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Monday morning, new week, TOM gone, gut flu gone, 61 kg. Fresh start. No more reversing, I got tired of eating soup and salmon for breakfast, and two breakfast's worth of food for dinner.... Back to plain No-S with a protein pick-me-up between lunch and dinner if need be. Oh, bought a bottle of CLA ...

What has helped me is a glass of milk with some protein powder added. Protein is very filling. Just one glass leaves me like I've eaten a good-sized snack, with just around 100 calories.

Hi Rose

I think there's much myth in the French women don't get fat and Mediterranean neither, I live in Portugal, our diet is mostly Mediterranean and I've traveled in Spain, France and Italy and there's fat people everywhere.

Maybe the proportion isn't so high as in the US but it mustn't be ...

Long time no check in (1 week)

This was a tough week. By RNS 8 or 9 (today is 11) I started feeling tired of the reverse stuff. And I noticed my dinner breakfast was getting bigger and bigger. By Wednesday besides TOM I started with colics, developed diarrhea and last night was so terrible I took 2 ...

Thanks a million, TSF! I couldn't hear the audio, my computer wouldn't open it, but I'll try at home. Thanks for your trouble - have a great weekend or should I say S-days!!

wow - a pound down this AM! :D

Yesterday, RNS3: @ 62 kg
8 am: Veggie soup with grated mozarella, 2 thin slices dark bread with egg paté, orange, coffee.
13.30: Onion soup, a little tuna salad, banana, chunk of dark bread.
19.00: A sandwich of dark bread with goat cheese & quince jam. Milk.

Note ...

Today is my 21 day mark. Already!!!!!!!!!!
My weight is the same as at the start, but considering I'm in PMSland, no big wonder. Glad it's not higher. And I had two birthdays in between. Going 5 days without sweets was easier than I thought.

Yesterday, 2nd day on upside-down no-s:

8 AM - spagetti ...

I also put on weight very easily, which can be frustrating.

However, I heard some scientific expert on the radio the other day explaining that to survive, all populations need to include people who can fight (thin) and people who can survive famines (inclined to be fat). Populations which have ...

Thanks for the encouragement, USAFwife!...
Good to know the diet worked for someone "real". I'm not doing it per the book (it's a restriction diet anyway, only lean meats, whole grains and lowfat dairies, but I already eat like that often). I'm just reversing the order of the meals.

My yesterday's ...

I tend to agree with wosnes and Pam Anderson. Variety makes us eat more, and that was proven by some rat experiment, where food was put in front of two groups of rats. There was no limit as to the quantities they could eat, but one of the groups had more variety to chose from, and these rats grew ...

Hi
My problem is similar to yours. I tried the classic approach "eat less move more", a 1200 cal/day diet, OTC supplements, the shangri-la diet that at least helped me realign my eating habits, and now No-S. As of this morning, I'm officialy on a reverse No-S diet: I eat upside down, not literally ...

Someone mentioned eating upside down... I'm game! Been reading about the reverse diet, and I'll be doing it the No-S way. Started this morning, with an onion soup with greens and two toasted whole wheat bread slices with tuna pate. No time to eat fruit but it will be corrected tomorrow. I'll give ...

This was my second weekend on No-S and I went a little too far! Friday I had a birthday dinner, so I decided it was going to be an S-day. Saturday too and I ate a lot of junk. Sunday, I had planned to be an N-day, but I ended up drinking a couple glasses of wine and eating bread with cottage cheese ...

Good to know you're feeling good about the No-S, Jenn! :)
My second set of S-days was harder than the first... I baked a cake and ate almost half :oops:
I've realized I can't pig out like that on S-days, or I'll never see results.
Now my weight has gone up, but it's hormonal time :? maybe it's ...

An attitude mellower...? HUH! I Love that!...

Eating in waves happens to me whenever I have soup, and I end up eating too much!
For example, I have soup and a sandwich, then I realize I'm still hungry and eat a piece of fruit and a yogurt.
It IS tricky! I must be very careful.

My story is exaclty like czechen's, so I prefer to have a glass of milk with protein powder when I get home, so I don't graze till dinner!...

Welcome, I'm new too, just finished my first week. It wasn't painful and I'm 2 pounds down! Amazing! I was baffled about not snacking at first, I had to resort to a glass of milk, which was enough to get me going till dinner time. Honestly, I had thought I'd starve with just a glass of milk mid ...

Yes, that's funny because I've subconsciously regarded wine as an S food... good idea calling all alcohol Spirits and place them out of N-day bounds!
I avoided wine all week long, I know I lose control over my eating when I drink. Yes, I think if you are earnest about losing at a good pace you ...

Jennyyyyyyyyyyyy yay! TWO pounds lost in a week! I can't believe it after so many months stalling on the other stuff.

Truth be said I took a snack glass of milk most these N-days, once plain, once with protein powder, once with less protein powder and 1 teaspoon flaxseed oil, noseclipped. The other ...

Flora, i totally agree, and I'm only 1 week into this :)
Your item 1) reminded me of a fascinating lecture given by Thich Nhat Hanh on mindful eating. Where he says look at the orange and see the sun inside. Beautiful!
Then your item 2) expresses exactly what I feel. If given too much leeway, I ...

hey Jenn, howzit going?...
Yes, your Bkfs are Ok, in fact they look my kind of dinner, and your supper is my BKf, funny :lol:
Today is my day 8, and in a week I dropped a pound, which would take a month on SLD... I guess you're right, that one loves very heavy ppl who used to eat a lot, unlike us ...

The "brush your teeth after eating" tip has helped me a lot! I do it after dinner. I brush and floss impeccably, and I don't eat again because I'm too lazy to do it all again. And I wouldn't dream of going to bed without brushing, I've spent too much money fixing my teeth recently :roll:

OTOH ...

Hello Viktoria

I'm European too, and this is my day 6. So far so good! Even the S weekends days weren't too difficult. I just ate a snack meal instead of dinner both days. It was a couple slices of a pumpkin cake and 3 waffles, but I cooked them from scratch, and they weren't too sweet. I did ...

Thank you Randall!! Tea is a good suggestion, I'm a tea person, actually I used to have tea with my mid-afternoon snack (and a couple toasts with butter, jam, or ham and cheese, then some cookies, then fruit, then nuts - good stuff but too many calories at the end of the day).

Peppermint tea is ...

JENNZENN hi! I'm so glad you did check out the site and gave this a chance!... Maybe it's the answer for us! At least, not much "tweaking" is involved, we've got simple rules to obey and that's it, not much room for confusion and indecision (just what I needed!!!) :D

I'm crossing my fingers for ...

Thanks for your support too, flora3x and wosnes. I had forgotten to mention, whenever I go too long without food I get the most terrible migraines. I try to not go beyond 4 hours without eating. Unless, of course, the previous meal was huge and after 4 hours I'm still full, but that seldom happens ...

A glass of milk sounds good, warm milk might comfort me till dinner time. I'm going to try that. I could add some protein powder, to get me going.
I was also thinking of doing SLD (the Shangri-la diet, you know, the oils as flavorless calories) together with No-S, but it's still calories, so I'll ...

Okay so I want to give No-S a try, since nothing else works for me, but I have this problem, I have lunch at 13:00 and usually get home from work at 18:30, at that time I'm always hungry and eat quite a bit (especially carbs). At 19.30 I start cooking dinner for the family, and sometimes I have some ...