Using NoS for Maintenance?
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 2:24 pm
I am coming to this board based on a suggestion from Oolah, who posts on a SparkPeople team I'm on. She is an enthusiastic and persuasive NoS practitioner, and it has piqued my interest.
I'm actually not interested in NoS as a "diet" plan but rather as a way of maintenance. I've lost almost 60 pounds on a doctor-supervised high-protein liquid diet. I know, I know, pretty much the antithesis of NoS! But desperate times called for desperate measures (at 197 on my 5'3" frame I was at a BMI of 36, over 50% body fat and triglycerides of 280!)
But now that I'm closing in on my goal weight (and much healthier and happier), I'm looking for a maintenance plan that I can stick with. I've always been an overeater/constant grazer, and I know I need some "rules" to reign in my natural tendencies. I also don't want to feel overly restricted, because then I know I'll rebel. I've lost 50+ pounds three times now--this is the LAST go round!
Anyway, my question is a quick one: are any of you using NoS to maintain weight loss? Do you vary your behavior at all from how you ate during the diet phase? If NoS is causing people to lose all this weight, then it seems like it might cause too much portion control for maintenance. So do you increase your plate size, or are you not as "compliant" as when you were losing--which seems like a slippery slope?! I guess I'm just struggling with that leap of faith--it sounds too good to be true.
So...anyone maintaining? How's it going?
~Peri
I'm actually not interested in NoS as a "diet" plan but rather as a way of maintenance. I've lost almost 60 pounds on a doctor-supervised high-protein liquid diet. I know, I know, pretty much the antithesis of NoS! But desperate times called for desperate measures (at 197 on my 5'3" frame I was at a BMI of 36, over 50% body fat and triglycerides of 280!)
But now that I'm closing in on my goal weight (and much healthier and happier), I'm looking for a maintenance plan that I can stick with. I've always been an overeater/constant grazer, and I know I need some "rules" to reign in my natural tendencies. I also don't want to feel overly restricted, because then I know I'll rebel. I've lost 50+ pounds three times now--this is the LAST go round!
Anyway, my question is a quick one: are any of you using NoS to maintain weight loss? Do you vary your behavior at all from how you ate during the diet phase? If NoS is causing people to lose all this weight, then it seems like it might cause too much portion control for maintenance. So do you increase your plate size, or are you not as "compliant" as when you were losing--which seems like a slippery slope?! I guess I'm just struggling with that leap of faith--it sounds too good to be true.
So...anyone maintaining? How's it going?
~Peri