Everyday Systems

carolejo

Ha. Sadly I spoke too soon :( Today I feel as rough as chuff. I've no idea what the hell is going on, or why my whole digestive tract seems to have gone into meltdown, but hey. Sadly, I can't even skulk at home as I have a colleague coming over to help with my project work (I get a 'data monkey' to ...

carolejo

Feeling quite a lot better now, so a diet consisting of just boiled white rice and boiled chicken for a day seems to have reset the system. It's most strange as my digestion is usually very robust. I've no idea what might have upset me so. Tja. Just one of those things I guess. I'm not severely ill ...

carolejo

The 'realeat' herb and vegetable style mix is pretty tasty, and not too hideously full of random additives either.

Have fun with your Physics degree. I have a Ph.D in Polymer Physics myself.

C.

carolejo

TOM = Time Of Month.

He visits most of us about 12 times a year

C.

carolejo

Here he is, in all his orange fire and majesty!
C.

carolejo

I generally find it's more successful to reheat stuff if you nuke it for longer at lower power. The microwaves only penetrate about half an inch into the food anyway (spot the physicist! sorry!), so the rest of it is heated by conduction of heat through the food... Your veggeburgers must be poor hea...

carolejo

Hi Pete, That's great news that you decided to give this a try!

Hope you get into the swing of things gently though - it's tough when you're starting out.

Have fun with your new 'toy'!

C.

carolejo

Yesterday I got back after work and really had to fight with myself NOT to get a slice of pizza on my way through the train station hall. I WON THE BATTLE though! :D Then I got into the house. S still wasn't back (working late again on the year end processes, he finally got in just before 9pm. Work ...

carolejo

I have a couple of friends who just put their cats on a (long overdue, in my opinion) 'calorie controlled diet'. I'm very very lucky with Lyra. She regulates her own food intake very well. Even if it's a small plate of fresh cooked chicken or pork (which she'll nearly take your hand off for!) she ea...

carolejo

Stop press!

I have FOUND a small canteen with a MICROWAVE at the back of the warehouse!! Ha.

C.

carolejo

Nice

It's about minus 2 degrees C here - I think that's about 30 F. We've got a wide blue cloudless sky though. I love the winter sunshine and crisp cold air though, so I'm not complaining.

C.

carolejo

Nice weekend! :D Not a bad monday so far either. The weather is crisp and clear - wide powdery blue sky and sunshine... arse cold though (minus 2 degrees C), which I suppose most of you Northern and Midwestern States types will probably consider to be 'warm'! :P yesterday I went hashing again. The h...

carolejo

You cannot fail on an S day.

Sick days are S days! (It says so on the main site!! Who are we to argue with Reinhard, hey?)

Please don't be sad and don't beat yourself up about it. You'll be well again and back on that horse in no time.

Feel well soon!
C.

carolejo

Yeah, but you had to get it and try it anyway! Otherwise you'd have never known and I bet Richard would keep asking if he could have it everytime you went to the store too!!

Shaving foam mixed with choco-flavoured Ex-Lax.... Yummy! *not*

C.

carolejo

That's great to hear, Kimmi!

Happy walking.

C.

carolejo

I think personally that being a 32" waist but only losing 20lbs is much more impressive than if you lost 40lbs to do it. Just *think* how much healthy strong muscle tissue and good bone density that equates to! Surely in that case, heavier is DEFINATELY healthier! :P ...Of course, the beautiful thin...

carolejo

Hi Judy, Good to see you again. Happy New Year to you! I reckon that if you'd rather start a new daily checkin, then you should just start a new one. I don't think anybody will mind. On the other hand, if you think of this as still being part of the same journey, then there's nothing wrong with cont...

carolejo

Steve and I had some great news yesterday. He got the 30% ruling through. This is a thing for people recruited from abroad to fill roles for which there was a shortage of qualified Dutch people. It means that he gets a rebate of 30% of the income tax he's paid so far, and then will get 30% of it bac...

