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Giving this a go
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 2:24 pm
by EatWell
Hello,
I've been swimming in a sea of diets off and on for a few years and I am drowning!!!! In the interest of not totally losing my mind I've decided to take some time off and just focus on maintaining my weight for a while even though I am overweight. If this plan can help me avoid getting fatter and help me let go of this obsession with dieting I will consider it successful.
Have any of you been able to get off the diet roller coaster with this plan?
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 2:29 pm
by r.jean
You have found the right plan! Good luck.
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 3:38 pm
by Ani33
Very best of luck!! I'm the same I've been tormenting myself the last few years with diet after diet and battering my self esteem feeling like a failure. I'm focusing on improving my habits and making peace with food.
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 5:03 pm
by Blithe Morning
Completely off the diet roller coaster. Left diet land. Got rid of diet head. Whatever metaphor you want to use for losing the obsession with weight loss and hyper focus on food, No S is it.
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 5:27 pm
by veggirl1964
As long as you have realistic expectations, and it appears that you do, No S is totally the way to go. I think where people (this includes me in the past) have trouble with it, is when they secretly (or not so secretly) want to lose 10 pounds per week and become super-model skinny. No S will not accomplish that. It will help you learn to maintain your weight and eventually get to a comfortable weight at a snail's pace. It will help you do that without causing you to obsess about every little bite, calorie, point, or gram that you put in your mouth. It will give you tools to habitually eat like a normal person so you can focus your energy on living. Welcome!
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2011 7:31 pm
by Ruff
Hi there, i am new here too. Great to have another new starter to start with.
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 2:25 am
by EatWell
It's good to know I'm not alone. I really need this to work. I just want to let go of obsessing. I feel like I am going insane sometimes thinking about trying this plan or that plan and getting nowhere.
Well, tomorrow is Monday and I'm taking a new approach. I'm not even getting on a scale. I'm going to try and just go with the flow and get the concept of dieting out of my head.
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 4:46 pm
by oolala53
Why not take a look at the testimonial thread?
I think you'll see if you browse the boards that most of us here have given up on traditional diets and have greatly decreased the obsession.
Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 3:23 pm
by threewhales
veggirl1964 wrote:As long as you have realistic expectations, and it appears that you do, No S is totally the way to go. I think where people (this includes me in the past) have trouble with it, is when they secretly (or not so secretly) want to lose 10 pounds per week and become super-model skinny. No S will not accomplish that. It will help you learn to maintain your weight and eventually get to a comfortable weight at a snail's pace. It will help you do that without causing you to obsess about every little bite, calorie, point, or gram that you put in your mouth. It will give you tools to habitually eat like a normal person so you can focus your energy on living. Welcome!
Well said:) I needed to read that today.
Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 8:04 pm
by determined
Welcome to the most sane program you'll ever find. Is it the fastest way to loose weight? Nope. Is it the way to get off the diet roller coaster? Absolutely. I've been on & off diets all my life...and I'm 51. I've been doing NoS on & off for about three years & in my opinion, there is no other option for someone like me who has had a dysfunctional relationship with food forever. There are easy days doing this plan, and there are difficult days...but if you just trust the plan and keep going you'll be off the roller coaster...and that's incredibly freeing.
I ask everyone who is new if they've read the NoS book. I've read it at least 5 times & get something new out of it every time. It's a great book to have on your nightstand.
Welcome & much success to you...
janie
Re: Giving this a go
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 1:19 pm
by used2bskinny
EatWell wrote:Hello,
I've been swimming in a sea of diets off and on for a few years and I am drowning!!!! In the interest of not totally losing my mind I've decided to take some time off and just focus on maintaining my weight for a while even though I am overweight. If this plan can help me avoid getting fatter and help me let go of this obsession with dieting I will consider it successful.
Have any of you been able to get off the diet roller coaster with this plan?
I've been a fewllow swimmer in that sea! Some mornings I have woken up and not known which diet I was currently on!