Well this is my first Monday coming off of an S weekend.
It was simple. It was easy. It was welcome. I am surprised how easy this is. Usually when I indulge and eat sweets the ... desire grows until I am eating sugary things in a torrential flood ... thus my years of struggle to eat NO SUGAR ... at all.
I just couldn't ever do it.
So I also tried ... not many times but several to eat ... you know ... sweets just one day a week. But they were always the last supper. And they just didn't work. I am not sure why two days calms the inner waters so completely.
Anyone out there know? Have any great insights? As to why having two S days rather than one has such a hugely different impact? Of course it is not just that it is the structure in the week that spills over as Reinhard says it does. Your body gets so used to those three meals ... you don't really WANT to snack. It comes to seem extraneous ...
perhaps more like what it really is ... a fill in for living? I don't know. For the first time I sat down and made a list of all the diets/weight loss things I had done.
For grins here is the list:
Seventeen Magazine 1350 calorie a day diet
Water Fast
Doctor's Quick Teenage Diet
Optifast
Herbalife
Overeater's Anonymous
Gray Sheet Overeater's Anonymous
H.O.W. Overeater's Anonymous
Master Cleanse
Zone Diet
The Solution
Schwarzbein Principle
Bikram Yoga
Prism
Raw Foods
Atkins Diet
Five Factor Fitness
Orange Juice Diet
Calorie Restriction
Shrink Yourself
Fat Loss 4 Idiots
Thats over about almost thirty years. WOW.
I really hope this is the end.
Perhaps I should not be so optimistic, it is after all only the eighth day but gee ...
I just have this FEELING ...
Monday, March 31, 2008
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Day Seven
I have decided to use the exciting Day # Title for my blog through Day 21. This means that I will then have officially established the HABITS of no essing and can join the 21 club.
SO how is it going?
Really well. This is my second official No S day. I have really enjoyed the treats that I planned and there has been absolutely no craziness, no desire for excess, etc.
I don't feel panicky about getting on with my N day's tomorrow because after all, we are talking about getting through five days. I have made it months in prior lives without sweets, snacks or seconds ...
It was called Gray Sheet Overeaters Anonymous. I did that about twenty years ago for about six months. That was when I learned how to grocery shop, plan meals and actually cook vegetables that were ... you know EDIBLE.
However, want to talk about an UNSUSTAINABLE life style ... gray sheet overeaters anonymous is a great example. I realized that all of the people who had been on gray sheet for more than a year-and-a-half were completely whacked.
In twelve step vernacular they did not have what I wanted. They were thin. But it was at a huge cost. They were thin. But they were mean, rigid, controlling, and basically NOT MUCH FUN.
It gave me a blueprint but not a solution. The elegance of No S is that it just makes so much no sense ... you don't have to get a sponsor or work any steps ... and eating becomes completely pleasurable.
Nice. Very Very Very Nice.
SO how is it going?
Really well. This is my second official No S day. I have really enjoyed the treats that I planned and there has been absolutely no craziness, no desire for excess, etc.
I don't feel panicky about getting on with my N day's tomorrow because after all, we are talking about getting through five days. I have made it months in prior lives without sweets, snacks or seconds ...
It was called Gray Sheet Overeaters Anonymous. I did that about twenty years ago for about six months. That was when I learned how to grocery shop, plan meals and actually cook vegetables that were ... you know EDIBLE.
However, want to talk about an UNSUSTAINABLE life style ... gray sheet overeaters anonymous is a great example. I realized that all of the people who had been on gray sheet for more than a year-and-a-half were completely whacked.
In twelve step vernacular they did not have what I wanted. They were thin. But it was at a huge cost. They were thin. But they were mean, rigid, controlling, and basically NOT MUCH FUN.
It gave me a blueprint but not a solution. The elegance of No S is that it just makes so much no sense ... you don't have to get a sponsor or work any steps ... and eating becomes completely pleasurable.
Nice. Very Very Very Nice.
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Day Six
There are so many wonderful things to say about the No S Diet I hardly know where to begin. This is my first official S day as I started the "diet" on Monday, March 24, 2008.
That Monday I had already eaten a breakfast and lunch that included sweets and seconds. However, since that evening I ate a one-plate sweet free meal, I called it an "S" day... Special Day .... for starting the No S Diet... pretty good, huh? Besides I knew for me that in the next thirty days there are no Special Days outside of Saturday and Sunday. No birthdays, holidays, anniversaries, etc. that I will need to address.
I have eaten breakfast. YUM! THere is a lovely family owned donut shop in our neighborhood. Since we live in Southern California and the weather is almost always perfect, it is wonderful fun to walk over to the donut shop and stop into Starbucks for a chai tea latte.
That was one of my special treats I had for today. I had two donuts and one tea. And it was ... enough.
Will someone please explain to me why there are two cookies wrapped in paper towels and sealed in a ziploc bag and a small container of frozen mini peanut butter cups in my freezer ... totally unravaged? I do not get it myself.
I have been a notorious cookie monster, sweet tooth binging babe ever since I discovered the secret candy filled container - a one-and-a-half white gallon plastic thingy with a bright yellow lid - in my granny's pantry when I was four-and-a-half years old. I am forty-five. I'll let you do the math. But suffice it to say, that is a seriously entrenched HABIT.
