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Good for you for being proactive - I wish I would have been as health conscious when I first graduated from college! Doing No-S is a great way to build good habits. Welcome!

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I am glad to read all this advice - we are going to be travelling for an entire month this summer and there is no way I can have a whole month of S days! It is good to think about it in advance to avoid making decisions on the fly (which usually tend to be not such great decisions)! Up til now I've ...

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Wow, some great advice here. I understand what you are going through, too, and I wish you the best. All I can add is, hang in there and just take it one day, or even one meal at a time. Keep moving forward and don't get stuck in beating yourself up over past mistakes.

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Thanks, Liz! Yesterday was GREEN for food, and I stayed away from the wine, too! I will say, if it hadn't been for No-S I would have eaten a lot more yesterday - but wanting to succeed at this trumped my desire to snack, so... Exercise was a 30 minute bike ride - I met a friend downtown for lunch at...

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Welcome! I have about the same ways to go as you do - good luck here!

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Woo hoo

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Oh, I feel for you and totally get the feeling of being so tired of this struggle! But don't give up - if you let yourself sink back into the dark side you will feel even worse. This is hard, but what better alternative is there? The only thing to do is keep moving forward. Hang in there!

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I've done four halfs, but decided to stick to 15 KM or less from now on, it was just too hard on my body (bad hip).

I hear you on the beer! My thing is red wine in the evening and I am trying to cut back.

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That would be one heck of a long drive!

Glady you made it back safe.

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My gym has Bodypump class too, and it is pretty intense, I can understand why you would allow yourself a healthy snack if you're feeling shaky. I let myself have an apple if I know we are going to have a late dinner - it really helps and most of all, it prevents me eating way too much at dinner, or ...

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Sorry you weren't feeling well - hope it's better today!

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Glad it's Monday - back to sanity. At least with eating 3 meals, I can have the structure and confidence that I don't necessarily feel in my head and heart concerning all the other stuff. I feel the same way - happy and relieved when Monday rolls around. Glad to hear your presentation went well!

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I am very grateful for pizza, too

Good job!

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Good job on Monday and have a safe trip today!

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How exciting you are training for your first half marathon, coming up soon! I did the half marathon here in Brussels - it's an incredible feeling crossing the finish line, a great sense of accomplishment (and tired legs)! I am keeping my fingers crossed that your Achilles behaves itself in the meant...

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Thanks so much for the supportive comments. There is such positivity here, it is amazing. You guys are great! Yesterday was - GREEN! Three one-plate meals, exercise was an hour walk downtown for errands, and because I knew dinner would be late (oldest son climbing again), I had an apple at 4 pm. Tha...

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Wow - good for you! That is the kind of week I am striving for!

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Everything ok, Ann? I hope you have a good week!

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I ended up having a reasonable S day on Sunday. I had my breakfast and lunch as regular one plate meals, I had an apple and a slice of homemeade blueberry nut bread for a snack in the afternoon, and then I made this eggplant pasta recipe for dinner and did have seconds (it was so good!). But no wine...

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My teenage sons and I all loved the three Hunger Games books - much better than the movie. I almost didn't want to see the movie because I knew it would take away the things I had imagined in my mind while reading but I couldn't resist the hype!

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I'm struggling with the S days too. Trying to have faith that they will slowly but surely get better, but it's scary.

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I think not being able to be in the moment and enjoy the now is a huge issue for a lot of us on this board. If we were really able to enjoy our food fully and not beat ourselves up over it, we probably wouldn't have ended up here. I know for sure it is something I need to work on. I know what you me...

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Aaaarrgggh - dreaded diet head - I totally know what you mean! Hang in there!

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I enjoyed reading it, too - very inspiring! I agree that it is so easy to be negative but we have to reminded to pat ourselves on the back every now and then, too! You are doing really well!

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...to go a bit further in the discussion of S days - is there anyone else who doesn't really like having Sunday as an S day? I just feel like two full days is an awful lot of time to be unleashed. I have been thinking that I would be perfectly okay with just Saturday as my S day. I've always done th...

