Everyday Systems

lpearlmom

Green

Break: toad in a hole, oj, coffee,
Mocha
Lunch: tuna on toast, orange, yogurt, granola bar
Dinner: salad, steak sandwich, stuffing, glass wine

Exercise: 14 mins floor work

lpearlmom

Nothing wrong with a little vanity. We all want to look our best. I just think it's important to keep it in perspective and not make it our only goal. I'm certain nobody else notices those two pounds except you. But I totally get it. All through high school I weighed 128 but my dream weight was 123....

lpearlmom

So sorry you're not feeling well! I hope it passes quickly.

Linda

lpearlmom

Hi automated I think it's great you're not feeling compelled to weigh. I know in general I just feel better in my skin on NoS because I'm not binging, permasnacking which makes me feel so ick! Hopefully you're feeling that too. As for sleep, I know that I reach for food when I'm tired because I'll g...

lpearlmom

Wow you are doing so awesome!!! I'm working on removing my safety net from my plate too. Sometimes I can do it but other times I need it! Progress though.

Keep up the good work! When is your trip??

Linda

lpearlmom

Glad to see you're doing well and still around! Good luck w school stuff--very exciting!!

lpearlmom

Glad to see things are going well for you Kookie! I hope this experiment goes well & that you feel better soon. I was thinking of trying shove glove as I'm committed to adding 14 mins of exercise to my S days. I'm pretty sure DH has a sledge hammer somewhere. Today I did ballet exercise while watchi...

lpearlmom

Thank you Kookie & clarebear!! I'm feeling really great & am excited to add a little exercise into things.

Sinnie: I'll let you know how it goes. Seems satisfying somehow!!

Linda

lpearlmom

Sorry you can't seem to find just the right solution for you. Must be frustrating. As for vanity, I notice I care less about that stuff as I get older. I think it's because I realize the periods in my life where I was thinnest didn't necessarily correlate with being happiest. On the other hand, the ...

lpearlmom

Thank you so much automated, clarebear & JW! Feels good to follow through on something as it's not usually my strong suit. I feel ready to work on some other small goals along with NoS. I wrote a bunch of goals on some slips of paper and put it in a paper bag so I can pick them out one by one. I hav...

lpearlmom

Thanks for all the great responses. You guys are awesome and it helps so much to know others are grappling with the very same issues. Chatted for awhile with a mom at my daughters karate class and then another one in charge of special events at the girls school today and I remembered that I'm pretty...

lpearlmom

I hope it went well tonight Kookie! Sounds like a tricky situation. Also sorry Bout the work thing that stinks. :/

Linda

lpearlmom

Hang in there. Tomorrow is Friday and yore doing great w both habits! Just had to say how much I loved mr Rogers too. I saw him live once and proudly hung my autographed copied of the neighborhood in my room for years. I also used to talk about the Brady brunch like they were my family. I think I cr...

lpearlmom

Thank you JW & clarebear! I'm Feeling much better today. My friend from my old neighborhood came over today and cheered me up. I realized I've relied on my girls to make friends the last few years and that doesn't always work. If the girls are fighting then it's awkward w the other mom. If there's a...

lpearlmom

Yay Sinnie--you're doing great. Your post is right on target. Don't give yourself any wiggle room. Three plates w drinks in between as needed. That's it. It's hard at first but soon the rewards of eating in this way will be so great that you won't want to eat any other way. Keep up the great work an...

lpearlmom

Great job Imogen!!

lpearlmom

Oh I'm glad Kookie. Doctors can be clueless about dieting/disordered eating issues and just didn't want to see you losing ground on all your great progress! You're clearly being really thoughtful & careful about your decisions though so I know you will come to a good solution. Keep up the good work!...

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Thank you Lynne. I'm ok but just needed to vent a little. I find I just have very little desire to reach for food in times of distress/stress anymore. It just seems like ugh why bother when I'll be able to eat a wonderful meal in a few hours anyway. So yes I should focus on the progress I'm making w...

lpearlmom

One big plate is still a success! Mine were heaping too at first. They will get smaller.

