Everyday Systems

I have been having the old thoughts again this week. Thinking I need to do something that works faster. But that puts me back into the whole ugly "diet distress mess" again. I don't want to do that. This works perfectly with my lifesyle and it is very do-able. We seem to be spending a lot of time di...

Thank you. I just paid way too much for ice cream on Saturday and was wondering how long it would stay freezer-burn free if just eaten on the week-ends. Hope it's not too late. I haven't bought plastic wrap for years.

I recently had some emotional distress and didn't want to eat. I found that I was more inclined to eat something I didn't have to prepare. I ate better at home than away from home and also could eat more if I got my mind on something else even sort of. Look at the pictures in a catalog or something ...

Enough is as good as a feast means that you should not have more of something than you need. "No, thanks! No more to drink for me, I've have enough. Enough is as good as a feast." It's really a pretty good note to keep in your head when you know you are eating more than you really want. I do it all ...

Mary: Finally someone who I can relate to. I am going to be 64 in a few days and I think that because we are older, we don't have the push anymore. We don't want to get any bigger (I have about 20 lbs to drop), but at the same time we don't want to count/weigh anything. We have other issues now and ...

It is so nice to read about people who aren't perfect, yet still succeed on this way of eating. Had a bad week last week. Husband has dementia and was in hospital for depression, then there is my 92 year old mother, who requires attention, my 40 hour a week job. I got to a point where I didn't want ...

BrightAngel: I absolutely understand what you are saying and I think you are our poster child for weight loss. I wish I had your determination and will power. At my age some of the spunk I had 20 years ago is just not there anymore. I would like to know at what point in your weight loss you started ...

Anyone who can wear a 4 or a 6 shouldn't be overly worried about their weight. Not only do I not want to count calories or points, I don't want to count ounces. This is such a wonderful way to eat. I don't want to over think any of it. When you lose weight, everything you own gets loose. Watch bands...

I have trouble with lunch, too. I don't leave the office for lunch, so that makes it a bit harder. Someone will usually go out and pick something up for everyone, but the choices are exactly the foods we should try to avoid. A salad does not satisfy me until supper. I guess frozen low calorie meals ...

I have an Image 9.5 Elliptical. Easy on the back. I can control the resistance........see how far I've gone, etc. Lots of bells and whistles. I enjoy it.

This week has been hard for me. I have been following the diet to the letter until this week. Long story short.....husband in hospital for depression and suicidial thoughts. This is not the first time I have climbed this mountain and I'm tired of it. I'm as mad as I am sad and this "attitude" makes ...

I have noticed that when I am cooking and getting supper on the table, that I will start eating a little of this and that as I go about accumulating the meal. I have to keep reminding myself, not to eat a single morsel before I sit down. I shut my mouth and pretend my lips are sealed. I think we hav...

Me too. 3 1/2 weeks and my skirt was a low rider this morning. Was afraid it was going to slide off when I stood up in church. Wore a previously too tight pair of slacks all day Friday, even sat in comfort. Isn't is great? And I don't even feel like I'm on a diet. Wow.!

I just call this a "way of eating". WOE. That, however, is what a diet is, but it removes the word "diet" from your vocabulary. I have told a few people at work what I am doing to lose weight. Most of them looked at me in shock........."What!!!! No Snacks???!!! "I could never do that". Well, now tha...

My pants fit!!!! I haven't owned a scale for probably 15 years. I never weigh and my doctor knows I don't want to know. I go strictly by the size of my clothes and how they fit. When I started no-s-ing about 3 1/2 weeks ago, I laid a pair of slacks on a chair in my dressing room. They lacked about a...

I purchased the 6 Week Body Makeover a few years back and if you do what the diet tells you to do and eat according to your particular body type........you will lose weight. I have lost several times on the plan and quickly. HOWEVER................I can't stay on the diet. It totally consumed my tim...

I have a gold key from weight watchers that I managed to get years ago for getting to my goal weight and staying there for a lenth of time. I gained the weight back over time and had to start again. I did this 3 or 4 times. Why? Because I just couldn't keep counting counting counting....measuring ev...

This is my third weekend. I promised my 92 year old mother that we would have pizza today. Now, I love pizza, so she didn't have a very hard sell. Besides, I can't tell her no anyway. I ended up eating some salad, 1/4 of a personal pan pizza and one cheese breadstick. I didn't stop eating because I ...

My solution for the overflowing plate is this. At first I was worried that I would get hungry at work in the afternoon and give in to the office habit of grazing all afternoon. So I filled a regular plate. Soon I realized that just by knowing the rules, I was not tempted to graze. Having conquered t...

I am going into my 3rd week on this plan. Just this last Tuesday, I had rented a movie that I really wanted to see. What goes along with a good movie? Right......popcorn. Which is, by the way, my big problem. Love the stuff. Even have a ceramic red and white striped popcorn bowl (okay, tub). Anyway,...

This way of eating is just amazing me. As I go along, I am noticing some pretty big changes in my preferences. For as long as I can remember, I have eaten popcorn nearly every night for a snack. Popcorn was usual, but anything that didn't get up and walk away was in jeopardy around me. I missed it a...

I learned years ago, that the scale is not my friend. I have only been no- sing for a few days, but I have clothes that already feel better and my rings are spinning around on my fingers. I know if I would step on a scale, it wouldn't have budged and I would be discouraged. I go by what I see in the...

My craving isn't for sweets, and it hardly ever is. I just want stuff like pizza etc. Well, today, our office decided to have Mexican. Boy, did that sound good. I have been doing really well and have only been eating only healthy lunches and suppers for over a week. If I was on any other diet, I wou...

I have diet books that the covers are almost worn out just from pulling them off the shelf. In the last year, I have tried or though about trying dozens of diets. Gone back to the ones I've tried before. Always looking for something better, something I could live with. Sometimes unable to sleep goin...

Reinhard: It's not the first book that makes you a millionaire. It's the books after that telling why you wrote the book and then the book explaining why you wrote the book about why you wrote the book. THEN...."just the right size" plates (this is a must)........t-shirts.....bumper stickers.....hat...

I joined several days before I actually started the diet, because I wanted to read and ask a few questions first. This is my second day and I can't believe how yesterday went. I didn't even want to snack. I guess just knowing I couldn't was enough to satisfy my brain. Unbelievable for me. I love pop...

In the 50's we usually had oatmeal or malt-o-meal for breakfast. Lunch was brown bag, peanut butter and homemade jelly. Supper was meat, potatoes and gravy (watered down) and whatever veggie and fruit we had canned the previous summer. Mama cooked just enough for everyone to have 1 serving of meat a...

I'm 64 and totally agree with the Lilly. Back in the 50's there was no "fast food". Restaurant eating was very rare. We had breakfast, lunch and supper. We ate to live, now we live to eat. We didn't even have a tv until 1957, so there were obviously more things to do than sit and stare at a box. I p...

I found this w-o-e five days ago and have yet to really get started. I have been on every diet that came down the pike and they all have had page after page of rules and calculations. Everytime I tried a new diet, I would literally spend hours pouring over diet book just to understand the basics. No...

I read about the No S diet in the Woman's Day magazine and fell in love. I am 64 years old and have been on EVERY diet that came along. Most of them work, but I get tired of the hassel. I am at a place in my life where even tho I am 20 pounds overweight, I don't care as much as I did 15 years ago, s...