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by oolala53 » Thu Jan 21, 2010 11:17 pm
You will get used to not eating when others eat. Skinny people do it all the time and they rarely give a second thought to making any excuses. I think your plan sounds good. You could also say you were starved at lunchtime and ate plenty then. In recent times, I've sometimes said something like, "I wish I was hungrybut I'm not!" and then just dropped it. I never say I'm dieting, even when I used to be. I refuse! So what if they say, "You're not eating?" You can say, I"ll eat later. Or, taking a hint from Reinhard, say, "I don't want to spoil my appetite for dinner." Just be sweet about it. People often make comments because they basically feel guilty for eating and want you to join in the misery or, if they're thin, they're hungry and think you are, too. Just divert, divert, divert, with no malice. No one is out to torture you! I say it's left over from our immigrant farmer mentality.
I know France is starting to adopt American eating habits to their detriment, but I remember years ago reading an American writer, Anne Barone, who lived in France as a young woman and permanently took off about 50 pounds in a year ,and who used to end many a blog with "Eat something rich and French, say, "No self-respecting French woman has a stash of candy bars in her desk drawer!" Ditto on not having an array of coffee cakes, cookies, and such in the workroom kitchen, etc. But here we are and here we No S.
Count plates, not calories. 11 years "during"
Age 69
BMI Jan/10-30.8
1/12-26.8 3/13-24.9 +/- 8-lb. 3 yrs
9/17 22.8 (flux) 3/18 22.2
2 yrs flux 6/20 22
1/21-23
There is no S better than Vanilla No S (mods now as a senior citizen)