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JustForToday

I second the suggestion to move up your dinner time. If I had to wait until after 7 to eat dinner every night then NoS would be a lot more difficult. An earlier dinner also gives you the benefit of having time to digest before going to sleep at night - I've found I sleep wonderfully when my stomach ...

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grothkat, your side note reads like my own little bio. I too have gone through the short term extreme weight loss (several times though) followed by several years of binge/diet/binge. (I also am female and 5'9"!) I also keep trying to short myself out of meals. I get panicky about three meals - it s...

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The Rice Diet you say, Kittykat? Oh yes indeed... I tried that when I was a teenager. After three days I started reflexively vomiting up the rice. It took me a decade to be able to eat rice again. I still don't exactly love it. The Atkins Diet also made me vomit after about a week. Something about e...

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http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/10/22/163260960/swapping-out-sugary-soda-for-diet-drinks-may-help-tip-the-scale-in-your-favor This link is about diet soda, and not artificial sweeteners in general, but it's implications are a little bit different than the old "drinking diet soda makes you fat"...

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Wow... that brought tears to my eyes. Very powerful to read - especially as a mother with a ten year old daughter. I'm lucky to have a mom who never disparaged herself or made a big deal out of weight when I was growing up. I hope my daughter will be able to say the same of me.

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Thanks - great tips from everyone! I'm loving the rotisserie chicken idea because with a few key ingredients I can turn that into salads and sandwiches so easily.

And hummus... yum.. I think that's dense enough to count for a meal all on its own with some pita bread and veggies.

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In a few weeks I'll be taking my 10 year old on a short mother/daughter vacation to the beach. It will be just her and me. I've booked a hotel room right on the Ocean City boardwalk so we will be within walking distance of plenty of restaurants, boardwalk food stalls, treat shops and cafes. My vacat...

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I did The Lord's Table several years ago, and I have to say I didn't think much of it. I found the particular way the author of the study used scriptures to be odd and often quite a stretch from the context of the original passage. I was also never able to stick with either the scheduled eating prog...

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I just found an iphone app that's eerily similar to the habitcal. It's called "Way of Life - The Ultimate Habit Maker and Breaker". It's set up just like the habitcal with a few extra bells and whistles. You mark red for "no", green for "yes" and any day you want to skip (such as an S day) you would...

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I was just listening to Wenonah Hauter talk about her book "Foodopoly" on NPR about ten minutes before getting on the computer and finding this link about food additives, so it definitely struck a cord. It is rather outrageous that American foods end up with such an amazing amount of crap in them th...

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That guy's story was hysterical! I was laughing out loud! Definitely a bit too rich with the profanities, but the humor he brought into it was priceless! Makes me remember that its totally ok to laugh at myself through this process of change!

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Oolala, what do you mean by the "magic of surrender"? Did you surrender to mindful eating?

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Go Ravens!! It's a madhouse here in the Baltimore area! People are beside themselves over this Superbowl... The team spirit here is incredible. I'm joining with Over43 for Giant S Day phenomenon. There will be more partying around here on Sunday than every day of the holidays combined regardless of ...

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"Add lots of fruits and vegetables to your diet to lose weight or not gain as much." As an idea "not yet proven" I find this one most interesting on the list in that piece. I know its good to eat fruits and veggies, but my personal experience with trying to "add" more of them in is that is all just ...

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I'm sick of hearing about paleo. Not that I doubt it could be a very nutritious way to eat - just that the very premise behind it is based on pure conjecture and it' as restrictive a diet as there ever was. And I've never met a single thin person who ate "paleo". The thin people I know eat all foods...

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I agree with Crystal that snacks for toddlers can be appropriate and even neccessary. The best stuff I have ever read about feeding kids comes from www.ellynsatter.com. Ellyn satter is a nutritionist who specializes in child feeding problems - but her methods are brilliant for all kids. She advocate...

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Yes... the actual act of logging calories is one element of the problem. I feel this compulsion to log the food I eat - I think its a way of controlling and organizing or trying to prove to myself that I am eating "acceptably" on NoS. To not count calories or log food makes me feel out of control - ...

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I'm running into a repeat problem as I plug away a NoS. I'm just having the hardest time stopping calorie counting! The problem is calorie counting keeps leading me to the WTH effect. Example: Friday was a perfect N day - until the evening when I decided to look at the calorie total of my food for t...

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I'm with oolala. I want new pants with chocolate too!

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We noticed a difference in the public school lunches this year also - I'm assuming this was a national shift (some sort of legislation or Michelle Obama initiative? I'm not sure the details). My 14 year old son (9th grade) complains about the portion sizes this year though. He's 6'1", growing like a...

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That's insane. Is that a private school menu?? I don't know what the French pay in taxes, but it looks like they're channeling it right into the school cafeterias! My daughter's elementary school menu features weird things like "vegan nachos" and "fishwiches". (I still can't figure out why they're g...

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Yesterday went well - a solid green day (which I really needed). It would be so easy to discredit this week and wait to jump back into NoS after Christmas, but I don't want to wait. I want green days now. I want a jump on habit change this week, not later! I keeping thinking about the quote "progres...

