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Monday August 22nd: Well, this day was an epic fail ! :oops: It seems that lately my life has been just stressful thing after stressful thing after stressful thing, leading me to my emotional breaking point... so I just mentally shut down and ended up mindlessly picking at sweets all day. I truly f...

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AUGUST 2011: No Seconds + No Snacks + No Sweets (except a small portion with dinner on Wednesdays) 30 Minutes of Exercise + 3 Sets of 15 Jumping Rope August 1: S Day :D (vacation) August 2: S Day :D (vacation) August 3: S Day :D (vacation) August 4: S Day :D (vacation) August 5: S Day :D (vacation)...

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End of July: I am very happy with how I did this month! I had some difficult times, but I stuck to my plan and pulled through with zero NoS failures and only one Exercise failure. I learned that walking when I am really upset is way more helpful than eating sweets (07/14), and I realized that I do ...

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Thanks, Janie!

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Thanks, Strawberry! You are absolutely right.

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Thanks, guys!

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Wednesday July 20th: This day, I came the closest I have ever been to a failure without actually failing. I was stressing out about something, and I went through the usual dialogue of ' Oh, I really want a cookie right now ' and ' ... but a cookie won't help me and I don't need it ' back and forth ...

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Thursday July 14th: This morning I was quite upset, and what was the first thing I thought to do to make myself feel better? Not eat a snack, not eat a sweet... but take a walk! So I did; I put on my workout clothes, grabbed my cell phone (mp3 player) and headphones, and went out on a walk through ...

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Tuesday July 12th: It was very hot and humid, I was tired and in a bad mood... I thought long and hard about it, then made the decision to skip my usual exercise. It was just one of those days when I needed to take it easy. I'm not worried about it because I have been very good about exercising, an...

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It really is all in the mindset. Once that clicks, it is so simple it is almost laughable. I was just thinking this morning (after FINALLY getting it these past few months) that this must be how people who maintain their weight over their lifetime live. They eat right - having the occasional spurge...

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NoSweetsEOD is No Sweets Every Other Day. It has been very hard for me to give up sweets, so I am phasing them out very slowly. Right now I am down to having only a small portion of sweets with my dinner every other weekday (Tuesday and Thursday). No, I never left No S and I never will. 8) I did sto...

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Thank you for the support everyone! â™¥ I do use HabitCal. I have five calendars: Exercise, NoSeconds/NoSnacks, NoSweetsEOD, NoBinges, and StandingDesk. I love it as a quick and easy way to keep track of my habits and look back over how I have been doing. I just need to keep a check-in thread as wel...

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JULY 2011: No Seconds + No Snacks + No Sweets on Mon/Wed/Fri 15 Minutes of Exercise + 3 Sets of 10 Jumping Rope July 1: S Day :D (vacation) July 2: S Day :D July 3: S Day :D July 4: S Day :D (holiday) July 5: Success :D July 6: Success :D July 7: Success :D July 8: Success :D July 9: S Day :D July ...

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A little background: I have had horrible eating habits for a long time, ever since I was a teenager. I have regularly eaten a sweet snack and then gone back for seconds, thirds, fourths, and more. I have eaten whole bags or boxes of sweets in less than an hour. I have eaten spoonfuls and spoonfuls o...

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Welcome, Laura! Good luck on your No S journey. I think you'll find this forum is a wonderful source of support and encouragement whenever you may need it. â™¥

Also, congratulations and best wishes for your upcoming wedding!

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How true. I know I used to think that I should eat whenever I felt even the slightest bit of hunger... and when I started to change my eating habits, it felt kind of awful to sit and wait through the hunger. Now I am getting used to the feeling, and it is not so bad after all. A little hunger won't ...

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Since last month, I have been implementing the rules of No S at a slower pace. I have No Seconds and No Snacks down, and am currently working on No Sweets. My goals for June are: to follow the rules of No Seconds and No Snacks every N Day, to follow the rule of No Sweets on every other N Day (Mon/We...

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We made it through another month! WOOHOO!
Good job everyone, and congratulations to all who met their goals! I hope you all feel a little bit stronger now... I know I do.

I'm looking forward to the next challenge!

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My modifications are working wonderfully! I've been following them without fail and I am learning a lot, including how to control myself when it comes to food. I finally feel like I'm forming some good habits... It's beginning to feel strange to think of having food at some random time/for any reaso...

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Why yes, yes it does.

I would have just liked to have been a success more than that... but I'm getting there now!

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It sounds like you've come a long way. Good for you!!

