What Weight Loss Can Look Like on No-S
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 2:28 pm
People like numbers and "what to expect" so I thought I'd put some numbers out there.
I kept very careful track of my weight loss the last time I was serious about No-S.
So, some facts: I am in my 40s, a chronic dieter, short, female, quite overweight, have a sedentary job AND relatively sedentary hobbies. I am inconsistent in my exercise habits on top of that.
In 20 weeks I'd lost about seven and a half pounds. That's roughly .3 pounds a week or 20 pounds in a year. Needless to say at that granularity, even weighing every week is not necessarily going to be very useful unless you're VERY hardened to weight ups and downs.
It's not all dramatic. It's SLLLOOOWWWW. I freely admit I get impatient with the slow.
I also have a lot of anger and culture issues surrounding the pressure on women to be thin and/or sexually desirable. When lean, I am fairly attractive. Lean or fat, if my brains were looks, I'd be a supermodel. Guess which one gets VALUED? That can be triggering, so sure as eggs is eggs and every odd-numbered Star Trek movie is crap, I'm gonna lose my temper about diet and exercise FOR LOOKS' sake at some point. And remodeling it for HEALTH doesn't do me. I am incredibly healthy NOW. My numbers are good, I NEVER get sick for more than 8 hours at a time (about twice a year), and my only real health issue is arthritis that isn't weight related. I was 12 when it started to develop. So the whole "lose weight to get healthy" thing doesn't wash.
So why do No-S at all? Because it offends my sense of "right" not to have disciplined eating habits, and it offends my sense of efficiency to go too far with nutritionism or scientific feeding for something so simple and pleasurable a nice meals a regular intervals.
I kept very careful track of my weight loss the last time I was serious about No-S.
So, some facts: I am in my 40s, a chronic dieter, short, female, quite overweight, have a sedentary job AND relatively sedentary hobbies. I am inconsistent in my exercise habits on top of that.
In 20 weeks I'd lost about seven and a half pounds. That's roughly .3 pounds a week or 20 pounds in a year. Needless to say at that granularity, even weighing every week is not necessarily going to be very useful unless you're VERY hardened to weight ups and downs.
It's not all dramatic. It's SLLLOOOWWWW. I freely admit I get impatient with the slow.
I also have a lot of anger and culture issues surrounding the pressure on women to be thin and/or sexually desirable. When lean, I am fairly attractive. Lean or fat, if my brains were looks, I'd be a supermodel. Guess which one gets VALUED? That can be triggering, so sure as eggs is eggs and every odd-numbered Star Trek movie is crap, I'm gonna lose my temper about diet and exercise FOR LOOKS' sake at some point. And remodeling it for HEALTH doesn't do me. I am incredibly healthy NOW. My numbers are good, I NEVER get sick for more than 8 hours at a time (about twice a year), and my only real health issue is arthritis that isn't weight related. I was 12 when it started to develop. So the whole "lose weight to get healthy" thing doesn't wash.
So why do No-S at all? Because it offends my sense of "right" not to have disciplined eating habits, and it offends my sense of efficiency to go too far with nutritionism or scientific feeding for something so simple and pleasurable a nice meals a regular intervals.
