SkySurfer's No S Journey

SkySurfer · Post by **SkySurfer** » Wed Feb 20, 2013 9:40 am

Hi!
I'm SkySurfer. i've done NoS in the past with much success, so lord only knows why I went back to other methods of food management.
This is my Day 1, and I'm starting bang in the middle of the week on a wednesday.
I need to get this first day right and the subsequent days will be much easier.
Wish me luck! I want to hopefully lose 20 pounds by July (i'm going on holiday!)

Strawberry Roan · Post by **Strawberry Roan** » Wed Feb 20, 2013 12:18 pm

Hi - welcome to the boards! It is a wonderful community filled with great advice and great people. Very, very supportive as we are all on this journey together.

SkySurfer · Post by **SkySurfer** » Wed Feb 20, 2013 12:48 pm

Thanks!

MJ7910 · Post by **MJ7910** » Wed Feb 20, 2013 2:49 pm

it's funny how we do this for a while and then we go back to other systems. same story here. tried it for a short while last summer but wasn't seeing the 'Rapid weight loss' i was hoping for. little did i know, if i had just given it a chance longer i would have felt so much more freedom! anyway, now i'm back on it and i really hope to get to the end of the week to get my 21 day period down. having some challenges this week but i feel like i can do this! so can you! welcome back

SkySurfer · Post by **SkySurfer** » Sat Mar 02, 2013 8:01 pm

Remotivating myself after a string of non-compliance.

SAT-2nd March: S Day
Breakfast: Toast, bacon and eggs and yoghurt
Lunch: Chips and Salad and a few bites of ice cream
Dinner: Tomato and cheese pasta bake with yummy triple chocolate cookies. I haven't enjoyed cookies, guilt free in a long time, and I don't want to go back to food insanity.

SUN- 3rd March: S Day

Breakfast: toast with jam and hot chocolate
Lunch: Mum came over and made coconut curry with rice ! I made a nice salad with it and we went for a walk.
Dinner: had loads of belvita snack packs so wasn't hungry for a meal. LOADS of coffee trying to stay awake writing these personal statements for my intercalated BSc.
Overall quite moderate (in my terms anyway!) and I feel satisfied and ready to start my N-days.

jellybeans01 · Post by **jellybeans01** » Sun Mar 03, 2013 4:51 am

Hey I am the same height and after baby 4 the same weight and I used no s to get down to 136 then got pregnant again! However I always get back to 128-130 with no s. So you can do it! I

SkySurfer · Post by **SkySurfer** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 12:49 am

Thanks Jellybeans01!
The encouragement is always much appreciated!

SkySurfer · Post by **SkySurfer** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 12:53 am

MON- 4th March: SUCCESS
B: Toast, scrambled egg, yoghurt, banana
L: Coconut curry rice with salad
D: Nandos 3 chicken wings and peri peri chips
Had a coffee with a mate, talked for ages which was very nice

SkySurfer · Post by **SkySurfer** » Tue Mar 05, 2013 8:59 am

TUE- 5th March: SUCCESS
B: 2 slices of toast with jam, banana, yoghurt, tea
L: Chicken Salad sandwich, fruit cocktail, diet coke
D: Beanie Burger and chips, french martini

Overall a very enjoyable day. I definitely savoured each meal, especially given how long I had to wait between lunch and dinner (10 hours!) haha

Here's to more successful days to come

SkySurfer · Post by **SkySurfer** » Wed Mar 06, 2013 12:16 am

WED- 6th March: NON-SUCCESS
B: Weetabix with semi-skimmed milk, banana, tea

L: Salad (olives, croutons, tomatoes, lettuce, peppers, eggs, hummus) and GoAhead bar

Tough times between lunch and dinner* (see asterisked post a couple of posts below)

D: Coconut Cream Curry with many pittas! and crisps--> over-ate, but at least I kept it to a meal and one very overloaded plate!

Went overboard on bread and ice-cream. Oh well I will take today as a loss and soldier on tomorrow.

No BS · Post by **No BS** » Wed Mar 06, 2013 12:24 am

You really are on a roll & doing well! Keep up the good work!

SkySurfer · Post by **SkySurfer** » Wed Mar 06, 2013 8:30 am

No BS wrote:You really are on a roll & doing well! Keep up the good work!

Thanks No BS, love the username, very fitting!

SkySurfer · Post by **SkySurfer** » Wed Mar 06, 2013 4:02 pm

*At this moment having a tough time resisting snacks/sweets, and there is a pack of Haribos staring at me....so I thought I would log on, verbalise how I'm feeling right now and thinks this through.
I'm aware that I have no physical hunger, but just an emotional impulse to eat. Thinking it through, I know that I can resist by thinking about the root of my desire to eat..is it true or fake hunger. Right now it's fake.

I know I can carry on resisting and building up my willpower like a muscle. I don't need a snack because right now my body doesn't need food. I can wait until dinner which is a mere 3 hours away.

Phew, it definitely helped to write this out. Now I can just go and make myself some tea instead of having the pack of sweets I was going to scoff. No need to ruin my streak of success.

SpiritSong · Post by **SpiritSong** » Wed Mar 06, 2013 4:09 pm

Way to go! That is exactly how you do it. Acknowledge that the hunger isn't real and choose not to satisfy it.

SkySurfer · Post by **SkySurfer** » Thu Mar 07, 2013 8:10 am

THUR- 7th March: SUCCESS
Today I'm thinking I need to have lunch a bit later to last through to dinner. That's the pattern I've noticed on successful days. Yesterday was a non-success (can you tell I don't like the word failure hehe) but at least I can examine why.
OK, let's do this!

