Reinhard: a question for you

Kathleen · Post by **Kathleen** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 12:36 am

Hi Reinhard,

My dieting reminds me of my 16 year old daughter making career choices: she changes her career objective as often as I change my diet!

Anyway, I really enjoy this community, but my diet has now morphed into a diet that doesn't look at all like The No S Diet. Who knows? I may revert to vanilla No S Diet, or I may continue down the path of intermittent fasting.

I asked you once if it was OK for me to continue posting if I'm combining Intuitive Eating with The No S Diet. Now I'm asking if it's OK for me to post even though the diet I'm now following is only influenced by your work in that I believe in forming habits.

It's your forum. I've appreciated my time here, and I'm sure some people have learned what not to do by reading my posts! Anyway, please let me know if you're OK with my posting about my current diet approach which may well change tomorrow. I've been contacted by people encouraging me to stay, and that's nice. It's a nice sense of community here. It's also nice to know that people care.

Kathleen

osoniye · Post by **osoniye** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 10:20 am

Hope you'll stay. I really think we all learn from each other and this is a flexible system and a great community. I've enjoyed you sharing your journey with us.

Kathleen · Post by **Kathleen** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 11:16 am

If I could delete this post, I would. My experiment with giving up on the snacks and sweets restriction lasted less than one day -- until I stepped on the scale this morning.
Kathleen

Post by **reinhard** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 1:06 pm

Kathleen,

It is not only "OK" for you to continue posting, I'd be very sorry if you did not!

If we limited ourselves to nothing but the canonical 14 words in the strictest possible sense there wouldn't really be much to discuss here, would there? Everyone one who is interested in discussing anything vaguely no-s related here is more than welcome -- especially someone as friendly, helpful, and insightful as you. We're all experimenting to some degree here, and it's informative to read about other's experiments -- even if they veer off a bit from the orthodox path and even (perhaps especially) if they don't wind up working. When you're lost, warning signs can be just as necessary as directions.

And I hope never figure out how to delete this post because other people who might be in your situation but are perhaps a little too shy to ask need to know they're welcome, too!

Reinhard

Kathleen · Post by **Kathleen** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 1:11 pm

Oh, thanks, Reinhard... I think that your willingness to encourage experimentation creates an environment of acceptance. I realized yseterday just how much I'd miss being on this forum, and today's weight confirmed for me that the "no snacks" and "no sweets" rules which I've been following are very helpful!
Kathleen

connorcream · Post by **connorcream** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 1:42 pm

Reinhard,
I too have wondered about being welcome as my experience with Nos was a failure of which when it comes to weight loss it is the only one. But I must say that failure has turned into one of my greatest successes. I do not want to bring discension to the site but then I must be true to my experience and what I have learned. Thus, I too do not feel welcome to post because if this method is working for others I would not want to cause them to stumble. One cannot argue with success.

Hence, I have quit posting on this site to a large degree even though I think there might be a value for others for how and what I am doing.

I don't mean to hijack Kathleen's thread but it was a related post.

wosnes · Post by **wosnes** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 2:22 pm

Okay...I post regularly and I don't follow No-S exactly -- never have! The first year I thought I was, until I realized there was a one plate rule. I've never followed that, especially at dinner. Then there's S-days -- I don't take them regularly and allow one S daily (usually a sweet snack). While I rarely snack between meals, if I feel the need, it's food and not a beverage.

What I think is more important that following No-S to the letter is finding a set of habits that works for you and that you can follow for the rest of your life. No-S may just be the first step.

BrightAngel · Post by **BrightAngel** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 5:34 pm

wosnes wrote:What I think is more important than following No-S to the letter
is finding a set of habits that works for you
and that you can follow for the rest of your life.
No-S may just be the first step.

I agree entirely.
I haven't been able (or willing) to follow "vanilla" No S for more than a short time.
Although many people might find it hard to see basic No S concepts in many of my personal modifications,
I've read the "No S Diet" book at least 8 times,
and I've purchased several copies for friends
because it is full of wisdom that has been helpful to me.

wosnes · Post by **wosnes** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 5:55 pm

I've posted this before, but it goes along with what I wrote above: â€œDiets are like trying to sell everyone the same style and size shoe. If this way of eating is forced and not really you, youâ€™ll revert to your old patterns every time. Better to find a way to eat for life.â€ Pam Anderson in The Perfect Recipe for Losing Weight and Eating Great

jellybeans01 · Post by **jellybeans01** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 7:54 pm

Hey Kathleen in the past when I was first really learning about no s I did try to do it with intuitive eating. I love love love the idea of intuitive eating, but for me personally it did not work. I found I just ate more during the day and spent so much time trying to figure out how hungry was I? am I at a 3,4, or 5 level hungry.

Kathleen · Post by **Kathleen** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 8:41 pm

jellybeans01,
That was my experience, too! I called it belly-gazing.
Kathleen