Linda

lpearlmom

Good day food wise but tough day for me emotionally. It's so weird how the seemingly smallest things can send me over the edge at times. I needed someone to do a favor for me from my girls school and since we are new to the school and this part of town I only had a couple of people I could ask. I as...

lpearlmom

Yay!!!!

lpearlmom

I was being harsh with the doctors recommendations not you!:) Being married to a doctor gives me a certain perspective right or wrong. But I know you have to figure out whats right for you so decided to keep my opinions to myself (well kind of).

Linda

lpearlmom

I'm feeling much better today. I realize I was just really bloated yesterday from a combo of that time of month & extra Monday bloat from a crazy weekend. I feel normal today again. I think I lost a chunk of weight in the beginning and now it's coming off very slowly. In the past this is probably wh...

lpearlmom

Seems like a lot of us are struggling a bit but I can also see we are regrouping and getting back on track. Yay for looser sweaters!

lpearlmom

Ok I'm glad you're feeling better! I wrote a long reply yesterday but decided it was too opinionated and harsh sounding so deleted it. Just wanting you to consider all possibilities but I know you're being very thoughtful about it anyway.

Linda

lpearlmom

Great work--keep it up!

Linda

lpearlmom

Thank you Kookie. I'm feeling much better today but do feel like I may have gained a little of the initial weight I lost back. Not sure whats going on but it may just be a little bit of two steps forward, one step back for awhile. It would probably be helpful if I could start exercising regularly. I...

lpearlmom

I'm feeling the same way clarebear. I tend to put enough food on my plate to fill me up then I find myself adding a little more just in case. Good in theory but I always end up eating whatever is there. I think I'm ready to try letting go of my safety net too. Love that we can experiment with the op...

lpearlmom

I agree it's a relief and very freeing to not have to deal with the constant indecision over whether to eat or not eat.

Welcome!

Linda

lpearlmom

Totally understandable Tessy! Come back when/if you are ready!

Best of luck with everything.

Linda

lpearlmom

Thanks for chiming in JW, clarebear & automated...something is definitely in the air! Today was a little better but not much. Everything went fine during the day. Even went on a family bike ride which was so nice but I overdid it in the evening and am feeling like I've gained back some weight. Feeli...

lpearlmom

Automated so glad you were able to find my post helpful! It's always those kind of fuzzy slightly uncomfortable feelings that I tend to want to eat my way through. Im good in a real crisis when there's something definable I need to do. Today was a doozie. My daughters fighting nonstop, my frustratio...

lpearlmom

Hey automated, you should never feel bad about venting here! You should think of this thread as your own personal journal to help you with your journey. People may stop by to offer suggestions or encouragement but ultimately this is suppose to be a tool to help you. Venting is an important part of t...

lpearlmom

Oh Kookie that's funny. I was too tired to write that clearly but I went walking with the dogs in the morning and trick or treating with the kids at night. My dogs are not well trained enough for that. I love them but they're a little wild! Green day but some close calls. I found myself staring into...

lpearlmom

Yay for a green October! Im glad you came to a decision and I think it's a very smart one. You can revisit this later but in the meantime just concentrate on your amazing new habits.

Linda

lpearlmom

So tired! Greenish yellowish day w S night.

Break: muffin, yogurt, fruit
Lunch: pasta, sausage on bun, fruit mocha
Dinner: pizza

5-6 pieces of candy, 1 sangria

Exercise: walked dogs, trick or treat walking

lpearlmom

Thank you all! Yes Kookie I think I need to order denser food next time instead of a salad so I can get full a little faster!

I just realized its Halloween so going to take an S event tonight beginning after dinner so I can partake in candy eating if I want!

lpearlmom

Yay Clarebear! You have the right attitude. Im so afraid if I get a red day it's going to completely derail me. I may need to take a break from counting after my 100 days!

Linda

lpearlmom

Sounds really frustrating especially when you're finally getting to a good place with food. I agree that needs to be your priority right now. If it's not urgent & dire, I would probably try to wait. Maybe in several months when you are more completely at peace with your food issues & your habits are...

lpearlmom

Yep JW she's beautiful & so sweet. Our other dog is a shihtzu. So funny because despite their size differences, they're best friends.

