Hi, have got decidedly porky over the past few years.
I feel tired and lethargic, and none of my clothes look good anymore.
I also need to lose weight for health reasons and increase my (currently woeful) level of exercise.
I want to follow a simple and 'do-able' eating plan that is fairly simple and that I will be able to sustain ie hoping to lose 0.5 kg each week.
I'm planning to follow the no 'S' "diet":
book here
A summary of the basic rules is:
no snacks
no sweets (it's an American book so that covers puddings as well as biscuits and confectionary)
no seconds
except on days that start with 's' ie the weekend, and 'special' days ie birthdays and big holidays such as Christmas.
I've got the book so can answer further questions but that is basically it!
I'm going to be using MFP to log calories and I have also found the free NHS weight loss plan (includes exercise) helpful too
see here
I am planning to post my weight here 
every Sunday too (but that is not obligatory of course).
The other reason for posting on here is that I don't want to bore my family and friends to death about it in rl!! But it would be nice to have some companions along the way 
.
Anyone want to join in?
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Starting the no 'S' eating regime today to lose weight, anyone want to join in?
standclear · 13/09/2015 14:58
Received disappointing news yesterday and of course I ate to compensate. Wasn't a good day diet-wise so think I may have to starve myself today!
Tues:
B piece of white bread with Philadelphia cheese
L bowl of home-made chickpea, butternut squash and root veg soup
(But also had half a cheese and ham sandwich, and a a handful of crisps unfortunately).
S 2 and a half bowls of pasta (one tomato and olive and fennel, the other pesto and parmesan) but two glasses of 
snack = bunch of red grapes
I also must fess up to eating 3 plain mini choc eggs (2cm size) at some point but don't know whether that was yesterday or the day before!
Hope you find your glasses eltsihT
Hope carb cravings not quite so strong this week Grumpy
The pastas do sound amazing!
Happy birthday eltsihT :) 
Today I have had:
B: one slice wholemeal toast with a slice of cheese
L: salad lunchbox with Caesar dressing, chicken and olives; apple
D: stirfry noodles with chicken and vegetables
BUT, a bunch of people at work went on a chocolate tasting night out last night and brought in all the (expensive, gorgeous) chocolate they couldn't manage to eat. So I've had a quite a lot of couple of pieces
And I will undoubtedly have a glass of wine when I've picked up DD from drama (in 45 mins). DH has already opened it, but is doing the ironing to compensate for having a sneaky extra glass :)
Hi both!
A very happy birthday to eltsihT 
!! Hope you had a lovely day and a lovely dinner with your dh tonight!
Waves to Grumpy congrats on your healthy menu!
Unfortunately the pastas did indeed taste good! (Had some leftovers for lunch today as well as healthy soup!)
Not a particularly good day today either but not terrible
B two pkts of Parovita crackers, black tea with tiny bit of sugar
L chickpea, root veg and butternut squash soup + small plate of pesto pasta
S tiny helping of mash with one fish finger (dh was cooking tonight and I wasn't meant to be eating!)
Had a stevia Coke during afternoon to wake me up.
Bad backache in the early evening so had to lie down for quite a while too!
Oh no eltsihT that sounds tough on all of you! I hope your ds2 recovers quickly.
I've had a terrible day diet wise. Suffice to say it ended with and an ice cream
The ridiculous thing is that I tried on some tops that I bought on-line earlier and they looked awful because of my weight! And instead of that inspiring me to greater dieting efforts, it inspired me to give up and eat more! Absurd!
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