Roxy, I would not have skipped dinner (as you saw I did on my thread) if I had not had a snack, even if I wasn't particularly hungry, so S days aren't completely about hunger, as of now. I might have skipped dinner if I had a lunch WITH a sweet and was not hungry. But it is not to lose weight! I really don't know if I will. I'll probably be a little disappointed if it doesn't, but the main emphasis is that I just don't feel as good on S days as I do on N days but I kind of can't believe I'll happily never snack or have desserts. I'm trying to find a way to live in between.
You're already doing so well. You've lost in three months almost as much as I lost in two years. And your BMI is lower than mine. (Not that we're comparing, but so much of desire in weight loss comes from comparing ourselves to media ideals, which are so incredibly thin- the weight of the average in countries with STARVATION) Is the weight lost the only reason you like how you are living? How much more could you cut and still be living a reasonable eating life PERMANENTLY? If you cut more and lost more, but found it was not a sustainable way to live, do you think you could accept putting weight back on, as Berry did? Or would you just keep wishing you could be thinner?
I lost a lot more weight twice in my adult life, weighing even less than I did when I graduated from high school, but I was living in an unsustainable way, both times. Therefore, I never let myself think it's important to get back to that weight. If it happens while I eat and move in a relatively joyful, non-obsessive way, it happens.
Hope it's okay I ask these pointed questions. Reinhard never had a specific weight loss goal, and says he would have been fine with the first 20 lbs. he took off. The other twenty has definitely been a surprise, he says, and you never get the sense that he eats or exercises to maintain that weight. Maybe he's not telling the whole truth, but the guy doesn't seem like he hides much.
I just worry a bit that the emphasis on weight rather than on lifestyle will come back to bite you in your much smaller a$@ later. In America, women of your height and weight keep thinking they should be thinner, too, but where does that come from? It is not for health's sake, as nearly all the data that suggests such a thing can be countered with either alternate data or different ways of analyzing what's there. It just depends on who's looking at it and how much they're invested in the outcome-- or how honest they're willing to be. Some researchers had to finally admit that they'd been wrong assuming that thinner was better. Of course, you're not aiming at the low weights that are just as dangerous as morbid obesity, but still. Some women here on No S say they used to be thinner and just want to get back to the way they felt on the inside. I can understand that.
Of course, it's none of my business. I guess I'm just trying to justify why I don't want to aim at a lower weight, and keep fighting the urge because everything I think of that would get me that weight sounds like torture right now. But others are entitled for sure. They're even entitled to torture themselves to get there! but you don't seem to be at that stage yet.
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Count plates, not calories. 11 years "during"
Age 69
BMI Jan/10-30.8
1/12-26.8 3/13-24.9 +/- 8-lb. 3 yrs
9/17 22.8 (flux) 3/18 22.2
2 yrs flux 6/20 22
1/21-23
There is no S better than Vanilla No S (mods now as a senior citizen)