No S diet and menopause

KimmysMom · Post by **KimmysMom** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 5:10 pm

I would like to hear from any woman who is post menopausal and is having success with this diet. It does not seem to be working for me.

r.jean · Post by **r.jean** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 8:33 pm

I have been very successful. See my one year testimonial I did earlier this month in the testimonial section.

KimmysMom · Post by **KimmysMom** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:10 pm

I just recently was on the hcg diet where I lost 48 lbs. I still had about 10 or so lbs to lose but wanted to get off the hcg and that brutal diet. I had found the no S diet which makes so much sense and is so doable. But I have been doing it since Dec. 26 and I am stuck. During the week I will drop a little but on the weekends it all comes back.

wosnes · Post by **wosnes** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 11:07 pm

KimmysMom wrote:I just recently was on the hcg diet where I lost 48 lbs. I still had about 10 or so lbs to lose but wanted to get off the hcg and that brutal diet. I had found the no S diet which makes so much sense and is so doable. But I have been doing it since Dec. 26 and I am stuck. During the week I will drop a little but on the weekends it all comes back.

You have very little to lose now, and it seems the less you have to lose on this program, the longer it takes you to lose it. Even those with with more to lose often lose very little during the first month or so. However, if you continue to follow the program, once it's gone -- it's gone.

I was going to save this until Thursday -- my 63rd birthday. I've lost weight on this program. I can't tell you how much because I almost never weigh myself.

One thing I know for sure is that I'm never going to see the weight I was when I was in high school or even my early 30s. I'm okay with that. Oh, I could but my life would be focused on diet and exercise and I'm not willing to do that. Not only that, I'm really not sure it's healthy mentally or physically.

Then, there's the vanity aspect.

Part of the process of accepting the realities of aging may mean a relaxation of your standards regarding weight. Many women put on a few pounds around the time of menopause. Rather than battling to keep them off, consider the youth-giving aspects of a little extra weight -- it plumps up the skin, smoothing lines and wrinkles , erasing the years. Learn a lesson from the Italians, who appreciate a voluptuous form. They say that women are prettier that way, whether they are 25 or 50. After a certain age, a couple of extra pounds can make the difference between a face that looks fresh and one that appears drawn, lined, and fatigued. There is a wonderful French saying that puts it succinctly: "After 40, one must choose between the face and the derriere.

Too solid flesh · Post by **Too solid flesh** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 4:13 pm

wosnes wrote:
"After 40, one must choose between the face and the derriere.

Or, as the wonderful Hadley Freeman puts it:

This means, you can either not eat very much and have a shrivelled face and a bony bottom. Or you can eat more and have a fuller face and a pleasingly rounded bottom. It's a tricky choice, I'll give you that.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/ ... NTCMP=SRCH

wosnes · Post by **wosnes** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 9:17 pm

Too solid flesh wrote:
This means, you can either not eat very much and have a shrivelled face and a bony bottom. Or you can eat more and have a fuller face and a pleasingly rounded bottom. It's a tricky choice, I'll give you that.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/ ... NTCMP=SRCH

Good one!

Two things I need to add:

I'm on a medication that causes weight gain. I'm probably going to take this, or something similar, for the rest of my life. I'm not going to try to fight and take off that extra weight.

Years ago I read that as we age, we need to eat less. We get less active and we simply don't need as much food. It was said that every decade we need to decrease our calories by 10% So, if you ate 2000 calories daily before you started to notice the weight go up, then you decrease to 1800. The next decade about 1600 and so on.

I fought this for a long time, but in the last few years I've found that not only am I satisfied with fewer calories, I'm just satisfied with less food. I don't need 3 big meals daily. If I eat 3 meals, two of them are quite small/light and the third one will be more substantial. I usually only eat two meals daily; one is light, one is more substantial.

oolala53 · Post by **oolala53** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 2:51 am

I've been past menopause the whole time I've been on No S and I've lost 24 lbs. However, I'm not skinny. Also, being on the plan since Dec. 26 after losing weight eating only 500 calories a day isn't much time to judge. No S is really more for people who are tired of dieting and want to find a way to eat for life that allows them to learn moderation. It might help someone lose weight in a few weeks if she has been consistently overeating. Otherwise, it will take longer and she would have to be very honest about how much food it takes to be satisfied. But that can take awhile as you get used to being fed consistently.

Imogen Morley · Post by **Imogen Morley** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 2:29 pm

My mom is post-menopausal and she has had moderate success with No S. She's by no means fat, just a little chubby (in all the right places, as my dad says

). I'm writing on her behalf only because she doesn't write in English too well.
She's lost some weight since August (more or less 4 kilos), and maintained her new, No S weight even after the holidays. She tried vanilla and was failing at this over and over again, so she developed a mod that helped her stay on track. Just as me, she's excellent at the 3-meals-a-day routine, but has a sweet tooth. Eliminating sweets during weekdays resulted in binges on weekends, and the solution she came up with is pretty simple and still involves habit formation. She counted how many S-events she had on a typical weekend (S-events, mind you, not the actual amount of sweets) and spread that number throughout the week, being careful about alternating sugarless days with those without treats. She now eats smallest possible serving of dessert or sometimes even half of it, as mindfully as possible, after Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday dinner. That's the only way she can be successful on No S.

KimmysMom · Post by **KimmysMom** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 1:48 am

Thank you all for your input. I guess I will just have to learn patience and maybe acceptance that this is the weight I should be at.

wosnes · Post by **wosnes** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 1:30 pm

I weighed myself about a week ago. I'd not weighed since I was at the doctor in June. I've lost about 15 pounds without "really" trying.

Too solid flesh · Post by **Too solid flesh** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:17 pm

wosnes wrote:I've lost about 15 pounds without "really" trying.

Wonderful! Congratulations, wosnes.