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amake616

If you're worried that all three S's will be so difficult for you that it could put you off the plan entirely you might want to consider doing them one by one. I started with all three and no snacks and no seconds were a breeze. No sweets on the other hand...whole different ball game. I still strugg...

amake616

I used the HabitCal for 4 or 5 months until I realized that it was starting to feel suspiciously like work to log-in and register red or green or yellow. I'm a grown-up so I stopped using it several months ago and it hasn't affected my weight adversely or anything else. I think everyone should at le...

amake616

I can't give you tips on not binging on S days because unfortunately none of them ever worked all that well for me. The only thing that helped slow my binging on S days was letting myself have them and I had them every week the first three months. I've been binging a lot less in the last month. So i...

amake616

Peanut butter and jelly sandwich with a piece of fruit or grilled cheese sandwich with the canned tomato soup. Yeah. I'm 10 years old at heart.

amake616

I like the ads for cookbooks and specific foods like oatmeal, tea, dried fruit, pasta, granola and so forth. Added benefit of reminding you that on No S you can actually eat all those things.

amake616

Thise pictures are cool - I've never had Meyer lemon marmalade but now I want to try it. It sounds like you have realistic goals so even with your concerns you should be able to achieve them. Good luck

amake616

I found this useful too. I think I struggle to come up with alternative rewards, though, I very much still gravitate towards food/alcohol as reward for a hard day.. What do other people reward themselves with? Earrings, a book, new makeup (some of these are obviously only relevant to mostly one gen...

amake616

Those sound amazing! I also can see myself eating an entire pan of them in a day

But I've got to try them now or I'll always wonder about what might have been.

amake616

I think we might have been separated at birth. That sounds exactly like how most of my S days start out. Although I've never had a scotcheroo bar and am now consumed with curiosity

amake616

Those hot cruss buns look wonderful, I might have to find a recipe for those. I don't plan on taking any additional NWS days although I'm sure I'll eat more than my fair amount of food that weekend. Luckily Orthodox Easter falls on the same day as everybody else's Easter so I can get all of my devou...

amake616

I'm very sorry to hear about your mother. You should definitely be focusing on just what makes you feel calmest at the moment and not worrying about what you eat. Losing a parent has got to be one of the hardest things you can go through although I'm glad for you and her that it was peaceful.

amake616

I think this is a case where common sense should probably be the deciding factor. According to my BMI, I'm fine at 142 and overweight at 147. I'm an insurance risk at 147 and perfectly dandy at 142, regardless of how much I've been exercising, what I've been eating, and so forth. My common sense tel...

amake616

The complete description is only two clauses long: "Eating a reasonable breakfast may help with weight loss, *because it can help you not snack so much*". But whenever this is reported, it's like that second part is too much effort, and it gets cut down to: "Eat breakfast to lose weight". Like it's...

amake616

I don't get too worked up about breakfast. I know a lot of people feel it's necessary to eat a good sized well rounded breakfast or else you're doomed to be fat and unhealthy and that might be true for some people. But I'm fine on a piece of toast or two in the morning or a little yogurt. If you fee...

amake616

A lady I'm friendly with is on this diet. She says she's lost like 35 pounds already and she's three weeks in and she's sure this has changed her life and how she views her body forever. I have some major doubts about maintaining weight lost on this plan because it's so extreme but I guess that's so...

amake616

I doubt that the supplement would hurt you and at least it's calorie free so *shrugs* Why not? So long as you aren't already taking a bunch of other supplements. The problem with acai berries that I've seen is that smoothie and frozen yogurt places offer acai smoothies with about a thousand calories...

amake616

The blog KCCC linked to actually has some good advice if you do decide to slowly wean yourself off the Diet 7up (I didn't know they even made that in caffeine free) especially regarding replacement drinks. I've never tried just adding a little splash of fruit juice to water - I don't drink any juic...

amake616

The blog KCCC linked to actually has some good advice if you do decide to slowly wean yourself off the Diet 7up (I didn't know they even made that in caffeine free) especially regarding replacement drinks. I've never tried just adding a little splash of fruit juice to water - I don't drink any juice...