carolejo

Hi DebNY! Glad I managed to provide a small lift in the midst of a turbulent day. May today be calmness and sweetness and light for all us. :) 15 Second free-standing headstand! Yay! That's awesome. They're so so hard. We had a lecturer in Astrophysics who used to do a headstand on the front desk un...

carolejo

Wow Dru! :D That is such a great feeling, isn't it? Very well done. That's excellent news. 8) C. PS: If in future you've got a bad stomach but don't want the sugar in Ginger ale, try making a ginger tea. Get some fresh root ginger, chop some up very finely (about a dessertspoon's worth). Put it in a...

carolejo

We keep the change too, but usually the piggy bank gets raided every few months for a treat, like a takeout pizza or something. Generally, as long as you only give them about a Euro's worth of coppers, the delivery people are pretty happy to have the change. The only problem I have at the moment is ...

carolejo

Hey Deb! Not only am I your mouthpiece, but Lane says we could be twins!

carolejo

My god! *how* many people on this board are Roleplayers or Ex roleplayers...?! Do I really want to know or is it all just too sad for words? :lol: I think it's a dying hobby these days though. Most kids today play computer games like Boulders Gate instead. I think that's really unfortunate cos the c...

carolejo

*hugs*

You'll make it in the end. Hope you manage to sort it all out and reach some peace and understanding at home.

Pity you can't put spouse and Sam both on NoS. It sounds like they might benefit from it too.

love C.

carolejo

Hey everyone! I've stolen Deb's quote without even trying!

It is very true though, all the same. Most wisdom falls on deaf ears until they are ready to hear it.

C.

carolejo

Yesterday I was pretty good, but not perfect. :D I did have a single slice of baconham (very thin sliced, uncooked, cold-smoked ham, from the bacon joint so not at all fatty unlike black forest ham) whilst I was cooking dinner :? which was truly random of me since I was making Thai Green Curry which...

carolejo

Hi Becky, I just wanted to say that I think you're doing really well. Even your 'blowout' day when you were Sick (which, as Deb rightly pointed out, does begin with an S anyway :) !) doesn't look that bad to me! I mean, plain black tea has like ZERO calories in it! A banana as a snack is a good choi...

carolejo

My biggest problem with the whole 6 meals a day crap is this:- I love eating I love food I love cooking and preparing meals... ....BUT I have enough of a struggle deciding what the *bleep* I'm going to eat for 3 meals each day, without the added stress and fuss of preparing 6! Surely if you do it pr...

carolejo

Wow, Deb. That's really good news about Todd's shop. I need to do something similar here and take control of generating a social life! :lol: That's definately IT. I'm going to the Hash on Sunday and I'm also going to Aerobics this Tuesday. No. More. Excuses. I don't even care if Steve won't come wit...

carolejo

Hey Mstevens! What's wrong with eating your normal food then?

Why all this strange and new food?

Welcome to NoS, by the way.

C.

carolejo

Yesterday was THREE days until the weekend, of course! :lol: Today is going well though. So far I've had 2 normal, reasonable plates of food for Breakfast and Lunch. Only this evening to go. I've also done my SG again. Boy, that was hard after a couple of weeks off! Don't worry though, I took it nic...

carolejo

Hi Seth,

good for you! I also allow myself a snack of purely fruits or raw veg if and when I feel I need it. Mostly I don't though, but then again, I sit at a computer most of the day and I don't go to Aikido classes or anything.

Hope this attempt works out for you.
C.

carolejo

Yeah, I agree with Deb here. I don't stuff myself on S days usually... but if I did, I wouldn't worry about it as long as it wasn't every single one! I don't control my S days though, cos for me that's the fastest way to ensure that I WOULD stuff myself. I understand that for more sane people with a...

carolejo

Well, the last of my guests stepped into a plane about half an hour ago if all is well, so The Boy, the Lyra-Cat and I have the place to ourselves again! :) I really LOVE having people to visit and stay, but it's always nice too when they've gone again and you get to have some quiet time. Tomorrow i...

