sevenoclk wrote:This is my second time doing No S. My first time was successful and I believe I am having some success this time, as well.
I have issues with bingeing on sweets and bread and I am quite sure that is the only reason I ever gain extra weight. No S helps with this behavior --- which I am guessing you have, as well.
I read something one time by a woman who used to binge. I do not believe she had a binge eating disorder, but just binged often, as many of us do. She said that when she felt like bingeing she just told herself NOT TO DO IT. She suggested that other women tell themselves to NEVER BINGE AGAIN. This sounded so simplistic to me, but I decided I would try it. I went about 5 months without a binge until the holidays when I was surrounded by desserts everyday. Up until that time I was hardly even tempted. I have started to tell myself NOT TO DO IT again and it is working. I believe that bingeing is actually abusive to oneself and feels like punishment -- which it is. When you think of it in these terms, it is easier to walk away from.
I am not sure what the definition of a binge is, but for me it is more than one serving of a dessert in a reasonable timeframe (binge for me often = half a pie or more).
I know that I can not binge and lose weight. It seems that many people on the boards struggle with bingeing on S Days. It appears that these people do not lose weight, but maintain their weight. Maintaining their weight, in and of itself, is certainly a degree of success.
I guess what I am saying is that for those of us who binge, we have to find a way to stop in order to actually lose weight.
Also, I find that I sometimes kid myself with portions. I tell myself that I can eat a plateful of food 3 times/ day and lose weight. Not true. I am a 5'5" moderately active woman. I am not an athlete or a man. I need reasonable amounts of food per meal. I often use salad plates for my meals and I have recently begun to exclude dinner rolls, etc. from my meals, as well. I don't find that I feel deprived by doing this, either.
Good luck!
Thanks for your insights, Sophia and sevenlock.
I'm not sure about plate size -- we have rectangular plates! As far as I can tell from eyeing up plate sizes in restaurants (Britain has much smaller portion size than the US when eating out), our plates seem to be average or smaller.
I typically give hubby about twice the food I do -- he's 6'5" after all! We're both noticing my body looking healthier, feeling more toned, etc. But that's most likely due to half an hour on the treadmill five days per week, and muscle workouts twice a week.
I often have soup or salad and a piece of bread for lunch. Most days, only a bagel or bowl of cereal for breakfast. My only binge was yesterday, out of 21 days of the diet.
I think I'm going to have to watch portion size a bit more, and make sure at least 1/2 of what I'm eating for dinner is veg.
If either of you care to (pleasepleaseplease), cast your eye up over my daily check-in menu and tell me what you think -- there are some obvious no nos in there that I can easily cut out (McDonald's, etc, once in a blue moon things). But perhaps there's a pattern I'm not seeing?
My husband tells me I'm not dieting at all, and I only have myself to blame for picking a diet that lets me eat chocolate. But the thing is, on my other diets, I ate chocolate too! I just ate tiny little bits, in secret, or like you said, TONSATONCE after months of rabid deprivation.
I'm pretty disheartened. Today is the first day I didn't do my workout, in 21 days (20 min instead of 30). Just felt too down to do it. SIGH. Back on tomorrow!
I stumbled across Reinhard's website doing research on an article I was writing for walking as exercise. Two months later, with it niggling away in the back of my mind, I've slowly added (at 2-3 week intervals) each of the principles of the No S Diet to my eating plan. 
