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- Wed Sep 20, 2017 4:19 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Tortie's Check-In, 2017
- Replies: 49
- Views: 61963
The acid reflux came back. And the 3 am hunger that was waking and keeping me up until I ate, and for sometime after I ate as well. This time it wasn't meds. After a talk with my doctor, it would seem I'm better off eating smaller meals and including healthy snacks. I've been doing this for the past...
- Wed Sep 13, 2017 1:18 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Tortie's Check-In, 2017
- Replies: 49
- Views: 61963
Red day yesterday. I know what happened - lesson learned. I take full responsibility. I refuse to let it get me down. I think this is part of the circuitous route taken anytime I learn something new. I had almost 3 weeks of green days, and that was recent. I'm getting it, marking it and moving on. I...
- Tue Sep 12, 2017 4:07 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Ex binge eater on how no snacking helped her recover....
- Replies: 17
- Views: 33582
- Tue Sep 12, 2017 4:01 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Tortie's Check-In, 2017
- Replies: 49
- Views: 61963
And I love what you said about not needing calorie counting, but instead neediing not to pile the plate so high! I have to admit I always wonder why people are willing to limit themselves when they have a calorie count but aren't willing to learn what reasonable portions are of the foods on their p...
- Mon Sep 11, 2017 7:18 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Tortie's Check-In, 2017
- Replies: 49
- Views: 61963
Hi Tortie, It is tough when you're stuck at home. You're right, eating that cookie does feel good - for a minute. :? Hopefully next week will be a bit easier on you and you'll be able to get out more. Sometimes when I get wrapped up in eating I search for vegetable recipes and make those instead of...
- Mon Sep 11, 2017 7:16 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Tortie's Check-In, 2017
- Replies: 49
- Views: 61963
Insomnia became extreme once again the past few days. Yesterday I had to do do a full day having been awake since 3 am - the stress hormones took forever to wash out last night. Anyway, so my sleep deprived addled brain got sucked into the lure of calorie counting once again. Bloody hell *shakes hea...
- Sat Sep 09, 2017 11:40 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Tortie's Check-In, 2017
- Replies: 49
- Views: 61963
- Sat Sep 09, 2017 3:40 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Tortie's Check-In, 2017
- Replies: 49
- Views: 61963
This week was so off, I had only one green day. I'm just fed up with a difficult situation- my asthma has been very challenged this season. I'm getting increasingly depressed being stuck indoors and for my exercise to be so limited. I'm getting cabin fever, and it's really affecting my mental health...
- Fri Sep 08, 2017 3:40 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Non scale victory
- Replies: 7
- Views: 16704
- Wed Sep 06, 2017 10:57 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Tortie's Check-In, 2017
- Replies: 49
- Views: 61963
Red afternoon. Ah well, lesson learned. Proper supper tonight ...back on track. Held back some cheesecake from the weekend, instead of throwing out the remainder as planned. "Ah no, this is too nice nice/too expensive to throw out. And I'm sure Mr.Tortie will be happy to finish it..." Mr. Tortie doe...
- Tue Sep 05, 2017 3:26 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Tortie's Check-In, 2017
- Replies: 49
- Views: 61963
- Sat Sep 02, 2017 2:54 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Tortie's Check-In, 2017
- Replies: 49
- Views: 61963
Green day yesterday. This is a long weekend for us, so I won't be checking in until Tuesday. Oolala, no, I'm fortunate that retrieving sweets from the garbage has never been a temptation. My sympathies if that's something you've struggled with. I'm lucky, once something is in the bin it stays there....
- Fri Sep 01, 2017 3:53 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Tortie's Check-In, 2017
- Replies: 49
- Views: 61963
Oh gosh, still not sleeping. Our air conditioner broke last night, and we are still having some stinking hot summer weather that will carry on for the next week. Getting the a/c fixed today *fingers crossed* So the stress of it all contributed to my insomnia and I slept even less last night - didn't...