Love labs. We used to have a black one. They are very food motivated. Maybe I was a lab in my last life!

. Crockett sounds great. Mutts are so hearty!

lpearlmom

Yep Tessy cooking & nibbling is a hard habit to break but the satisfaction I get from enjoying my dinner has been worth it. Today is day 90!!! Must be something in the air automated. :) Feeling much better today. Went to lunch and shopping with a friend. Was really nice but every time we go out to e...

lpearlmom

Yay Tessy! Nothing like exercising first thing in the morning to make your day start out right! Hope you were able to catty that good feeling with you at least for a little while.

Linda

lpearlmom

Glad pup is okay! We have a wolf hybrid who seems to be able to eat anything without consequence as well.

Kookie: so weird about the celiac disease going away but I can see now why you have been weary of wheat!

Linda

lpearlmom

So sorry about the scare! Glad he's okay though. This makes sense. Reaching for food every now & then (about once in 85 days in your case) when under extreme stress is reasonable and won't effect your overall goals. It's the daily (or several times daily) reach for food between meals that gets us in...

lpearlmom

Yay for progress! Oolala has great ideas!

lpearlmom

Hi Kookie Nah lots of people do mods and try to make S days more manageable. I pretty much take them as they come and reserve the right to change my game plan for S days as I go. Yes I'm back! Very short trip because DH had to get back to work on Monday. Looks like we're going to Miami in a couple w...

lpearlmom

Thanks for the support JW & Kookie!! :) So irritable & cranky today. Was a green day but realize how many times I reach for food when I'm cooking especially when my mind is fuzzy. Good to know this is a weak point for me so I can keep an eye on it. Break: breakfast burrito, fruit, coffee w cream Lun...

lpearlmom

Yay!

So glad,to hear from you! Post when you feel up to it and know we're all sending you well wishes.

Linda

lpearlmom

Sorry you're having some stresses right now but glad you're finding comfort in the structure of NoS. Isn't it funny how we used to eat for comfort then we had to deal with the bad feelings from that to ? Now our normalized eating is what brings us comfort. I'm impressed that you're keeping up with t...

lpearlmom

Good for you Kookie! You've got N days down and now you can keep tweaking with S days till you that feels right to you too.

lpearlmom

So impressed with all the bread making going on around here. Don't fear bread Kookie! It really helps with satiety at meals and helps to keep your meals balanced.

Here's an interesting article:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/ ... d-you.html

Linda

lpearlmom

Welcome Junebug!

lpearlmom

Missing your sparkly presence around here as well! Hoping you're okay!

Linda

lpearlmom

Glad you guys get it! I just need to pay better attention to what I'm doing. I get so spacey this time of month. Stupid hormones.

lpearlmom

Green Day... Close call at dinner. Was steaming edamame & popped one in my mouth without thinking. Typical Monday behavior but I usually catch myself in time. Well I decided to load up my plate with everything for dinner & then I removed 1 edamame from my plate. Feels crazy but was not going to take...

lpearlmom

So sorry about your husband. Tough times. Be kind to yourself & try to take care of yourself as best you can.

lpearlmom

Wow I'm so impressed with how active you are with your boys. I really need to start doing that with my girls. I think you have the right attitude about S days. Once I stop trying to get them to "work" for me & just viewed them as a necessary evil as something I just needed to get through, s days got...

lpearlmom

Thank you for the encouragement Sinnie. I have no idea how much this 45 year old metabolism is capable of but am willing to find out. Maybe one day, shopping will be one of those things in which I look forward to doing!

lpearlmom

An okay day. Slept horribly on the air mattress at my in laws last night. I told DH next time we have to get a hotel but pretty sure I say that every time! Then we had a 7 hr drive back home. Of course we are fast food for lunch and when we came home, I overdid it a bit. Just feeling SOOOO tired & e...

lpearlmom

You're so right on target Kat. It's an impossible game we play with ourselves. I can remember being a size 6 and wanting to be a size 4. When does it end? Much better to enjoy and appreciate our bodies now whatever size they may be. Definitely tough JW! I'll be sure to remove whatever I don't want t...

lpearlmom

Thank you both! Clarebear you are so right. Nos is definitely the tortoise in this race and I feel like I've already won in so many ways. Today was good but went out to dinner with our family & had to do a little virtual plating with some shared foods. Was okay but I basically made a deal w myself t...

lpearlmom

Yay automated! I'm so thrilled to read this post. You are doing so amazingly well! I'm so glad you joined this forum. I really value and enjoy your input!

