gk wrote:Anyone out there ever try the mod of floating S days? Like....looking at your schedule each week and choosing the days when you know you'd probably be at your "weakest", depending on what's going on?
I recently read how DaveMc has S Days on Friday and Sunday (which doesn't sound too bad to me), which then reminded me that floating S Days could be an option as well. I read the No S Book about a year ago, and if I remember correctly, he said that could be an option but he advised against it (of course, I can't remember why.....maybe not enough structure?)
Thoughts on the subject? Opinions? And if you have tried this approach.....how'd it go?
Thanks so much!
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I've done floating S days for several years now. EXCEPT -- it wasn't started because there was a day when I'd be "weakest" -- it started because my S occasions usually didn't happen on weekends. Nearly all of my S occasions happened during the week and I was always passing on something special because it wasn't an S day. I always felt deprived. Saving S days for weekends wasn't working for me. I modified it to work for my life and I allowed myself 2-3 S days, actually S events, weekly. I've since modified it even further and allow one S per day. That started primarily because I was having trouble keeping track of the S days.
I don't like the idea of modifying it so you have an escape on a day you'll feel weak.
I actually don't like the idea of two S days weekly. This is how I see it: S
days give you the freedom to go wild with your eating. I think there are a handful days annually that should be S
days and most S's are actually S events and don't need a whole day. Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and sometimes New Year's Eve and the summer holidays are the only S
days I throw caution to the wind in terms of what I eat. I just don't worry about it on those days. Any other day, I can have one S, which for me is usually a dessert or sweet treat. Just because I
can have them doesn't mean I
do have them. In fact, there are more days when I don't have an S than there are days when I do.
This works well for me and it seems more natural to me than two S days weekly. It gives me only a handful of days yearly when I can really overeat. I feel this gives me more structure and control than two weekly S days.
I also agree with Noel. I did No-S by the book for well over a year, maybe longer, before I made this modification.
"That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do. Not that the nature of the thing itself has changed but our power to do it is increased." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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