Weight Loss the Old Style Way! Part 7. Please read posts 1 and 2 before posting.

Hannah_10

I reckon the No-S Diet has got to be the ultimate in OS weight management.

It's only 14 words long with 3 rules and 1 exception:

• No Snacks
• No Sweets
• No Seconds

Except (sometimes) on days that start with "S"

See https://www.nosdiet.com

I think it's awesomly OS because:

1. All it is is a short system of rules to re-teach us all moderation (which we probably grew up with, depending on age), so it's totally old fashioned.
2. It makes you appretiate proper cooking and you start to make your dinners count, which somehow leads to greater veg and fruit consumption painlessly (try it).
3. It encourages proper meal planning. Instead of getting a bit of this and a bit of that when shopping, I'm planning dinners now, which comes up cheaper.
4. It re-teaches a proper appretiation for baking cake because when you can't have something at every whim you enjoy it more.
5. It's cheaper than any other diet or not-diet I can think of.
6. You don't have to eat anything unnatural/bizare/gross (like meal relacement shakes, diet bars or wheatgrass).
7. You don't have to avoid anything, no matter how odd (so if you really do love wheetgrass knock yourself out).
8. You don't have to weigh or measure anything either- not ever.
9. You don't even have to buy the book. It's 14 words long.
10. If the 14 words is too succinct read the website, that explains any questions. The website's not full of advertising either, in case you were feeling cynical.
11. The book (there is one) doesn't say anything that isn't on the website so there's no need to even buy it and the author says this on the site. If you wanted to buy it, it's about £7 on Amazon.
12. You can do it for life, bring your kids up on it or incorporate a special medical diet without problems.

All it is is how we ate for decades, in 3 tiny rules and 1 exception.

Ultimate OS diet?

rinabean

I think things like this are plasters for the wound, and the wound is our disconnect with food and hunger. Our children don't know where food comes from, most adults don't, either, and we don't seem to understand when we're hungry or full. The other problem is female self-loathing. If we tried to understand ourselves better and really take pride in looking after ourselves we wouldn't need any artificial rules like these. This approach solves several problems which surely makes it OS, too!

Hannah_10

The whole point of the No-S Diet is to address exactly what you've said. I entriely agree we have lost a proper relationship with food, and so does the author of that diet. I'm not sure how you see 3 meals a day as an artifical concept? Or how you see it as not reconnecting food and eating to hunger and sustainance. Unguided self analysis has a place, but on a practical level it's not going to work for most of the people who have lost thier way (the wounded, as you put it) because if people could see where they were going wrong, then they wouldn't be. Also people do not have the same introspective processes and so most wont draw the same conclusions from that self analysis as you have. That's if they look inwards at all, it's generaly discouraged in the modern capitalist free for all. Female self-loathing is vigorously fuelled by the concept of ideal appearance and weighing yourself, which again No-S strongly discourages because it is the wrong focus, putting the focus back on to healthy practices and respect for your self. I'm a little bit confused as to what it is you don't like about it to be honest and I wonder if perhaps you just skimmed through my post and got the wrong end of the stick? I appologise if the delivery was unclear, perhaps you should judge from the original and not my explaination.

chella71

Thanks Hannah-10, just the push in the right direction I need after the winter months!! Always find myself reaching for something to nibble on then get to my main meal and don't feel like it, hence I'm feeling a smidge unhealthy, rather than overweight right now, will write out the 3 main rules and stick them up in my kitchen as a reminder

Chella x

Pink.

Hi Hannah,

As your thread has fallen down the Old Style board I've added it to the existing one on losing weight the Old Style way.

Pink

bramble1

Woop woo!! I have lost a stone!! Half way to my target!!!!!!!

nickyhutch

Hannah_10 wrote: »

I reckon the No-S Diet has got to be the ultimate in OS weight management.

It's only 14 words long with 3 rules and 1 exception:

• No Snacks
• No Sweets
• No Seconds

Except (sometimes) on days that start with "S"

See https://www.nosdiet.com

Hannah, thanks for mentioning this on the apple cake thread. I spent a while reading the website and some links from it last night, and agree entirely with you. It's what we know we should be doing, if we think hard enough. It's how our parents and grandparents ate, and there was nothing like the level of obesity we have today in their day.

Thanks, and will be giving it a go (after my brother's wedding and my holiday, which I am, stupidly and reluctantly, slimming down for with bl00dy shakes - I know - idiotic ).

sharloid

I'm really struggling to eat healthily as I really enjoy baking. Yesterday I made shortbread and today I've found a couple of recipes for crackers that I really want to try. I know lots of us on the OS board cook, so how do you cope? Looking for a recipe to make tomato sauce or a new flavouring to put on chicken just doesn't cut it.

Thanks!

PennyGSD

I love baking and cooking and absolutely anything to do with food, which is probably why I am having to follow Weight Watchers in the first place.

However, I'm really enjoying getting creative with my food - we always eat well, but the challenge is to get things to come in within points budget, but still taste great and fill you up.

I haven't given up baking completely, although I have to say I've trimmed it considerably, but anything I make I now swap all the sugar for Splenda, and use low fat spreads rather than traditional baking fats.

I bulk things out with loads of fruit - but the best tip I can give you is to just keep a single slice or 2 out of the batch, and put the rest straight in the freezer.

I like to have a proper stodgy pud on a Sunday and rather than making a large dessert which has to all be eaten (there's only 2 of us), I just whip out a couple of slices of Apple & Raspberry bake, or chocolate brownie, or ... or .... (I bake more than we eat so there's always a choice!) and have it with some comforting custard or ice-cream.

It's all about adapting your lifestyle to fit in with losing weight - and with any luck habits learned will help to keep it off in the future too.

sharloid

PennyGSD wrote: »

I love baking and cooking and absolutely anything to do with food, which is probably why I am having to follow Weight Watchers in the first place.

However, I'm really enjoying getting creative with my food - we always eat well, but the challenge is to get things to come in within points budget, but still taste great and fill you up.

I haven't given up baking completely, although I have to say I've trimmed it considerably, but anything I make I now swap all the sugar for Splenda, and use low fat spreads rather than traditional baking fats.

I bulk things out with loads of fruit - but the best tip I can give you is to just keep a single slice or 2 out of the batch, and put the rest straight in the freezer.

I like to have a proper stodgy pud on a Sunday and rather than making a large dessert which has to all be eaten (there's only 2 of us), I just whip out a couple of slices of Apple & Raspberry bake, or chocolate brownie, or ... or .... (I bake more than we eat so there's always a choice!) and have it with some comforting custard or ice-cream.

It's all about adapting your lifestyle to fit in with losing weight - and with any luck habits learned will help to keep it off in the future too.

So instead of baking and eating it all within a day (or is that just me? :P) you still have the yummy food, just eat less of it and over a longer period? Seems sensible!

I was really worried that I'd have to stop cooking. I look at the meal plans and want to cry with the same cereal for breakfast/ham sandwich with salad for dinner/cabbage soup with an apple for tea. Surely people can't live on that! It's so boring!