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vmsurbat, Happy birthday to you and your son also! Talk about racking up those S Days! And much thanks for the good advice. Even though I'll have this long chain of S days I plan on being persistent during the N days - and the key for me will be immediately taking up with an N day on Wednesday after...

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Oolala, I like your one year advice....Ive decided to give this three solid months outside of whats left of December - a commitment that feels doable to me. We'll see what happens over the next three months.... if I see positive changes then I feel like I can commit to a year, Just today my sister w...

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Just wanted to state, for the record, and for myself if no one else - I am still here and I am still trying. I have gone through quite a mental cycle over the past few weeks, wondering if NoS is really something I want to commit to. But every thought leads me back the place where I can't see any rea...

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Anyone seen this documentary? America the Beautiful 2? I watched it on Netflix the other day. It's a documentary about the weight loss industry, the histrory of the BMI concept, America's obsession with physiques and body shapes that are inherently unnatural for most, and how we confuse extreme thin...

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Well I didn't get myself on track too well yesterday - a holiday party in the evening didn't help. (Although I did manage to exercise which helped me be reasonable at dinner). Thanks for the advice, oolala and BrightAngel. I know I still get stuck in a diet mentality in which I give up my autonomy t...

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I just went back and re-read this whole thread - it's a good one for me to re-visit right now. With the exception of my first week I've been No-S'ing very inconsistently. Last week I panicked and decided to do the whole "eat when you're hungry, stop when you're full" thing. Why, oh WHY do I always f...

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Sounds like she works in a restaurant - the one industry where you really don't have a scheduled break. I remember as a server often working shifts that long without a chance to eat - I was lucky if I made it to the bathroom during certain busy shifts. I say stock a Slim Fast or bottled protein drin...

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Jari Love. I got soooo strong when I did her videos. She has a series called "Get Ripped".

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I'm totally interested in any spiritually related NoS encouragement! Thanks for posting this.

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Tue - Failure Wed - Failure Just checking on to keep myself honest. One of the things I consistently do is cheat myself into giving up by trying to work my away around my failures by making new rules or starting something "new" "tomorrow". Of course I flirted with the idea of abandoning NoS and coun...

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I think thats one of the best things about NoS - it instantly points out to you where all those little pockets of mindless eating happen! I thought sweets would be my problem, but quickly discovered it's the grazing and the second helpings that are my achilles heel. I'm having a rough S week myself ...

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Wow... I'm so glad I read this thread. Nicest of the Damned, I so needed to hear your great advice! I had a perfect green week last week as my first NoS week. But this week has taken me for a tail spin - haven't had a green day yet. Your advice is so encouraging. I keep panicking because me meals ar...

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Today is a Failure. And actually, I'm surprised that it is. I felt sure I would have a nice green day. At lunch I had a salad with no real protein, and soon as I had left the table I knew this would be a problem. I was hungry shortly afterwards. From there the afternoon got very busy. I went from wo...

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Thanks Ani33! I'm having a lightbulb moment after my first official S day. After a nice green week I found myself surprisingly uninterested in sweets yesterday. Considering the sugar cravings I had on Thursday and Friday, this was strange to me. I did have pumpkin pancakes for breakfast and shared a...

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I'm familiar with the "glass ceiling" concept from reading most of Everyday Systems content, and it's very practical in terms of addressing an over drinking habit. But I think if I let myself have two drinks a day I'd never be able to do NoS. Drinking (even just a little) is a big eating trigger for...

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As a NoS newbie, I'm curious. How does everyone else (or those of you who drink) deal with alcohol within the NoS diet? Does anyone hear drink during the week? Or would you delegate alcohol to the weekend? I know something like a glass of wine is definitely not a sweet... but there's something "snac...

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Wow..I think I just made it through the N part of my first NoS week. Day 5 - Success This was the hardest day yet. Sugar cravings chased me all day. But it was so wonderful to look at the sugary foods that crossed my path and think, "It's ok - I can have that tomorrow." I would never have made it wi...

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Day 4 - Success Things got weird this afternoon when at about 4:30 a giant wave of hunger/nausea came rushing over me. I was standing in Toys 'R Us and all of the sudden felt just awful - unfocused, light headed, and spacey with that empty stomach sick feeling. The really strange thing is that this ...

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Taking a bath made it easy! That was a trick I used when I quit smoking years ago. Hard to eat (or smoke) in a bathtub with a book in your hands! But yesterday was easy for me overall because I didn't have a lot of spare time for food cravings to show up in. I don't think I've hit that point yet whe...

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Thanks, eschano.

Day 3 - Success

I was very busy today so NoS was easy. Getting ready to send the kids to bed now and take a nice, long hot bath - the perfect non-eating ritual/activity.

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I think anytime I was ever successful in losing weight I pretty much stayed away from the scale and went based on how my clothes fit and what I looked like in the mirror. A scale number never did a whole lot for me in terms of weight loss. However, I do think checking in with scale can be really imp...

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Been debating whether or not I want to do daily check in, but I've really enjoyed reading through others' check ins, so why not? Day 1 - Success Day 2 - Success Feels nice going to bed with a calm, settled stomach instead of stuffed with evening snacks. After dinner has been the hardest part so far....

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Need some specific ideas for NoS combined with vacation

I need to stop the calorie counting

America the Beautiful 2

Alcohol

One Day At A Time (Jen's check in)