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Chotzinoff

Damn. Declared a NWS day yesterday, and I have to start my 21-day streak over again. I live in Austin Texas and it's south by southwest time. I went out Wednesday night to hear some music with my friends and my college-age daughter and her friends and all danced and then walked through the neighborh...

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Another green day yesterday. My younger daughter is home from college with 5 friends, plus we have a friend from colorado staying with us. (This was all my idea. I miss them all and love having a full house.) Of the 9 people in the house, there are 3 vegans, 1 old school vegetarian, and 1 person who...

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I am beginning day 4 of my 21-day streak. It really helps to read the stickies post. Today I'm thinking of:

if you're going through hell, keep going

and

3 meals a day with LIFE in between

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I just looked at four months of habit cal and noted: --I accomplished a 21-day compliant streak at the end of December/Early January. --February was about half green, half red. I got sick and everything fell apart. This is not an excuse, just an explanation. --In March I decided to be way more hones...

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Yesterday was great, but I had to give myself a fail because after dinner I ate a few bites of challah while I was cleaning the kitchen. I went through a hilarious justification process, thinking I could mark it green, but then I realized that way lies more and more. . .lies. So, can I say it was go...

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success today. Wouldn't you know it--I have emotions when I don't eat constantly. Well, I had them and I am okay.

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Oolala, it's so moving to read that you told yourself you could help others with your experience. And that you kept telling yourself that. Because look what happened--you are a constant source of intelligent assistance in this goddamn wilderness. And that's not counting all the success you've had wi...

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yesterday was a good, compliant day. Not to be hyperbolic, but I was STARVING between meals. We usually eat dinner around 7:30 pm, but yesterday, I was going strong in the kitchen at 6:10 pm and I really piled that plate with food, a lot of it leafy. This showed how lax I have been in recent weeks w...

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I have been no-Sing since late October. I keep thinking I have it figured out and then realizing that I've logged a bunch of red days. Don't even talk to me about weight loss! I think I finally get that I really need to check in daily for a while--if nothing else, as a hedge against the what the hel...

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Thanks for the hijack, oolala. Any neat ideas for dealing with depression?

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MillieM, I know exactly what you're talking about. It IS interesting how often my thoughts "reach" for food. Some days, every five minutes. If I don't try to argue myself out of it and just sit there, noticing that a bunch of clamoring toddlers have arrived in my head to scream SNACK TIME, it gets e...

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I have just had my first two red days of the year. Yesterday and today. I had just come home from a stressful trip to the frozen northeast to deal with my husband's infirm father. I thought for sure the sedentary days and the crappy food would trip me up, but they didn't. As soon as I got home, thou...

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Oolala, I think Reinhard was suggesting mark it and move on instead of spiraling down into self-hatred and what-the-hell. I'm going to give it a try, anyway. I've read your entire check-in, all those pages. Thanks for every word of it.

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I listened to the "what the hell effect" podcast yesterday. It is another winner. I think I now understand the concept of marking it red and moving on. I particularly liked Reinhard's theory that beating yourself up over transgressions, in a twisted way, lets you off the hook, because you think that...

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I'm in. No-S-er since just before Thanksgiving, 2017. I have learned a LOT. I have not started to lose weight yet, but now I know that when I start obsessing about weight, it is much harder to maintain my vanilla No-S. I learned that lesson REAL GOOD at the end of 2017. It felt almost comforting to ...

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Thank you Merry. Good to hear.

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I was hoping you would reply, oolala. Thank you. So, I don't eat a lot of processed food and I grow and cook most of my own meals. These changes took about 25 years to make, but happily coincided with raising our daughters, so that they both turned out with a very healthy hedonism where food is conc...

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Accepted. 12 more days of 2017 and all of 2018. I have been no-S-ing since the last week of October. My husband has, too, which is really unusual. Until this, we disagreed so fundamentally on anything diet-related that we might as well have been different species. We have both fallen into a nice rhy...

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I just read through this whole board and I think it's my favorite and I want to sign up for 2018.