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Congratulations on your Friday victory!!! Way to go!

Also, thanks for your support yesterday - I am considering your idea about weekends. It sure seems to work for you!

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Patty, thanks for your support yesterday, even though it ended up being a fail, I think I learned something and will remember your suggestion for next time!

I have that Beck Diet Solution book, too, and it has a lot of really good suggestions. I should get mine off the shelf and re-read some of it!

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Thanks for your support yesterday - even though it was a fail, I still think I learned something - my goal is to do better next time, and I will certainly remember what you said! It sounds like you have been doing really well enjoying your treats on your vacation and being mindful - good for you! Ha...

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Patty, Liz and GK - thanks for the support and suggestions. It was close, but I have to be honest and report yesterday evening as a FAIL ... My son goes climbing on Friday after school and so we never eat our dinner til about 7:30 which is just too long for me to wait. So I do need to come up with a...

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So far, so good today - but it is 4 pm, the kids are due home any moment and I am starting to feel that Friday afternoon "the weekend has started" celebratory itch to eat something... So a visit here might be helpful to remind me what I am doing, right? And keep me strong til tomorrow morning... Piz...

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Glad to see how well you're doing! The Beck Diet Solution has a lot of really good stuff in it - I regularly pick it up again it for inspiration.

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I love the way you outfoxed that binge with your plate!!! Good for you - way to go!

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So glad to hear that for all that suffering she did earn her medal! A DNF would have really been a shame... It's very encouraging to hear of your No-S success, Bert. Have a great trip to Africa, perhaps I can look forward to seeing some of your fabulous photos when you get back! And get your thought...

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It felt like divine intervention this morning when I went to get my mail - and the No-S book I ordered a while back was there in my box!!! Just when I was getting myself over yesterday being red and feeling discouraged, there it was, to boost my resolve. I spent the afternoon reading the first coupl...

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Oh no, so sorry to hear about your wife! Hope she is recovering okay - that is a huge bummer. I heard it was going to be very hot - did she finish? It must have been very scary to go through that. Hugs to you both!

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Thanks for the supportive comments! Unfortunately, I do have to mark yesterday as a RED day... I was bummed about it yesterday evening and ready to throw in the towel, but this morning I got up and thought, just mark it red and move on. So, what tripped me up? It was being tired in combination with ...

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Wow, it sounds like your husband has iron willpower, good for him! I'm glad he didn't let the scale throw him off. I know I would be better to get rid of my scale but I am too attached to it...

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I'm looking forward for S days to calm down too - I almost dread the weekend as much as I anticipate it... Just have to keep the faith and believe that it will happen!

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Congratulations, Patty!

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Followed Vanilla all the days which were very unstructured in and of themselves - yet were structured for me by the way I ate. I feel so blessed :D because I know how chaotic it COULD HAVE been. No one even knew that I was on "a different meal plan." :) I am so sorry to hear about the emergency - h...

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Glad to see you getting some yummy sounding Green days under your belt again - I love Indian food! Hang in there, we are halfway through the week!

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Another green day yesterday - but just! Things were fine up til dinner time and I even got to the gym and did weights, treadmill and elliptical. I had a long intense phone call with a family member yesterday evening which meant I missed my dinner (my kids went ahead and ate without me - luckily I ha...

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Ahhh, buying jeans - what a dreaded task! I don't own a pair of jeans but will have to buy one for a family portrait my mother wants to do at our family reunion in July - she wants everyone to wear white shirts with jeans - sigh. I guess I will probably wait til June to actually start looking but I ...

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Thanks for the encouragement on my check in... How are you doing this week? Hope it's going well

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I just wanted to ask, "How's that workin' for ya, Dr. Phil?" :shock: :D Exactly! - LOL! I had a wild weekend too, but am feeling more positive now that I am back in N days - I am looking forward to the time when my S days calm down, as it seems they do eventually... have a great green week! :mrgreen:

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Happy birthday! And thank you for your encouraging words on my check in - I have just read your posts for 2012 and learned a lot about what it takes to be successful at this. Lots of "food for thought"

have a great week!

