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veggirl1964

Thanks for the support, Kat! Yes, it is amazing when I think about how many bites of food I would normally mindlessly eat during the day - at my desk, in the truck, standing in the open refrigerator.... It really solves the mystery of how I gained all this extra weight!

veggirl1964

During the week, I usually am hungry at those times. I teach and usually don't have time for more than a handful of carrot sticks at noon. 3pm is usually a small amount also. Around 6pm is more. Since I've been concentrating on eating slowly, I find I don't want very much in one sitting. Truly weird...

veggirl1964

I normally have about 3 hours between meals - I generally eat at 12, 3, and 6. But, sometimes there are way more hours if I actually get hungry earlier in the morning. It all depends on how my stomach is feeling.

veggirl1964

Every time I do try to do roving S Days, and I've tried it quite a few times, it becomes too complicated and I slide away from NoS completely after a while. The reason No S works for me is that it is super uncomplicated - either it is Saturday, Sunday or a holiday or it is not. I need that black and...

veggirl1964

I rarely eat breakfast before 10 or 12. I get sick to my stomach if I eat or drink before I'm ready in the morning. I often eat my three meals at 12, 3, and 6.

veggirl1964

Yay! I made it through a whole week and back to an S Day! A co-worker left a couple of handfuls of miniature hershey's candy bars in my desk during the week. After a moment of panic, I put them all in a zip lock back, brought them home, and put them at the back of my pantry. I knew having them in my...

veggirl1964

I went out to Mexican food yesterday for lunch and was quite proud. I suck at virtual plating (too much room for fudging), so my new rule is that I cannot touch the chips and salsa until the meal comes. It almost killed me, but I did it. I then put a handful of chips on my plate to go with the meal....

veggirl1964

OMG - I'm actually leaving food on my plate! I find when I eat slowly that I get bored before I can finish all my food (most of the time, anyway). So strange, but I'll take it.

I've had some difficult times in the last couple of day between meals, but have pulled through.

veggirl1964

I am also loving the app. I have learned in the past several days that I normally do not chew my food very well and that I usually take my next bite while the last one is still in my mouth. Amazing that I've never choked to death! I've also noticed that I now eat almost as slowly as my husband (who ...

veggirl1964

Thanks, I will check that out. I am using Eat Slower.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... .eatslower[/url]

veggirl1964

Well, apparently I've been trying this thing for about 5 years now, based on when I first joined. I've had successes, but eventually slide and then go over the deep end. I've been guilty of a lot of all-or-nothing thinking. For example, I eat too much junk on No S, therefore, I need to try something...

veggirl1964

After slowing drifting away from NoS (and then just abandoning all reason), I am back and need to be accountable in a public way this month. Starting on November 2nd. 2 - S Day 3 - S Day 4 - success 5 - success 6 - success 7 - success 8 - success 9 - S Day 10- S Day 11- failure 12- success 13- succe...

veggirl1964

Reinhard has been working on a habitcal for the iPhone/iPod. It's just not finished yet. See this post:

http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic ... c&start=50

veggirl1964

I eat roasted veggies and potatoes year round. Pretty much I eat the same foods during all seasons.

The only "holiday favorite" I have is a Cadbury Egg, but that's in the spring - and I've always pretty much NoS'd that - more than one makes me sick.

veggirl1964

Yay - another podcast! I like to listen to them sometimes when I walk for motivation.

veggirl1964

Our grocery bill is down by about 10%.

veggirl1964

I agree - I count granola bars as a sweet. My husband used to get the Fiber One Bars with the chocolate chips, and they tasted as sweet as a candy bar to me. He stopped buying them when he started NoSing.

veggirl1964

It totally worked for me last month. I'm in for another Vanilla No S month! 01 - :mrgreen: 02 - :mrgreen: 03 - :mrgreen: 04 - :mrgreen: 05 - :D 06 - :D 07 - :mrgreen: 08 - :mrgreen: 09 - :mrgreen: 10 - :mrgreen: 11 - :D Veteran's Day 12 - :D 13 - :D 14 - :( Sick Day 15 - :( Sick Day 16 - :( Sick Day...

veggirl1964

~reneew wrote:Was anyone successful???

I was - I met my goal of Vanilla No S for the month!

veggirl1964

I'm a teacher. It is absolutely an S Day!

veggirl1964

I have always wondered when I read these studies if it is the smell or the chemical reaction. I've never had any sense of smell, so I have no clue what peppermint smells like. I do like peppermint tea, however, due to the taste.

veggirl1964

:D I like using the book to refer back to No S concepts. Although I already have my hard copy, I followed the link and bought another one for my Kindle. :!: I also like referring back to the book to keep myself on track. I keep the physical copy mainly for when my husband has questions or to loan o...

veggirl1964

That is a really good deal! But, I already have both the Kindle version and the print version.

veggirl1964

Over43 wrote:I remember Duran Duran...

