Everyday Systems

I think I accidentally discovered a new variety of urban rangering today: mall walking! I shopped from 10:30-5 and only sat down for about five minutes to eat a Wendy's Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger. I wish I'd had a pedometer on me! By the way, although I am not back on NoS yet, I noticed today that I was...

Here's how I rewarded myself today: by buying myself nice clothes that fit me at the size I currently am. As I've said before, I gained a lot of weight in a short time over the past year. I gained about 30 pounds in six months. I haven't actually taken any of it off yet, but I did make it to 28 days...

Just stopping in to say I'm still here and still doing fine. I've been sick for over a week now, and am finally starting to feel a little better today. Because I haven't been able to eat much, I haven't been following NoS for the past week, but have definitely not been out of control. I'd say I've p...

Still sick. I'm actually taking a sick day tomorrow so I can rest and (hopefully) recover. Do you guys modify NoS at all when you're sick? My stomach is bothering me, so I've been eating very small bites of things very slowly. My lunch -- a bagel with cream cheese -- took me over two hours to eat, b...

Still going... Started Saturday about 20 minutes before midnight last night with a teacup full of ice cream. I was running a fever and needed to eat and bring down my temperature. The ice cream worked and I was able to get to bed. Today I'm working all day (Job 1 from 8:30-2:30 and Job 2 from 6:00 t...

I have hypoglycemia, and NoS helps me tremendously by keeping me away from sugar during the week. Here's what I do: 1) Have both protein and complex carbohydrates at each meal... I mean plenty of protein. I never eat a breakfast that doesn't involve eggs, meat, and/or cheese as well as bread. Yester...

Just checking in to say that all is still well. I'm starting to learn that being hungry is not a calamity, and that I can, in fact, wait to eat. Also, I get far less hungry in the afternoon on the days that I have soup as part of my lunch. Weird. Looking forward to the one month mark in a week. My s...

Ariel: Maybe you meant a packaged drink, but I love plain iced tea, brewed very strong, with lemon and/or lime slices. Also, there's a brand that my grocery store just started selling, called Sweetleaf, I think, that comes in an "unsweetened with lemon and lime flavor." Not quite as good as homemade...

No, TV doesn't affect it. I find most cravings go away very quickly unless they're nourished somehow. The way I deal with them is very different now than before NoS. The old me would think of eating something for one reason or another: maybe a friend was eating some, or it was mentioned in a book I ...

Funny stuff today: I ate three kernels of caramel popcorn with my dinner. We had a huge canister of the stuff that we'd bought at Target because it looked good to me and I thought I might like to have some on an S-Day. Well, tonight it was staring me down. So I figured I'd have a taste. It was good,...

Hi guys! Just checking in here to say that I've made it. I haven't really seen any changes in how my clothes fit yet, and I don't have a scale, but I do have a goal pair of jeans: the pair I wore on my first date with my boyfriend last October. I will be so happy if I can get into them again. Don't ...

I have never been too much of a soda drinker, but I used to drink a ton of fruit juice, as well as sweetened coffee drinks (I used to work for Starbucks). Now I go for water, club soda with a splash of cranberry juice and a lime wedge, or unsweetened iced tea with a ton of lemon. I drink all my cold...

Well, I made it: 21 days and counting. There have definitely been days when I've craved ice cream, or felt like a snack between meals, but I've managed to stick them out. I have to say that the feeling of not having given in, not even once, is fantastic. This weekend has been full of treats, and whi...

On my way out the door, but just wanted to update quickly to say that I successfully made Sunday a NoS day to make up for Wednesday, and have had no funny stuff since. All I have to do is get through tomorrow, and then I'll have two S-Days, and that'll be 21 days! Seriously, I never would have thoug...

Sorry to get all behind on my check-in, but things are going pretty well. Funny stuff: On Wednesday, while eating my lunch, I broke a tooth. Nothing too catastrophic, only a chip on a filled molar, and no pain, but it's the first time this has ever happened to me and I was seriously freaked out. Too...

Day 9 (Tuesday): Success! Have I mentioned that I've felt relieved to be back to NoS days? Everything is much simpler. I don't have to obsess about food, and I know my blood sugar is unlikely to go all wacky on me. An unexpected but wonderful side effect of NoS for me is that I've been feeling bette...

Another couple of successes and a lesson learned... Yesterday, for my second S-Day, I was determined to eat some ice cream. I've been watching everyone around me eat ice cream and feeling a little left out. We had "breakfast" around 1:30 in the afternoon, then around 5 I grabbed a couple of pieces o...

S-Day success! I kinda thought I'd go nuts on my first S-Day, but I didn't. I actually skipped breakfast in favor of a late-morning cup of coffee, which I would never do on a NoS day. Lunch was a burger at Fuddruckers -- my boyfriend and I split an order of fries -- with club soda to drink. For dinn...

Day 5: Success (I think!) Breakfast: Croissant, coffee and an apple Lunch: Italian sub Dinner: Half eggplant parmigiana sub minus most of the bread (because I got full and stopped eating!), two provolone sticks I don't have to pay attention to whether this stuff is all "healthy", right? I mean, some...

Day 4 Success! Breakfast: Spinach and artichoke breakfast souffle, coffee Lunch: One only moderately full plate from the self-serve antipasto bar at Sbarro (marinated green beans, tomato salad, chicken salad, tuna salad, pasta with olives and peppers), iced tea Dinner: Pepperoni pizza and an apple G...

One more success despite timing difficulties: Breakfast: Cinnamon raisin bagel with cream cheese; coffee Lunch: Broccoli and cheese baked potato; cup of chili; crackers Dinner: Turkey and swiss sandwich on an onion roll; potato chips; strawberry yogurt I had an all-day training session today for wor...

Thanks for the replies! I've always been able to control the hypoglycemia with diet. I think I'll be okay with three meals, but I'm not averse to changing to four if I have to. I've gotten very good at knowing when a real attack is coming on and doing something about it! And Kevin, I love beer and r...

Just discovered No-S today and I know I need to start this thread for myself right away to stay motivated. I'm 24, female, 5'3" and have gained 30 lbs in the past six months due at least in part to disastrous birth control which I'm now off of. Now, time to get rid of the weight! I have a history of...