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I started the No-S Diet on 11 May. So far things have been going well. I'm a tad bit overweight (according to the BMI I'm obese). The max weight that I know I reached was 232 pounds, but I suspect I hit ~240 pounds at one point. On the last day of April I decided that I needed to really exercise, so I decided that I preform some exercises every morning. Things were going well, I was getting stronger, but I was most definitely not loosing any weight (yes, I know it was a bit too early to really tell). Then I re-stumbled upon the No-S Diet, and started it the very next day (I can see a difference already).

11-May - Success. The first day is always the hardest. I work in a hotel that always has popcorn, and cookies out; and puts out a meal for two hours, three nights a week. So not snacking is difficult. I'm also not accustomed to eating more than one meal a day.

12-May - Success. Again the temptation to snack, but I was good.

13-May - Success. I wanted to snack, but the urge wasn't as strong as before. The eating three meals a day thing has been ... interesting ... difficult to manage, but doable. Odd thing happened, my SO tried to force me to eat half of a Hostess Cup Cake after dinner - by trying to physically shove it in my mouth - I didn't eat it; I still can't figure out why that happened.

mythos,
WELCOME!

Blueskighs

blueskighs wrote:mythos,
WELCOME!

Blueskighs

Thank you!

Odd thing happened, my SO tried to force me to eat half of a Hostess Cup Cake after dinner - by trying to physically shove it in my mouth - I didn't eat it; I still can't figure out why that happened.

Meaning you can figure out why he or she tried to shove a cupcake in your mouth or you can't figure out how you still managed not to eat it?

Either way, it doesn't sound like a very supportive or nice thing for him or her to do.

Blondie wrote:

Odd thing happened, my SO tried to force me to eat half of a Hostess Cup Cake after dinner - by trying to physically shove it in my mouth - I didn't eat it; I still can't figure out why that happened.

Meaning you can figure out why he or she tried to shove a cupcake in your mouth or you can't figure out how you still managed not to eat it?

Either way, it doesn't sound like a very supportive or nice thing for him or her to do.

Meaning I had difficulty figuring out why she did that. I've never been much of one for sweets anyway, so I don't feel the cravings for those. No, it was not supportive; I think she is frightened that I'm on a diet - though she won't admit it.

14-May - Success. I'm still not used to eating three times a day, it feels odd.
15-May - Success. Got some takeout, but I still only at a plate full, half of the food.
16-May - ??? Not sure. I grabbed a free sample of food while at the grocery store (pineapple). I can't decide how to call it, do I play it very strict and call it a failure (I snacked), or do I just call it an oops (but still a success). I have the rest of the night to decide.

16-May - Success. After some thought, I decided to call it an oops day, only because I had one piece of pineapple and didn't have anymore (or any other snacks) - though I sure was tempted. I'm looking forward to tomorrow, my first skip day; I never realized how often I snacked, nor how often I ate sweets, during a day before this diet. I do plan on being good though, not too many sweet things. Dairy Queen here I come! I'm glad I did a seven day stretch to start out (it just worked out that way), I think it really helped to train my stomach, and make me more aware of the foods that I was eating on a daily basis.

18-May - Skip Day. I love skip days. I completely forgot to have breakfast, without doing my exercises in the morning my whole routine goes out the window, I will have to think on this more. I had some ice cream from Dairy Queen, but other than that I ate fairly well.

19-May - Skip Day. No breakfast again, damn it. I ate fairly well, except for dinner, where I went back for seconds (and regretted it after).

20-May - Success. Nothing special to report.
21-May - Failure. I'm not really sure if today is a failure, but I feel like I cheated, so I'm calling it a failure. I ate the food that the hotel provided, it's not good for me, and I have no way to tell how much I ate. Needless to say I'm mad at myself, but it's done, time to move on and not let it happen again.

22-May. Success, but an oops. Man what a sucky day. I'm calling it a success, but an oops. I was extremely tired all day (my SO had trouble keeping me awake), I'm not sure if I had a bug, or if it was mild CO poisoning from the night before (mechanical troubles with my car) - but I wasn't thinking right and had a few drinks of pop for lunch. I didn't even exercise.

23-May - Success. Nothing important to report. A nice common day. The next two days are my skip days, I don't feel the urge to go crazy that I felt last week, either because I'm adapting to the diet, or because I had that failure on the 21st.

24-May - Success. Again, nothing to report (I like days like that).
25-May - Skip day. A skip day, but I ate like it wasn't. Good for me.
26-May - Skip day. Another skip day, ate well, forgot breakfast again. Had a pop and half of a donut before bed - that was way too sweet.

27-May - Success. There were egg rolls at work again, my diet kryptonite, I did eat some, but they were my lunch - and I held myself back and was good.
28-May - Success. Today is my birthday, and I set this day to be a skip day, but I found that I didn't want to treat it as a skip day. I'm finding that I can't have a skip day on any day that I work, I must associate work days with No-S Diet (that's a good thing). Tomorrow starts my next four weeks of exercise, this has been the longest that I have ever stuck with a diet and exercise program Woohoo!!

29-May - Success. Busy day yesterday, so I didn't get to eat much till dinner. For dinner my SO wanted pizza (the frozen kind), I was good and only had a few slices (about 1/3 of what I would have eaten 20 days ago). Today my SO wanted to have Chinese for lunch, I had about 1/2 of their lunch portion, I'm saving the rest for tomorrow. I'm noticing a decrease in the amount of money that I spend on food - in a positive manner.

I also must say that I love doing shovelglove (even if I don't have a sledgehammer). It feels great. Now if I could just convince the SO that I wouldn't brain the cat to death with a sledgehammer.

30-May - Success. A bit of a stressful day, nothing else to report.

Wow it's been a while since I wrote - busy at work (that's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it).
I'm not going to go into details, since many of these days are a bit fuzzy in the brain.

31-May - Success.
01-June - Skip day.
02-June - Skip day.
03-June - Success.
04-June - Success.
05-June - Success.
06-June - Success.
07-June - Success.
08-June - Skip day.
09-June - Skip day.
10-June - Success.
11-June - Success.
12-June - Failure. I was using an odd shaped bowl for dinner, so I allotted myself 1.5 bowl fulls of food - I went over.
13-June - Success.

WOOHOO!

Mythos,

You are doing great!

Blueskighs