amake616

I drink between 16 and 40 oz. of Diet Coke a day. I would eventually like to cut back because I have visions of being told I have Diet Coke Cancer at forty but at the moment, I don't feel like tackling yet another issue related to eating/drinking. After I feel 100% comfortable on the basics I figure...

amake616

Sweets are my biggest issue and sometimes I just have to grit my teeth, drink a bunch of water, and go to bed early. But most days it isn't that hard and I can just distract myself. Brushing my teeth and then putting on lip gloss has been known to work too although I'm somewhat embarassed it's even ...

amake616

I wouldn't worry about it. After all most months you probably only have 1 or 2 so just enjoy it and savor the memories during the months when you have none, lol.

amake616

The missus is from the Philippines, and she tells me (and I've seen, on visits) that snacking is built in to Filipino culture: they have snacks several times a day, between meals, but in general people are (or have been, until recently) fairly slim. I think the key is that the snacks have tradition...

amake616

I love the idea of making a list! I love making lists in general (I keep a small notebook on me at all times, in case of "list emergencies") and I think it would be nice to have one more thing to make a list of.

amake616

"While sizing can vary (different brands/styles/etc), this marks a change from a size 18 (baggy jeans) to a size 12 (hot sexy jeans). " Sizing can vary but it would still be such an enormous psychological boost! It must have been a lot of fun to go through your old clothes and expand your wardrobe w...

amake616

Reinhard's idea of only weighing yourself once a month and taking the average of three days is far and away the best "weighing yourself" idea I've ever heard of. Half a pound to two pounds a week are the numbers I've always heard recommended for sustainable weight loss and those numbers are too low ...

amake616

"Is it possible for me to WANT TO LOSE WEIGHT *and* to BE TOTALLY COMFORTABLE WITH THE WEIGHT I AM NOW?" Yes. And I'd say it's actually preferable to wanting to lose weight and being deeply unhappy/uncomfortable with the way you look already. After all, losing weight takes a while if you're trying t...

amake616

"For example, what do I like to smell? [almond extract, black magic marker, vanilla, lilac, rose]. For some reason, smells turned out to be a very good, immediate distraction. A whiff of almond extract could take me out of that edgy, pre-binge anxiety. I freqently calmed down to candles." That actua...

amake616

Huh. I like thinking about food so long as I know I can get some soon! Anticipation is a good thing.

amake616

Thanks for telling me what they were! I'm always on the lookout for new and delicious foods...which is probably part of the reason I need to diet but hey life's too short :D Those both sound pretty excellent, I didn't realize Australia had so much lamb access...I might have to visit there now, lol. ...

amake616

I have no idea what capeseed or lamb paratha are but enjoy them

Anything lamb is generally pretty excellent. I'm glad you're feeling a little better.

amake616

"And I know that you and I are different, but something concerns me when you say you look in the mirror and can't stand yourself. There's so much more going on here....so much more then this 10 lb weight gain. "

A thousand times this.

amake616

"Pressure makes diamonds" - that's nice, I like that. Gives eating well a more glamorous sound, lol.

amake616

Egypt is free for the first time in 30 years...this is pretty amazing. Come what may after, the man has been in power for thirty years, since my Mom was a little kid and to be overthrown by his own people. Pretty awesome to see this.

amake616

I'm pretty flexible so long as it's not made with milk. Oatmeal with milk

Not terribly delicious IMO.

amake616

I went and checked it again.

"Not for me...too many arbitrary rules to remember."

Yes, because limited amounts of sugar and calorie input opportunities is wildly arbitrary. These crazy dieters! What radical concepts for trying to lose weight!

amake616

Yup, American baked beans in a tin are very savory with some sweetness (usually from brown sugar or molasses), not as much as it sounds like English style ones have. Butter beans baked with ketchup, onions, bacon, and chili powder ....soooo amazingly delicious.

amake616

Oh yes, my father's family is Jordanian and if you turn down food it's like you turned them down personally as an individual and they're crushed. Luckily, the food is pretty awesome

When we went to visit them when we were kids, me and my brother particularly came back waddling.

amake616

Wait, who said you could only have one serving? I can fit way more than 1 serving on a plate, and I use small plates. Sure maybe you can't fit eight servings of lasagna, six bread sticks and a 3 serving side salad on one plate, but surely no calorie counting diet would allow that anyhow? And two se...

