Bean&Sprout
Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2018 12:49 pm
May 2018
Vanilla No S:
29 30 01 02 03 04 05
06 07 08 09 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31
NWS Notes:
01 - 40th birthday!
03 - 40th birthday celebration at work!
28 - Memorial Day
Reflection on the month:
This is probably my fourth run at No S, and it appears to have finally clicked! In my time away I experimented with extended and intermittent fasting. Through my fasting practice, I learned much about hunger--how it comes in waves, which can be ridden out, that it is not an emergency, and that just about everything tastes better when you are good and truly hungry. I also learned that regularly missing supper with my family because I'm fasting is not something I'm interested in doing long-term. I also followed an LCHF/Keto diet. This also isn't something I'm prepared to do long-term.
My N days were mostly painless. Unlike prior attempts at No S, I didn't restrict the sorts or quantities of food, other than a very straightforward no to sweets, seconds and snacks. My S days weren't wild, but they weren't very satisfying. I found myself snacking because I could, not because I was hungry. I ate "whatever I felt like," but that was much less pleasurable than my 2-3 meals on a normal N day. The restrictions led to greater pleasure.
For June, I am going to edit my plates a bit, aiming for more vegetables and some fruit to complement the other, richer foods on my plate. I am also going to reflect on my S days. I'm not going to add rules to my S days, but I do want to mark S days I found satisfying and pleasurable vs. S days in which a permasnacked myself away from the enjoyment of an otherwise licit S. For June, an orange S day means that it left me feeling off. A yellow S day means that I was left feeling pleased with it.
Despite a relaxed approach to the content of my plates, and my unmoderated S days, I lost six pounds in May. I commit to following No S for the remainder of 2018.
Summary of Month:
Red days - 0
NWS days - 3
Pounds lost - 6
Vanilla No S:
29 30 01 02 03 04 05
06 07 08 09 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31
NWS Notes:
01 - 40th birthday!
03 - 40th birthday celebration at work!
28 - Memorial Day
Reflection on the month:
This is probably my fourth run at No S, and it appears to have finally clicked! In my time away I experimented with extended and intermittent fasting. Through my fasting practice, I learned much about hunger--how it comes in waves, which can be ridden out, that it is not an emergency, and that just about everything tastes better when you are good and truly hungry. I also learned that regularly missing supper with my family because I'm fasting is not something I'm interested in doing long-term. I also followed an LCHF/Keto diet. This also isn't something I'm prepared to do long-term.
My N days were mostly painless. Unlike prior attempts at No S, I didn't restrict the sorts or quantities of food, other than a very straightforward no to sweets, seconds and snacks. My S days weren't wild, but they weren't very satisfying. I found myself snacking because I could, not because I was hungry. I ate "whatever I felt like," but that was much less pleasurable than my 2-3 meals on a normal N day. The restrictions led to greater pleasure.
For June, I am going to edit my plates a bit, aiming for more vegetables and some fruit to complement the other, richer foods on my plate. I am also going to reflect on my S days. I'm not going to add rules to my S days, but I do want to mark S days I found satisfying and pleasurable vs. S days in which a permasnacked myself away from the enjoyment of an otherwise licit S. For June, an orange S day means that it left me feeling off. A yellow S day means that I was left feeling pleased with it.
Despite a relaxed approach to the content of my plates, and my unmoderated S days, I lost six pounds in May. I commit to following No S for the remainder of 2018.
Summary of Month:
Red days - 0
NWS days - 3
Pounds lost - 6