carolejo

Glad to be of help! It's worth it, the shovelglove exercise is about the only really 'fun' exercise I ever found. I also love that it's non-competitive, it's just for ME. The results are worthwhile too :wink: It won't take long before you're swinging that hammer around for a full 14 minutes. Hope yo...

carolejo

I find that restricting my S days is counter-productive. If I try to be too careful and 'ration' it, my inner brat will just screech and whine and I'll end up feeling cheated, then I'll go and eat a WHOLE tub of icecream, 3 waffles, 2 bars of chocolate..... you get the idea. Actually, even when I do...

carolejo

Still falling off the wagon, and today 4 people are arriving to come and stay with us over new year, so NoS is suspended anyway. At least that pesky icecream is no longer around to cause trouble :wink: Actually, I'm not too unhappy at all, the old me would've eaten the whole 1 pint tub in a single s...

carolejo

Some of the public Urinals paint a fly on the back wall... It gives the boys something to aim at as they try to wash it off the wall, and they get less general 'mess'. A friend of mine always puts a cork in the toilet bowl whenever she has a party. The blokes will try to 'sink' it, (especially the s...

carolejo

to paraphrase a certain british comedy show from the late 90's:- "this week, I have mostly been eating icecream". :? Yup. I've been falling off the wagon. Ben & Jerry's 'fossil fuel' icecream with the remains of my christmas port wine and berry sauce (made to go with the venison that we had for chri...

carolejo

Sadly my cast iron skillet has a folding handle for storage, so it would be a little difficult to use it as a club

it does weigh about as much as the head of my Sledgehammer though

C.

carolejo

I'm totally with Shameless on this one. If you are really eating sensibly and moderately, you will lose whatever excess weight you really have, but what your body considers to be excess and what you might think is excess could well be two different things. It will also go slowly and as you lose weig...

carolejo

Hi Annette, try holding down the mouse button and running over the text you want. It should then be highlighted. Then go up to the top menu bar and click on "Edit", "Copy". Open up a new word document or notepad or something, go to "Edit" at the top and click on "paste". That's a Copy and paste. Tha...

carolejo

Hi Deb,

Get well soon!

C.

carolejo

Well, so... I've been lurking a little over christmas, but haven't felt like posting again until today. :) The Boy and LyraCat and I had a lovely, quiet, peaceful and restful few days over christmas. We ate plenty of junk and quite a lot of good stuff too - all of it tasted divine, but we didn't rea...

carolejo

Hey, that 'inversions' thing... Is that an actual Yoga "rule" or just a Deborah rule? :wink: I must be the girl from the tampax ads - I never let it stop me from doing anything 8) Have a great Christmas. I'm off to start stuffing my face now with all those goodies in my cupboards. :twisted: :P love ...

carolejo

Nah.

Sorry. We're stuck with the usual ones again!

carolejo

Drat. I obviously changed them back somehow.

Money money money. dough, wonga, cash. Get rich, Make more money than ever,

Sell that diet book and make a million today! Sweep the competition off its feet.

Hah. Let's see if that works....

C.

carolejo

It's funny Deb, I think they must have changed cos you started talking about money and Reinhard getting rich. Now they're all for 'Get rich quick' schemes! :lol: On my checkin, I get ads for sweets and ads for Dutch stuff. It's really funny, actually and beats the pants off 101 ads for Atkins diet e...

carolejo

Hi V, Glad to have given you some food for thought :wink: One more piece of unsolicited advice though... Be careful with trading S days. S days are your reward. Don't punish yourself for nice things happening to you during the week! The brain is a very tricky thing and might well rebel completely la...

carolejo

Me. Carole. British girl, but live in Amsterdam since October. nearly 30. Found NoS cos I was lamenting the fact that I needed to do something about my weight but didn't know what and so a friend posted a link to NoS on my other blog http://www.livejournal.com/users/carolejo Nice to meet you, Ryan. C.

carolejo

Hey Deb! That's great! I'm so glad you had a good solo practice. I think it's probably no bad thing to do this sometimes anyway, as your Yoga should be greater than the sum of its parts and that means you'll need to be able to sustain it, even if Larry isn't there to guide you. You go, girl! :D C.

carolejo

Thanks V!