amake616

On Tuesdays and Thursdays there's a six and a half hour hour gap between lunch and dinner I usually have a six hour (or greater) gap between lunch and dinner and don't consider it unusually long. I do often have a cup of coffee at around 4 PM, but that's just habit, not because I'm hungry. I just m...

amake616

Sorry, again for such a long and pathetic post. I can imagine you are all sick of me and the things I go on about. I just don't have much of an outlet for these feelings and I just want this way of eating/living to work for me and I know it's still early days but I would love to see some results al...

amake616

On Tuesdays and Thursdays there's a six and a half hour hour gap between lunch and dinner so I generally have a cappuccino with a little milk and very little or no sugar or a coffee with a little half and half and two tsp. sugar. I like the earlier poster's suggestion of an ice water with a splash o...

amake616

I'll have to go back and look at her post. It is the same individual, in another thread, who was wondering if she should buy $60 bottles of spirolina. (dried kelp...) ...and this same person calls a three meal a day eating plan a fad diet? :shock: If only Reinhard had known that adding in a twice a...

amake616

I checked it out. This chick: "I'm sorry, but anything that limits you to eating only a few times a day, one serving each regardless of how hungry you are is a fad diet to me." I have a sneaking suspicion would drive me nuts IRL. Nothing like making a sweeping judgment about one person's three sente...

amake616

The protesters have gotten some concessions but there's really no denying that Suleiman taking power is like slapping a wig on Mubarak and saying "See! We listened and switched leaders!" :roll: Hopefully, nobody else is going to get hurt and this all works out because I have a suspicion that the maj...

amake616

I laughed out loud reading that. All that calm logic and use of careful charts is reminiscent of Reinhard, sort of like his HabitCals and such. Obviously Reinhard's reasoning is more polished (and his writing is easier to read, people really should space things out more) but I can see why it reminde...

amake616

....that's awesome. :D I would never have guessed you call your evening meal 'tea' and that it has nothing whatsoever to do with tea. Clearly, I lack imagination. I'm still perplexed as to why 'high tea' would come BEFORE 'tea' but I suppose if I were English it would be perfectly logical! This is w...

amake616

This might sound like a dumb question but what exactly is 'tea' for you out of curiosity? I've read about British people having 'tea' in books but I always assumed that just meant drinking tea - but you eat actual food during your tea so why is it called tea? I'm assuming it would make sense to me i...

amake616

Oh definitely! I was reading about the spread of self-immolation as a protest technique after a street vendor who was desperate after the Tunian police confiscated his cart and vegetables set himself on fire (died later, of course) helped spark the Tunisian riots and it was pretty sad. As a general ...

amake616

I feel you, tonight and tomorrow are both gonna be totally snowed in and I'm already feeling the desire to bake and make like Little House on the Prairie

I'm compromising, since even moderately caloric drinks are okay on this plan, I'm having a small hot rum or spiced wine tonight.

amake616

What a fantastic, inspiring quote and attitude! Gibran quotes often have the same kinds of hopeful, powerful messages - I love to read his sayings when I'm feeling a bit down. Congratulations on your remarkable success

amake616

If I were you I'd think about buying some new clothes. Seriously. You seem to mention your clothes feeling tight a lot in your down sounding posts and some attractive new clothes might make you feel a bit better and help keep some of the desperate feeling away.

amake616

I completely agree about self loathing being a trigger for binges and healthy eating. It definitely is easier to focus on developing better eating habits when you're not feeling ugly or poorly about yourself. You can take your time and relax and focus on treating yourself and your body with respect ...

amake616

I wouldn't recommend entirely cutting out sugar to anyone who had done it before and then gained the weight back. Since it didn't work for permanent weight loss the first time around, why try going the same route again hoping for a different result? Just my 2 cents.

amake616

I know it probably feels awful that you felt compelled to eat sweets and snack because it was an S day even though you didn't really want to but I would consider that a huge coup! I still want to eat my weight in cookies every weekend even though I *know* I'll have a stomachache after and from what ...

