Everyday Systems

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Amen, sister! I think another thing your grandmother might have said is, "moderation in all things!" I agree completely. I can eat 3 satisfying meals, have a dessert on the weekends, and move my body a little every day. And I feel so grateful that I have a healthy, strong body. I CANNOT wear every p...

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I like eating sugar cereal on Saturday mornings with my kids.

Lucky Charms is my younger son's favorite.

A 20 mile run?! Wow!

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Good for you to trust the process. That too-full feeling eventually causes me to crave the healthy feeling of hunger for an approaching meal. I am not able to articulate this idea, yet.... but it is something like this: Being hungry for a meal, and then enjoying the meal can become a self-rewarding ...

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S DAY
138.4
B: frosted flakes (yes, they were yummy!)
L: cheeseburger with fries, plus most of my kids' fries!
Diet Squirt
D: ham, potatoes, salad, lemonade
wine
late night snack--snack sized bad of doritos

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Oolala, I feel your pain! I am so frustrated with institutionalized education, and yet I am a cog in the wheel...... It is not a coincidence that I homeschool! I see the unfortunate side effect of large classrooms causing many students to become passive learners. It doesn't happen to all of them, bu...

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OK, I will admit I was a little confused by your post, because I thought you were already NoSing. Did something happen that caused you to put off your start date?
Dive in Ramona, the water's fine in NoS land!

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Wow, Tessy, what an awesome awesome strategy, on so many levels! I LOVE this...... Taking care of you, and showing your "binge baby" who is boss! :) You've recognized your particular challenging moments, and you keep trying different methods to replace that 4pm temptation hour. And swimming for your...

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Hi, coffeegal, how are you doing?

. I, like Wosnes, love your name! And I also homeschool. Just wondering how things are going and curious if your s days are calming down.

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Happy Anniversary! And as far as yelling at your girls..... well, I guess it's not appropriate for me to cheer you up by saying I yell more? Ha ha. I will say that I believe the pendulum has swung SO far toward our kids being on equal footing with us (in our generations) that sometimes we let them g...

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16 oz. whole milk latte
L: lentil soup and 2 pieces of toast
HUNGRY!! and it's only 2:50pm!!!!!!!
Think this is real hunger.....if the hunger doesn't pass, I'm going to buy another latte this afternoon.

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We are all rooting for you, Tessy!

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Thanks for the encouragement that my fatigue is probably the primary reason I am feeling so ..... inadequate! I will try to get some sleep, but I have so much going on I was up at 4am this morning thinking about things. Ugh. Maybe a sleeping pill is in order this weekend. Yes, I do recommend Hungry....

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I did however notice that mentally I was very hard on myself, quite paranoid and indecisive and kept feeling wired. This is how I am feeling tonight. In that book, Hungry, the author says that he didn't start to feel his real emotions until he regulated his eating. I almost wonder if that is a litt...

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140.1 coffee with cream walked to work (45 minutes) L: PB&J; few apple slices D: Taco salad, some mini-pizza snacks So today was kind of interesting. I was super hungry by dinner, and after eating one plate (well, while eating, actually) I was dreaming of seconds. 10 minutes later, sitting on the co...

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Hi Miss Oolala, success story extraordinaire. :) I think you should know how important your posts are to me. I look up to you as a woman that has found moderation, and I want to be like you! Thank you for continuing to post on the NoS forums. I am curious.....do you feel you NEED to post to stay on ...

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Kookie wrote:I'm not THAT young, Linda!! Almost 38 and still not ready for a serious relationship NoS

Ha, Kookie, that's funny. I'm 37, too, and many of the posters here think I'm young! I love it.

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Hi all: I just finished a book called Hungry, by Allen Zadoff (published 2007). I found it on WalkerLori's thread from somewhere in 2011, I think. Well, you can get it on your kindle for $2.99. Wow, it was a fascinating read. In it I kept finding the same things about struggling with binging that I ...

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Hi Ramona! I love your name and your list! And here's to hoping you can learn to love your body!

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140.0 coffee with cream L: 2 tortillas, few apple slices Diet Coke Dinner: not yet, but I'm making spaghetti with garlic bread No S has reset my 'full' button. I used to continue eating until I was uncomfortably full. Now, I've learned that if I stop after one plate, I am no longer hungry. I used to...

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oolala..Thanks for the eloquent post. Remorse, guilt, disappointment, they're all included in "false hope syndrome". And just like you said, the typical pattern is the harder the fall, the grander the declaration to change. I'm usually not a reader of self help books. The Willpower Instinct is prob...