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NoSRocks! (((((HUGS))))) Hi! I'm sorry to hear you're having a bit of a hard time yourself. I bet vacations make it hard (I have three planned vacations this summer and I'm a little worried about how they will affect me.) but I know you can get through it! :) BrightAngel, thank you for the kind word...

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oolala - Wow, good for you sticking with it for so long and finding some success. I needed to hear that, I feel a lot more optimistic knowing that others have had problems on a similar scale as mine and gone on to succeed.

Thank you for the support!

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Oh! Yes, of course. It will be a tool for learning, not brooding. Perhaps I shall call it my progress journal instead. Thanks for the tip!

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Who Me? wrote:Why don't you keep a SUCCESS journal? A much happier endeavor!

That's what HabitCal and these forums are for!

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Thank you everyone, I really appreciate the support. â™¥ Hey, you're right, oolala... I guess it's not so bad after all.

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Thank you, cjgoodson2! I'll definitely try a food/failure journal.

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Nice! I also like The Sneaky Chef. If you still can't get them to eat it, hide it in their food.

http://www.thesneakychef.com/

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Hi, everyone. Pardon my posting, I just wanted to put this up to make it seem more official. I have been doing No S for a little over two months now. I never actually quit, and I plan to keep it that way, but it has continued to be overwhelmingly hard for me to not have snacks and sweets. So, with t...

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Thank you, SkyKitty! (love that name by the way) I know I can be too hard on myself, it's the perfectionist in me. That is something I will need to work on.

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That all sounds good. I think I'm going to take a day to relax and regroup, then I'll come back with a plan and take it much slower this time. Thank you so much for the sound advice, r.jean and Thalia!

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This is my third month on No S, and I've already failed three times... I failed eight times last month, and five times the month before. I feel like I'm getting worse instead of better. I don't have a problem with no seconds as I was never much of a seconds-taker. It's the snacks and sweets that get...

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Yay! I'm in! I have been struggling with full vanilla No S for a while, so I have decided to restart and implement the No S rules at a slower pace. So my goals for the rest of May are to follow the rules of No Seconds and No Snacks and to exercise at least 15 minutes every weekday. May 10: Restarted...

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RENEEW I'm really looking forward to a May Challenge. I know I need to be responsible for myself but YOU do such a great job leading a cheering section! YOU are just what I need right now.. (talk about putting pressure on you.. sorry!!..but it is true!!) :oops: :lol: Same here! I keep checking the ...

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I am ready for a challenge! My goals for this month: 1)To go at least one whole week without a failure. ( Successful! ) 2)To have fewer overall failures than last month {5}. ( Failed ) 3)To begin to control my dinner portions and S-Day sweets portions. ( Successful! ) April 1: Success :D April 2: S ...

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Sienna, you are awesome! Those are great ideas; I am going to try them out. Thanks so much! :) Today was a success ! Tomorrow begins a new month, and I am going to strive to do better at No-S than I did this month. I think I've got the basics down, I just need to learn to control my emotional eating...

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My 30th day was a success!

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NoSRocks, I'm glad you said that. I've been having trouble lately, but if I think about it I'm still doing a lot better than before I started No-S... I used to eat countless snacks and sweets every single day without a second thought! When I was younger, I too would eat all sorts of junk, never exer...

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My 24th day was a success! I had a lot of cravings today, but I kept myself occupied and away from the goodies. It feels good to be back in the green!

(((((hugs))))) back NoSRocks! Congrats to you on getting back to the routine in spite of those cravings. Only one more N Day to go this week!

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My 23rd day was a failure . Oh noes, two failures in a row! :oops: I was just mentally worn out today from all of my recent stress/emotional overload... I didn't have it in me to deprive myself of anything. I feel better now though, and I think tomorrow is going to be a good day! Thanks for the supp...

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My 22nd day was a failure. I let my emotions and the cravings caused by them get the best of me again. Oh well, moving on now...

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Wise words indeed r.jean! I'm trying hard to keep my focus on the healthy lifestyle change of No S rather than the weight I really want to lose. Wow, NoSRocks, looks like you've been to both extremes in scale stepping! My nineteenth and twentieth days were S Days (Saturday and Sunday). My 21st day w...

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Thanks, NoSRocks! I am actually a scale-o-holic myself! I don't know why, but I just *need* to keep track of that number. I used to go scale stepping every single day... but I've learned through information here and by looking back on my own experience that it's not such a good idea. I try to limit ...

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My seventeenth day was a success ! I was really stressed today, so it was a great accomplishment that I didn't actually give into any desire for Ss that came as a result of my mental state. My cravings seem to be becoming more passing thoughts of 'I need this S' or 'I should have that S,' rather tha...

