Everyday Systems

Hi, Hayz88, welcome back

I'm another one who fell of the bandwagon. I'm hoping that posting on here fairly regularly will help me stay on track.

Greetings from Germany!

Can you post a recipe? Sounds yummy! Great updates! Thank you, Merry! As for a recipe.. I sort of winged it. Ingredients: for the meat sauce: 1lb ground beef 1 small chopped onion taco seasoning to taste. I used this recipe 1 can chopped tomatoes For the cheese sauce: 2T flour 2T butter approximate...

oolala53 wrote: I try to use the criterion of does it make me want more, and do I give in to that quite easily after I eat it? Does it help me feel I am supporting vitality and pleasure as well as moderation? If yes, yum!

Excellent!

I'm not a huge dark chocolate fan, unless its with mint, then I can gorge away on the stuff quite easily. I've been giving it some thought and it's probably better that I go vanilla no S and just don't touch the stuff during the week. I'd work myself into a state trying to moderate to just one squa...

I'm interested to know what stopped you from just getting on with it and how you overcame this. For me, I think it's a combination of wanting results now, not really wanting to give up the chocolate binges and when I do give it a shot, I put too much pressure on myself to eat wholesome, healthy mea...

Last week was my first 5 green day week! Followed by a crazy Saturday and a very mellow Sunday. The 5 green days were not easy to achieve and I was feeling very deprived by Friday, so deprived that I already shopped for my S-day treats. Mistake! Can you believe I got up early on Saturday to have my ...

- It's when we have too many strictures too soon- Reinhard uses the computer term "premature optimization"- that our psyche can get discouraged. We keep raising the bar before we're good at the height we've chosen to mastery first. Who wants to work hard for a task master that's so seldom approving...

I love seeing the successes like this one along the way. I think we gain strength when we see that we can exercise those self-control muscles. It's easy to overfill a plate too, and not fully acknowledge it until afterward. It's still just a plate though and not technically wrong--and I love that y...

Hi, I remember trying to follow the diet set out by Kay Sheppard in "Food Addiction: The Body Knows". It consisted of three meals a day with one before bed snack (if I recall correctly). The weighing and measuring put me off after a while, and she wanted us to abstain from a long list of foods. It w...

Well, hi, I'll get this one done and over with quickly. Yesterday, Monday, I ended up having a lot more for dinner than I had planned. I wasn't going to post about it, but I've decided to do so, not because I want to beat myself over my head, but because I want to be honest and be able to come back ...

Another long-time ED sufferer here. I'm pushing 40 (I love to say that now!) and my disordered eating started when I was around 13-14, although I already remember sneaking cookies and candy when I was much younger. I've restricted food, binged and purged, binged and overexercised, just binged.... It...

Hi Britt, I think you're doing a fantastic job working on your habits :D What kind of exercise are you doing? I started doing the workouts from the Firm Express because they are 20 minutes and pack a good punch, and will look for other similar stuff on youtube for variety if/ when I get bored with t...

Hi everyone, happy Sunday evening..... well, very early Monday morning. Skycat, I don't know if I'd be able to pour dishwashing liquid on leftovers, except, perhaps, the little bites left on people's plates, but I'm less inclined to have those. I agree with you that eating leftovers when I don't nee...

I haven't posted in two weeks... I'm still around, still working on NoS. :-), but I've slowed things down. The first Friday I ended up snacking because my son, who had taken part in a cooking class over the week, wanted me to taste the things he had cooked. So I snacked. Last week, I had four pretty...

Hi Skycat, I've just discovered you and I have something in common. We're both foreigners living in Germany :) I also love the UK and lived there, in the south, for nearly four years. My two boys were born there. Where are you from? Whereabouts in Germany are you now? I'm in the north, not far from ...

Hi Skycat, thank you for your kind comment. Yes, the scale is not always helpful and I've found the food scale, counting calories and having taboo foods can cause similar anxiety. ETA: yes, the family meals have been very enjoyable so far :) Yesterday it got to be too late to log in and post here, b...

Hi Merry, thank you for your warm welcome! Today was a successful day. I ate breakfast, a leftover croissant and a cup of coffe, with my daughter. My sons had already left for their school and things were too busy to sit down with them too. Lunch was a good plate of salad with hardboiled egg and che...

Hi Gingerpie, thank you for your warm welcome. Yes, I look forward to our return to eating together. Just this evening, while nibbling on a homemade croissant in the company of my son and daughter -eldest son was with a friend, husband had already left for work-, we talked about our snacking and how...

Hi, for anyone reading this post. I'm new here but not new to Reinhard Engels' genius. I found his No-S Diet years ago, and had a few failed tries, then went on to try something else, and, well, years later -I don't know how many- I'm here. I don't know what I weigh. I'm not in the right place - psy...