New and Feeling Very Hopeful
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 5:36 am
I’m fairly new to noS. I have been reading as many of the posts as I could and filling out the Habitcal for almost a month, but held off on an introduction because I’d already committed financially to a short-term, very low calorie weight loss program. But right before I started, I did try the noS program for two weeks and LOVED IT!
A little history…like so many, I’ve been on every kind of diet there is since I was 15 years old - now I’m 51. For many years I could not stick with a diet long enough to reach my goal weight. I believed I was a complete failure, yet never gave up trying. Mostly because my weight kept climbing upward and my eating was so out of control when I wasn’t on a diet. But then a couple of years ago, I was relatively successful at getting very close to my weight loss goal of 150 lbs on Weight Watchers and then again on a medically supervised very low calorie diet. I’m 5’5†and at my heaviest, weighed 217 lbs and for at least 20 years, could not get below 200 lbs. So when I reached my weights of 167 and 151 (I think I was literally at 151 lbs for an hour and haven’t seen that number since (was a size 6!), I was ecstatic! It felt so weird and yet great! I vowed never to get to big again.
Sadly, what I found was that maintaining my weight was as difficult, if not more so, than dieting and I rapidly gained back most of the weight I’d lost (though have not went back over the 200 lb marker). I was also a big fan of Intuitional Eating, but for probably many reasons, I was never successful in losing or maintaining weight using the concepts.
Then, in my eternal hunt for another diet after another weight loss episode and rapidly regaining, I ran across the noSdiet book on Amazon.com and immediately decided to follow Reinhard’s simple title. I didn’t order the book from Amazon as it would take too long…and bought it at one of our local bookstores the next day.
For the first time in my life, during those two weeks of nSdiet, I just kept thinking,â€So, this is what’s it’s like to eat like a normal person.†I filled the dinner sized plate, which was so odd in itself! Normally I would eat a small salad plate of “healthy†food, but then snack all day long, especially on baked goods and other sweets!!
Anyway, on noS I found I was pleasantly hungry right before it was time for the next meal. I loved that I wasn’t stuffing my face all day and feeling sickeningly full and experiencing the dread of knowing another pound was coming on. And it wasn’t a big struggle to do it. It was wonderful! And I didn’t feel the out of control need to binge…though the few S days I experienced were tough as I ate way too much junk food, but sounds like that is somewhat normal at first.
Anyway, I’m ready to begin truly noS’ing and hope I will be able to keep off the bit of weight I just lost and continue losing until I reach a healthy body fat level. And then stay there by making noS a lifelong habit.
I really appreciate everyones' posts. They have been so helpful and insightful. So many times I’d read one and think that’s exactly what I feel like or that’s what I do/did!
Hello!
Marcia
A little history…like so many, I’ve been on every kind of diet there is since I was 15 years old - now I’m 51. For many years I could not stick with a diet long enough to reach my goal weight. I believed I was a complete failure, yet never gave up trying. Mostly because my weight kept climbing upward and my eating was so out of control when I wasn’t on a diet. But then a couple of years ago, I was relatively successful at getting very close to my weight loss goal of 150 lbs on Weight Watchers and then again on a medically supervised very low calorie diet. I’m 5’5†and at my heaviest, weighed 217 lbs and for at least 20 years, could not get below 200 lbs. So when I reached my weights of 167 and 151 (I think I was literally at 151 lbs for an hour and haven’t seen that number since (was a size 6!), I was ecstatic! It felt so weird and yet great! I vowed never to get to big again.
Sadly, what I found was that maintaining my weight was as difficult, if not more so, than dieting and I rapidly gained back most of the weight I’d lost (though have not went back over the 200 lb marker). I was also a big fan of Intuitional Eating, but for probably many reasons, I was never successful in losing or maintaining weight using the concepts.
Then, in my eternal hunt for another diet after another weight loss episode and rapidly regaining, I ran across the noSdiet book on Amazon.com and immediately decided to follow Reinhard’s simple title. I didn’t order the book from Amazon as it would take too long…and bought it at one of our local bookstores the next day.
For the first time in my life, during those two weeks of nSdiet, I just kept thinking,â€So, this is what’s it’s like to eat like a normal person.†I filled the dinner sized plate, which was so odd in itself! Normally I would eat a small salad plate of “healthy†food, but then snack all day long, especially on baked goods and other sweets!!
Anyway, on noS I found I was pleasantly hungry right before it was time for the next meal. I loved that I wasn’t stuffing my face all day and feeling sickeningly full and experiencing the dread of knowing another pound was coming on. And it wasn’t a big struggle to do it. It was wonderful! And I didn’t feel the out of control need to binge…though the few S days I experienced were tough as I ate way too much junk food, but sounds like that is somewhat normal at first.
Anyway, I’m ready to begin truly noS’ing and hope I will be able to keep off the bit of weight I just lost and continue losing until I reach a healthy body fat level. And then stay there by making noS a lifelong habit.
I really appreciate everyones' posts. They have been so helpful and insightful. So many times I’d read one and think that’s exactly what I feel like or that’s what I do/did!
Hello!
Marcia
