No Snacks, no sweets, no seconds. Except on Days that start with S. Too simple for you? Simple is why it works. Look here for questions, introductions, support, success stories.
Maybe rather than forgetting what you have learned you should learn other things about it.
Smell it, taste it, chew it (notice how the taste changes during chewing), feel it - everything you can learn about whatever is in front of you. Then remember: calories are bs - as calories don't equal calories and there's a lot more to a healthy, balanced diet than that.
eschano - Vanilla rocks!
July 2012- January 2016
Started again January 2021
I'm a former yo-yo calorie counter who came to No S in part to get away from all that. I've been No Sing for 2 years, and I can promise you, it gets better. Much, much better.
Keep in mind this is a long process. I know it's exciting to read Reinhard's No S web page or his book and think "yes, I want that, NOW!", but getting rid of "diet head" and old diet habits and mentality doesn't happen in a snap of the fingers. You can't "unknow" information. If someone asked me today, I could still remember how many calories are in a medium hard boiled egg. The difference is that now I don't give a ****.
Start small. Try cooking something new that is hard to estimate (like a casserole or curry) without checking the recipe or labels. Eat a plate or bowlful and enjoy it. Eventually, you'll start to forget to look, forget to measure, forget to add up.
Finally, No S doesn't require you to not count calories. There are some posters here who combine the two. It's not for me, but you can be successful No-Ser even if you can't bear to leave calories behind.
