I'm not somebody who needs to lose a great deal of weight; I'm currently at a BMI of 23 and holding, but I have struggled with eating and weight since adolescence and have dealt with both anorexia (high school)and binge eating (through late teens and twenties). I turn 30 in about two months and I'm trying my hardest to improve my negative relationship with food, using No-S to accomplish this. Stress tends to have a predictably negative impact on my eating and mentality toward my body, and my life is a bit on the stressful side right now (details will surely feature in my daily check-ins)
My biggest challenge is second-guessing my No-S strategy. I'll convince myself that I'm better off cutting fat out of my diet, or counting points, or trying some other pretty unsustainable method to cut my food intake. I get a hefty bit of anxiety over the idea of getting hungry between meals, as I think my prior eating disorder has left me pretty traumatized by hunger.
I know, though, that No-S is one of the most efficient ways to not only normalize my eating, but to teach me good old-fashioned commonsense restraint when it comes to using food inappropriately. On the heels of a failure last night (snacked after a "too healthy" supper that didn't carry me through till bedtime), I'm beginning this check-in.
Good luck to all those who are reading, and thanks for sticking with me this far!
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