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139.8 walked to/from work (90 minutes) coffee with cream L: 2 tortillas, some apple slices D: not yet, but it's date night, and I'm determined not to do the crazy big order....my husband loves to see me eat good food........ Isn't that funny? He's a GREAT guy, but I'm beginning to realize that he li...

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I've been doing well, then bought halloween candy just for the holiday since our kids probably will not go trick or treating anymore, and they deserve it right? Of course I opened the darn (huge) bag and proceeded to eat most of the packages of reeces pieces. Grrr... like I shouldn't have seen that...

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So Imogen--you've had amazing success on NoS! Wow! And you are way tiny now!! 110? Really? I'm 5'2'' and would be dumbfounded to get down to 120 (and have no expectation of that, actually....125 is probably my dream weight). So my question is: did Vanilla NoS get you down to 110 (with exercise, of c...

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Aaaaaand... just as every single one of you has probably foreseen, I'm returning to the vanilla flock. I seem to be able to understand only extremes: rigidity of weekday restraint on one side, and complete wild abandon on weekends. And maybe that's what moderation really is for me. Time to get back...

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Looking forward to tomorrow. It's Columbus Day but not worthy of an S day. Ok, now Halloween is the scary one (ha, scary) coming!! I have two kids and a neighborhood of trick-or-treaters. But I'm going to make a goal to really limit how much candy I have in the house in the days approaching and aft...

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I know -- it's just a little bit of "anything goes," and by the time we've had all the things we've been missing, there's not a lot of room for the healthier options. That is so true!! And it has taken me 7 weeks to recognize the importance of S days as a "release valve", as so many NoSers call it....

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140.9 -- I can always count on pizza, I'm finding, to "puff" me up. walked partially to/from work (parked at babysitters.... long story) 60 minutes coffee with cream L: 1 tortilla, 1 pickle, a few pieces of veggies with ranch 16 oz. whole milk latte (ordered a 12 oz.... should have saved some for la...

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OMG Tessytwinkle..You made my day! Thank you! You rock! Tessytwinkle's kind words make me realize the importance of supporting my fellow No S'ers. Going forward I'm going to visit at least one person's blog a day and offer a verbal pat on the back. This community has given so much to me, it's time ...

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139.9 coffee with milk L: 4 (?!) pieces of pizza 1 cookie ice cream sandwich D: Frosted flakes Do you see my disordered eating on S days? I have no regularity to my eating, no tradition. Thanks so much to everyone for such supportive comments. Walker Lori said that getting supported by other comment...

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138.9
Coffee with cream
B: Bacon, eggs, toast
L: carne de asana taco, few fries, several mini donuts
D: salad, rice with shredded chicken, 1 twin fun snack, ice tea
Frosty at Wendy's (felt too full after this)
Wine

Ummmm, yeah, this was quite an S day!

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139.6 (2nd fluctuation below 140) B: whole milk latte L: turkey and avocado sandwich/tortilla soup D: toast with butter wine Weird day. I didn't really have a breakfast, then when I got home from work around 12 noon I was very hungry and anticipating soup. We all went out to eat, but didn't get food...

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I saw you're doing the October challenge.... Happy birthday! Hope your month is going well.

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140.2 It's as if my body's "set point" right now is 140, and it is very reluctant to move below that. I feel like these weeks of NoS are like when we do a stretch.... pushing, pushing down, gently, gently persistent. If I could "talk" to my metabolism, I'd talk to it like it's a skittish animal (or ...

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It's really fun how requiring moderation (as NoS does) helps us learn so much about ourselves. I have done Weight Watchers and Low-Carb eating in the past, and I never learned as much as I have about myself--and I'm only 6 weeks in. I feel like my appetite is a toddler---happier with structure (and ...

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140.7 walked to/from work (90 minutes) B: coffee with cream L: 2 tortillas with beans/cheese/yogurt and 1 apple slice D: potato soup and a salad and a diet coke As the stress of work is climbing this quarter, I find myself thinking more and more frequently of comfort foods (McDonalds, lattes, etc). ...

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Hi Tessy, The books I have been reading talk about how we can never fully eradicate an old habit (in this case, eating junk food in the afternoon), so we must replace it with a healthier habit. Even when we successfully replace the habit, stress will send us right for the old habit. So......i am goi...

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okbyxmas wrote:Looks like unexpected stress is a weak area for me.

I think unexpected stress is a weak area for all humans!

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140.4 (maybe you were right, wosnes, and it was just extra water weight...) walk to work (45 minutes) B: oatmeal L: tortillas/beans/cheese/yogurt and apple slices Today i dealt with two or three temptations to go buy a latte. Not that there's anything wrong with that if i was really hungry, but i wa...

