The No S Diet

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A friendly, supportive thread for anyone following a diet of moderation
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/weight_loss_chat/2873838-the-no-s-diet?pg=40

Morning everyone.
beela and twofloorsup those are very helpful suggestions thank you both!

Neither could I Beela but once someone showed me it's so easy.
I just boil a few inches of water with a drop of white vinegar and gently drop the eggs in.
I'll have to look up the sourdough recipe and have a go. I'm just lazy !

You are welcome goats - let us know how you get on.

two thanks for the tips I'll try it. If you crack on with the sourdough, and I practice my eggs then we can meet back here next week for breakfast!

Perfect. I'll pop by aldi for the avocados

Hello all, I'm still here.
I haven't been doing great but lurking here and thinking of you all battling on helped.
I'm in awe of those of you do 30-day-shred!

I've been avoiding a few obvious truths which I still haven't dared to face full on but at least am not ignoring either.
DH was away and I fell into the old trap of eating, binged a few times and realised I don't actually enjoy it! Not even in a guilty 'This is so wrong but so good' way.

Truth 1) even when I stick to 3 plates, and it's getting easier and I feel better for it, I probably eat more than my body needs or can process
Cheddar our metabolism sound similar
Truth 2) Even though I watch my carbohydrates intake (sort of, not really etc), the amount I eat doesn't seem to agree with me. Thinking I'm being 'careful' won't do.
Truth 3) it's a confidence / self worth issue (duh!) – I have to do more than just be aware of it.
Can any of you relate to this at all?
How do I deal with these without obsessing? I feel I''m not doing enough.

Hello folks. Thanks for the welcome posie and beela. Jumping right in. I have started today. Day 1 was pretty easy but that's par for the course on all diets. The test will come when someone offers me a chocolate .

I've also upped my exercise - or plan to!

I'm a bit skeptical I must say about whether this will actually work, but I guess if it doesn't it means I'm loading my plates too much...

I didn't weigh myself today but I will tomorrow - I think I have 16kg to lose or thereabouts, so over 2 stone. How many weeks are there til Christmas? Do you think I could lose 10 kg by then?

Hello! Can I join this thread? I spotted it the other day and looked at the link and it seems really sensible. I've done a couple of days and I feel really good about the not snacking because honestly I've got into the habit of grazing all day long on sugary crap.

The only thing is that I get so grumpy and start to feel a bit shaky and unwell when I'm hungry. To combat that I've been having really substantial meals which is fine but I'm worried about taking that too far! Today I had two fried eggs on toast for breakfast, and for lunch a whole pot of veggie soup (half a pot is 140 kcal), plus a crisp sandwich and a slice of cheddar .

I need to be less greedy at mealtimes don't I? It's just hard to be sure how well I'm going to make it through to the next meal without having a quite substantial nosh!

Oh and I also had a weetabix at breakfast with some coco pops on top! Which was probably cheating

Hi @Fudgit and welcome.
My plates are still massive and I started in January !
I wouldn't stick to it otherwise.

Thanks twofloors! How have you found it for weight loss?

Hello - can I join you please?

I bought the 'No S' book recently. I work from home i.e. far too close to the fridge and have a tendency to "procrastin-eat" in the work day!

I also binge when I'm emotional and I've gained over three stone with misery eating since my parents died. There was a point where dieting was the last thing I needed to think about, and it was just about getting through it, but now the extra weight is depressing me and I want to get some balance back to my eating and get back into my favourite clothes - but slowly and gently as I've found that restrictive diets trigger binge eating for me.

Do any of you guys have tactics for dealing with snack cravings? What do you do instead? For me I think food gives me a legitimate excuse to take a break from work and I need to work on taking 'non-food' breaks... Any thoughts?