You didn't have the hair, did you?

veggirl1964

Not to be totally tinfoil-hat-wearing paranoid or anything...

I've had a long day and that just completely cracked me up. Thanks - I needed that!

veggirl1964

Option 2 - that is what S days are for!

veggirl1964

That is awesome to hear and gives me hope!!

veggirl1964

Peppermint tea! If I'm dying for something, I drink peppermint tea (I think I had about 10 cups yesterday, but it got me through the bad cravings). And I ate myself silly at meal times.

veggirl1964

I am beginning to like my hunger between meals. It reminds me that I'm not eating like a fool. I distinctly remember being hungry between meals as a kid and occasionally asking for a snack. My mom always told us to go back outside and play, because she wasn't going to let us spoil our appetites for ...

veggirl1964

I've been very strict for a couple of weeks now, and the "no snacks" is getting a little easier. The first week, I kept hearing my mom's voice in my head from when I was a kid, "NO, YOU CAN'T HAVE A SNACK, IT WILL SPOIL YOUR DINNER - GET OUT OF THE KITCHEN! NOW! IF YOU WANT SOMETHING TO CRY ABOUT, I...

veggirl1964

play Jenga with my dinner plate janie That cracked me up. The first time around, I gained weight because I was the Jenga Queen! I kept thinking I'd move to a single layer of food once I got the 3 meal habit down. I never did. I am also here after 3 years on and off, and am also finding that this ti...

veggirl1964

I've been coming and going since 2008. I kept going because I kept thinking that I wanted to lose weight faster before NoSing. Now that I weight about 15 pounds MORE than when I first discovered NoS (having gained and lost much weight in between), I give up! No S is the only way I can eat without ob...

veggirl1964

I also always plan pizza on Fridays and that is the toughest challenge for me. Maybe you could move your pizza day to Saturday so you could have seconds? We often go out to Mexican food and I had to move that to Saturdays rather than Fridays, because I like to have chips and salsa and sometimes a s...

veggirl1964

As long as you have realistic expectations, and it appears that you do, No S is totally the way to go. I think where people (this includes me in the past) have trouble with it, is when they secretly (or not so secretly) want to lose 10 pounds per week and become super-model skinny. No S will not acc...

veggirl1964

I'm a daily weigher. I also do the spreadsheet as others mentioned. I don't really pay attention to the number on the scale, other than to add it to my sheet. I do pay attention to the trend line in my graph (I also read the Hacker's Diet at one point). As long as it's fairly straight across the pag...

veggirl1964

I eat salsa with most of my meals!

veggirl1964

gk wrote:Good luck!

Thanks!

veggirl1964

Okay, here we go again! I have been toying with No S for a few years. I keep cycling through No S, Vegan Diet, and Calorie Counting. I gain, I lose, I gain, I lose, I go crazy... October 2011 - This time around, I began my NoS journey on September 28th. I am 47 years old, 5' 9.5" and currently weigh...

veggirl1964

If breakfast is derailing you, don't eat it. As someone else mentioned, there are cultures who do not eat it and they are just fine. As long as skipping a traditional meal is not part of disordered eating, there should be no harm in it.

veggirl1964

No S will certainly help me lose those extra calories. After falling off the No S Bandwagon for awhile and trying calorie-counting, what I've found is that I eat about 1500 calories in meals and an additional 1000 calories per day in snacks. Yikes! While I assume my meals calories might increase a b...

veggirl1964

Congrats on your first week! It does feel great. Now imagine feeling great every week!

veggirl1964

Vanilla No S for the month - my S days are already marked in my Habitcal, so I will have no confusion. 1 - S 2 - S 3 - N 4 - N 5 - N 6 - N My biggest challenge was a meeting in the afternoon - they plunked down a handful of miniature candy bars in front of me. I shoved them over to my neighbor's sid...

veggirl1964

As someone else said, do what reinforces moderation. Shun what induces excess. Agreed. I don't drink coffee. I used to eat a lot of Luna Bars and Cliff Bars. The problem for me is that I like them too much and want to eat way too many. They are my form of candy, so I had to cut them out unless it's...

veggirl1964

It is possible! What helps me is the reminder that experiencing hunger between meals is NORMAL. When I was a kid (a skinny kid), my brother and I would occasionally try to sneak into the kitchen for an after-school snack. My mom would kick us out, and tell us that it would spoil our dinner. So, we w...

