Day 9

Wednesday was day 9 on plan. This is what I ate:

Breakfast: watermelon, bread w/ melted cheese

Lunch: burrito, steamed vegies w/ blue cheese

Dinner: lasagna, 2 pieces of bread & butter, 1/4 cup watermelon

I couldn't finish the lasagna. Weird to have food left on the plate!

I am still loving this plan. I need to convince myself that slow weight loss is the way to go. I am such a slow loser anyway!

Day 8

Tuesday was Day 8 on NoS. I did 30 minutes on the treadmill. This is what I ate:

Breakfast: 2 eggs, 1 slice sourdough bread with butter, watermelon, and iced tea with sugar.

Lunch: ground beef/vegie/pasta casserole, steamed vegies, watermelon.

Dinner: Salad with lettuces, cucumber, pear tomatoes, snow peas, carrots, cabbage, 2 eggs (hard boiled), blue cheese dressing, 1.5 slices of sourdough with butter

Dinner was too big. I couldn't eat all of my salad! I rarely leave any food on my plate, so this was a biggie!

Also, hubby wanted chocolate ice cream for dessert, but offered to wait until the weekend if it would be too hard for me. But I dished up his ice cream and sat with him while he ate it. No problem! I can have the ice cream or something better this weekend!

Lovin' this!

Cathy B

7 days on plan!

Yep, as of yesterday I completed 7 days with compliance to NoS and my exercise. Yay!

I lost 1.2 lbs. Yay again! I am a very slow loser, so this is great. If it takes me a year to lose the rest of my excess weight, I am happy!

Here is a picture of me at 252 (or probably a little more!) I am 5'6", and 56 years old. Nice symmetry of numbers, huh?

I will get a pic of me now posted this week. Boy, that is some belly on that babe!

Cathy B

My First Post

I bought the No S Diet book a couple of years ago, but wasn't ready to do it at that time. What was I thinking!?!

I did WW (gained 8 lbs in 3 weeks, following 100%), Carb Addicts (felt bleh), counting calories (irritating), and Fat Flush (SOOOO expensive!)

In 2009 I found a doctor who addressed several of my health problems, including Hashimoto's (an auto-immune thyroid disease). He got my thyroid meds regulated and I started losing weight at the beginning of 2010. I went from 252 lbs to 183 lbs by May of 2011. yay! But I plateaued in May. 4 months of the same weight, but I shouldn't complain. I had lost 70 lbs. without doing anything!

Back to No S. If you are unfamiliar with it, it is a program (and book) by Reinhard Engels. The basic premise is:

No snacks
No sweets
No seconds
(Except on days that start with an S)

So on No S days, you follow the 3 basic tenets. On Saturday and Sunday (and some special days) you don't need to follow these tenets. Simple.

I started on September 6th, 2011. I get an appetite between lunch and dinner, but that has been the hardest part. I am a snacker! No snacks on weekdays. I am exercising discipline. Hubby calls it the Grownup Diet!

I started doing 30 minutes on the treadmill Mon thru Fri too.

On this blog, I will be logging my meals, exercise, foibles, and thoughts as I go on this journey.

Feel free to follow if you want to see how I do. I plan on being bluntly honest!

Cathy B