Everyday Systems

Marcie

Still deliberating. I wasn't going to, but now we're spending the evening with friends who have young kids, and I baked brownies to bring, and it would be nice to get to be part of that social dynamic, y'know?

Marcie

OMG, have I been away for this long? Eek. Aaaanyway. I've actually been really good about No S, save for a week out of town when I decided to take a deliberate break--with multiple, severe food allergies and convention work and travel schedules, keeping up No S would pretty much have meant three mea...

Marcie

No S assumes three meals, but it's been qualified repeatedly that that can be flexible based on individual needs. I find it really helpful sometimes to break lunch into two smaller meals. I'll pack a lunch--so, pre-curate the food, and the volume of it--but if I find myself low on energy earlier, I'...

Marcie

Day 60(!) - N Day

Feeling way better--hooray for short-lived colds.

Current secondary diet goal: More whole foods. More vegetables. More cooked from scratch.

Breakfast: Oatmeal with dried cranberries, almonds, and brown sugar.

Lunch: Cod with roasted tomatoes and grapes over couscous.

Marcie

Ugh. I've got some kind of bug, which is messing with both meal time and volume something fierce. Still trying to plan out three finite meals, but fiddling with how I distribute them through the day in hopes of staving off really bad nausea / vertigo. Whee.

On the upside, today is day 60!

Marcie

50 days this past Monday! It's gotten to the point where No S is just what I do--I don't really think about it anymore, which is good as far as habit, but also seems to open doors for slip-ups. Next goal: More whole, from-scratch foods, more fresh veggies, better nutritional balance, and more mindfu...

Marcie

I've been good about No S; less so about checking in. Going to try to improve that...

Marcie

Con went okay--actually ended up eating *less* most days because I was so busy; and still relatively little by way of snacking and almost no sweets. Back on proper N-days today!

Marcie

So, I think I'm going to end up taking my first non-weekend S-Day tomorrow. I'll be at a convention, and traveling, and between schedule and food allergies, making any kind of regular meals happen is going to be nigh impossible.

That's okay, right?

Marcie

Got through my first big N-Day challenge yesterday--a day trip three hours away. Road trips have traditionally been the time I let myself eat ridiculous junk food; this time, I drank coffee instead.

Marcie

I've gotten worse about checking in, but I'm staying on track.

8/18/11 - N Day

Breakfast: Oatmeal with dried cranberries and yogurt

Lunch: Black bean burger w/ fruit salsa and corn chips

Marcie

My S Days were much lower-key last weekend. Yay! And 21 days, as of Sunday! I've not done as much cooking from scratch in the last few weeks as I'd like, and I've eaten too much fast food / pizza (not a ton, but more than once a week is more than I prefer); but all within the rules. No S has started...

Marcie

I'm in, as of Sunday!

Marcie

My partner's participating casually in NoS--treating it more as a framework than a solid rule system. I do most of our meal planning, and we cook together, so our eating habits tend to overlap pretty substantially no matter what.

Marcie

8/10 - N Day - Successful

Breakfast - Oatmeal w/ dried fruit and yogurt
Lunch - N/a. Work crisis after work crisis, and by the time I realized I hadn't eaten, it was almost four, so, simpler to wait 'til dinner.
Dinner - Tortellini with sauteed zucchini and bell peppers

Marcie

8/8 - N Day - Successful Breakfast: Oatmeal w/ dried cherries and yogurt Lunch: Fast food Dinner: Veggie burger & grapes 8/9 - N Day - Successful Breakfast: Oatmeal w/ dried cherries and yogurt Lunch: Veggie burger & grapes Dinner: Vegetable pizza Too small a lunch and too big a dinner today; I got ...

Marcie

Some more small-batch recipe resources; I'll add to this post as I find more:

http://www.dessertfortwo.com/tag/baking-for-two/
http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Publ ... o-Magazine
http://heatherrosejones.com/baking/index.html

Marcie

8/5 - N Day - Successful.

8/6-8/7 - S Days. Still snacking too much on these, but less than I was a few weeks ago.

Marcie

O.o That's. Wow. That's weird to the point of self-parody. Speaking of which, on a whim, I oven-roasted a mix of grape tomatoes and actual grapes tonight, and it was delicious . 8/4 - N Day Breakfast: Oatmeal with dried cherries and yogurt Lunch: Leftover pasta with mango salsa and grapes Dinner: Le...

Marcie

8/3 N-Day Breakfast - Leftover pizza Lunch - Red beans and rice, lemon cucumber, dried mango Dinner - Fresh pasta with sauteed zucchini Proud of myself--I've had a couple things come up that I rationalized taking as exceptions, but then didn't. I may get laxer eventually, but for at least those crit...

Marcie

8/2 - N Day

Breakfast: Almond blueberry pancakes

Lunch: Leftovers - pancakes, pineapple portobello pasta, lemon cucumber, dried mango

Dinner: Fast food. But no sweets, and a reasonable amount!

