on top.

I feel I'm eating "what I want when I want it" MORE than I ever have before in my life. Within the guidelines of No-S, there's a LOT of freedom. And I feel more tuned in to "what I want" than I ever did before. I don't want junk. I don't want to stuff myself. I do want satisfying food that tastes good.

Though technically, I suppose No-S is a means of portion control, and calories still do count, and so forth... that's not how it FEELS to me. I prefer leaving that whole mindset behind.

[annec]

Hello,


The main thing I take away from your subject, and the No-S Diet in general, is a need for personal responsibility!

I think that society reinforces dependence beliefs in so many ways. We've come to rely on other people/things, to "fix" us.

It is not until we take responsibility for our own happiness, health and success, that we will be independent and truly free


Anne

[BrightAngel]

Folk often want results immediately and
are reluctant to work and
accept what achievements they make,

favouring an extreme approach in short order and
then reverting to what they find easy,
wanting to achieve their goal with minimal effort and
go back to doing things as they wish.

Yes, This attitude is the common problem
that contributes to an ultimate failure in any kind of diet plan. . .
Including No S.