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142.0 nice, right back to that same ole' number, what do I expect after THREE pieces of ice cream cake this weekend!!!????
walked to/from work (90 minutes)
B: coffee with milk
L: Tortilla with beans/cheese/yogurt
D: lasagne with bread, few sips of milk

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Didn't weigh again. Weird. B: bacon, eggs, toast and hashbrowns Coffee with milk L: piece of ice cream cake and a few chips D: lentil soup with chicken and a piece of toast One more piece of ice cream cake (thank goodness it's gone now that Monday is upon me!!!) I have a new system to implement. I n...

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Didn't weigh this morning!
B: OJ, coffee with cream, small pumpkin muffin, hard boiled egg, banana, one piece of buttered toast.
L: chicken noodle soup
D: chili, chips, and veggies with ranch
Ice cream cake
Wine

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139.6. The first time I have "fluctuated" below 140!!!! And on my birthday. B: whole milk latte and 1/2 a donut a coworker gave me for my birthday. I didn't really want it, but at it because I didn't want to hurt her feelings! L: not yet Movie, ate popcorn. D: we are going out to dinner to celebrate...

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Hi JW, not sure which day this week your birthday was.... but mine is tomorrow and I am excited! :) It'll be my first non-weekend S day since I started 6 weeks ago. Thanks for the encouragement about losing the scale. :? I would stop weighing altogether but I guess I don't trust NoS enough yet to be...

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Hi Tessy,
Thanks for sharing your journey. I love your honesty, and you are so dang charming you have a whole army of followers.

Keep on keepin' on, Sister (hood of the Sane)!

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141.9 walked to/from work (90 minutes) B: coffee with milk L: 1.5 tortillas with beans/cheese D: not yet, but I am so hungry! It's only 2pm. It's as if there is some serious fiddling I have to do to avoid being either too hungry (today) or not hungry enough (yesterday). I guess skipping breakfast (w...

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Eschano, great to hear that NoS is helping you keep some regularity during this emotionally stressful time. And thanks for chiming in on my daily check in regarding plateaus.

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Thanks for the encouragement. I was really needing that today.

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141.5 ergh I have very low weight loss rate goals, but I am still not even meeting them. To stay on target (1 pound a month) I should be 140 by October 25th. It doesn't seem to be going down that way. On the other hand, with such normal weight fluctuations I have, it's hard to see the overall downwa...

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141.1 walked to/from work (90 minutes) B: oatmeal coffee with milk L: 2 tortillas with beans/cheese and an apple D: not yet, but it's date night and last week I overate by ordering too big of a meal. I want to watch that tonight. D: chicken Caesar salad! :) I turned down the more giant meal, knowing...

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Thank you for your introspective thoughts. I like how you think about things, and then model your thinking process for us (you must be a teacher, right?!). I think your last point is important for me. It seems that for most of my life I have believed I should eat before I get hungry, and that limiti...

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141.5
Walked to/from work (90 minutes)
B: Oatmeal
Coffee with milk
L: 1.5 tortilla with beans and cheese and an apple
Diet coke
3:20 and I feel a little hungry, but not too terrible yet. I think I should have had 2 tortillas for lunch!
D: lasagne and bread and a little milk

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141.7 2 maple bars coffee with milk 3 mini-starbursts walked with boys (they rode bikes) -- not too far because it is so rainy and windy today. minestrone soup and 3 pieces of buttered toast It's only lunchtime, and I feel like I've eaten a LOT of food. Ummm, so then I had pizza (too much) for dinne...

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Thanks, Vicki! I so appreciate you taking the time to chime in. I read your testimonials a while back, and your life story really resonated with me and is so encouraging ..... Which is exactly what I need. I know that your elaboration on successful principles will be helpful not just for me, but so ...

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The title of this topic is a silly pun on the Bernoulie Principle. Sorry I couldn't resist. Anoulie started a thread a few months back about needing to get back on track. I noticed that she mentioned having NINE whole months of all green. And yet now, she can't seem to string green days together. Sh...

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141.8 Coffee with milk Grapes 1/2 a yogurt Full breakfast: bacon, eggs, hashbrowns and toast Walked 45 minutes with my four year old (he rode his bike) Took a nap! Bowl of vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup Now eating chips Ok I have definitely had enough S's for one day......moderation is befor...

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My October Challenge is to Walk to Work Monday-Thursday every week in October. Sept 30: :D Oct. 1: :D 2: :D 3: :D 7: :D 8: :D 9: :D 10: :D 14: :D (and this was a tricky day, too!) 15: :D 16: :D 17: :D (yay! 3 weeks completed for me in October Challenge!) 21: :D 22: :D 23: :D 24: :D (one more week, e...

