Counting carbs/calories is a drag. Obsessive scale stepping is a recipe for despair. If you want to count something, "days on habit" is a much better metric. Checking off days on a calendar would do just fine, but if you do it here you get accountability and support. Here's how. Start a new topic in this forum called (say) "Your Name Daily Check In." Then every N day post a "reply" to that topic as to whether you stayed on habit. A simple "<font color="green">SUCCESS</font>" or "<font color="red">FAILURE</font>" (or your preferred euphemism if that's too harsh) is sufficient, but obviously you're welcome to write more if you want. On S-days just register that you're taking an S-day. You don't have to do this forever, just until you're confident you've built the habit. Feel free to check in weekly or monthly or sporadically instead of daily. Feel free also to track other habits besides No-s (I'm keeping this forum under No-s because that's what the vast majority are using it for). See also my <a href="/habitcal/">HabitCal</a> tool for another more formal (and perhaps complementary) way to track habits.
I've decided to properly commit to the No S Diet and want to keep this check-in as a way of motivating myself. I randomly came across Reinhard's book a couple of weeks ago and was really taken by the simplicity and common-sense of his advice.
I'm 5'5" and 126lbs. Not strictly overweight but I'm about 10 pounds heavier than I was a few years ago. The first time I moved out of home and away from its easy structure of moderate eating, my gluttony got the better of me and overeating became the norm. Recently, 'emotional' eating has become far to common. This is what I'm more concerned about, even more than the weight I'd like to drop.
I feel quite out of control in my relationship with food. The way the No S Diet describes emotional eating struck a chord with me - for me it is not about comfort but about punishing myself - clearly unhealthy and I don't want this to have power over me any more! So I here I am...doing vanilla No S and starting out by trying to join the 21 Day Club!
Wish me luck! Today was an S Day Will keep you updated.
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We'll be looking forward to reading your posts and sharing your No S experience. I'm quite new too, not reached my 21 days yet, but I found that if you jump on in the folks on this board are extremely friendly
Have to say I found it a little bit of a relief to be back on N Days today. My weekend involved quite a lot of chocolate...I know that I didn't really want all the S's that I ate, but I'm hoping that over time as Reinhard said my healthy N day habits will carry over to the S Days too.
Anyway, not beating myself up about it as they were S days! And I have to say there is a lot of joy in being able to eat a plate of whatever I want for dinner on an N Day and still be within a diet's guidelines!
Sad to report this as I really didn't mean for it to happen. Had lunch at 12.30 as usual but the way business and travel worked out today I didn't get to eat again til 10pm, at which point I could have gnawed the leg off the table....as it was a corporate dinner there were starters all round and I simply couldn't wait. Poppadums were the failure - not the most substantial as seconds go but still a fail.
Hey! Sorry about your little failure, but I see that you are already back on track Good luck for next week, I am also trying to get into the 21 Day Club
6.06.11 N day SUCCESS
7.06.11 N day SUCCESS
8.06.11 N day SUCCESS
Back on track..! I think I need a little bit more accountability in terms of WHAT I'm actually eating. While I'm still sticking to Vanilla No S for the moment, I need to get a better idea of how healthily/unhealthily I'm actually eating - with not too much weight to lose I realistically do need to be quite conservative with my calories, and right now I'm just eating whatever I fancy as long as there are no S's involved.
SO, today went as follows:
Breakfast - almond croissant and strawberry smoothie
Lunch - Cheddar and tomato sandwich with salad and crisps
Dinner - Noodle and salmon salad with broad beans, cucumber and mango
I'm just going to track my diet for a while to get a better idea of where I'm going right/wrong.
Will keep you updated.
Good luck for next week, I am also trying to get into the 21 Day Club