Starting No S again after originally starting it back in 2018! Holding myself to account and joining the legends on this forum who know so well why this is the only sane option. Saying goodbye to the one meal a day mentality - it's just clicked that it is completely unsustainable, I really don't know why I thought I could keep it up.
Today is day 5. SUCCESS so far. I also started Couch to 5k this lunchtime so hoping this will have an impact as well.
Day 4 yesterday - SUCCESS. Was sorely tempted to have a glass of wine to alleviate my craving for chocolate, but I resisted. Drinking is a slippery slope for me. Gained strength by obsessively checking past postings and searching the word 'alcohol'.
Went more overboard on my S days (day 2 and 3) than I was happy with - again reading the S days gone wild forum posts has given perspective and the option of a plan. But I think I am better just not putting any restrictions on at this moment.
Melderin's check in
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Hi Melderin,
I'm so glad you decided to create a check in and that you're working towards No S! I think you'll find it worth the effort and a lot more manageable than one meal a day. Kudos to you for mustering the discipline to stick with that plan as long as you did. I've never tried to do so myself because wow-- just wow!
I recognize that lots of people claim wild success with it but everyone I know who's tried it has struggled. I hope you will find No S to be a little easier to manage.
I hope your training for the 5K goes well!
Keep reading past posts. The discussion board is a gold mine of wisdom, insight, encouragement, and humor. And posting here on your Check In will give active users like me a chance to support you.
I'm wishing you the very best, WINhappy
I'm so glad you decided to create a check in and that you're working towards No S! I think you'll find it worth the effort and a lot more manageable than one meal a day. Kudos to you for mustering the discipline to stick with that plan as long as you did. I've never tried to do so myself because wow-- just wow!
I recognize that lots of people claim wild success with it but everyone I know who's tried it has struggled. I hope you will find No S to be a little easier to manage. I hope your training for the 5K goes well!
Keep reading past posts. The discussion board is a gold mine of wisdom, insight, encouragement, and humor. And posting here on your Check In will give active users like me a chance to support you.
I'm wishing you the very best, WINhappy
Sometimes the coolest thing when you were a kid- remains the coolest thing.
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Hi WINhappy,
Thank you so much for your lovely words and encouragement. I think the only reason I was successful at one meal a day was because I became obsessed and literally focussed on nothing else. Completely unsustainable as soon as real life kicks in! Something to do with not being fat and forty as well.
Anyway, thank you.
I’m also here to report a FAIL yesterday
(day 6). Fully intended to keep to plan but I had a Mother’s Day afternoon tea at my son’s school late afternoon so I thought I’d delay lunch and have that as it, despite assuming there would be cake (I was going to either count it as green or as an S day as it was for Mother’s Day). Unfortunately the ‘afternoon tea’ turned out to be a few trays of cheap fairy cakes and a few crisps on a paper plate. I felt so unsatisfied that I ended up having wine and almost an entire large bag of crisps before dinner. Thankfully I didn’t have anything further afterwards.
The lesson learned is don’t have a glass of wine to stave off hunger! Back to normal today and another run completed (or extremely slow jog in my case).
Thank you so much for your lovely words and encouragement. I think the only reason I was successful at one meal a day was because I became obsessed and literally focussed on nothing else. Completely unsustainable as soon as real life kicks in! Something to do with not being fat and forty as well.
Anyway, thank you.
I’m also here to report a FAIL yesterday
(day 6). Fully intended to keep to plan but I had a Mother’s Day afternoon tea at my son’s school late afternoon so I thought I’d delay lunch and have that as it, despite assuming there would be cake (I was going to either count it as green or as an S day as it was for Mother’s Day). Unfortunately the ‘afternoon tea’ turned out to be a few trays of cheap fairy cakes and a few crisps on a paper plate. I felt so unsatisfied that I ended up having wine and almost an entire large bag of crisps before dinner. Thankfully I didn’t have anything further afterwards. The lesson learned is don’t have a glass of wine to stave off hunger! Back to normal today and another run completed (or extremely slow jog in my case).
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Day 7 - SUCCESS
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Day 8 - SUCCESS
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Red days…so many red days 
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Starting again today.
. Starting again today.
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Mark them and move on - hang in there! 
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Honestly, honestly, From what I’ve been learning about repercussions after strict dieting, It’s almost to be expected that it would be hard to adopt moderation right off the bat. I know why you thought that Ohad would work because the voices of the few who make it can sound very loud because the thousands of others who try such a thing and fall off the wagon sooner or later aren’t all coming on and reporting their failures and then getting told by other people that they only have to do XYZ. Somebody could actually, say the same thing about this for him, but we’re not advocating a regime of eating that you can’t really find a human society living by. Even if somebody posits that humans had to eat one meal a day at some time, it was very unlikely that they did it day after day week after week year after year.
You didn’t ask for any suggestions, but I will gently say that generous meals during the week of mostly high-quality food is likely going to be a good way to convince the body that there’s no real danger. If you’re not getting regular exercise of both aerobic and resistance type, that can make it harder to have good appetite regulation. I’ve said on other threads that it just turns my stomach when I hear celebrities talking about losing weight without diet or exercise. That is not a recipe recipe for a long-term success or even health.
You didn’t ask for any suggestions, but I will gently say that generous meals during the week of mostly high-quality food is likely going to be a good way to convince the body that there’s no real danger. If you’re not getting regular exercise of both aerobic and resistance type, that can make it harder to have good appetite regulation. I’ve said on other threads that it just turns my stomach when I hear celebrities talking about losing weight without diet or exercise. That is not a recipe recipe for a long-term success or even health.
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)
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)
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Thank you Amy and Oolala,
Really appreciate the wisdom you share. The thing that's getting me is that I was successful with OMAD for a number of years...and I've recently been looking back on old photos of myself from a couple of years ago and I was much slimmer. But, a bit like your point Oolala, the picture doesn't tell the full story. Like how hard it was, how irritable I was, how my drinking increased just to stave of hunger and how obsessed I was. It just looked like I was successful and in control. But I wasn't reporting the issues to anyone. It's the want to be slim quickly that always lures me back to OMAD even though I know it's not sustainable and it causes drinking issues for me.
My step dad died over Easter and I just plunged into binge eating for comfort and then OMAD and drinking. Just so out of control. I want stability. Started NOS again today.
Appreciate the support on here very much.
Really appreciate the wisdom you share. The thing that's getting me is that I was successful with OMAD for a number of years...and I've recently been looking back on old photos of myself from a couple of years ago and I was much slimmer. But, a bit like your point Oolala, the picture doesn't tell the full story. Like how hard it was, how irritable I was, how my drinking increased just to stave of hunger and how obsessed I was. It just looked like I was successful and in control. But I wasn't reporting the issues to anyone. It's the want to be slim quickly that always lures me back to OMAD even though I know it's not sustainable and it causes drinking issues for me.
My step dad died over Easter and I just plunged into binge eating for comfort and then OMAD and drinking. Just so out of control. I want stability. Started NOS again today.
Appreciate the support on here very much.