amake616

When I was living in Gainesville, acai berries were the latest and greatest superfood (they still might be for all I know, I hate most berries so it's irrelevant to me lol) and since it was a college town there were smoothie shops everywhere and they all sold a variation of the super magical nutriti...

amake616

I have no idea if anyone else on this board is interested in politics but it's pretty remarkable watching what's going on in Egypt right now. It's amazing how throughout the course of humankind people usually eventually revolt like this regardless of risk and cost and what they go up against. And bi...

amake616

There's a bakery just for protein powder baked goods? Wow. Talk about a realllly specific niche business. Detroit has like one French style bakery and we're so proud of it! lol

amake616

I'd buy some pretty vintage ice cream bowls on Etsy.

amake616

I would have gone to the first one, the second one, the third one, then cut across the field to get back to the first one, just on the odd chance that they might have started giving out juice. :) When I was a kid, I mean. lol, points for honesty! They had "walk for charity" things at my school when...

amake616

I wonder how it would work for yams. No sweet taters at the store yesterday but they did have yams. Grocery stores often call sweet potatoes yams. Yes they do and it's aggravating :evil: I think yam fries might even turn out better than sweet potato fries because yams are starchier and a little les...

amake616

Different things work for different people but personally (for me) I think that'd be a pretty disastrous idea. I know I weigh too much but I basically like myself and the way I look even though I have my off days and would rather give straight No-S a fair shot before I potentially screw myself up by...

amake616

wosnes wrote:
Over43 wrote:I love fries, and other than doughnuts, they might be the worst food in the World.
I think there are a lot of foods worse than fries -- and even doughnuts for that matter.

Gushers and my grandfather's sugar-free, fat-free "pancake syrup" come to mind.

amake616

I guess everybody gets motivated by different things. Personally, if I had a personal trainer who berated me I'd deck them and demand my money back. As far as I'm concerned, you get paid to do your job - you shouldn't get to take the easy way out by being nasty to the people you were hired to train ...

amake616

It sounds like you're being really honest with yourself which means you're halfway there. I haven't tried sternly telling myself I'm pre-disapproved, that sounds like a good one. You can definitely do this...*rah, rah* Saturday is almoooooooost heeeere....less than 72 hours...

amake616

I agree. Those shows are pretty dreadful. I caught a couple of episodes of Celebrity Fit Club when I was still in high school and will never forget one of the judges reaming one of the contestants who'd had steady weight loss but in smaller amounts (1-3 pounds a week) as not trying hard enough becau...

amake616

Sucks when it's a fail but you did a great job of getting back on the wagon this morning. Which is the most important thing, because there will always be fails but you can't spend the rest of your life paying for them. Crackers and cookies probably have less calories than the pineapple upside down c...

amake616

I believe it. I had to take a Nutrition and Digestion science class and when we had to figure out a meal plan for ourselves based on the MyPyramid plan, mine was "complete" enough for a good grade at like 2500 calories a day!

amake616

"It's not like I'm adrift in the middle of the Pacific now is it,"she said. "I'll eat soon enough. Hunger is nothing to worry about, not when you've got a full pantry." I'm sure even if Miss Hartshorne did happen to be adrift in the Pacific she would refrain from pointless dramatics such as naming ...

amake616

3. Decided to throw out old size 0 and size 2 clothes and have decided to save up to buy new clothes I think that's a great idea :) I've found trying to like my body and appearance the way it is to be the best and most helpful thing I can do for myself not only from a psychological standpoint but f...

amake616

Wow! Congratulations, 30 pounds is pretty impressive.

amake616

You win a hundred virtual points for every lemon square you resisted ^ _ ^ You now have enough to buy a vacation home in a fabulous location of your choosing. Please direct your request for your winnings to Reinhard Engels.

amake616

I second Anoulie's suggestion :D Also, you don't have to know everything about everything you know? I can't tell you much about Far Eastern politics or how the economy works but I can discuss many Middle Eastern and African issues pretty knowledgeably. Try picking one narrow topic you would like to ...

amake616

NoelFigart wrote:No... No....

