Everyday Systems

Hello

I have started no s today and I am feeling very positive about it! I found it by accident after my friend had said she had lost 3lbs last week by cutting out snacks.

I have to say, I feel like a weight has been lifted from me! I have spent a lot of time reading through the forum and people's success stories and I am so excited! I have spent the latter of my teens up until now (27) yo yoing even though I hate to admit it! I have a healthy lifestyle with regards to exercise but it's my eating and snacking that has always let me down. I know the first couple of weeks isn't going to be easy, as I am having to change old habits but I really feel I am going to be able to achieve my goals. I have never written on a forum before but I have decided to as I think if I record my progress here it will give me the boost I need.

I am getting married in May 2014, so that is my main reason for starting this, I want to feel comfortable on my wedding day. I have around 20bs that I want to lose. My dress fits perfectly now but it would be an amazing feeling if it had to be taken in a little!

Will let you know how I am getting on!

Welcome!

No-S is simple to understand, but it's not always easy in a culture that pushes snacks. It is a sane way of eating.

Thank you!

I am looking forward to the change and the results!

Clare I'll post my progress on here too!

Going to weigh and measure myself today and will weigh and measure myself again in 3/4 weeks to see the results!

Already I feel so much better, it's been almost 2 weeks (will be 2 weeks on Thursday) since I cut out snacks and rubbish drinks! I can actually also tell that I've lost weight from the clothes I've got on!

Just can't wait for the day that I run upstairs and my backside doesn't wobble!!

It's been over a year since I started Cambridge diet and even though I did really well with it I'm now back where I started as I couldn't maintain that daft diet. Eating healthy foods and cutting out snacks is so much better!

Kxx

it's youuuuu!!
only realised half way through haha

Welcome, clarebear! Even more than losing weight, the habits of No S will sustain you through a lot more than your wedding. This is the basic way urban French women eat and they don't tend to gain a lot of weight during their pregnancies so there is not that issue that sidetracks so many American women. It can be very hard not to think, "What's the problem with this quick bite or that few nuts or grapes, etc.?" But you can do that on weekends, and even that will decrease.

Stick with us!

Thanks Oolala53
I am excited to have started a lifestyle change rather than a diet!
It has come in time for my wedding but as you say it is sustainable for life including when I start a family

Welcome!

I so wish I had found this diet before I got married! I've been married for 14 years & have since gained 60 lbs--ugh! After I got married I realized I couldn't follow traditional diets anymore (been on them since age 10) so tried various non-diet/intuitive eating techniques.

Clearly that wasn't the answer but I didn't know what is. I think NoS diet is a great solution to that lifelong puzzle of how to have weight control without losing your sanity, self-esteem & health.

Best of luck to you! This is the best wedding gift you could possibly give yourself!

Linda

"This is the best wedding gift you could possibly give yourself! ". I totally agree Linda! I think it would be a great gift for one's children too - I so desperately wanted 'rules' for feeding my kids when they were young and No S would have provided a structure to follow. With modifications of course. My youngest is off to college this fall, so my work is done, but feeding them was such a struggle! Picky eaters, uncooperative husband... If I could do it all over with what I know now!

Thank you both!

Welcome clarebear! You are at the beginning of an exciting new journey. Hopefully, like me, you'll find that you are no longer thinking (too much!) about food in between meal times - it's quite liberating. It's always a good thing to give your body a break from digesting food. I used to calorie count so I know that simply cutting out snacks wiped 500+ calories from my day. 500 cals is a whole meal!

Thanks

I am very hungry at the minute, 90 mins til dinner break! I think it's just because I am so used to snacking in between, it's going to take me 21 days to get out the habit!
Just got to stick with it as the benefits are going to pay off!!

Great attitude, clarebear! 90 minutes before your dinner is when you are supposed to start getting an appetite. After a few weeks, you will have lost the snack urge -- you won't even think about it any more! You are off to a wonderful start!

Just enjoyed a nandos chicken pitta with mash and coleslaw! It was SO good!
Having to remind myself that I don't need to eat so fast!-which is hard as I do it without realising!

thanks for all the positive comments!

Remember the phrase "working up an appetite"? That's what that hunger you were experiencing 90 minutes before your Nandos meal

NoS = don't ruin your appetite

I've found that hour or so of hunger I feel before a meal doesn't bother me as much anymore. I drink water to help. But best of all it makes me anticipate the upcoming meal so much! And so I enjoy it all the more.

Recently my husband and I went out to dinner with his parents and I worried I would get too hungry if we ate late, so I ate something to 'tide me over' , but it being an S day it was a largish snack, and it totally ruined my nice dinner because I wasn't the least bit hungry!! Lesson learned! A glass of milk would have been fine! If anything!

Every week a new lesson learned!

First S day is going well!
Had a normal breakfast, bought a flapjack to snack on earlier and I ate half and put rest away for later!
Seems that after just a week on no s I'm picking up good habits