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Alas, treating St. Patrick's Day as an S day, if it has no particular significance to you, is probably on the slippery slope to Cousin's Hamster's Birthday S days. :) LOL! Bah... Alright, I guess I won't call it an S-Day. I think the sweets addict in me wants to look for any excuse to take an S-Day...

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Thank you, r.jean! Yes, I'll definitely try not to beat myself up when I slip. :) My fifteenth day was an S Day. My sixteenth day was a success ! I seriously thought about taking an S Day today... it is my Dad's birthday after all, however he and I live in different states and it wouldn't have made ...

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Alas, treating St. Patrick's Day as an S day, if it has no particular significance to you, is probably on the slippery slope to Cousin's Hamster's Birthday S days. :) LOL! Bah... Alright, I guess I won't call it an S-Day. I think the sweets addict in me wants to look for any excuse to take an S-Day...

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Is it cheating to take an S Day on a holiday which you generally acknowledge but are not exactly celebrating? Tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day. To me, it is one of those holidays that don't have much meaning to me (I'm not Irish, and I don't care if some guy christianized Ireland a long time ago - sorr...

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Thanks everyone, your wisdom and your support is inspiring! I just need some better spatulas and I'll be all set!

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My twelfth and thirteenth days were S Days (Saturday and Sunday). I didn't feel the need to binge as much as I did last weekend. My fourteenth day was a huge success ! I baked cupcakes today and did not lick the utensils/bowls or eat any batter/frosting (aside from a tiny amount I needed to taste te...

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*raises hand* I am most definitely one of those types. Stress, boredom, strong emotions, thinking too much... you name it, my solution to it would be eating something sweet. I was snacking all of the time. I couldn't just limit my portions or go for healthier snacks... I needed the structure of this...

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I normally do all of my sweets baking on Sunday - an S Day - so I can sample and partake as I please, but this week I had to do some baking today - an N Day. :O I allowed myself one tiny tip of a spoon dip of batter, just so I would know that it was made right and tasted good, but that's it. All of ...

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My eleventh day was a success! Today was a bit easier.

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My tenth day was a success! It was just the same as yesterday in terms of how I felt and did.

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Thank you, r.jean! My ninth day on the No-S Plan was a success ! I thought about sweets and snacks A LOT today, but I didn't have any. I didn't have any internal battles over whether or not to have an S either... I just knew that I couldn't. I stared right at those delicious homemade treats sitting ...

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Thank you, Kevin and gk!

Today was another S Day. Tomorrow I go at it again, and I'll do it right.

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That's a great idea!! Thanks for sharing this! :) I'm a lady of reason, so showing myself a lack of reason might actually work well for me. I have always liked asking 'Why?' too. The hardest part will be getting myself to stop and think instead of thoughtlessly making a beeline for that sweet snack ...

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gk wrote:May not sound like much to some...

That sounds HUGE to me. Congratulations, gk, you have gone so far! You are an inspiration!!

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Great. I guess it's true what they say... EVERYTHING can give you cancer. :-/

So how do we know whether a product is packaged in recycled cardboard or not?

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Thank you, NoSRocks, it's so good to hear that! The fourth and fifth days were S Days (Saturday and Sunday). Oh sweet S Days, how I love them. â™¥ My sixth day of No-S was a disaster . :( Ugh... I was feeling depressed and frustrated which of course led me to crave sweets, and I tried to fight but I...

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Yes, this forum does make a huge difference! It's so nice to know so many others are going through the same thing, and for us all to be able to share our experiences, advice, and encouragement. The HabitCal is a big help too... I know I might not have done as well if it weren't for the dread of mark...

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My second day of No-S was a success ! It was much harder than yesterday. The sick feeling was all gone and my sugar cravings were back in full force. A couple of times that I had a craving for sweets, I came onto this forum and lurked about... reading the posts reminded me of what I am doing and why...

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Thank you, gk! â™¥ Today, my first No-S Day, was a success ! :D It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be... probably because I spent the last week binging on sweets (since I knew I was going to have to give them up for most of the time) and it had made me kind of sick. :oops: I was so ready to beg...

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Here I go!

Today was an S Day. What a great way to start off!

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Hello! I was just lurking about as I am preparing myself to start No-S this coming Tuesday March 1st, and I thought I would go ahead and introduce myself. I am a married woman in my late twenties living in central Pennsylvania. This is my first time doing No-S. I was lucky enough to come across a re...

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