Keep it up & have a great weekend!

Linda

lpearlmom

Thanks Kookie & JW for the support! I know it'll be fine. Clothes shopping is just so stressful for me that it really triggers bad feelings. Having peace with food is definitely my number one priority but I still have moments like when I'm faced to faced with a store mirror when my desire to lose we...

lpearlmom

Clarebear congrats on having your wedding paid off! That must feel pretty amazing. Now you just enjoy the rest of the process! Glad to see your mood is up too. Wedding planning can be stressful at times but in the end so worth it. I know you're day will be magical! Enjoy your dinner! I'm just loving...

lpearlmom

Yay Kookie I so happy for you! You are doing so great on so many levels. Delayed gratification is the good kind of discipline and very doable. It's the banishment of treats forever that set us up for failure. Low-carb eating cake last night for example! Have a great weekend and enjoy your experiment...

lpearlmom

So awesome that you've figured out how to integrate exercise into your daily life automated. I'll have to figure something out but I don't work so that won't work for me. I try to walk part way to school w my girls & the dogs but it's not everyday. Also I have bone spurs so walking too much isn't go...

lpearlmom

I used to drink black coffee in high school till I went to Paris and discovered lattes, mochas, cappuccinos....mmmmm

My hubby drinks black coffee. I call him boring, he says he's a purist.

lpearlmom

Another green day--you're doing great!

Linda

lpearlmom

Big *hugs* and hope things get better soon. Just come back when you're ready.

Linda

lpearlmom

Hi Kookie So great you're branching out socially--pub quizzes (had to google that!) and now having friends over for dinner! I agree you should probably keep it an N day. Everyone has such different eating habits that nobody will really notice if you keep to NoS. After all it's much more normal than ...

lpearlmom

Green

Break: bagel w cream cheese & tomato, skinny mocha
Lunch: ravioli, roasted veggies (yum!), apple
Dinner: tacos, refried beans, guacamole & chips, 1 sangria

Exercise: walked dogs

lpearlmom

Sorry Sinnie! :/

lpearlmom

Hi
If it's working for you then I wouldn't worry about it! Was just wondering if you were using it as a strategy to eat less. I don't think everyone is a morning eater though. So great that you walk so much. I'm impressed!

lpearlmom

Yay for less hunger!!

lpearlmom

I think that might have been JW but thanks for trying to give me the credit!:) You're exercise plan sounds great and your S days will get better. If I recall you had some pretty good S days in the beginning? Hang in there through your bleurgh days (had to google that) and keep experimenting with you...

lpearlmom

Hang in there Sinnie!!

lpearlmom

Thank you guys for the wonderful support! This forum has helped me so much. Whenever I think about straying I imagine having to come here and report my failure and it's always enough to keep me on track! Sinnie: I'm super strict about the one plate rule. If I have a salad or soup I always put it in ...

lpearlmom

Yay!

lpearlmom

It's so true Kat. So time-consuming & exhausting! The feminist in me would say its a subconscious way our western culture keeps us women down. Anyway today was good except I forgot to exercise. I guess in the back of my mind I'm thinking I won't worry too much about other habits till I reach my 100 ...

lpearlmom

Hi you've probably already touched on this but just wondering why you skip breakfast? I'd be starving by lunch too esp with a 45 min walk under my belt. Also, it's weird but in the beginning of NoS I found the between meal part so scary that I would rush through my meals in an attempt to get them ov...

lpearlmom

Yay Kookie! You are really doing so amazingly well! Ok 100 day club here we come!

We are definitely a unique, special, creative, open-minded and wise breed!!

