I'm Katie, I'm 16, and I live in Germany. What's up? 
According to my BMI, I'm not overweight, but I gained over 10 pounds over the past year or so, and I'm now trying to lose this weight again. I spent the last school year in Florida as an exchange student, improved my English, and got to know the American culture - and eating habits
Okay, we have McDonald's and Burger King and Starbucks and Subway and KFC, too, but we don't eat out twice a week Actually, my family doesn't have fast food more often than once or twice a month, and when we eat out, we usually go to a small Greek restaurant we've been going to for years, and we only do that on special events (maybe every two or three months).Anyways, in America, the whole family was grazing on unhealthy food (can you say chocolate chip pancakes?) all the time, we rarely ate our meals together as a family, so I gained weight - over 10 pounds, like I said. Some of you are > 100 pounds overweight, so it may not sound like much, but I'm only 5'2", and it all concentrated in my belly area
When I started noticing my jeans were getting tighter and tighter, I realized I had to do something about it. My host dad had the Book lying around somewhere, but he wasn't doing the Diet. Bored, I looked through it one day, and it sounded really simple - it seemed to make sense!I didn't really do the diet back then, but I remembered it a few weeks ago and googled "No S Diet"; that's how I found the website and the board. I registered and started HabitCaling.
At first, it was pretty easy (except on the first day, when I completely forgot I was doing the diet and grabbed some hard candy from a bowl in the kitchen). Sometimes, I've really been craving some chocolate or just a sandwich when it wasn't time for a meal yet. But I didn't starve
And this eating plan really seems to be working for me. Thanks, Reinhard!I know, some of you might say, Hey, you're skinny, why are you dieting? - I really don't consider No S a diet, and I didn't really tell anyone (except my mom, haha) what I'm doing. To me, building a habit and having a better relationship with food are more important than losing 15 pounds in two weeks
Even after I came back to Germany, I stayed in permasnacking mode - and those snacks were in addition to the regular-sized meals I started having again. Sometimes, I was so stuffed my belly hurt, but I still ate more (snacks & sweets, I didn't eat so much at mealtimes). Comfort food, boredom eating, TV eating - you name it. Because I grazed on different stuff all day, I had no idea how much I'd actually eaten at the end of the day. I didn't like that way of eating.Since I started No S, I've found I have much more free time than I had before - when I didn't have anything to do, I'd sometimes wander around the house, looking for something to eat, even though I wasn't hungry. Also, I now know what it's like to be full, but not stuffed after a meal - before, I only seemed to know "to stuffed to eat more" and "I feel like a snack", not "hungry" and "not hungry".
(Maybe you wonder why I didn't gain more with this way of eating: 1. I haven't been doing this for a long time, and 2. I'm picky as heck
)Today was Day 21
Yay me!Katie
