scared I'm changing
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finallyfull
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scared I'm changing
Uh oh! I've been No S'ing for about three months, happily, with only two minor red days, but I am noticing a frightening by-product. Now that everything tastes better, N days are great, and I may be finally overcoming my snacking and seconds habits. I know, the S days gone wild fear is quite common. But for me, I think it's a new problem. I'm afraid I have actually "built up" sweets to be a bigger deal than they ever used to be for me. I used to regularly pass on desserts and rarely thought of sweets because I was full and who cares. Now when Saturday comes I'm planning a big treat like sweets were going out of style. I was only like 15 pounds over my ideal weight when I started this, and I'm worried I might (already) have broken my natural moderation with this. Can somebody with experience please reassure me? (Now I'm starting to see why I gained 10 pounds after going off No S last year -- I think it caused me to have a "deprivation" reaction, even though I was literally never deprived at all.
finallyfull, I think you're smart to pay attention to how YOU are reacting. I don't think R ran into this problem, but I have seen others do so and even experienced that myself. It's as if, while I was building excellent N-day habits, I was simultaneously building less-productive S-day habits.
The original S-day diet had "sometimes" in it... "...except (sometimes) on Saturday and Sunday". That's a thing to remember - there's no obligation to eat on those days!! (And there is a VERY funny thread, resurrected periodically, on the omission of "sometimes" in the book.)
When I noticed this issue for myself, I developd some strategies around it. (These helped me, but may not help everyone else, of course...)
- First, review the podcast on "S days gone wild" and the accompanying sticky thread on it. That had a LOT of good ideas!
- What worked for me...
-- eating my three regular 3 meals on S-days too,
-- watching my liquid intake on those days (I drink at work, but not at home)
-- Deciding on ONE special, high-quality treat on the weekend. When I do that, I don't want "lots" of stuff, because I recognize that it will spoil my enjoyment of my special treat.
-- Also, I eat more fruit, both on S and N days, which seems to satisfy my liking for sweets (more than it used to befoe No-S)
Hope some of this helps. The big thing that helps is just experiencing over time how much better I feel on N-days, and WANTING to feel like that on S-days too.
The original S-day diet had "sometimes" in it... "...except (sometimes) on Saturday and Sunday". That's a thing to remember - there's no obligation to eat on those days!! (And there is a VERY funny thread, resurrected periodically, on the omission of "sometimes" in the book.)
When I noticed this issue for myself, I developd some strategies around it. (These helped me, but may not help everyone else, of course...)
- First, review the podcast on "S days gone wild" and the accompanying sticky thread on it. That had a LOT of good ideas!
- What worked for me...
-- eating my three regular 3 meals on S-days too,
-- watching my liquid intake on those days (I drink at work, but not at home)
-- Deciding on ONE special, high-quality treat on the weekend. When I do that, I don't want "lots" of stuff, because I recognize that it will spoil my enjoyment of my special treat.
-- Also, I eat more fruit, both on S and N days, which seems to satisfy my liking for sweets (more than it used to befoe No-S)
Hope some of this helps. The big thing that helps is just experiencing over time how much better I feel on N-days, and WANTING to feel like that on S-days too.