Marcie

You are a competent adult, not a toddler. No one should be forbidding you to walk. It's good that he cares, but you can't let his paranoia about safety set unreasonable limits on your life -- it's not like you want to take up bungee-jumping! Walk where you'll be around other people, and/or during d...

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Basically: You need to learn to separate food from social activity and hospitality. A lot of us on this board could stand to do this. Wanting to be polite and sociable is one reason why people overeat. I'm sure we all have our stories of doing that. I noticed when I started No-S that it was *much* ...

Marcie

8/1 - N Day - Successful

Breakfast: Oatmeal w/ berries and yogurt

Lunch: Pasta with pineapple and portobellos, cherry tomatoes, dried mango

Dinner: Out with the in-laws; Cheese curds, seared tuna, green salad

Marcie

I can speak to some of the social stuff--I'm not particularly picky, but I have multiple, extremely severe food allergies, which makes the the social significance and ubiquity of food a pretty fraught topic for me. Basically: You need to learn to separate food from social activity and hospitality. L...

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First day of week two (observed). One of the good things about S days was that, after a week of N days, they really gave me a chance to take a critical look at my default / non-curated eating habits. Some insights: -I am a sensory snacker. I snack less because of hunger than as a fidget. I get about...

Marcie

Also, there is no need to start over when you cannot exactly comply with the program. No one expects perfection. You either take a special day, such as for your parent's visit or acknowledge a fail and move on. You will have fails. Yeah, I know, but I decided to restart officially so that I could s...

Marcie

Almost through my first full week! Plans for next week: smaller meals (I'm still feeling that out--three full meals rather than amorphous snacking is a pretty new thing for me!), more exercise, and better advance planning. Looking forward to upcoming S-Days, but not particularly rabidly. :D b - vegg...

Marcie

I searched around a bit, but couldn't find a thread for meal planning / brainstorming--either for questions, or just folks describing meals that work well for them. I get stuck in dietary ruts really easily--I've got multiple, severe food allergies, which means that trying new things often feels lik...

Marcie

Does it count if already don't own / never use a scale? If so, sure!

Marcie

Day 2 (counted) was successful. Larger lunches and smaller dinners seem to work best for me. Still working on timing, and how to break up mid-day meals. One thing I'm noticing is that NoS is forcing me to pay a lot more attention to balancing my meals. Before, I'd do a lot of catch-as-catch-can--eat...

Marcie

Restarted yesterday, since last week was such a weird one. So far, so good!

Marcie

Yesterday was a success, (minus the planned S-moment). Yay!

Today will be a mostly-N, partly-S day; my parents are in town visiting for three days. But I'm going to focus on moderation, so.

Marcie

What about breaking lunch into two meals, one late morning, one early afternoon? Same amount of food--lay out a plate and divide it in two, if that helps--but spread out more evenly over time.

Marcie

Got through yesterday, including baking a cake with only minimal, necessary tasting. Today, planned lapse for a slice of said cake (I'm sticking with things I had planned before deciding to do No S; this is one of them). That said, this is a weird week, between the cake and a three-day parent visit ...

Marcie

Hah! Somehow I'd gotten it stuck in my head that the meals *had* to be breakfast-lunch-dinner. I have no idea why. I think what I'm going to do is pack one lunch worth of food and divide it into two meals--one late morning, one mid-afternoon. I tend to eat dinner pretty late in the evening, so that'...

Marcie

It's perfectly possible to be fat and fit. Size *can* be a symptom of health problems--hormonal, lifestyle-related, or otherwise--but that's not universal. Google "health at any size."

The idea that less weight automatically and universally equals better health is a pretty blatant fallacy.

Marcie

Gallon jug works, too, and lets you adjust weight by adding or removing water.

Marcie

Does anyone else struggle with / over-think this? I'm trying really hard to frame diet and exercise in terms of wellness rather than weight or size: I'd like to lose weight, but it's important to me that it be a secondary effect of eating better and being more active rather than an end in itself. So...

Marcie

I don't weigh myself, and I don't plan to start: I've found that associating diet and exercise with weight in my head is a quick ticket to starvation and overexertion, at least for me. "Well, if X is good, X-1 must be better! If walking six miles is good, what if I just do it again? And run this tim...

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How important is it to you to eat traditional "breakfast foods" for breakfast? If you're willing to break from that, your options open up tremendously. As far as breakfast foods: I likewise get bored with greek yogurt, although I really like it. I find that using it with other stuff--mixing in fruit...

Marcie

Edit: Restarting tracking at day 1, and keeping track here as well as in the thread. 7/25/11 - Day 1 - N - Successful 7/26/11 - Day 2 - N - Successful 7/27/11 - Day 3 - N - Successful 7/28/11 - Day 4 - N - Successful 7/29/11 - Day 5 - N - Successful 7/30/11 - Day 6 - S - N/A 7/31/11 - Day 7 - S - N/...

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