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splandrea

So I have decided to try to stay off the scale for a few months. I'm doing great but feeling antsy with the slower weight loss during the holidays. I'm still chugging along. The only red days I have are days where I allow myself an apple after dinner, which is rare and only out of guilt for not ...

splandrea

I have been at this for 4-1/2 months and it has been unbelievably fantastic. However, I'm feeling like I need to reign in my free for all s days. Anyone have any tips on what worked for them?

splandrea

Tell us your mod. Being new, I haven't had to mod yet, but it sounds like it was just what you needed!

splandrea

In just under 17 weeks, I am officially 15 pounds down, another 2 pounds in just under two weeks! AMAZING! This is hands down the easiest thing in the entire world. I have had all green days since the second month when I experimented and "tested" myself with food - 2 meals per day, leading to a few ...

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Still kicking butt. Saw 239 on the scale but not counting it yet. So happy! I started telling people about NoS on facebook. I can't help myself. A lot of people ask me if it's a scam, because it's too good to be true! THANK YOU REINHARD!!!!!!!!! Seriously from the bottom of my heart. I literally ...

splandrea

Also you could just start with a bigger plate and then eventually scale down to smaller plates.

splandrea

If you work the program exactly as written, you will eventually lose, even if you gain at first. It's a process of learning what makes you tick and changing behaviors permanently. You will lose a half pound to a pound per week eventually, and the amazing part is that since you've learned new ...

splandrea

Just to note, for motivation if I need it later, my jeans are baggy and my son complemented me on noticeable loss.

splandrea

How old were you lost it Reneew? I'm 39 and terrified of being a skin sack

splandrea

100 percent vanilla. No modifications. And I give into almost every craving on s days if a quick attempt at distracting myself doesn't work. Zero suffering. I don't even always make the best meal choices. I just eat whatever every one else is eating (though I'm addicted to fruit so i try to eat a ...

splandrea

13 pounds are gone!

My 18 yr old daughter is showing interest. I so hope she goes for it. I would love it if she could spare herself a lifetime of diet mentality!

splandrea

When my husband forgets and tries to feed me between meals or with desserts, I often feign heartburn. It works well!

splandrea

I can only say that your baby girl had an illness and I might think I was responsible in your situation, too, but I know that's not true. But it sounds to me like this is definitely a stage of grieving you are going through and maybe you don't "need" counseling, maybe you just don't want it? Do you ...

splandrea

I would try it as well. You are still cutting out sugar and that's huge.

splandrea

Officially 10 pounds lighter!

splandrea

I'm totally doing this too! But I'm still (slowly) losing so that's cool.

splandrea

Today I was bested by (a lot of) Dutch apple pie and vanilla ice cream. Soooooo goooood.

splandrea

I'm almost two months in and I eat notably less now. My N days are amazing, but my weekends feel quite glutinous still.

splandrea

I forgot to mention, you guys should see my clean (for the most part) house! It's inspired!

splandrea

Still doing great. Though on Wednesday I got too hungry and ended up halfway through a bag of cheetos. Darn it! Oh well. Hoping for a calm and controlled weekend. No planned treats.

splandrea

During N days, I am eating so much less food than I used to that I scared myself this week wondering if I might have another eating disorder. I have (had?) binge eating disorder (which I did not realize until NoS) and now I scare myself because I am perfectly fine and not at all hungry sometimes ...

splandrea

Definitely drink.

splandrea

It doesn't really fit the plan, but there are plenty of modifications. This might fall under virtual plating?

splandrea

SUCCESSES all month so far! Kicking butt over here

I even had a very very calm weekend where only 1/2 a kit Kat bar was consumed outside my regular three meals. I even had 2 meals a day twice this week because I forgot to eat!

splandrea

Hi there! And good luck - though you won't need it. :). Just think of it as a lifetime thing and it's extremely easy and pretty lenient. NO DIET MINDSET ALLOWED! Lol. I have lost 5 pounds in 7 weeks, so it's not fast, but I feel free from the chains of binging. I have eaten a lot on an s day, but I ...

splandrea

So I woke up this morning with a lot less water in my legs and I am actually down another pound. YAY!! ðŸ˜€

splandrea

Good luck! =D

splandrea

The part about your hair is not stupid. The same thing happened to me and I feel so gross! Hang in there, it will grow! =)

splandrea

Okay I'm over the scale thing (for however long it lasts). I keep "forgetting" that I have lymphedema in both legs. Even though my legs don't balloon up really big (or haven't yet?) I still carry a lot of extra water which fluctuates.

