A third of the way there.
Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 5:03 am
Thought I'd report in that I'm about about 1/3 of the way along in my weightloss goals after being on NoS, fairly effortlessly (or it seems like it!) for the last 8 months.
I'm 5'4" with a medium build and 51 yrs. I have always liked veggies and good breads and reasonably healthy foods, plus moderate exercise, but, let's face it, I have an emotional eating problem and always have had.
I am not sure of my exact starting weight before NoS as I don't own scales but my doctor had weighed me a while before I started at 183 lbs with a BMI of 30 (just over the border into obese - not somewhere I was prepared to stay). That totally surprised me as I hadn't realised things had gotten that bad.
I have been overweight most of my adult life but I had whacked on another 30lbs in the last few years because of a couple of major life changes. Firstly, I adopted my daughter as an infant in 2001. At the same time I started a new and incredibly demanding 'career' (luckily, my employer let me take a year off work to look after DD - they were extraordinarily generous).
I put my weight gain down to pure exhaustion and stress. Adopting my daughter - and starting this job - have made up the most thrilling and wonderful period of my life (especially having my daughter -if only I had know how totally fantastic being a parent is, I'd have started young and had a tribe of them. LOL). But, at the same time, parenthood has been a bit of a disaster physically.
It all happened as I was heading into perimenopause and slowing down metabollically. At the same time I suddenly found that, with the sheer physical demands of being a single parent of an emotionally needy little one, I could no longer take my usual long walks several times a week, or attend my regular yoga class, and I was basically keeping myself going through the sleep deprivation, etc, - and comforting myself through the more difficult spots - by shovelling in sugar, fat and caffeine by the bucket load.
Anyway...I started No S half way through November last year. I suspect I had already lost a little bit before I started - so I am estimating my starting weight as about 178lb (certainly no less than that). I have been fairly strict on NoS during the week but it's taken me some time to get the weekend permasnacking under control (it's a work in progress
). I've also had lots of S days including a week's vacation in April that was entirely made up of S days. I also have had to find ways to fit in exercise, mostly during work time - and I've been building that up to 3 or 4 regular walks per week.
Well, despite the slowish start with exercise and fitting in all the S days and celebrations, etc, that life brings ...drumroll... I weighed myself on the weekend and I was down to 163lbs - that's down about 15lbs from my estimated starting weight (and 20lbs down from the doctor's weigh-in). I'm v happy with that as it is about 1/3 or more of the way along to my weight loss and fitness goal. I'd like to lose about another 30lbs over the next year or two. NoS seems like the way to go for me. Slow and steady hopefully wins the race.
So, it's a big thanks from me too, Rheinhard.
I'm 5'4" with a medium build and 51 yrs. I have always liked veggies and good breads and reasonably healthy foods, plus moderate exercise, but, let's face it, I have an emotional eating problem and always have had.
I am not sure of my exact starting weight before NoS as I don't own scales but my doctor had weighed me a while before I started at 183 lbs with a BMI of 30 (just over the border into obese - not somewhere I was prepared to stay). That totally surprised me as I hadn't realised things had gotten that bad.
I have been overweight most of my adult life but I had whacked on another 30lbs in the last few years because of a couple of major life changes. Firstly, I adopted my daughter as an infant in 2001. At the same time I started a new and incredibly demanding 'career' (luckily, my employer let me take a year off work to look after DD - they were extraordinarily generous).
I put my weight gain down to pure exhaustion and stress. Adopting my daughter - and starting this job - have made up the most thrilling and wonderful period of my life (especially having my daughter -if only I had know how totally fantastic being a parent is, I'd have started young and had a tribe of them. LOL). But, at the same time, parenthood has been a bit of a disaster physically.
It all happened as I was heading into perimenopause and slowing down metabollically. At the same time I suddenly found that, with the sheer physical demands of being a single parent of an emotionally needy little one, I could no longer take my usual long walks several times a week, or attend my regular yoga class, and I was basically keeping myself going through the sleep deprivation, etc, - and comforting myself through the more difficult spots - by shovelling in sugar, fat and caffeine by the bucket load.
Anyway...I started No S half way through November last year. I suspect I had already lost a little bit before I started - so I am estimating my starting weight as about 178lb (certainly no less than that). I have been fairly strict on NoS during the week but it's taken me some time to get the weekend permasnacking under control (it's a work in progress
). I've also had lots of S days including a week's vacation in April that was entirely made up of S days. I also have had to find ways to fit in exercise, mostly during work time - and I've been building that up to 3 or 4 regular walks per week.Well, despite the slowish start with exercise and fitting in all the S days and celebrations, etc, that life brings ...drumroll... I weighed myself on the weekend and I was down to 163lbs - that's down about 15lbs from my estimated starting weight (and 20lbs down from the doctor's weigh-in). I'm v happy with that as it is about 1/3 or more of the way along to my weight loss and fitness goal. I'd like to lose about another 30lbs over the next year or two. NoS seems like the way to go for me. Slow and steady hopefully wins the race.
So, it's a big thanks from me too, Rheinhard.