@Runningoverthefields I started on this diet primarily to stop binge eating.
I would say take one day at a time , make sure your plates will fill you til the next meal time and include plenty of protein and healthy fat. You are allowed a glass of milk if you're struggling. I found very quickly that as I was only going to eat 3 times a day instead of hoovering food all day , I made it count !
@Fudgit I've lost a stone and a half since January and seem to have stopped there. But losing weight was never my motivation as I've spent my whole life yoyo dieting.

@twofloors up that's brilliant! If I could lose a similar amount I'd be really happy with that, it's not going to make me skinny but I'd be comfortable with myself. I just think it will do me a lot of good to eat properly, I've tended to binge on snacks and then not eat proper meals so I'm not just overweight, it's affected my health quite significantly. I know I'm only two days in but for me to eat three proper meals and nothing else is amazing and I'm really happy about that!

I feel so much healthier !
And I took up exercise at Easter despite being a couch potato but now I absolutely love it.

I'm a terrible couch potato too, not sure how to find the motivation to get moving! I've never really enjoyed exercise but maybe if I stick at it and actually get fitter it won't be so bad...

I hated it to start with but forced myself into it and persevered.
It helped that I paid for a gym membership that I can't easily cancel and I hate wasting money

Venella, yup, I have utterly binged this week, and besides; I don't lose without serious exercise. Damn it! Ouch. On Ripped in 30 level 2 day 5 and still not keeping up at all!

Cannot stop eating. On holiday now - have eaten endlessly since Thurs pm as a result. Away just now - will be home Friday.

2 days in, going well, but the bad news is I am heavier than I thought - 84kg! - which means I have 20kg to lose 😱😢. I have sporadic weight data on MFP going back to 2010 so I can confidently say this is the heaviest I've ever been. But Yoyo dieting needs to stop. I hope this works!!
I suppose it's going to take a year though ... how depressing.

cheddar I'm on week 4 of Ripped in 30 for the second time round, with 30 day shred on between and it's still killing me!!

Edd sounds like a good start, well done! I find the slow progress daunting sometimes too, but I try to think about this as changing my eating habits permanently rather than being 'on a diet'.

I haven't dared weigh myself since coming back from holiday. I didn't go too far off track, and have kept up the exercise, but I think I'm just being a wuss.

Thanks @twofloorsup - that is all really good advice and I appreciate the support. Just had a small glass of milk to help me to hold on until dinnertime. I'm doing better today and I think it's because I joined this thread.

I've spent my whole life yoyo dieting too. A girl at school told me that I had fat legs when I was eight years old, and that was it - my first crash diet. (Looking back at photos I was skinny at the time - but I'm not any more). I really like in the book when he says that this is 'normal eating codified' - that's what I've been looking for. I don't care how slow my weight loss is, I just want to surrender the constant fight and find something balanced that I can stick to for life.

Working really hard not to binge today as I'm feeling negative...live opposite a shop and can feel the chocolate fingers calling to me!

Thoughts: do almond croissants count as a 'sweet' ie should I restrict them to weekends?

Struggling with my sweet tooth!

You're welcome @Runningoverthefields

@Fudgit hate to burst your bubble but I would definitely class that as a dessert item.

@twofloorsup yes I thought so really . Will save them for a weekend treat. I did have a bit of a chocolate finger blip but was having a bad day generally yesterday, starting again today and still feeling good about it. Also I restrained myself to only eating about a quarter of the box whereas before I would have eaten all of them probably.

I definitely do have a bit of a sugar addiction and particularly chocolate - I just find it really boosts my mood when I'm feeling down more than anything else, so it's a bit of a coping mechanism for me at times. And other times it's just pure greed and bad habits .

@beela - Try this for poaching an egg. Put some cold water in the bottom of a teacup (cup, not mug). Crack an egg into the water. Microwave for exactly 60 seconds. Gently slide the egg out onto a slotted spoon so that it drains. Et voila - poached egg.

If your microwave is more powerful than mine 60 seconds might be too much so experiment if so.

I had poached egg on avocado on toast this morning - soooo good.
I managed not to snack so far today - hurray