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140.3 B: 16 oz whole milk latte L: 1.75 tortillas with beans/cheese and 1/4 of an apple Diet Coke I am hungry.... I am eager for S day this week. I scrolled back through my posts and remembered that last Friday I didn't even eat dinner! I was still too full from having pizza for lunch. Today, I am d...

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5 -5.5 hours
breakfast: 7:30
Lunch: 1
Dinner: 6 or 6:30

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140.2 walked to/from work (90 minutes) B: oatmeal coffee with cream L: 2 tortillas and beans and an apple (ate more today because I was so hungry between lunch and dinner the last 2 days!!) D: meatballs and mashed potatoes Note: two tortillas at lunch definitely did the trick today! I think possibly...

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Hi butterfly7! Welcome to the forum. Good luck with your walking, I just recently have started a walking program too, and am considering walking a half marathon in January. I look forward to hearing about your food and walking journey.

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Isn't that funny how trends change so rapidly in weight loss research? As we know, it wasn't long ago that it was pretty much anathema for someone to skip a meal if they considered themselves health conscious!

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141
Walked to and from work (90 minutes)
B: whole milk latte
L: tortilla with beans and cheese and an apple
D: minestrone soup, 2 pieces buttered toast, blueberries

Second day in a row I was ravenous between lunch and dinner.

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141.1 Walked 45 minutes to work B: oatmeal coffee with cream L: tortilla with beans and cheese Diet Coke D: burger and fries and Long Island ice tea Interesting thoughts in my head tonight about what I chose for dinner. I was very hungry, and looking forward to my Tuesday night date night with my hu...

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140.4
Walked 45 minutes
B: oatmeal
Coffee with cream
L: tortilla with beans and cheese and an apple
Bought a latte then decided to save it for tomorrow morning
D: lasagne and bread (haven't actually had this yet, but it's in the oven!)

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Thanks everybody, for your ideas. I'm very seriously warming up to a shovelglove-type exercise habit..... Not totally ready to commit, but getting there.

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Finally full, I just read through all your check in posts and you have really inspired me! Thanks for taking the time to share your journey, I can say for sure it has helped strengthen my commitment to No S and moderate eating...... Also especially noticing how often I want to eat and yet, when I ex...

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Today I was reading about shovelglove (I know it has its own forum but I'm already hooked by this No S crew!), and was practicing some of the moves just using my broom -- essentially no weight. And here I am, 12 hours later, already sore! Are there any NoSers out there that also shovelglove? Reinhar...

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142.2 coffee with milk Frosted mini wheats Yogurt and a little soup Took my 4 yr old to Costco and ate samples! Garlic bread, chicken taquito, milk. Then took him to see's candies and picked out some treats. Only bought 6 chocolates (well, also some chocolate coins my kids always pick out, but they ...

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Thanks, jw, for the words of encouragement. I know this is going to be a long journey and it will grow patience in me, if I let it! Sheepish grin here: I never really committed to eating the same meals every day, I was kind of just admiring my dad (and others) that do that and envisioning a day when...

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141.2 S day! Ok, folks, this weekend I am not going to go crazy like I did last weekend. Last night I dreamed about giant maple bars piled high on a table, but it wasn't an s day. I had to turn my back on them. Definitely a first for me to dream about food like that!! B: Frosted mini-wheats coffee w...

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141.7
coffee with cream
B: bacon, eggs, and toast
L: pizza
Diet coke
D:

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141.9
B: 1/2 an apple
coffee with cream
L: 2 packets instant oatmeal
Diet Coke
D: Roast beef sandwich and chips
wine

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142.2
Coffee with milk
L: top ramen and some grapes
D:pizza and apple slices

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142.2 Coffee with milk B:Yogurt and granola and an orange (work breakfast) L: Salad and chicken and potatoes (work lunch) Completed day 2 of walk/scoot to work! D: Tuesday night is date night for my husband and me, so we went out. Giant bacon cheeseburger and fries......technically one plate, but y'...

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143.3
First day of work!
B:Granola and milk
L:Various salads (potluck at work)
D:steak fajitas
Wine

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21 day club! 141.5 Coffee with milk Donut Half ham and cheese sandwich Granola bar Few bites of yogurt chocolate ice cream stirred into a shake bowl of doritos 2 pieces of stuffed crust pizza, yuck 1 brownie 2 glasses of milk headed to a neighbor's house to watch a football game. Pizza and brownies,...

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Since I humorously started No S on a Sunday, I've arrived at 21 days of green this morning!

