hi everybody! hi reinhard! i'm restarting NoS today... i was here a LONG time ago, around 2005, and then, after a few years of being very active on the boards, left for a long time... well... i'm back now... it's just coincidental that i'm restarting in the beginning of the new year... the real reason is that i have been steadily gaining weight in the past year, and feeling physically terrible... this morning i weighed myself and just decided that my gaining trend has got to stop... i started to try and play out all the possible "diety" type solutions i could attempt, to alter how i've been eating, and then it just dawned on me, i knew that i would never stick to anything super micro-managy, and because the main problem i've been having has simply been overeating in general, i thought i'd revisit reinhard's NoS page... well, the more i read, the more i remembered how totally livable and sensible this diet is and decided to restart again today! i have to say, it's quite mind blowing to me, that since the first years that i was here and now, i have a 24 year old son, going to be turning 25 in march! when i originally found NoS, richie was only 9 years old! and now reinhard, who had, i believe one very young daughter, now has 2 teenaged daughters and a toddler (?) aged son!
i'll try to be active on the boards, to keep on track and get to know everyone here...
i will be honest, the one S that i will be allowing, will be a small sized hot chocolate every day... i no longer drink coffee, and don't drink soda or other heavily sweetened drinks, and even though i know it's breaking one of the rules, i frankly can't see myself subsisting on water only... i did that for four years, not by choice but because of a health crisis, where i drank only water, and i was completely miserable... so, for now, i'm allowing one small hot chocolate... it will not be covered in whipped cream and caramel sauce... that i will save for, and savor, on S days!!
starting weight just for the record is, 274.8, which is way too much for someone my height... i am only 5ft 3 inches tall... i'm hoping, that ultimately i lose about 100 lbs... mainly, i'll be very happy if i can develop good eating habits again... so nice to "meet you" all again! i'm very excited to be back!! deb
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ps... incidentally, my avatar is a very old pic of me and my son richie, who is now a PHD student at caltech, doing his thesis on astronomy and physics!