A challenge to my no s diet

stephane · Post by **stephane** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 3:08 pm

I am a new poster to this forum... I've been on NO S since March and it's been pretty successful! However, I just had the most difficult challenge to my diet two weeks ago coming back to Boston from a 3-day business trip to L.A. Although I had no trouble in LA following the diet, I found that I was starving back home at what would have been west coast meal times, even though I had proper meals on east coast time. This persisted for a couple days and the only thing that kept me going was the faith that it would end at some point, which it did, thankfully. Has anyone else had this? Any tips?

Post by **reinhard** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 4:40 pm

Welcome, Stephane! Great to see you here.

I don't do much traveling these days so I can't really speak from personal experience... but it sounds to me like you handled it great.

If you have some control over your meal times, you might want to adjust them a little towards the time zone you're heading to a few days prior to the trip, and a little towards the time zone you came from after you get back. That's the only thing I can think of, though I'm not sure if it's worth it because of the extra complexity of shifting everything around and it might not even be possible. I guess you could also add a temporary fourth mini meal on jetlag days, but that opens the door to ambiguity and abuse.

If you don't jump time zones too frequently, just soldiering on through as you did is probably your best bet. The behavioral clarity you retain is probably worth a little temporary discomfort.

Reinhard

stephane · Post by **stephane** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 5:14 pm

I used to do a 4th meal in my pre-No S days of long distance travel. I agree, though. It can be a recipe for abuse! Noplans for any time zone changes for a while, so hopefully this is an isolated frustrating.