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

Hi Short I am also planning to start NoS again, I had some good losses in the summer last year now seem to be back to eating whatever and doing now exercise

My bathroom scales tell me a number that certainly can't be true

How’s everyone getting on? I’ve had such a bad 10 days as we’ve all been off work and school and now I feel horrible! Back to it today!

Im the same trialsmum, ate a kot of junk over the holiday and feeling very bloated & unhealthy. Afraid to go on scales as that would probably de motivate me!
Started back on no s today, had great success last year and sort of drifted back to old ways.

Awful

Clearly haven't got myself into the right thinking yet ... always tomorrow right?

Dont give up try again tomorrow x

I think this never ending winter isn’t helping. This time last year I was in shorts and it felt worthwhile to put the effort in, now I’ve lived in thick jumpers for the last 6 months it doesn’t! The trouble is though, you want to look your best before it’s shorts weather don’t you? Otherwise it’s too late and you miss it!

Sat here with an effing painful headache clinging onto a chocolate bar ... tomorrow I think

Signing in. 11st11 and enough is enough. Would like to get down to 9st7. I've had it with 5:2 and slimming world and low carbing - need something properly sustainable long term that helps me sort out my relationship with food!!

Well it ended up being flu. Completely flattened by it the past few days! Still not over it yet slowly coming around.

It has probably helped somewhat in that I haven't actually wanted to eat anything ...

Has reminded me I need to do a much better job of self care, not overworking, eating good food not rubbish

I’ll join you too if I may. I’m completely overwhelmed by diets involving counting or logging so ‘No S’ might be better for me. Have 3 stone to lose.

Right, bugger it, I'm back in. I have tried this before and didn't lose any weight, but on reflection, there were an awful lot of S days in there! I'm going to try Beela's approach of this will take a year. By my holiday next July (so slightly more than a year), I vow that I will have stuck to No S 80% of the time. But I'm going to go on clothes size rather than weight because I get pissy and sulky if I weigh myself and nothing has happened.

I don't know what I weigh because I binned my scales, but I'm pretty sure I've got at least 1.5 stone to lose to get into my nicer clothes and 2 stone to be properly into a healthy BMI.

Currently drinking a nice cup of tea (lemon verbena anyone?) staving off my hunger to have a proper tea

So far had fruit and fibre for breakfast, and a turkey wrap as late as I could have it for lunch. One snack mid-morning of an orange.

Massive Ben and Jerry ads everywhere on the way to work though! A new ice cream pot - trying to ignore...

Got halfway through the orange before I remembered. Managed not to attack the sweet bowl at work though

Pitterpatter, you can have proper tea!

Oh wait, do you mean proper tea as in dinner? If so, ignore me. I thought you meant cup of tea.

I have been very sensible today - tried on a few fancy dresses which without exception are ridiculously tight in the bust. Experience of frantic attempts to diet into said dresses has resulted in me going to at least 3 weddings with constricted boobage - some worse than others. I have given in and bought a dress in the next size up rather than convince myself I can lose 2 inches off my bust in a month. I hope the bloody thing fits to reward me for my sensible act!

I realised after I used tea twice for different things. not helpful!

Been going on great except today... my DSis bought me a monthly cake subscription... so today it fell through the letterbox and of course I had to try it

Hope the dress fits Too!

Hello everyone - can I join you? I'm coming back to No S. I got impatient with the slow weight loss on No S and went back onto 'proper diets' like Slimming World, Weight Watchers etc. With all of them I had initial success before binge eating reared its ugly head again and I ended up actually gaining weight, whilst feeling crazy, angry with myself and frustrated.

I think No S was the only time I've ever been sane around food. I don't have a specific weight loss goal. In fact I'm so sick of the whole merry-go-round that I'll accept wherever my weight ends up, if I can just be free of the diet/binge cycle. I think No S might be a way of codifying what 'normal eating' looks like and that's a really helpful thing for me. I don't think I'll even weigh myself as for me a gain or a loss can both be a trigger for a binge.

It's going well so far - no binges for the past week, I've eaten substantial nutritious meals, and feeling a lot better about myself and my clothes feel more comfortable.

Hello Running, welcome back!

Pitterpatter, dress has arrived but think it’s a fake (bought on EBay, it was supposed to be Coast but it doesn’t look right) so I haven’t tried it on.

Well, I have made it to Friday and am feeling pretty pleased with myself! Proper meals, jeans feel marginally looser (probably psychosomatic, but I will take it!). Now just need to not pig out at the weekend! Sensible treats, not all the treats!

Thanks for the welcome TooExtra and congrats on a good week.

Such a beautiful day - I'm going for a long walk in the sunshine. As well as sorting out my eating I want to include exercise that I really enjoy into my life - rather than exercise where I count how many calories I've burned....

Too oh that’s a shame! Can you send it back? I am never sure how eBay works for that

Running so agree with you on the exercise thing - started a yoga class I love and now I am trying to go each week. My gym membership... well. The less said the better

pitterpatter I'm going to a yoga class that I love today too. I haven't been to it for the past four weeks and I'm feeling really reluctant about going today as well - even though I know that I really do love it, and that I'll feel much better for going.

The only trouble for me is that the class is 12pm to 1pm. I worry about being hungry in the class so I have had a couple of snacks this morning, telling myself that these snacks are actually an 'early lunch'. This isn't the best way to handle it - I should have had a more substantial breakfast a bit later (rather than at 6.30am), and then waited until after the class to have a proper lunch. Oh well - live & learn I guess!

Both of your yoga classes sound good! I must carry on with Pilates - I went to a couple of classes before Easter but haven't been back since.

The weekend was a bit unrestrained but I'm back on it today! I forgot to turn my chicken stock off before going to fetch DD from school and it all boiled away and stuck to the bottom of the pan , so my original plan of ramen noodles for dinner is now out of the window.

On my way to a midweek yoga! Rather exciting