- Thu Aug 31, 2017 1:24 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Tortie's Check-In, 2017
- Replies: 49
- Views: 61963
Hi, Bluebell and thank you. I read the book quite awhile ago, but I have been skimming through the past few weeks here and there to refresh my memory. I also find it helpful. Eating between meals is not the temptation this week, but restricting to a silly extreme is. I had been having fears that No ...
- Wed Aug 30, 2017 3:52 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Tortie's Check-In, 2017
- Replies: 49
- Views: 61963
Green day yesterday, but gosh, the emotional and mental angst I put myself through. I'm still exhausted. A longer than usual run of exceptionally bad insomnia has my mind invaded with some very nutty thoughts. I'm not a great sleeper, but I've not slept more than 3 or 4 hours a night since the middl...
- Tue Aug 29, 2017 3:22 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Tortie's Check-In, 2017
- Replies: 49
- Views: 61963
- Mon Aug 28, 2017 4:13 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Sneak Peek on the Scale...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 11003
- Mon Aug 28, 2017 4:10 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Tortie's Check-In, 2017
- Replies: 49
- Views: 61963
Nothing exciting to report about the weekend. I had a small bowl of chips on Saturday. I'm not really a chip person, and I wasn't really wowed. Baked some cookies late Sunday afternoon. Enjoyed too many and had to skip dinner. Mr. Tortie had his fill, held a few back for his lunch today, and I binne...
- Sun Aug 27, 2017 3:28 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Teaching and weird eating
- Replies: 8
- Views: 19012
- Sat Aug 26, 2017 4:06 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Merry's Monthly Check-in
- Replies: 350
- Views: 367244
- Sat Aug 26, 2017 3:37 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Tortie's Check-In, 2017
- Replies: 49
- Views: 61963
Green day yesterday :) I considered including calorie counting, in addition to staying within the No S framework, for a good long time yesterday. And I did count the calories of everything I ate yesterday. But I've let that go - too crazy-making and too difficult. I can't quite shut off being calori...
- Fri Aug 25, 2017 11:17 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Tortie's Check-In, 2017
- Replies: 49
- Views: 61963
- Fri Aug 25, 2017 4:18 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Tortie's Check-In, 2017
- Replies: 49
- Views: 61963
Okay, I know I'm all over the shop with this sugar in tea thing, but again I'm changing my decision on this. Sugar really affects my sleep and mood- had sugar in my tea yesterday, fruit juice with lunch and seitan for dinner (from a Vietnamese vegetarian restaurant) - lots of protein, but I think lo...
- Thu Aug 24, 2017 9:13 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Tortie's Check-In, 2017
- Replies: 49
- Views: 61963
I need to keep my focus on accepting and loving myself for where I am now. I do know this, but only on a very superficial level. People will tell me this, or I'll read it and think : yeah makes sense - then go on listening to the committee inside my head. Reading through a lot of posts today, and it...
- Thu Aug 24, 2017 7:50 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Bluebell's check in
- Replies: 649
- Views: 597424
Hoping your heal recovers quickly, Bluebell. Nice to read of your son taking an interest in cooking - lovely to have company while preparing meals. I've been reading through your thread today, and I have found so much of it helpful. Your contentment with slow weight loss and your ability to regroup ...
- Thu Aug 24, 2017 2:59 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Tortie's Check-In, 2017
- Replies: 49
- Views: 61963
Green day yesterday :) In my early 30s, after years of maintaining a healthy weight, I gained 70lbs in six months due to medication. Once I stopped taking the med, the first 20 lbs fell of without any other changes. The rest of the weight, however...Well it was 3 months of strict calorie counting, a...
- Wed Aug 23, 2017 5:05 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Tortie's Check-In, 2017
- Replies: 49
- Views: 61963
I must confess that yesterday I spend about 2 hours seriously considering giving slimming world another try. Why on earth...?! So, No S seems to be a bit more challenging the past 2 days, so let's switch to something even more difficult and proven to be unsustainable?. I think it's the old "I hate m...