C.

carolejo

Nice one, Gina!

Welcome to the Daily Check in.

C.

carolejo

Hi Lena, first of all, thanks and congratulations for posting up your last week. It takes a lot of courage to do that - I think a lot of people would've just dissapeared without a trace rather than come back here and write up all these red failure days. :) I think your strategy to give it more mindf...

carolejo

I know what you mean about the price difference between a 'meal deal' and just the burger. When I started out, I had a similar feeling about paying in restaurants to drink a mineral water instead of a coke. Why was WATER on slightly less expensive than a soft drink..?! Then I thought about it some m...

carolejo

So, amid much offline discussion, here's another picture of Deb and Larry:- The 'Krishna' Tree with added Bhudda-Belly! :twisted: http://static.flickr.com/36/76296884_781fe29fa0.jpg Deb thinks this is unflattering, but I think it's a great pic cos it looks like everyone is having so much fun. I will...

carolejo

Well, after Tuesday's major flop, yesterday was a TEXTBOOK day. :D NoS :D MILA :D So far today is going well too. Had a borderline (probably too much sugar in it) breakfast of 2 Eierkoken spread with Apple syrup, but they sure tasted great and are far from nutritionally redundant, so I'm gonna stop ...

carolejo

Now now! Steady on there with the crazytalk!

Next thing you'll be printing out your own version of the gregorian calendar, with Smonday, Stuesday, Swednesday....

Glad it's going a little better now. Hope everyone is back to 100% fit in no time.

C.

carolejo

Way to go Josie!!

Fantastic news about those trousers. I know myself how good it feels to be able to reclaim items from your own wardrobe.

Here's to another good day today. Not long to go now.

C.

carolejo

Hi Vtrain, Don't know how much Hummous and biscuits you consumed, but it sounds to me like your meals aren't substantial enough to tide you over to the next one, which might be why you're still snacking so much. Just a thought. Welcome to NoS by the way. Hope you have as much fun and success here as...

carolejo

'Culturally confused', huh? Like the phrase. :) I gotta try that one. Sounds really good. Lots of the things we eat reguarly are 'culturally confused' too. Like Bangers and Mash (English dish) made with Dutch Stampot instead of the usual mashed potato, or Ribeye steaks served with German Kaesspaetzl...

carolejo

Hiya Deb, Today it's grey and overcast and damp, but hasn't been raining all that much. Just drizzle. Last night was slightly cloudy, crisp and dry though. Probably about 1 or 2 degrees above freezing. I bundled myself up well with coat and hat and gloves and scarf. I was toasty enough that I even t...

carolejo

Hi Josie, The holiday season is really tough. I'm even finding it tough and I work from home mostly, without any EVIL work collegues munching things in my face. Just remember, misery loves company. THEY all want you to join them in stuffing their faces before we even get to the feast days, so that y...

carolejo

Hi Rick, Here's my 2 cent's worth. Don't take it as the 'definitive answer though!' What do the rest of you think? 'Bad' depends on you. Everybody's body is different. For me, it'd be worse if I didn't eat breakfast, and I rarely find that eating after dinner is finished and settled is a problem, bu...

carolejo

Oh Jan! That Cat page is priceless!

Thank you so much. You really gave me a lift!!

C.

carolejo

I dunno... I think you should leave your weekend S days alone, personally. Otherwise it's like you taking revenge on yourself for getting sick, which just isn't the right mental frame to be doing this in.

Hope you feel better soon.
C.

carolejo

ps: the worst BINGE eating day since I started doing NoS and the worst day of eating even if you count the S days... and it's still no worse than what I used to eat pretty much all the time beforehand.

