#nosdiet

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That glorious moment when you can finally fit back into your favourite pre-pregnancy, pre-overindulgent-Europe-holiday denim 😍 #nosdiet #notdoneyet

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Change: -.2 lb

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EatSmart Precision Digital Bathroom Scale w/ Extra Large Lighted Display (not affiliated) I just bought this scale two weeks ago to weigh in on. I originally bought an analog scale but returned it because I figured on a diet where the losses may be slow, I’d still like to see if I lost even 0.2 lbs. The hatch marks for the analog scale were so tiny that I needed to bend over or squat down with my glasses on to see the numbers. With this extra large readout, I don’t need to. The scale also comes with this handy measurement tape but I rarely ever use these things.

I'm 21 days into the No S diet and am noticing small but significant changes. The other day, I realized that I felt gross when I pigged out...something I rarely feel. So, I ate a more fiber filled but substantial meal the next sitting. Also, when I was working on a project with a coworker, she pulled out a bag of cherries she just bought at the farmers market and asked if I wanted some. I did but it wasn't meal time and I thought "I wasn't hungry for cherries when I came over here" so I told her no. Sure, they're just cherries but a snack is a snack. I count that a non scale victory. I also started doing some fun Barre workout videos in the evenings. I also plan to incorporate back in yoga and walking. I'll post the videos next time. Change: -1.8 lbs

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Starting over...again

In the almost 3 years since I last posted, so much has changed in my life. Along the way, I lost my drive to be fit and struggled hard on my fitness and health journey. I wanted to post about it, I did. But then I thought, who the hell would want to hear some chick posting on and on about her failed attempt to move her butt and stick with a diet plan? Boring! And yet, we all struggle so here I am. Laying myself bare.

I decided 2 weeks ago to love myself enough to make a change in the way I eat, to start working out again and to love myself back to goal. 

I’ve decided that I don’t have the patience, desire or attention span for calorie counting. I tried that over and over again and wasn’t successful. Weight Watchers also lost a Lifetime member with their repeated updates and program changes. 

I only look for a few basic things in any weight loss program. It must be:

Sustainable - I have to be able to stick with it not just to lose 10 lbs before a big event but for the next 20 years, at the minimum.

Inclusive - I’m not giving up entire food groups to lose weight.

Affordable - As much as I think I’d love to spend hundreds of dollars just to get thin, that’s not going to happen. I’m not going to go to drive all over God’s earth just to find ingredients/foods either.

And the newest addition to my list is:

It can’t involve counting/tracking - It just isn’t intuitive to me anymore and there are millions if not billions of people who maintain a healthy weight without apps or food journals

So what does that leave for me? The No S Diet. 

And yes, that little badge pretty much sums up the entire diet. I know you may be thinking, that’s not going to work. You need to do much more than that to lose weight! But do you? I think about how many calories I’d cut out a day by just not eating snacks. I usually have a snack of string cheese before breakfast on my commute and then a piece of fruit with or without nut butter either between lunch and dinner. Then I’d have a scoop of ice cream for dessert. By conservative estimate, that’s roughly 400 calories saved daily. You can, however, indulge on some “S” days (an “S” day is defined as either Saturday, Sunday or a “special” day). It’s not a cheat day, however as the diet creator just warns that you don’t overdo it.  

I did overdo it the first two weekends I was on the diet and still lost but I felt sick to my stomach on Saturday and will have to learn to do better. It’s all a process. 2 weeks in, I’ve already learned where my sore spots are and have to focus on them. Moderation is a bitch to learn! On the process, I’m also learning to be okay with hunger. I’m not starving and my body will equalize. At least, that’s what I tell myself when my tummy rumbles.

Now, for the hard part. You’re not going to lose a ton of weight per week on this diet (allegedly, as with any diet it’s YMMV). I’m okay with that. I figure that I either continue not doing anything or caring and staying neutral or I make a change and lose slowly. The average is 1/2 pound per week, which in all honesty is what WW promoted when I was a member. I’m sure some weeks will be higher or lower but given my general malaise, I’d rather lose 13 lbs a year not tracking or counting vs 50 otherwise. Also, I can see myself on this for decades to come. It’s how my grandparents ate and they lived well into their 80′s.

My next step is to get better about fitness. I resolved this year to get to 10k steps daily but had an allergic reaction to the nickel in my Fitbit and never continued. I will, however, commit to doing dance, walking or yoga as my forms of exercising (of course with some strength training thrown in).

Wish me luck! 

Change: -0.60 lb

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I went to Starbucks to get a free drink I had on my card and I got a treat receipt for a bakery item for $1 and I threw the receipt away. 

I just thought about the mini cheesecakes that my friend is making for the luncheon we're giving tomorrow for the ladies at church 50+.

Progress, y'all.

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This is a simple way to think about your eating habits. Eat what you want, but only at meal times.

No snacks

No sweets

No seconds

Except on days that start w/s (Saturday, Sunday, Special Occasions).

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Beginning a healthy food lifestyle

And because oversnacking and eating seconds are really my major problem, not so much the quality of the food I eat, I've also added my own condition: no Shit. And by that I basically mean no overprocessed, additive filled crappy foods. This is because I've noticed some changes that happen to my body when I eat bad foods. For example, I haven't eaten Macdonalds or any takeaways (other than the occasional all natural burger at Johnny's or the turkish kebab house) basically since May. Then, yesterday, we took one of our respite kids to darkzone, and on the way home, my brother offered to buy me lunch. I'm not one to turn down a free meal so I said yes. He bought me a large chicken wrap meal thing. I ended up pouring the coke down the drain (because it was coke zero and full of aspartame) and I was struggling to finish the chips and wrap because I felt physically ill eating it. Then I couldn't concentrate for the rest of the day.  Something similar happened when I was studying at uni on Friday. I had just ploughed through three hours of study and was feeling a bit peckish. Unfortunately, nothing on campus was really open because it was study week so my options were a food van and vending machines. I ended up getting a spinach quiche (okay) and a snickers bar (not okay.) I ate the quiche and did another hour of study. Then I ate the snickers bar and after that, I totally lost my focus.  See also: msg-filled mi goreng gives me migraines. See also: I don't really drink even though I'm an eighteen year old uni student with a pub on campus because alcohol makes my kidneys hurt. So yeah. Let's see how this goes. I've already had some massive chocolate cravings and I only started this morning. But my wonderful boyfriend started his own meal plan two weeks ago and has already lost 2kg while doing less exercise than usual, so hopefully we can help motivate one-another.

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No S Diet Day 1

Day 1 went OK. Managed no seconds or snacks, but caved at lunch with the no sweets rule. Was almost tempted to just go crazy and 'start again tomorrow' but stuck it out, and I'm glad I did.