I think it's that with weight loss diets I usually instantly ...

splandrea

I think about you daily as well. (((((hugs)))))

splandrea

THE ANNOYING THING is that I am having nothing but Green Days and I feel like I should be losing faster. Yesterday I was a pound over my starting weight. I'm just slaying this thing and annoyed with the scale right now. Poooop!

splandrea

So wonderfully encouraging

splandrea

I love waiting to eat until mealtime! I never thought I could love it, but I do. SO LAME

splandrea

FYI - The best thing ever: Vanilla or plain Greek yogurt, frozen blueberries, and a whole bunch of wheat germ! To me it tastes very much like cheesecake, but its super healthy. YUMMMMMM!

splandrea

Wow, seven years is outstanding!

Thank you for your insight.

I was thinking about asking people who had been successful with the plan to give me ideas about things they either did that they felt were the key to their success, or things they wished they would have done, or just neat things that ...

splandrea

Okay, so I know for sure that I need to keep the B,L,D structure on the weekends. That is all I have decided so far. I think I will just try to get through the weekend like that (not worrying about if I am eating anything in addition to B,L,D) and see if that makes it better - hopefully I will be ...

splandrea

Still here. Still dislike weekends. I did actually go crazy this time, and I know exactly why. Sugar turns me into a crazy person! I'm not ready to make modifications. I need to come up with some strategies to have my sugar and eat it too.

splandrea

I eat a lot of sugar on Saturdays but I noticed that I am kind of making myself eat the stuff I thought I wanted all week.

splandrea

Friday was hard for me. I wanted an evening snack! I was so hungry and I just stayed up too late. Once I looked at the clock I realized why I was "hungry" and I went to bed

splandrea

Such a relief this morning - the scale finally moved! Now I can relax.

I have been impatient lately about my habits. I don't know why. I have been easily changing them left and right - and NoS has made a HUGE contribution to me being able to do that. I even quit smoking COLD TURKEY 11 days ago ...

splandrea

I am definitely not leaving the plan, but I don't want to only maintain or lose next to nothing if I don't have to.

I dont really want to modify, I'm just looking for reassurance that if I do this, I will be healthier.

splandrea

I had a moment of clarity, noticing today that my dinner plate was huge. Just feels good to notice something like that. I finally also shook that needing to lose weight faster feeling. If I lose 2 pounds a month for the first year, I will be satisfied.

splandrea

I am feeling like a crybaby.
I got the scale out, against my better judgment, and I am back almost to my starting weight.

I have no messed up once, only had one S-day that was not controlled, and it is day 19. I just feel like, if I am doing this correctly, that the weight would be coming off, at ...

splandrea

I think a lot of us can relate to at least some of what you are going through.

I will say that this way of eating is basically really good for correcting eating disorders, because it demands ordered eating 5 days a week. I did not even realize I had a binge eating disorder until I started this ...

splandrea

YOU CAN DO IT!!!

splandrea

I literally have no idea what it could be. Every time I think I pin down a particular food group, it changes, or at least it seems to! I do know for certain without a doubt that I cannot eat avocado (sad!) but that has been established for almost 10 years now.

So the weekend was not everything I ...

splandrea

Yuck! I forgot how eating a lot of sugar makes you feel like you are starving to death later on. I overdid it yesterday so I am eating normally today and I won't eat a snack or sweet unless something special comes up. I ate in a very disordered fashion yesterday and I didn't like it. maybe next ...

splandrea

My favorite thing about no s is that I am not required to track food at all!
LOL!

