It's that time of year again: yesterday was my fifth NoS anniversary. If you'd like to see all my previous anniversary posts, here they are:
http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?p=134926
http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?p=122076
http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=7816
http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=6595
And the news is a little less bright, this year: I seem to have regained somewhere around 10 of the 20 pounds that I lost during the first year, alas. (I found this out by weighing myself a few times over the last month, something I don't normally do. It did rather vindicate my intuitive sense of what I weigh: I was fully expecting to see a higher number on the scale, just based on how my clothes are fitting and the expansion I can see with my own eyes.)
But I am difficult to daunt, and thus I remain undaunted. I haven't done anything particularly differently, over the past year, but I think that's the lesson I'm going to take from this: I'm five years older, now, and I may not be able to get away with exactly what used to work for maintenance, before. But what I'm not going to do is flee from NoS into the arms of some insane and unsustainable diet. NoS is the way I eat, and I have no plans to change that. What I need to do, I think, is pay just a bit more attention to what I'm eating. If I put just a smidgen less on each plate, and increase the fraction of fruits and veggies compared to other stuff, I suspect I'll gradually shrink back down again. It's not a race, so if it takes a year to lose those 10 pounds, that's fine. It took a year to gain them, after all.
I'll let you know how it goes, next year ...
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