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trying again
Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 8:02 pm
by whatpartofno
I have tried No-S on and off for several years, and always have liked it, liked the old-fashioned, common sense discipline. For several months a few summers ago, I was on track and doing fine. I ate three meals a day, walked around the neighborhood, and didn't think much about food. Wonderful. During that time I lost .2 lb./month. That's right, two-tenths of a pound--which for me is fabulous. I am a woman in my early 60s, and I'm short.
But then I saw my doc, who thought my gray-area cholesterol numbers meant that I should exercise more intensely and eat less fat. (This is pretty standard advice, apparently.) I tried, but the exercise made me hungry, and, well, I seem to like fat. Summertime means tomato sandwiches with real mayo. I stopped losing. Then I injured my knee--trying to get more exercise--and couldn't exercise at all for 6 months. And I've been gaining since. Only about 5 or 6 pounds total, but enough to be annoying, and I wasn't light to begin with.
So I'm trying again--I started a food diary in January and when I looked back, saw that there was plenty of room for improvement: not binging on sweets and nuts between meals when I'm stressed, for starters. If I lose .2 lb./month until this year's check-up, I will have lost a pound.

That would be so much better than gaining!
hey
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 1:56 pm
by tobiasmom
Welcome!!! I'm back to No-S again myself after "convincing" myself that I needed to count points again.........
Here's to a wonderful weekend and week ahead!
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 5:11 pm
by whatpartofno
Thanks, tobiasmom. Good luck to both of us!
Thinking along the same lines
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 11:14 pm
by r.jean
Below is what I posted on my checkin a couple days ago. It seems appropriate to what you were talking about. Sometimes we just have to do what we can and no more.......
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 11:54 pm Post subject: My new mantra
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"Maintenance is progress; the status quo was gaining weight."
I picked up the No S Diet Book yesterday and just read a few sections that I had only skimmed through before. I came across this sentence, and it is so appropriate for what I am trying to tell myself right now that I had to repeat it and repeat it and repeat it........
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 5:28 pm
by whatpartofno
Yes! I'd like to read a comfortable, reasonable balance, where I don't gain any more (maybe even lose a little, slowly), yet I feel happy and content--neither overstuffed nor deprived. For me, that's No S.
Had a good weekend, although I ate too many fries on Saturday. Sunday I didn't really have an S day, nor did I want one. Today and all this week are questionable--we're having family visitors, and the schedule will be different. We'll have pie and cookies and all that good stuff around the house, too. I plan to do my best and not beat myself up.
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 7:23 pm
by Over43
Good luck to you. It is an on again, off again journey for most of us.

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 2:12 am
by whatpartofno
Company left--a good visit with them. Ate out too much for me; I always have trouble out because--this sounds weird, maybe--I don't like a lot of the food, except desserts. So I eat them. Anyway, back to sort-of normal, thank goodness.
Exercise day off.
Breakfast: little shredded wheats and a banana.
Lunch: Ham sandwich and latte.
Dinner: Peanut butter and jelly sandwich and a hot chocolate.
Don't feel especially guilty about skipping veg!
Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2011 1:42 am
by whatpartofno
Yesterday must have been the first day of 21, so this is day 20:
Exercise: 2 miles treadmill.
Breakfast: banana, oats, yogurt, raisins, walnuts, a little sugar
Lunch: avocado and pepper jack sandwich on whole wheat
Dinner: lots of salad on corn tortillas (salad and tortillas is one of my go-to menus), snack container of peanut butter (these things are perfect), 2 snack packs of graham cracker dippers, hot chocolate.
Weather's turned cold and snowy again, but only for about a week (please, please, please!).
Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 12:33 am
by whatpartofno
Red day.
Exercise: 3 miles treadmill (walked).
Breakfast: pbj and apple.
Lunch: Big bowl of cereal and banana, then 2 sample Luna bars that I got at the dentist's office (!!!).
Dinner: Don't know, but broccoli will be involved.