- Wed Aug 23, 2017 3:26 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Tortie's Check-In, 2017
- Replies: 49
- Views: 61963
- Tue Aug 22, 2017 2:27 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Tortie's Check-In, 2017
- Replies: 49
- Views: 61963
And now it's getting difficult. Yesterday was a technically a green day, but not one that would lead to losing weight. I put sugar in my tea, and I heaped my plate at dinner. But all day long I fought the urge to bake cookies, and eat the lot. I was just feeling down and really wrestled with the tho...
- Mon Aug 21, 2017 3:14 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Tortie's Check-In, 2017
- Replies: 49
- Views: 61963
I did find something to try as an S day special treat - it was gross and made me feel sick. I think I was just feeling lonely, and no sweet appealed because what I really craved was the occasion and the company that comes with special day food. I think I need to remember the sometimes part of days t...
- Sun Aug 20, 2017 10:22 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Tortie's Check-In, 2017
- Replies: 49
- Views: 61963
Not much excitement in the treat department this weekend :( I ate one of Mr. Tortie's cookies yesterday, and it was awful. I tried to find something nice for myself at the grocery store today, but came away empty handed - nothing appealed. I did have a coffee though, something I only allow myself a ...
- Sat Aug 19, 2017 1:47 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Tortie's Check-In, 2017
- Replies: 49
- Views: 61963
Another green week! I was so down yesterday, I thought for sure I'd cave, but instead I ended up skipping lunch. I was hungry but no appetite, so I had a glass of milk and moved on. I did not give into the temptation of takeaway and cooked a proper supper. I was worried I'd gorge at dinner, but I on...
- Fri Aug 18, 2017 3:36 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Tortie's Check-In, 2017
- Replies: 49
- Views: 61963
Still down, but remarkably, still green. I just kept saying to myself, there's nothing in the kitchen cupboards worth it (my husband's favourites only), and it wouldn't make me feel better anyway. At least I went to sleep last night, after some tossing and turning, knowing I had not let myself down.
- Thu Aug 17, 2017 4:07 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Tortie's Check-In, 2017
- Replies: 49
- Views: 61963
Dealing with a couple of down days, ( I have bipolar depression) and a lot of heavy sadness over the death of loved ones - my dad just last fall. Had to remind myself at least 20 times in the past 36 hours that a binge will not make it feel better - in fact it will make it worse. Just allowed my sel...
- Wed Aug 16, 2017 2:26 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Tortie's Check-In, 2017
- Replies: 49
- Views: 61963
Still green so far this week. I still find having my tea without sugar to be helpful. I struggled a bit last evening after dinner. Mr. Tortie likes a bit of dessert - he's slim and can easily afford it. I had a few seconds of poor me, but that was it. I treated myself to a nice cold soda water and i...
- Mon Aug 14, 2017 3:54 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Tortie's Check-In, 2017
- Replies: 49
- Views: 61963
I didn't feel the need or call to snack over the weekend. On Saturday I had a spoonful of a dessert; I didn't find it enjoyable, so my husband ate the rest. Sunday evening I had one bite of a cookie and didn't think it tasted very nice at all, so my husband ate the rest of that too. The scale says I...
- Sun Aug 13, 2017 3:55 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Tortie's Check-In, 2017
- Replies: 49
- Views: 61963
I had my very first full week of green this week. 2 reasons for my success: 1. I looked in a full length mirror and realized this (60lb overweight body) is not because of an absence of strict dieting and obsessive exercising. It's because of unrestrained overeating and being sedentary. A simple plan...
- Wed Aug 02, 2017 4:26 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Tortie's Check-In, 2017
- Replies: 49
- Views: 61963
I have been able to eat fruit with my breakfast and lunch, it really wasn't that hard. Making my lunch more rounded has curbed my urge to snack between lunch and dinner. I'm now content with a glass of water or soda water, or a cup of tea at that time of day. Truthfully, my snacks between lunch and ...