B: Half a mango, yogurt, tea
L: Pasta salad (pasta,olives,peppers,egg,hummus) and a banana
D: Stir Fry (fresh egg noodles, mangetout, pak choi, chilli, garlic, chicken, brocolli, black bean sauce) , tea

YUM!

SkySurfer · Post by **SkySurfer** » Thu Mar 07, 2013 6:50 pm

SpiritSong wrote:Way to go! That is exactly how you do it. Acknowledge that the hunger isn't real and choose not to satisfy it.

Thanks SpiritSong! Unfortunately the binge monster hit me after dinner. It wasn't too big a binge..maybe the binge monster's baby

SkySurfer · Post by **SkySurfer** » Fri Mar 08, 2013 12:58 am

FRI-8th March: SUCCESS
B: 3 slices of toast and yoghurt, mid-morning coffee
L: Big ol' Pizza with olives, blended apple and carrot juice
D: 2 Slices of bread with apricot cheese, vegetable soup.

A LOT of wine before going to the uni club with mates...hey it's Friday right?

Had a lot of fun dancing my butt off..got a few digits out of it too

MJ7910 · Post by **MJ7910** » Fri Mar 08, 2013 2:01 am

SkySurfer wrote:
SpiritSong wrote:Way to go! That is exactly how you do it. Acknowledge that the hunger isn't real and choose not to satisfy it.
Thanks SpiritSong! Unfortunately the binge monster hit me after dinner. It wasn't too big a binge..maybe the binge monster's baby

a little binge always beats a big binge! it's progress in the right direction.

SkySurfer · Post by **SkySurfer** » Fri Mar 08, 2013 5:34 pm

MJ7910 wrote:
SkySurfer wrote:
SpiritSong wrote:Way to go! That is exactly how you do it. Acknowledge that the hunger isn't real and choose not to satisfy it.
Thanks SpiritSong! Unfortunately the binge monster hit me after dinner. It wasn't too big a binge..maybe the binge monster's baby
a little binge always beats a big binge! it's progress in the right direction.

Indeed! Thanks, MJ!

SkySurfer · Post by **SkySurfer** » Fri Mar 08, 2013 5:35 pm

What has amazed me this week is how quickly the weekdays have rushed by. And how much less painful than a usual week agonising over food, this week has been. One binge this working week definitely beats my usual everyday perma-feast!

No BS · Post by **No BS** » Sat Mar 09, 2013 3:37 am

Terrific work, SkySurfer! And terrific, positive attitude.

Have a great weekend & enjoy your "S" days!!

SkySurfer · Post by **SkySurfer** » Sat Mar 09, 2013 1:44 pm

No BS wrote:Terrific work, SkySurfer! And terrific, positive attitude.

Have a great weekend & enjoy your "S" days!!

Thanks, No BS! The same to you and yours

SkySurfer · Post by **SkySurfer** » Sat Mar 09, 2013 1:46 pm

SAT- 9th March: S-DAY
Nursing a bit of a hangover (

) and had some early morning impromptu Mcdonalds.
Souffle, chocolate fingers, garlic bread, pack of belvita biscuits in the evening.

Sun-10th March: S-DAY
Definitely overdid it yesterday..look forward to N-days this week.
On another note, it's mother's Day and my little sister made a beautiful lemon cake complete with lemon curd and madagascan vanilla cream. Delish!

SkySurfer · Post by **SkySurfer** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 12:23 pm

MON-11th March: NON-SUCCESS

B: Banana, egg
L: Baguette Sandwich, yogurt
D: All sorts.....

TUE-12th March : NON-SUCCESS

WED-13th March: NON-SUCCESS

THUR-14th March: NON-SUCCESS

GAAAHHHHH!

can i get friday right?

SkySurfer · Post by **SkySurfer** » Fri Mar 22, 2013 12:27 pm

I'm starting over!

FRI-22nd March:

B: Slept through breakfast
L:
D

SkySurfer · Post by **SkySurfer** » Fri Mar 22, 2013 1:40 pm

Starting over:

FRI- 22nd march:

B: Walnuts and yoghurt

SkySurfer · Post by **SkySurfer** » Thu Sep 19, 2013 11:15 am

So after a stint with calorie counting and going slightly insane, I am back to what works. I have been back at it for the past month and am now around 143lbs. I've stopped weighing so often so I don't know the exact number.
I'm working on making my S-days more sane. Like a treat or two per day.
Here goes!

THURS- 19th September
Here's what I had today

B: plantain and beans , bunch of grapes, herbal tea
L: Salad, plantain chips, ham and cheese bagel, herbal tea
D:

Drinks: Many cups of Chai

lpearlmom · Post by **lpearlmom** » Thu Sep 19, 2013 6:20 pm

Welcome back to sanity!!

SkySurfer · Post by **SkySurfer** » Wed Oct 02, 2013 10:20 pm

Thanks!
I have to say...I've been REALLY struggling lately.
I do so well at breakfast and lunch, then BLOW it at dinner.
Plus I'm starting to get certain disordered eating tendencies that I'm scared of.
I'm going to soldier on tomorrow and do the best I can. Every day is a fresh start.
Please wish me luck.

Kittykat150 · Post by **Kittykat150** » Wed Oct 02, 2013 10:33 pm

Best of luck, Skysurfer! We are in this together.
Kat

SkySurfer · Post by **SkySurfer** » Thu Oct 03, 2013 6:48 am

thanks for the support