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142.3 Coffee with milk B: blueberry muffins Yogurt Corn chips Peanuts Want ice cream, I thnk I will go buy it! Peanut butter mixed with chocolate chips....ugh, this sounded much better than it ended up tasting 1 hard candy piece Small spinach salad and cucumbers Small amount of chocolate ice cream W...

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I appreciated both of these articles, thanks for linking them!

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140.5 Coffee with milk B:string cheese L: tortillas with beans and cheese Day 1 of the 5.2 mile walk/scoot to/from work. If I log 8 more days like this between now and October 4th, I am rewarding myself with a new kickscooter for my birthday. Noticed that exercising today made me hungry!! Can't wait...

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140.7
Coffee with milk
Granola cereal
Cheeseburger and diet Pepsi
Baked potato with all the toppings

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140.4 B: 1 egg, 1 piece of bacon Coffee with milk L: tortilla with beans, cheese and pico de gallo.... This was a small lunch, hoping it will tide me over until dinner. Diet sprite 3:30 hungry D: breaded halibut, pinto beans, peanuts, milk Today is probably the hardest day so far...... All because I...

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140.1 coffee with milk B: whole milk latte L: tortillas and beans/cheese/sour cream/pico de gallo D: burger and fries Wine noticing: The hardest part of N days for me is planning and eating 3 regular meals. My old tendency was to snack simply because it was easier than fixing a regular meal, not due...

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Hello, I know you said you've been tested repeatedly for diabetes, and I am sure then you don't have it, but have you eliminated hypoglycemia? Unless you used your at home kit while you were suffering your classic hypoglycemia symptoms (dizzy, headache, nausea), you would have missed your lows. Just...

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I'm too new at this to understand all my motivations, but I have noticed that 2 or 3 hours after a good sized meal I want to eat again. When I examine the feeling, I know I am not actually hungry, I am just craving the pleasure of eating. Sugar craving, boredom, not wanting to feel empty, sad, I'm n...

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142.3 (ha ha Kat, I'm right back where I started! But thanks for the encouragement.)
Coffee with milk
B:2 eggs
L: chicken and rice
A few swallows of a latte that I decided I didn't want after all! I put in in the fridge to save for tomorrow.
D: pizza
Wine

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140.0
Juice
Coffee with cream
French toast, eggs and bacon
Filet mignon, stir fry rice and veggies

Ugh, I feel overstuffed from eating out tonight. Yuck, hate this feeling.

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140.6
Coffee with milk
Blueberry muffins
Chips and pico de gallo
Spinach mozarella ravioli
A birthday party: 1 bite of cupcake that I didn't like....gave it to my son!
Chocolate ice cream
Wine

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I weigh every morning.......
I want to weigh every morning, so in order to resist this urge I would have another habit to work on, which I'm not ready for yet!

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141.5
B:oatmeal (didn't finish..), coffee with milk
L: tortilla casserole
Diet sprite
D: pizza and chips with pico de gallo
Wine

I can't believe tomorrow is an S day already!!!

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Thank you for all your varied answers. I do intend to incorporate some exercise.....I'm going to be walking to work 2-3 days/week (and bringing along my kickscooter for the flat parts!) starting Sept. 13th. In total, I'll be walking/scooting 5.2 miles/day, 2-3 days/week. If I stick with that commitm...

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142.3
Coffee with milk
b: oatmeal
l: nachos
diet root beer
d: spinach mozarella ravioli

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Lunch: panini and salad
Diet sprite
Dinner: chicken nuggets and chips and salsa
Diet rootbeer

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I appreciate your suggestions, thoughts, and perspectives. I will commit to 12 weeks, as you suggest, oolala.

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142.2
Oatmeal and coffee
Starving right now, can't wait to eat at lunch.....meeting up with a friend so not sure what the food situation will be!

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Hello everybody: I am in my second week of NoSing. I love the concept, so far I feel confident I can stick with the vanilla rules. What I am wondering is if No S really can help me lose ~15 pounds (that's all I feel I need to lose, although the bottom of my BMI is almost 40 pounds less than I currre...

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I recommend you keep both S days, at least for the first full month. You can always reevaluate later......the idea is to establish eating routines (including enjoying S days) that you can maintain forever, not just until you lose a certain number of pounds.

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Tortillas and beans for lunch
Pizza for dinner
Wine

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Tuesday, week 2
142.8. Grrrrr
Coffee with milk
Bacon, eggs and toast

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B: bacon and eggs, coffee with milk
L: nachos with cheese, beans, sour cream, and salsa
D: salmon, potatoes, and onions for dinner; wine after dinner

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