veggirl1964

I can't wait to try the finished product!

veggirl1964

Is this still in the works?

veggirl1964

I like the mp3 player suggestion. Also, Audible.com (for great audiobooks to listen to while walking about).

veggirl1964

I have fasted for both spiritual and medical reasons in the past, but never for weight loss. It's been my experience that any weight lost during a fast finds its way back after eating is resumed.

veggirl1964

I love audio books. My walking time is when I get to "read."

veggirl1964

I put my bowl on the plate and put food around it.

veggirl1964

I will join in for June, July & August. I have been Nos since the first. I walk daily (more in some days than others) and lift weights at the gym 2x per week. Today I ate Nos, walked for 30 minutes, and spent 45 minutes at the gym.

Kathi

veggirl1964

Breakfast: Green Smoothie (spinach, carrots, bananas, flaxseed, water, and some other type of fruit)

Lunch: Thick-cut rolled oats mixed with dried fruit, nuts, and seeds, and just barely moistened with water

Dinner: A full plate of whatever sounds good!

veggirl1964

Well, this is only my 3rd week, but I find that when I want to snack, it is because I am either doing nothing or pretending to do something while really procrastinating. Either way, going out to take a walk gives me something to do and gets me further from the food with each step. And, if I have boo...

veggirl1964

oolala53 wrote:So, does this mean a sandwich is vertical stacking? I hope not.

I wouldn't think so. I'm thinking it applies more to the times when I manage to pile my whole plate 3" high (only gravity prevented it from going higher those first couple of days).

veggirl1964

Not specific enough? How about this: if you have more than one vertical layer of food on your plate, you are almost certainly overeating. I like the "no vertical stacking" rule. I am going to use that one to help my plates look more normal. I guess searching through old posts on a cloudy holiday wa...

veggirl1964

Thanks for posting, Resting. I don't mind if it takes time; I just needed to hear that it is possible!

veggirl1964

I am also waiting for my portions to become an appropriate size for one person. Right now I eat dinner like a Sumo-wrestler-in-training. I have finished my first two weeks and it is getting slightly better. The first two nights, I literally hid my plate from my husband, because I was so embarrassed ...

veggirl1964

Veggiegirl, the tendency to eat too much at dinner will "self-correct" over time. I sure hope it starts self-corrects soon. I think I am eating slightly less this week. But, I think a family of four would still not starve on the amount of food on my dinner plate! Breakfast and lunch are not as hard...

veggirl1964

So, start big and gradually reduce the amount of food on the plate in accordance with the body's comfort level. Well, I've certainly got the "start big" part down! LOL I was thinking at one point that I should put a limit on how high the food was stacked on my plate, say 3 or 4". Last week (my firs...

veggirl1964

I did fine on my 4 N days in a row. Today was an S day (can't teach and not have an S day on Halloween!). I didn't even eat that much candy (compared to just a week ago) and I got a stomach ache. I found myself at dinner making sure all my pizza fit on one plate.

veggirl1964

I ate a more normal sized dinner tonight and still feel full. Cannot believe I'm not missing eating the snacks! I have designated Friday an S day (Halloween), but am not looking forward to it as much as I was three days ago. Oh, don't get me wrong, I still will probably have a couple of pieces of ca...

veggirl1964

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veggirl1964

I just found this and checked out my house. It scores a 25/100, which is better than I would have rated it. But, it counts the liquor store in the industrial sector down the road as a "grocery" store. I guess -- if you count Top Ramen and a 5th of whiskey as groceries! My walking out here is not so ...

veggirl1964

I made another N day! I ate too much for dinner again. In fact, I was completely embarassed by how much food was on my plate. I'm too stuffed now. Once I get used to the no-afternoon-snack thing, I need to pare down on my dinner portions. I just feel so darned hungry when 5:00 rolls around. Although...

veggirl1964

Thanks for the encouragement! Yesterday was fine. I did have to remind myself several times that it was an N day and that I didn't eat snacks between meals on N days. I think I overdid it at dinner -- my plateful was enormous and I was stuffed after. But, I didn't snack and that was what I was most ...

veggirl1964

Day Two - another S Day. Okay, tomorrow is it - my first N day. I'm a tad nervous about after work. I generally get home between 3 and 3:30 and have a snack (it would actually be a family meal in many countries). Then I graze until I am stuffed. Then I have dinner. I think I will plan on eating my d...

veggirl1964

Yesterday was Day One. Kinda cool starting on an S Day. No worries. I have tried the just one plate of food thing, though. It is weird, as I'm used to grazing for about 2 hours straight, several times a day. Seems doable, however.

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