- Wed Aug 02, 2017 4:19 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: What stopped you from starting?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 27396
The reason why I've abandoned No S so many times, without ever really getting off the ground with it, is it's simplicity. With a complicated evil food/good food diet or an accounting diet, it's so easy after a few days, or a week to say "this is ludicrous" and give up, and blame the diet. With No S,...
- Thu Jan 26, 2017 11:11 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Tortie's Check-In, 2017
- Replies: 49
- Views: 61963
I had an apple between breakfast and lunch. I was hungry and I'm missing fruit. Fruit is kind of like a cup of tea..it just stands alone. This might need to be my first mod. Fruit is getting wasted, because I don't like to eat fruit with my meals. I've been drinking tea with milk and sugar in the af...
- Thu Jan 26, 2017 3:49 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Three Years of Trying the No S Diet
- Replies: 3
- Views: 12772
- Wed Jan 25, 2017 9:14 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: RAWCOOKIE's NoS Journal
- Replies: 1155
- Views: 1296741
- Wed Jan 25, 2017 9:11 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Tortie's Check-In, 2017
- Replies: 49
- Views: 61963
- Wed Jan 25, 2017 6:14 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Tortie's Check-In, 2017
- Replies: 49
- Views: 61963
Yesterday ended up being a green day. I had a bit of wine with dinner, but no sweets or snack. It was a nice evening. Had to miss my exercise routine this morning due to pain. I just ignored it yesterday and carried on with my routine, and did a bunch of extra stuff yesterday. Now I'm in quite a bit...
- Tue Jan 24, 2017 10:17 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Tortie's Check-In, 2017
- Replies: 49
- Views: 61963
Tortie's Check-In, 2017
So I kind of lost the plot last week, not being very well. Yesterday I was feeling a lot better, and the day ended up being an accidental No S day! Wow...how did that happen? Maybe this is the way out of disordered thinking and overeating for me after all. Time to follow the advice of those before m...
- Mon Jan 23, 2017 3:42 pm
- Forum: No S Diet Testimonials (aka "yearly check in")
- Topic: Less worried about food, more focus on joy.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 23815
Re: Less worried about food, more focus on joy.
I'm trying to walk more, for stress relief, but also to do more fun things, maybe an art class, a little yoga, a little meditation. This is a big change, food used to be my stress release, it calmed my anxiety, helped me sleep and relax. With my stomach overful, it was like taking a sedative. No S ...
- Wed Jan 18, 2017 2:37 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: >>>> January challenge <<<<
- Replies: 46
- Views: 50182
- Fri Jan 13, 2017 3:48 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: 2017 One year No S Challenge
- Replies: 425
- Views: 628292
- Sun Jan 08, 2017 2:38 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: 2017 One year No S Challenge
- Replies: 425
- Views: 628292
I mainly use it as a mental pat on the back after a month, but I think I did tally up the year for my one-year check-in. That could be a fun idea though, to record it each month or to put it on the monthly check-in. Thanks, Merry. Wow, it's so great to see so many people joining this challenge. Hel...
- Sat Jan 07, 2017 9:51 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Welcome
- Replies: 12
- Views: 24154
- Sat Jan 07, 2017 8:39 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: 2017 One year No S Challenge
- Replies: 425
- Views: 628292
Thank you for carrying on with Spark, Oolala. I'm pretty sure it's through your posts on Spark that I discovered No S. To anyone who is doing the monthly No S Olympics, are you just recording that within your check-in thread or independent of the message board. I found the thread Reinhard had starte...
- Fri Jan 06, 2017 3:18 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Got Non Scale Victories? Post 'em here!
- Replies: 49
- Views: 58063
- Fri Jan 06, 2017 3:16 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Got Non Scale Victories? Post 'em here!
- Replies: 49
- Views: 58063
- Fri Jan 06, 2017 2:49 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: >>>> January challenge <<<<
- Replies: 46
- Views: 50182
Oolala, I can't imagine how difficult it would be to not feel hungry. Your post made me very grateful for my growling tummy yesterday. I'm doing okay. Feeling the sadness, and sometimes it's difficult to just not stuff all that sadness down with a dumping of food. I had a couple of white knuckle mom...