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Gingerpie wrote: In order to reach the goal, you have to first follow the process. One never achieves the goal first then learns the process second. Besides, the process is the part whereby you learn about yourself. The fun part. The part when you learn perseverance and self discipline. The part whe...

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Oolala, it's been a month and a half. I was pretty sleepy when I wrote the part about a year. What I meant was "will I look back on this after a year" or words to that effect. Thanks for the encouragement, anyway.

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I have been sick for more than a week--a cold that turned into a sinus infection with a migraine. I am finally coming out of the other side of it, but i feel a little discouraged. I couldn't get any exercise. I could barely get out of bed. I did a little bit of paying work, but not much. As always, ...

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Another week down, but never mind that. Here's what happened on my No-S day today. I have been sick for 4 days. A nasty cold. I am exhausted and manage to get to work for hours in the morning (I'm a general contractor and we started on a new house remodel this week) but then come home and pass out i...

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A reply from Oolala! What a way to start the week! So far, I have decided against weighing. I don't have the strength NOT to get into the tizzy of it all, so I'm just trying to build another month of vanilla No-S, with the occasional measurement of the tape. It gives me a feeling of security to have...

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Reporting success. Just had my first green week. Yes, thanksgiving was an S-day, but that's yellow. No reds for the whole week. And yesterday I was really, really hungry for the first time. I ate breakfast at 5:30 am and by 10 was ravenous. It wasn't that hard to wait till 11:20, which I arbitrarily...

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Apology in advance. This is long. Tomorrow will begin my second month of No-S. I feel good about the work I've done forming this habit. To be honest, I haven't had to grit my teeth and power through it, which is handy because I don't know if I have that power. Sometimes it's less easy than others, b...

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thanks for that. It's really good to hear that someone else is so much like me and also had so much success. I really appreciate the distinction between habit and weight loss.

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thanks for that goal--to be more of the person I want to be. That's a worthy goal, gingerpie. What do others think? Is weight loss as a result of No-S a worthy goal also, or is it something not to focus on too much?

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Thanks for weighing in (ha ha) larkspur. I suppose you brought up the right point: IF I can treat it as a tool. This would imply, say, that if I turned out not to be losing weight, I could look at my habitcal history and make adjustments to how much I was eating. I'm not sure I have that kind of sel...

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I'm almost a month into No-S. I can't say enough good things about how sane and revolutionary it is. This question concerns how to manage my neuroticism and my expectations. I have decades of eating issues in my past. First diet age 7, when I was in no way overweight. I'm now 59. Continuing on until...

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I did no puzzles today. I was pretty damn active today--3+ periods of more than 14 minutes involving moving around outside. I adhered successfully to No-S. I wrote on my creative project for 30 minutes this morning before doing anything else. Here is what's weird--I had such a strong urge to become ...

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1. everything all the longtime no-S-ers observe about blind pigging out on S-days is true. I find I'm not trying to make up for all the stuff I didn't eat during the week. I'm not eating furtively. I'm just eating what I want, but not everything sounds good to me. For instance, tonight is an opportu...

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I started to come around to thinking what several of you have suggested. I decided to do an Urban Ranger habitcal (I like the concept a lot) and give myself a green if I go out for any length walk at all, work out with weights, go to yoga, or basically do anything physical for 14 minutes or more. I ...

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It's been two weeks now on No-S. I think the reason it works for me is it's so very simple. Not easy, but not complicated. Until starting this, I was deep in trying to completely accept my body, allow it to reach its natural weight, no food rules, reject diet mentality, etc. I had two expensive coac...

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My 6th day on No-S and my first official fail. I blame hubris! I didn't take an S day yesterday. It was Halloween, and I've had 59 years to try eating that candy. My husband, who is No-Sing with me, decided he would take an S-Day as he's the kind of guy who can eat one or two mini Snickers bars, so ...

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oolala's #7

a victory for the resistance

Resistance was futile

What sets you up?

Will this happen in 2018?

NO-S WHEN SICK?

temptation and distraction and a vent with a happyish ending

success!

to weigh or not to weigh?

success!

As S-Day #2 draws to a close

thanks for all the input

another week

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