So I can't understand why it is an S day today and I am not a raving foaming at the mouth panting sugar beast. But I am not. Of couse it is only day six and I have enjoyed this "set up" immensely.
I though two S days a week. Hmmmmmmmm.... that would mean two binge days a week instead of the usual "once a week cheat day" but no, their is simple genius in the No S Diet. One cheat day a week becomes a last supper. I must have this, oh and that too, and can't not have one more ... becomes I ate too much I feel ill already ... might as well plunge headlong into the food abyss.
But rather than two days like THAT ... with the No S Diet you actually get those two days where you get to ... as Reinhard Engels says ... treat yourself as a full-fledge adult with food. It lends a certain dignity and honor to the whole affair. After all who can knowingly, plan in advance to gorge themselves willy nilly for two whole days.
So I am really excited. I may start posting my daily menus. This is a miracle. I am not obsessing about food. I am enjoying it. This is one of the most seductive features of the testimonials from the people who have been on the No S diet for any appreciable length of time. They are ENJOYING their food. They are finding their eating to be PLEASURABLE.
What a timeless concept!
That Monday I had already eaten a breakfast and lunch that included sweets and seconds. However, since that evening I ate a one-plate sweet free meal, I called it an "S" day... Special Day .... for starting the No S Diet... pretty good, huh? Besides I knew for me that in the next thirty days there are no Special Days outside of Saturday and Sunday. No birthdays, holidays, anniversaries, etc. that I will need to address.
I have eaten breakfast. YUM! THere is a lovely family owned donut shop in our neighborhood. Since we live in Southern California and the weather is almost always perfect, it is wonderful fun to walk over to the donut shop and stop into Starbucks for a chai tea latte.
That was one of my special treats I had for today. I had two donuts and one tea. And it was ... enough.
Will someone please explain to me why there are two cookies wrapped in paper towels and sealed in a ziploc bag and a small container of frozen mini peanut butter cups in my freezer ... totally unravaged? I do not get it myself.
I have been a notorious cookie monster, sweet tooth binging babe ever since I discovered the secret candy filled container - a one-and-a-half white gallon plastic thingy with a bright yellow lid - in my granny's pantry when I was four-and-a-half years old. I am forty-five. I'll let you do the math. But suffice it to say, that is a seriously entrenched HABIT.
So I can't understand why it is an S day today and I am not a raving foaming at the mouth panting sugar beast. But I am not. Of couse it is only day six and I have enjoyed this "set up" immensely.
I though two S days a week. Hmmmmmmmm.... that would mean two binge days a week instead of the usual "once a week cheat day" but no, their is simple genius in the No S Diet. One cheat day a week becomes a last supper. I must have this, oh and that too, and can't not have one more ... becomes I ate too much I feel ill already ... might as well plunge headlong into the food abyss.
But rather than two days like THAT ... with the No S Diet you actually get those two days where you get to ... as Reinhard Engels says ... treat yourself as a full-fledge adult with food. It lends a certain dignity and honor to the whole affair. After all who can knowingly, plan in advance to gorge themselves willy nilly for two whole days.
So I am really excited. I may start posting my daily menus. This is a miracle. I am not obsessing about food. I am enjoying it. This is one of the most seductive features of the testimonials from the people who have been on the No S diet for any appreciable length of time. They are ENJOYING their food. They are finding their eating to be PLEASURABLE.
What a timeless concept!
Friday, March 28, 2008
Fifth Day
At my local Barnes and Noble Bookstore this past Monday, just killing time ... you know doing WHAT ELSE? Browsing through the Diet and Health books ... of which there are just so damn MANY OF THEM! And so many of them are big and thick, bright and colorful ... vivid and cheerful, hopeful ... yet, funny how this slim little white text with a simple white cover and only black and red lettering on the cover ... caught my attention.
I was intrigued. Anyway anyone who would dare to take on the sugar lobby and put NO SWEETS on the cover had my attention.
I am a self-help diet guru ... i.e if there has been a self-help program over the past twenty or so years for mananging or controlling your food intake I was on it. I am NOT the weight watchers type. Not even with points...
ANYWAY ... I picked up a couple of other books, the BIGGEST LOSER secrets and workout plan I believe .... and went and sat down to decide if I would make any purchases for the day.The BIGGEST LOSER books were big fat and shiny with lots of photos of the contestants but as a savvy self-help dieter I had to admit to myself that there was not much new in the tomes.
But then I flipped open this slim little white one. And I couldn't stop reading. I looked at my watch, I had successful killed the extra minutes in my day and had to get a move on.
But before I left the store I had to buy the THE NO S DIET. It was just a page turner!
I was intrigued. Anyway anyone who would dare to take on the sugar lobby and put NO SWEETS on the cover had my attention.
I am a self-help diet guru ... i.e if there has been a self-help program over the past twenty or so years for mananging or controlling your food intake I was on it. I am NOT the weight watchers type. Not even with points...
ANYWAY ... I picked up a couple of other books, the BIGGEST LOSER secrets and workout plan I believe .... and went and sat down to decide if I would make any purchases for the day.The BIGGEST LOSER books were big fat and shiny with lots of photos of the contestants but as a savvy self-help dieter I had to admit to myself that there was not much new in the tomes.
But then I flipped open this slim little white one. And I couldn't stop reading. I looked at my watch, I had successful killed the extra minutes in my day and had to get a move on.
But before I left the store I had to buy the THE NO S DIET. It was just a page turner!
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