- Thu Jan 05, 2017 3:21 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: 2017 One year No S Challenge
- Replies: 425
- Views: 628292
Yes, I'm not a fan of challenges at all. Competing with others or even against myself is not my go. So the Spark type of challenge you mentioned, Oolala would be counterproductive for me. This challenge, is about committing to healing my destructive relationship with food. It's about learning what I...
- Sat Dec 31, 2016 6:46 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: 2017 One year No S Challenge
- Replies: 425
- Views: 628292
Personally, I'm not interested in starting or following several different threads. I just want the quick check in of the monthly challenge threads and posting in this one along with the other folks who have committed to MaggieMae's 2017 challenge. If I change my mind I can start my own thread, thank...
- Sat Dec 31, 2016 5:42 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: >>>> January challenge <<<<
- Replies: 46
- Views: 50182
- Sat Dec 31, 2016 5:30 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: 2017 One year No S Challenge
- Replies: 425
- Views: 628292
Noni, thank you so much for sharing your experience with acid reflux. Yesterday, I did eat less food at breakfast and lunch, and no acid reflux. However, within an hour after lunch I was very, very hungry. I had a cup of milky tea and I was still getting the hunger pangs. I kept myself distracted, b...
- Fri Dec 30, 2016 1:33 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: 2017 One year No S Challenge
- Replies: 425
- Views: 628292
- Fri Dec 30, 2016 1:41 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: 2017 One year No S Challenge
- Replies: 425
- Views: 628292
So, I've had 3 green days, and I have one issue. I'm struggling with acid reflux after meals and it's triggering my asthma. I'm a grazer. I was grazing on a lot of junk, which is why I'm overweight, but I'm not used to a full plate of food at once. I was going to focus on just the 3 meals and not wo...
- Tue Dec 27, 2016 8:46 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: >>> December challenge <<<
- Replies: 45
- Views: 48786
:arrow: :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 1 2 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Okay, I think I've got this figured out,posting my red and green days that is. I'm better prepared for posting in January's challenge. I'm a bit late for December's challenge...
- Tue Dec 27, 2016 4:26 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: What's your favourite quote from The No S Diet?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 14550
I'm sorry that these aren't the exact quotes.. The first that bit me on the bum, was: something like...You are 50 lbs overweight, you have no business worrying about antioxidants. and another, I'm not sure that it was in the book, but I read in on the thread about French Women not getting fat "The o...
- Tue Dec 27, 2016 4:18 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: 2017 One year No S Challenge
- Replies: 425
- Views: 628292
Thank you MaggieMae and BabyBird, for the condolences and welcome. I had my first green day yesterday. It was a challenging one, but I made it. I will start recording in the monthly challenge thread next month. Committing to a full year challenge, is, for me, about letting go, and giving myself a br...
- Sun Dec 25, 2016 8:04 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: 2017 One year No S Challenge
- Replies: 425
- Views: 628292
So, to help you all understand why I NEED to commit to sticking to just one diet, I'll give you a glimpse into my "diet journals". I keep a little calendar in my bathroom and I use it to record weight, medication changes, menstrual cycles, etc. 2014 Calendar, starting weight 191: April : No S May: ...
- Wed Jan 13, 2016 8:05 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: New with a question
- Replies: 12
- Views: 23133
- Tue Jan 12, 2016 8:14 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: New with a question
- Replies: 12
- Views: 23133
Hi everyone. Thank you so much for all your replies. I'm sorry I'm so late in responding, we've had a major crisis over Christmas, and caring for our sick and very loved kitty, means sleeping and eating proper meals have been chaotic for the past few weeks. Anyway, things are still not perfect and I...
- Fri Dec 11, 2015 2:58 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: New with a question
- Replies: 12
- Views: 23133
- Thu Dec 10, 2015 6:30 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: New with a question
- Replies: 12
- Views: 23133
New with a question
Old topic, situation no longer applies. Please ignore. Thanks.