Not my point at all. Sorry I got it wrong.

lol, you might have got it just right and I (or we) didn't read it as you meant it. Fine nuance can get lost from one screen to another.

amake616

When the duplicity came to light, there was quite the firestorm and the poster who didn't mean to deceive but rather have some fun was self banished. quote] Well, that doesn't seem quite fair! I've seen some instances of what appeared to be pretty blatant deception (for fun or just out of sheer str...

amake616

Congratulations on mostly success days and your one pound loss

I always figure even if it's water weight you should be allowed to count it because if you kept up your old habits it would've rapidly turned into just plain weight anyhow. Think of it as making a pre-emptive strike

amake616

Starbucks pastries are pretty amazingly delicious but definitely calorie dense. I love their lemon cake thing, I used to eat it with low fat vanilla yogurt on the side and it was actually pretty filling. Calorie dense but hey it's only one and it all fits on a plate ^ _ ^ Maybe you could try the nex...

amake616

I think you're doing pretty good! I've noticed the closer you are to "goal weight" whatever that "goal weight" might be, the longer it seems to take you to get there and since you aren't that very far pounds wise that might be a Murphy's Law situation you have to cope with. I love politics and world...

amake616

I think what you're describing is just some people's compulsion to feel superior to others for some reason, any reason. After all, why should anyone else care if you (or anyone else) eats their ice cream out of a pretty bowl? It's not hurting anyone so why make a hard judgment on it? You see it with...

amake616

Hello Gina

It's nice to meet you...sort of, Internet style lol. I've found regular forms of dieting to be pretty triggering for binging as well...something about being encouraged to snack every two hours does not work for me

amake616

I'd just like to comment that I think Miss Hartshorne should have her own account on here and comment regularly. I suspect she would keep these boards very interesting. She makes eating talk much more fun...in a sober, British sort of way.

amake616

I finally got round to watching Avatar yesterday. I quite liked it, but it really reminded me of a cartoon film my kids used to watch called 'Ferngully'. I've never seen Avatar but if I'd known it was like Ferngully I might have watched it! I still watch that movie sometimes and I'm 23 :shock: It's...

amake616

I only saw one movie really in 2010...I'm not a big movie person. Committing two hours to one show on a screen is really unappealing for me. And the one movie I saw was Black Swan because my mother and sister really wanted to see it and dragged me along and I spent half of it covering my eyes during...

amake616

I like where I live because I'm near my family and I like how Michigan has all four seasons (winter has regular snow, hot, sunny summers etc.) and huge unemployment problems aside, I think it has a lot going for it. However, if I could buy a vacation home anyplace I wanted, I would probably choose t...

amake616

That's pretty awesome for them, I know a lot of people who have tried it but none that have totally succeeded in entirely cutting it out. It definitely saves a lot of sodium and fat grams just by reducing it.

amake616

Just passed my first round of S days too and I made a pan of brownies on Sunday morning and ate them for breakfast, lunch, and snacks all day. Very nice but I was indeed surprised to note that giving myself total permission to eat them made them somewhat less appealing after the second plateful. Wei...

amake616

Your fajitas recipe looks really good, I've never made those before so I might have to try it. I generally make m'jeddrah when I want something quick and easy especially if it's cold out. You saute a bunch of lightly chopped or sliced onions (I like doing five or six small ones or three big ones) in...

amake616

Culturally we certainly seem to be far more interested in "health" and "nutrition" than before but are ironically less healthy. I've always wondered if all that harping on tv, in magazines, in conversation about weight, health, and nutrition doesn't just exacerbate the problem. I know personally hea...

amake616

Oh and if you do decide to drink black coffee per Reinhard's suggestion and the bitterness bothers you, a tiny pinch of salt takes a lot of the bitterness away. Just add it to the coffee before you brew or immediately after when its still blazing hot. It's kind of the same reasoning behind adding sa...

amake616

I had the same problem after my daughter was born and found it easier to gradually reduce the amount of sugar and cream I put in my coffee (I cut from 3 teaspoons to 2 - after two weeks I cut to 1 and a half teaspoons and then two weeks later to 1 teaspoon) and did the same thing with cream. I also ...

amake616

Food Rules is actually where I heard about No S and why I decided to Google and ultimately buy the book. My Mom loaned Food Rules to me and it's a pretty good book but I have to admit that some of his rules went in one ear and out the other. The "it's not food if it comes through the window of your ...

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