Eight Months Results ...

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blueskighs
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Eight Months Results ...

Post by blueskighs » Sat Nov 22, 2008 9:03 pm

Just completing eight months on the No S Diet ... all right the "official" calendar date is Monday, but who wants to weigh-in on MONDAY? :P

My eight month results are posted at my blog at www.nosdiet.blogspot.com ...

my original maintenance goal was 124.5 pounds. It is possible I may change that now, but I will wait to get through the holidays and see how things go.

Mostly right now I am looking forward to a, hopefully, delicious Thanksgiving Day Dinner next Thursday,

Blueskighs
www.nosdiet.blogspot.com Where I blog daily about my No S journey

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Post by Kathleen » Sun Nov 23, 2008 1:04 am

Thanks for being an inspiration to me! I learned NOT to weight myself on Monday, either!

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Post by whisper2701 » Sun Nov 23, 2008 1:36 am

Wow - Great to hear about your eight month results. What an inspiration!

:D

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Post by BeingGreen » Sun Nov 23, 2008 5:50 am

Congrats on 8 months, Blue!

-habitualrunner

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Post by kccc » Sun Nov 23, 2008 12:54 pm

Blue, it is great to see you moving gracefully through every potential barrier. I do remember how concerned you were at 6 months... and now look!

You are an inspiration. :)

KCCC

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Post by gingercake » Sun Nov 23, 2008 2:51 pm

Yes, you are an inspiration! Be proud of yourself!

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Post by BrightAngel » Sun Nov 23, 2008 5:30 pm

Congratulations, Blue Image
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terrific results

Post by oolala53 » Sun Nov 23, 2008 9:03 pm

One man's ceiling is another man's floor. I've convinced myself that a goal of 25% bodyfat at age 55 probably has to be good enough. i've been lower in my adult life but it was a strain. given that, I'm drooling over your 19% and wishing you wouldn't aim for less since that makes us 25%-ers look, as you say, fluffy. But, that's the world I live in. Oh, Zen masters, Jesus, Mohammed, Elvis, and Swami Suchabanana, give me strength! Then again, who knows what I'll be like after 8 months, especially when the exercise habit takes hold again.

There I go again, making everything about me, me, me, when it should be about you, you, You!

blueskighs, you rock!
Count plates, not calories. 11 years "during"
Age 69
BMI Jan/10-30.8
1/12-26.8 3/13-24.9 +/- 8-lb. 3 yrs
9/17 22.8 (flux) 3/18 22.2
2 yrs flux 6/20 22
1/21-23

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Post by resting52 » Sun Nov 23, 2008 9:18 pm

Well Blue,

How about that!

Wonderful Wonderful Wonderful

And the numbers on the scales and tape measures, etc. are only a part of the marvelous change in your life.

Thanks for sharing your joyful journey with us.

Resting

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Post by connorcream » Mon Nov 24, 2008 1:42 am

Well done. Thank you for posting your journey.
connorcream
5'8.5"
48 yrs
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Post by blueskighs » Mon Nov 24, 2008 2:44 am

Kathleen, Linda, Habtualrunner, KCCC, Gingercake, BrightAngel, Oolala, Resting and Connorcream


THANK YOU


I was thinking this weekend as tomorrow approaches ... 8 months of no snacking, no sweets and no seconds on N days ... wow... that is really kind of amazing! This has so far been such a wonderful and transformative journey! I am SO GLAD that you guys have been here to share it with!

Blueskighs
www.nosdiet.blogspot.com Where I blog daily about my No S journey

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Post by connorcream » Tue Nov 25, 2008 1:24 am

This has so far been such a wonderful and transformative journey! I am SO GLAD that you guys have been here to share it with!

Same to you. I lurked a couple of months before actually joining. But in the interest in being clear, I will use the join date shown on my sign in. I need to write down all these new ways of seeing things in a clear manner.

Blues you summarize my thoughts so well I just end up agreeing with you.
connorcream
5'8.5"
48 yrs
Started calorie counting
10/6/2009
start/current
192/mid 120's maintaining
Maintaining a year

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Post by blueskighs » Tue Nov 25, 2008 1:28 am

Connorcream,

thank you :oops:

and know this too ... i always love the measured wisdom in your posts!!!!!!!!!

Blueskighs
www.nosdiet.blogspot.com Where I blog daily about my No S journey

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Post by reinhard » Tue Nov 25, 2008 3:13 pm

Blue,

Congratulations! And THANK YOU for continuing to share your progress with us in such articulate and visually compelling detail.

I, too, wound up maintaining (considerably) under what I'd initially thought was my ideal weight. I'd gotten so used to being chubby that I assumed that that must be more or less my natural state -- that the most I could expect should be to be on the low end of chubby. But without trying to hit any particular number, simply by eating (and exercising) moderately and "seeing what happened" I wound up about 10 pounds under what I'd imagined I ought to weigh and have stayed there for 5+ years. It's funny how arbitrary and useless (and even discouraging, for many people) goal weights can be. So much better to focus on behavior.

Reinhard

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Post by funfuture » Wed Nov 26, 2008 1:17 am

Wow, Blue - well done.

:D :D :D

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Post by blueskighs » Wed Nov 26, 2008 5:08 am

Reinhard,

I think it does prove my fairly "low expectations" for success on the No S diet in terms of actual weight loss, glad to be proved WRONG!

Funfuture,

thank you and good to hear from you,

Blueskighs
www.nosdiet.blogspot.com Where I blog daily about my No S journey

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