Huh. That's a pretty disgusting thought, really!

carolejo

Cheers Deb. It's gonna be OK. I know that now in the cold light of day. Don't worry, I've not given up on the exercise class - they've just broken up for the Christmas holidays. I'll be back there in January. Never got much further with the Yoga than enquiring about it... now it seems that my langua...

carolejo

I really should know better.... but right now I'm eating this large bowl of Kwark (like a kind of fromage frais / yoghurt stuff) with blueberry sauce right after I finished a large plate of homemade Gujarati curry. :shock: I cooked the fantastic curry from scratch cos S is gonna be late home tonight...

carolejo

http://static.flickr.com/6/75626896_54200869a4.jpg Deb and Richard at home http://static.flickr.com/43/75626895_492886ef78.jpg Deb and Richard 2005 http://static.flickr.com/41/75626894_b7823f3a45.jpg Deb with Guruji Larry There you are folks! This public service was brought to you by Carolejo and h...

carolejo

OK... am I spotting a theme here? Do you not like your neighbours or something...?

Deb, I'll see what I can do about posting that pic of you and Richard that you sent to me by email today.

C.

carolejo

Hi Deb, Good on you for only eating a couple of square inches... I've been a little naughty today. I had two chocolate cherries with kirsch liquor in them. My inner brat is really whining cos it's nearly christmas and there are so many goodies "pleeease can I have one? Just ONE...?" :lol: , but was ...

carolejo

Hi Tricia, I know exactly what you mean about wanting to eat some treats during the week for the holidays, otherwise you end up going nuts at some point. Yesterday I baked mince pies and sampled ONE with my afternoon tea. It really didn't feel like a failure at all, so I'm not logging it as one. How...

carolejo

You're so right! It's OK then! It's NOT an S *grin* Seriously though, the stuff contains only unrefined sugar beet juice and apple juice. There's nothing else there. No nasty chemical stuff, no weird jelling agents, nothing. I reckon it's gotta be better for you than eating jam on your toast, and Re...

carolejo

Hey Deb! Hope Richard feels better soon and that he *doesn't* share his cold with you :lol: Take some Zinc and Vitamin C to ward it off. 8) I know what you mean about all the household stuff distracting you. There's a mound of washing up waiting for me right now. :twisted: Well, if I will go baking ...

carolejo

Oh, and the Apple Syrup is going strong. I've started eating a small piece of toast spread with it to round off my breakfast in the morning. It seems to stop my inner brat from whining. Yes, it's sugar, but it is all natural and whole, not refined at all. Another iron-rich foodstuff in my diet is ce...

carolejo

So... I made 12 mince pies completely from scratch. I let them cool and then ate one(1!) mince pie with my afternoon tea and a little brandy butter on it. A further one has been left out on the cooling rack for the Boy to eat when he gets home and the other 10 are safely boxed up and sealed away. Li...

carolejo

Well, I must have overdone it with the hammer, cos my back was a little sore over the weekend. Fortunately I don't seem to have done myself any major damage, so 3 days of resting it has fixed it up. I'm gonna do a very gentle 14 minutes today. Don't worry! I promise I really feel better and I'm real...

carolejo

Curly Kale is my mega all time favourite vegetable! One of my 'comfort food' dishes is a large bowl of steamed kale with a little gravy on it. Over here, they make a thing called 'Stamppot' which is boiled potatoes with finely shredded kale, some salt and pepper to taste, a blob of butter and a dash...

carolejo

Hi Freakwitch, Have you plotted the weight out anywhere on a graph to see the trend line? I think it's a definate downward one, week by week, which is all you really need. On the other hand, I can understand why you might want to speed things up a little bit. Perhaps you could do something like Spir...

carolejo

Hey Josie, nevermind. It's a very human and normal thing to stuff it up sometimes. Get yourself back on track today and then give yourself a big pat on the back for having yet another shot at it. Afterall, it's not like there's a quota on the number of times you can try try again :) All the best, C.

carolejo

The cold has now settled on my chest and I'm coughing a lot - which is not currently doing anything except give me a sore throat and make my chest hurt. Blergh. I need to find myself some Lemon Glycerine and Honey Linctus, I think. S's two oldest sisters have arrived for a visit in Amsterdam! YAY! W...

carolejo

Hey Sunnyday! That's fantastic news! go go skinnyjeans!

I few weeks back, I bought a pair of trousers the same as a pair I had before, but one size smaller. The feeling is just amazing, isn't it?

