I'm with BrightAngel really, NoS is an amazing structure, and if by following the habits only and making no other efforts you can lose weight, that's brilliant! Some people find that easy. Reinhard if I remember rightly didn't really struggle with S days, and found the switch to having 3 healthy plates of food pretty easy, accounting for his brilliant success.
Sure, the reason for Reinhard developing NoS was to find a way of eating that was sustainable and moderate, and generally calorie counting or other restrictive diets are neither of those things! For some people it's not quite so easy though, and just following the habits alone doesn't 'do it'.
I've been following NoS for about 18 months, and have pretty much just maintained my weight, apart from an initial 5 pound or so loss. NoS is different from almost every other diet plan in that it doesn't prescribe what you put on your plates, whereas most diets cut out certain foods completely. Also, whether you are maintaining or losing weight, the core habits are the same, it's sustainable in the long term. I think that's compatible with other specific ideas about what to put on your plate if the core principles alone don't work for you.
The 'point' of NoS surely is however it works for the individual? For most it might be the freedom from calorie counting and 'diet head' talk. For some it might just be the habits and structure that they use. For others it could be the community, or the habitcal! There are people who check in that don't actually follow NoS rules as laid out in the book, but they've found a supportive home here and NoS to be helpful in some way or another, who are we to say that they are wrong or they should abandon NoS?
Wow sorry for the length of that, got into the groove there a bit!
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