Looking forwards to NoS days
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 4:52 am
First, I admit that I'm brand new to the No S Diet. I found out about it while looking for books on amazon the Saturday before last. Sunday I sorta tested out what it might be like, and this past week we had our first No S week. Monday thru Friday we stuck with the rules (except monday morning when my daughter and i had cereal cuz i hadn't prepared breakfast options yet).
We have one additional rules which I had actually implemented the Friday before finding out about the No S Diet. The rule of "No food with TV, Computer, Reading, Games, etc."
Anyways, this three day weekend has been our first S weekend. And I must say, it wasn't all that enjoyable. Thursday my daughter and I sat down and figured out what we really really wanted for the S weekend. We each chose a ben and jerry's icecream, a drink/soda, and for her a large back of peanut m&m's and me a bag of two-bite brownies. My OH (other half) also got some ice cream, a drink, and some new chocolate skittles. He and I split the brownies and skittles with each other, half and half. We were all sooo looking forward to this weekend. (oh, and bought some cereals for breakfasts)
Saturday went ok, daughter ate over half her S foods. We found out that the chocolate skittles are just absolutely nasty. (He bought a bag of chocolate truffles to replace the skittles.) By Sunday evening we were all kinda feeling 'eh' about the S foods. Not all that excited about it. And by Monday noon, we were completely sick of S foods. Daughter finished all of hers. OH and I stashed the rest of the truffles in the closet for next weekend.
The funny thing is, the S foods we'd gotten....it hadn't been an uncommon thing to eat stuff like that within just a couple of days. But for some reason, it just wasn't as enjoyable this time. And probably was more habitual than enjoyable prior to last week.
We'll probably do about the same thing next weekend, but as of this afternoon, I'm definitely looking forward to this week's No S days.
I do want to add another comment. This whole week, there was absolutely no guilt. No trying to figure out whether or not to eat some S food, because the rule already said "no". And this weekend, no guilt about eating the S foods, because they were already allowed. So no guilt during the week...and no guilt during the weekend. Very nice!
We have one additional rules which I had actually implemented the Friday before finding out about the No S Diet. The rule of "No food with TV, Computer, Reading, Games, etc."
Anyways, this three day weekend has been our first S weekend. And I must say, it wasn't all that enjoyable. Thursday my daughter and I sat down and figured out what we really really wanted for the S weekend. We each chose a ben and jerry's icecream, a drink/soda, and for her a large back of peanut m&m's and me a bag of two-bite brownies. My OH (other half) also got some ice cream, a drink, and some new chocolate skittles. He and I split the brownies and skittles with each other, half and half. We were all sooo looking forward to this weekend. (oh, and bought some cereals for breakfasts)
Saturday went ok, daughter ate over half her S foods. We found out that the chocolate skittles are just absolutely nasty. (He bought a bag of chocolate truffles to replace the skittles.) By Sunday evening we were all kinda feeling 'eh' about the S foods. Not all that excited about it. And by Monday noon, we were completely sick of S foods. Daughter finished all of hers. OH and I stashed the rest of the truffles in the closet for next weekend.
The funny thing is, the S foods we'd gotten....it hadn't been an uncommon thing to eat stuff like that within just a couple of days. But for some reason, it just wasn't as enjoyable this time. And probably was more habitual than enjoyable prior to last week.
We'll probably do about the same thing next weekend, but as of this afternoon, I'm definitely looking forward to this week's No S days.
I do want to add another comment. This whole week, there was absolutely no guilt. No trying to figure out whether or not to eat some S food, because the rule already said "no". And this weekend, no guilt about eating the S foods, because they were already allowed. So no guilt during the week...and no guilt during the weekend. Very nice!