Linda

lpearlmom

Tessy, my daughter's karate studio has this on the wall "A black belt is a white belt that never gave up." We are all learning from you because we are seeing what true persistence looks like. I do agree with JW and think this may be a great opportunity for you to set boundaries and practice self-lov...

lpearlmom

Yay Kookie congrats!!!!

It actually seemed to get easier for me. after the 21st day but you are already doing so well anyway. So glad you're feeling better today!

Linda

lpearlmom

Day 81 Green & awesome day all around. Feeling back to normal mostly. I think I ate a lot of heavier food than normal last week and was just kind of feeling bloated & ick. Today I feel well balanced & back in the groove--yay! When I was cleaning up dinner tonight I realized how wonderful is was to f...

lpearlmom

S days should get better but it never hurts to experiment. I know one Saturday I did 3 plates plus two small saucer sized plates for snacks--1 between lunch & dinner and 1 after dinner. I allowed sweets on all plates. It worked really well but on Sunday I knew I just needed a day without rules so an...

lpearlmom

Thanks Kookie! I think I do pretty great 99% of the time but I just need to learn to use less colorful language that other 1% of the time!

lpearlmom

Yep S days will calm down. Everyone told me that but I didn't believe it. I thought maybe I'm just too screwed up to eat without structure. I tried a few structured S days but that was no good. So trusted the process, like you, and the last two weekends have been super calm without me really thinkin...

lpearlmom

Awesome Kat! This is a very healthy, mature place to be. I hope to be there at some point.

Linda

lpearlmom

Oops automated forgot to respond to your parenting post. It wasn't the yelling so much as what was said. It's weird I'm pretty soft spoken and inoffensive for the most part but my oldest daughter pushes my buttons like nobody else. It's like a switch is flipped inside me and I can't control myself. ...

lpearlmom

Thank you JW, Tessy & automated! We had a lovely dinner celebration (24 yrs together) at a new restaurant I've been wanting to try. Ate everything happily but couldn't finish my dessert. Not sure what the current chubby (comely sounds better Tessy :) ) feeling is about, but I think I may be up a few...

lpearlmom

Tessy that's an awesome idea. You feel like you should be able to push through and keep working but maybe that's not realistic. Maybe you eat because your exhausted and just need a break. This is better. Be honest about what you need and how much you can take. Swimming will revive you and help you f...

lpearlmom

Success but having a grumpy day. My girls fought all day & I yelled at my oldest for not picking up her room like I had asked her. I hate when I lose my temper like that and tend to mentally beat myself up afterward but I need to just move forward, tomorrow will be better. Also feeling a bit chubby ...

lpearlmom

Sounds like things are going really well for you. 1 lb a week is awesome. I'm having the opposite problem of being afraid to weigh myself. I feel like it won't be as much as I thought & I'll fall apart and want to quit. I guess I'm not much help but maybe you could try weighing yourself less often? ...

lpearlmom

Oh yay Tobiasmom! I love PW cookbooks!

lpearlmom

Sounds great Kookie! A back up plan so you're covered either way. Your meals look great. I like having a big salad for lunch too but yeah it definitely needs real dressing and a good amount of protein to carry me through to dinner. So glad you're able to socialize and enjoy your life again--so great...

lpearlmom

Sounds like a great plan--enjoy!

lpearlmom

It's definitely pretty great Tessy! All those years of trying to eat dry toast & grapefruit for naught! Green Day Break: bran muffin, apple, yogurt, coffee w cream Lunch: hot dog & popcorn Dinner: Korean steak, mashed potatoes, peas, garlic bread, milk Exercise: none Girls got out early today so I t...

lpearlmom

wosnes wrote: "Old" is always at least 20 years older than I am.

Lol so true Wosnes!

lpearlmom

Good for you Tessy! Seems like you do better at home in general. Do your best tomorrow. Progress not perfection. Making it to 4pm is no small feat so give yourself credit where due. Maybe you can make it to 4:01 next time & then slowly beyond. Either way, you're on the right path. It's just a bit ro...

lpearlmom

*hugs* Sinnie!

It's hard to resist the comfort of food when you're getting stress from all angles. I hope you're able to relax a bit this weekend & start fresh on Monday maybe.

Hang in there!

Linda

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