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According to my BMI, I'm not overweight, but I gained over 10 pounds over the past year or so, and I'm now trying to lose this weight again. I spent the last school year in Florida as an exchange student, improved my English, and got to know the American culture - and eating habits
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Anyways, in America, the whole family was grazing on unhealthy food (can you say chocolate chip pancakes?) all the time, we rarely ate our meals together as a family, so I gained weight - over 10 pounds, like I said. Some of you are > 100 pounds overweight, so it may not sound like much, but I'm only 5'2", and it all concentrated in my belly area
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I didn't really do the diet back then, but I remembered it a few weeks ago and googled "No S Diet"; that's how I found the website and the board. I registered and started HabitCaling.
At first, it was pretty easy (except on the first day, when I completely forgot I was doing the diet and grabbed some hard candy from a bowl in the kitchen). Sometimes, I've really been craving some chocolate or just a sandwich when it wasn't time for a meal yet. But I didn't starve
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I know, some of you might say, Hey, you're skinny, why are you dieting? - I really don't consider No S a diet, and I didn't really tell anyone (except my mom, haha) what I'm doing. To me, building a habit and having a better relationship with food are more important than losing 15 pounds in two weeks
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Since I started No S, I've found I have much more free time than I had before - when I didn't have anything to do, I'd sometimes wander around the house, looking for something to eat, even though I wasn't hungry. Also, I now know what it's like to be full, but not stuffed after a meal - before, I only seemed to know "to stuffed to eat more" and "I feel like a snack", not "hungry" and "not hungry".
(Maybe you wonder why I didn't gain more with this way of eating: 1. I haven't been doing this for a long time, and 2. I'm picky as heck
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Today was Day 21
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Katie