C.

carolejo

We-ell, I squeezed half a lime (no lemons!), added the juice to some maple syrup, added a good shake of cayenne pepper and mixed it 50/50 with cold and hot water. I have to say, it may well be purifying ME, but it's not purifying the environment as I've been polluting the livingroom with far too muc...

carolejo

For me, I think you should make that your goal, but leave it time limited. For example, "I'll do 21 days of standard NoS, but with NO chocolate at all, not even on S days". I don't think that is inhumane, cos you know at the outset how long you have to go. That's just my take on it though. After tha...

carolejo

It's "showing up" that's the hard part.

Oh I'm 100% in agreement on that part, and have already waxed long and lyrical on the subject several times.

Congratulations on showing up! It's the hardest thing to do of all.

C.

carolejo

Someone 'annoyed' with you Sandy...?

What's that all about anyway? Is this a "misery loves company" thing on her part?

C.

carolejo

The store didn't have any lemons last night!! What a disaster! Don't worry though. I will go shopping properly soon and get some then. I think I'm gonna need to get some cayenne pepper too as I have just about every other kind apart from that. I'm feeling a little better today - my cold is really ju...

carolejo

The S days were easy but wondering if I went a little overboard. I felt that I still ate less than I would have pre- No S. And therein lies the key. Don't worry about your S days. They'll regulate themselves soon enough and you need the safety valve! If you think you went overboard, but you still a...

carolejo

Welcome, Tyler!

Good luck with NoS.

C.

carolejo

Hi Lena, sorry to hear it didn't go so well! Still, you suceeded for the first half of the day, right? Well, that's half a success! Perhaps you need to think about what you do when you snack in the evening, and do something else instead. If it's sittting in front of the TV, then how about going for ...

carolejo

*Sympathy* I have a cold too. Fortunately it's just a minor annoyance rather than anything serious. Glad you're doing well with the Snacks and Seconds. You might find that to really get a handle on the sweets you need to go 'cold turkey' for a week or so. I'm really sure that Sugar can form an addic...

carolejo

I think I will get some lemons on my way home and try your recipe tonight Deb.

C.

carolejo

I've hauled myself into the office proper today, hopefully I'll get the new hard drive that arrived yesterday fitted into my laptop, as it's not behaving properly. I'm feeling pretty 'under the weather' myself today too - a bit of a cold. Minor sore throat, cough, low grade aches and pains, shivers ...

carolejo

So, today is my last day with my Mummy here. It's been a lot of fun, but I really haven't been very 'good' from a NoS point of view! :lol: My Monday morning weigh-in reflected that, at 89kg again. I'm really not unhappy at all though cos I know it's artificial and won't stay there. We're just going ...

carolejo

I'm with you on the 'seeing with our minds' thing Deb, although in my case the opposite vision is usually true. As I've written before, my residual body image is *still* that of a rather gangly and skinny kid. For some reason, despite all physical evidence to the contrary, I genuinely look in the mi...

carolejo

As someone with a deep-seated fear and thorough hatred of having to do a 'Technicolour Yawn', I can say with some conviction that your saltwater drink is *DEFINATELY NOT* for me. :P I think I'd rather pull out my toenails with a pair of pliers than do anything to induce such a thing! :lol: I think I...

carolejo

Hey, an odd thought just struck me... ...I think NoS is "the ONE". What I mean by this is, the major difference I found between a truly serious, adult relationship with someone really special and your typical teenage 'fling' (not limited only to teenagers, but I use the term as a descriptor here) is...

carolejo

We-ell, I can't say that I'm falling off the wagon, cos I'm still here and still going... but my progress is very bumpy this week. With my Mother here the whole time, I just haven't wanted to be so strict about it all, so I've actually been out and about with her a lot, also eating a few treats. It'...

carolejo

Hmmm! I'm *just* a feeble girl though, so I can only manage about 20 reps in total, with BOTH hands on the handle!!! This one is a major killer for me.

Me Likey what it does to my arm and shoulder definition though.

C.

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