Everyday Systems

OK, this may sound lame to some people, but we only get about two snow days a year around here, and a surprise day off is just too fun not to celebrate. So, snow days are S days as far as I'm concerned, although I will rethink that if we ever get more than a couple of them. I think I am doing OK at ...

I'm counting today as "N" because althought MLK day is really important, it isn't really a food holiday...it is odd, though, to be home all day on an N day, and I have to keep reminding myself, "no snacks, this is not the weekend." So there you have it...just a random thought about snacks. Tonight m...

five green days in a row, and sometimes it was so easy I got the nagging feeling I was doing something wrong... I did want something sweet mid-week, but it is amazing how much easier "not until the weekend" is than "no" is. I am planning an S day Tuesday for inauguration day. I worked and prayed har...

Thanks for the support Janie; I appreciate all of your feedback. Despite the red blotches on the calendar, I do feel like I am in the right program and on the right track.

Silly Failure on Friday! Went to dinner at a friend's house, got caught up in the conversation, and when dessert rolled around I got halfway through it before I remembered that Friday night doesn't start with S! Grrrr. My habit cal doesn't look very good this week. Oddly enough, I'm OK with that. I ...

Success! And not hard at all today. Drinking water really works to tide me over between meals. I'm not even interested in snacking.

Monday and Tuesday were successful, but today is different. I know I could have avoided breaking the rules for tonight's event if I had just planned better. I am providing the snacks for a church activity tonight and had originally planned to just wait and call it dinner. But my lunch was too early ...

Today was fine. I ate some things I wouldn't normally eat when dieting, and am fine with giving up my esses for the week. On another note, though, I am a bit overwhelmed at the idea of returning to school tomorrow (sigh). I feel rested and relaxed, but oh how I would love to stay that way! Alas, I h...

Two S days into an S day trio (Friday was my belated New Year's dinner party) and I have to say that I am not at all comfortable in S days. Actually, yesterday was fine; I essentially treated it like an N day until dinner party time, except that I tasted as I cooked, which would have seemed like ill...

Success!
Learning so much about my old habits and appetites, but still really enjoying the freedom to eat healthy, normal meals...

Success? I am calling today a success; I had no failure due to appetite, but a small failure of planning. I have to take daily anti-inflammatory medication for achilles tendonitis and it upsets my stomach if I don't take it with food. Alas, I forgot to take it at breakfast and again at lunch. I woul...

[color=green]Success! [/color]Definitely hungry between meals, but so far, Reinhardt is right; the strictness does remove the stress of negotiating with my self about that hunger. This doesn't seem that hard...but then again, I am on winter break right now and have zero stress. Wonder how I will han...

Just want to welcome you to the bulletin board. I don't know if it's any help to hear this, but I have been where you are. In my early twenties I had a really bleak period--during a similar recession--when I had no job, no money, no car, nothing. Then my husband left. It was a horrible time, and I w...

[color=green]SUCCESS[/color]! My first N day wasn't too hard, but it did inform me how much I HAVE been eating.

Kathleen said:

'I've noticed that several of the posters are middle-aged women who started dieting as teenagers or even younger. '

LOL! No one has ever referred to me as 'middle-aged' before! Cripes! I thought I didn't have to take that tag on until fifty, or at least forty-five! OyVeh!

It's my first N day, and, since I am on Christmas Break, I am on vacation. This is not a problem, actually, as I feel so bloated and disgusted from the holidays I am not prone to cheat today. I am however, prone to NUMBER FANTASIES. "If I lose two pounds a week, I will weigh such and such by Stephy'...

Resting--your description of this place as 'the sweetest place of sane recovery' made me actually tear up with hope and relief. I don't have the book yet, but will be looking for it this afternoon. LA--Thank you for all the support and encouragement. I am a teacher, and recently a psychologist who s...

I am so thrilled to find No S. All fall, I have been trying to figure out how to approach my life-long weight problem in a new and different way. I have been on every diet, and have come to believe that diets are my problem, not my solution. So I wanted to begin this new year with some simple, lifel...