Anyway, welcome! This is essentially the most brilliant weight loss strategy ever because it trains you to eat normally so you don't have to regain the weight you lose, and it isn't really restrictive. Plus, you ...

splandrea

You have really good lunches. My lunches are always something random as I am scavenging the kitchen for enough things to put on a plate to make a meal. Usually like a peanut butter bagel and yogurt and fruit. Sometimes I get lucky and there are dinner leftovers.

splandrea

Merry! I hope that happens for me too.

I don't know what is wrong with by stomach. I had my gallbladder out 12 years ago, but what I am feeling feels like gallbladder pain. And it was happening sporadically a few weeks ago, but got more and more concentrated, let up, and then got worse again. I am ...

splandrea

Still here. Day 14 successful. Having horrendous stomach issues that I thought were solved but came back so much so that I'm scared to eat food for fear of pain. I had eggs on buttered toast with a banana for breakfast and paid for it all day with upper abdominal and back pain. So lunch was plain ...

splandrea

Sounds like a plan! I just hid my scales yesterday. I mean, I know where they are, but they are not readily available for me to use every single time I walk into the bathroom!

splandrea

....and that weigh-in took place this morning.
And the scale has been moved! Phew!

splandrea

So I think my biggest downfall of any eating plan has been messing up, and I am very optimistic that that will not be the case this time with no-S. I said before that it truly does not even feel like a diet, it feels like the opposite of a diet - like something you would do to maintain or make sure ...

splandrea

I am still here, still all green so far, but I suppose that's normal for the beginning. I have little mini fears that my first red day will put me in a tailspin, so I'm going to buy the book to read a few hundred times! Lol

And I have decided to definitely take the scale away from myself, at least ...

splandrea

I think what I was feeling when I wrote that was that I wished I could tell her about No-S because right now it feels like it was sent from heaven (lol) but feeling that after all of the years and effort she has put into that lifestyle, who am I to tell her to do something different?

Also ...

splandrea

Its funny because I instantly came up with my own special days, which I know is not the exact plan, but I am fine with normal eating on most holidays. Probably not Thanksgiving, though. And actually when I compared my list of special days with the calendar, I realized they were almost always on a ...

splandrea

My mom has been diabetic for 20 years and has been annoyingly perfectly compliant with the diet she was given. It was a three meals a day plan and she has been doing it every day since her diagnosis without a second thought. She rarely eats sweet things, but also rarely did before her diagnosis, and ...

splandrea

I am going to wait on the habitcal and see how I do. I just want to "be normal," to eat normally like a normal regular weight person, without any tracking of any sort. We shall see.

splandrea

Exactly. It almost feels like its not a diet. Like its what you would revert to if you were going off a diet - except for the important differences of not overeating, not snacking, and not eating garbagy sweets. I think WHEN I mess it up, I will go back to the drawing board of... eating this way ...

splandrea

Hi Kaia! Nice to meet you. I am following you as we are only a few months apart in starting times and I want to see how deal with stuff. It looks like so far, so good!

I was wondering, are you doing this for weight loss or weight maintenance? Do you have a lot to lose? I have about 80-90 pounds to ...

splandrea

Hi everyone. I just wanted to get in on this checking in thing, a good place to review and stay accountable as well as to figure out where I am going wrong (if/when I go wrong...)

I started out at 255.4 pounds on 07/01/17. I have tried No-S about three or four times, never really lasting long ...

splandrea

I follow one of the Biggest Loser past contestants on facebook and tonight she posted a picture of her dinner and I realized how sad I felt for her, thinking she has to eat like a bird and exercise a lot every day in order to lose weight. She still has plenty to lose and I felt hopeless for her ...

splandrea

Hi. I'm new. I've been following this plan for a week. I love it! I already feel like I will never "diet" again. I have read just about every thread on this board so I will know what to expect. Some of you are VERY motivational! So happy to be here

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