Everyday Systems

just read through the whole interview! I love it! You're so inspiring...Reinhard, you're my Yoda!

Wednesday: breakfast: granola without milk+ green tea Lunch: rice+ leftover stir fry Dinner: chicken curry with naan bread+ 1 glass of wine 1 glass of wine later in evening Exercise: twenty minutes treadmill+ twenty minutes cross training Keep getting these random urges to snack out of boredom...but...

Thank you so much for the replies! It's made me take a step back and realize how silly it is to fret much about this. Agonizing over food/calories like this is what led me to NoS in the first place, and I need to break the habit!

Also, while doing NoS..keep in mind that as ur not overweight by any means, it's going to take plenty of time for the weight to start coming off. I say this because I'm a very similar build to you...I'd say I've lost about 5 pounds in total in about 4 months, but my weight fluctuates daily depending...

TUESDAY Breakfast: green tea+ box of raisins coffee Lunch: big bowl of granola+ orange Dinner: rice+ stir fry with chicken, cabbage, mushrooms, courgettes+ red apple Exercise: twenty minutes treadmill+ twenty minutes cross training+ 100 situps It's Easter break over here and all my housemates have g...

I'm partial to a bowl of granola either for breakfast or lunch. Not sure if this counts as an S, as I think the kind I eat is quite high calorie and I tend to have quite large servings. However, I've tried to only have this on the weekends and this ended up being counter-productive because I ended u...

MONDAY

Breakfast: dry cereal+ coffee
Lunch: more dry cereal
Dinner: noodle soup+ one egg, orange
Green tea

Had sorta a crazy weekend NoS-wise, but I went away to visit a friend over a weekend so it was kinda a mini-holiday, so im not stressing over it. Plus thats what S weekends are for! Friday breakfast: sardine sandwich (hungover food) lunch: instant noodles Dinner: salad+ one slice of quiche+slice of ...

Thursday: took an S-day Breakfast: green tea+ 1 banana and few slices of watermelon Lunch: medium portion of french fries ( last day of placement so had fries from greasy chip shop down the road). Snack: one teeny slice of birthday cake Dinner: two slices of homemade veggie pizza and some boiled cab...

Wednesday: Breakfast: watermelon+ green tea Lunch: glass of milk+ one large bowl of cereal ( I like my cereal dry!) + 1 banana Dinner: Stir fried noodles with prawns and lots of veg+ watermelon again Baked my friend's birthday cake but resisted eating bits as I went along. We're giving her the cake ...

Tuesday: Breakfast: green tea+ banana+ orange Lunch: sausage bread bun + apple Dinner: rice + 'fragrant chicken' curry+ watermelon (yummy!) Funny stuff: had three love hearts when offered by someone..dunno how many cals they are..but they're sooo teeny ( like mints)I don't think they count. Also had...

Walking the dog and no alcohol are two mini-successes on its own! Good going!

Hi, I was just wondering..does anyone else make the distinction between small and large S days? I tend to find that whenever I have a non-weekend S day ( e.g. friend's birthday)..i use that excuse to binge like crazy the whole day..even more than I would on a normal weekend, just because it seems li...

After about 9/10 months of doing NoS, I've decided to start a check-in, just to see if I'm really eating the way I think I am. When I started NoS, I decided to forgo the check-in thing, cuz I used to do that and note down calories in my pre-NoS days and I hated that, but this is different so here go...

funnily enough, I found it through googling the words "kate moss diet", and got directed to the homepage which read this diet will NOT make u look like kate moss." Read through the three rules and was hooked straightaway. Before NoS, every cookie/treat/snack was another difficult decision to make. E...

I stress eat... a LOT. Before NoS, I used to be a massive binge eater whenever I had a bad day/big exam coming up..etc. I normally gain 5/6 pounds during finals period. Now that I'm NoS, I hope I'll be able to prevent the weight gain this year. My exams are in a few weeks and I'm soo stressed out ab...

Thanks for all the replies! In response to some of the questions above, I cook most of my own meals although I'm a student as I have my own kitchen. And I DO exercise at the gym about three times a week and try to do some form of weights at home when I can't make it to the gym. I'll try my best to s...

Hi I've been doing No-S for about 8 months now and I think I'm quite comfortable with the rules and everything now. It took me some time to have non-crazy S weekends, but I think I've also managed to sort that out. Like most people I gained some weight over the Christmas period due to too many S day...

Had one toasted and buttered for breakfast this morning. I'm glad I waited until Saturday. I really felt like I deserved it!

They were a lot less sweet than I thought they were going to be though. I expected them to be more sweet-like, but they're def very borderline.

Thanks for all the replies! I've decided I'm going to hold back on them until Saturday morning, but not counting them as a full S treat, so I'm allowed my usual S-day treat in addition to a hot cross bun since they're a borderline food! On a side note, I can't believe they were banned in England at ...

This might be a silly question for some but are hot cross buns an S? They must be a british thing because I've never had them before but my Brit housemates assure me it's an 'Easter' thing and 'u have to have them at Easter', and they've bought TWO packs, and keep trying to get me to eat one. I've n...

I had a really really bad binge yesterday ( it was a saturday). I feel like I should confess what I ate so that I'm shamed into not doing this again. Had normal breakfast, and lunch, then went to Starbucks, shared half a cinamon bun ( this was ok, because it counted as my S-day treat), then went hom...

I've learned that I have amazingly good self-control when it comes to saying 'NO', once I've made my decision. The major problem before No-S was not saying 'no' but more with deciding. Deciding whether that piece of cheesecake was okay because 'a slice once in a while wouldn't make much of a differe...

I know milk is nutritionally beneficial and helps protect your bones etc but does it help or hinder weight loss?? I haven't had milk for a few weeks since I stopped having sugary cereal/muesli for breakfast, but I was wondering whether to reintroduce it to my daily diet? Btw, I know skimmed milk doe...

I'm trying to have fruit for breakfast and also trying to cut down on lunch by having fruit or salad. I find that I tend to eat quite unhealthily at lunch sometimes ( e.g paninis, pizza etc). I would quite like to have fruit for lunch as well as I find it quite filling however I'm worried people aro...

I've been doing NoS since around june/july of 2007. It worked very well at first, especially because I have always yo-yo dieted in the past, and binged/starved myself alternately, so NoS was a simple way to lose weight yet not go crazy counting calories. I lost around five pounds this way, then I we...

Thanks for all the suggestions everyone. It's my post-exam end of term celebrations tomorrow night and everyone will be off their faces for sure but I'm going to try as best as I can to stick to the glass ceiling! I think even cutting down to four drinks would be a big step as my average intake on a...

As a student, I tend to go out and drink quite a bit of alcohol. I understand that alcohol contains a lot of calories, especially cocktails. I feel that this is the main reason I'm gaining rather than losing on NoS. Trouble is I only get one or two nights off a week where I can really let my hair do...