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I love Gretchen Rubin's ideas - I follow her blog. A lot of what she says falls right in line with No S - I was just looking at her "suffer for 15 minutes a day" video and thinking of the 14 minutes of shovelglove...

Anyway, good luck for a great start here!

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Those weigh-in stories make me think of the lengths I would go to on WW meeting days to have the lowest weight possible - wearing the lightest clothes and shoes, not wearing any jewelry, not eating or drinking in the few hours before the meeting, going to the bathroom a zillion times... craziness, r...

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Thanks for stopping by on my check-in and - wow - you are almost at 21 days - good for you! I aspire to that, too... I'm glad you managed to work around having an early dinner with your friend - sometimes wanting to be a good friend can make things complicated on the food front, but sounds like you ...

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Ann, R.Jean, Lara, and Patty - thanks so much for the encouraging words! It helps to know that there are so many supportive souls here. Yesterday was - GREEN ! :mrgreen: So happy to get a good start to the week and feeling positive. I had three 1 plate meals and got my run in - 9 km. I am looking fo...

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Dr. Phil lost me with that family, too! Glad you had a good weekend - eating popcorn with chopsticks is definitely a good way to slow down mindless eating!
Good luck for the week ahead

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That happens to me a lot too - I am craving something but it turns out I am just really thirsty! I have also had where I was thinking I was hungry but I was actually cold, and just putting on some warmer clothes sorted me out.
Good luck for the upcoming week!

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Wow - you had a great week, despite the water pipe crisis - good for you! Have a safe trip to Israel and enjoy your holiday - you certainly deserve a break after all that.

Thanks again for the encouraging words - I needed to hear that, actually!

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Skykitty, thanks for the encouragement! Honestly, late Saturday evening, feeling bloated from my wild S day and discouraged from my red Friday, I began doubting whether this was something I could do... I started thinking of all the restrictions I would need to place on myself on Sunday to get myself...

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Yesterday was an S day gone wild...frustrating. Today I intend to be tad more moderate

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Congratulations! Good for you for not worrying about your weight gain during pregnancy... I had three kids and my body naturally sought out the same weight at the end of the pregnancy for all three of them. Only for the first two I wasn't as heavy to start out with, so my doctor scolded me everytime...

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I completely understand what you mean about Fridays - I have the same thing (in fact had a red one just yesterday :cry: ) - usually do just fine during the day but once the kids get home from school it feels like the weekend has started... Definitely something to work on! Enjoy your weekend and next...

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I have to mark yesterday as RED ....sigh.... The day was green until we went out for dinner in the evening, to a chinese place. I had three of the nibbles they put on the table before you order, then I had more than 1 plate of food for my dinner, and finally, I had the cookie and chocolate they serv...

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Congratulations and thanks for the inspiration!

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Thanks for sharing this and congratulations - there is nothing I want more than to have this peace of mind about food and eating behaviors, so this really does give me hope!

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Just wanted to say that your bad days last week and all the great advice you got in response have been really helpful to hear - thanks for sharing it. I have just started and the S days make me feel really apprehensive. And hang in there - looks like you got off to a strong start this week!

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Reading your three anniversary posts makes me feel hopeful as I think of the very real possibility of finally having healthy and sustainable eating behaviors. Thanks for sharing!

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I'm with Lara - this is very inspiring to read! Especially being short (5'3) and hypothyroid and pushing 50 myself

! Thanks for sharing how your eating evolved over the years, too. And good luck with your house guests - I know how that can trip things up.

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I think the discipline during the week does rub off on the S days to some degree...at least I sure hope so!
Have a great time in Boston!

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How's it going today? Don't worry about those red days, just get back on track with a green one and you'll be fine.
Hang in there!

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Hope the weekend goes well and look forward to seeing you back on Monday!

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Yesterday was: GREEN ! Took the kids out shopping + lunch, and where I usually would have been stressed out about where we would eat and what I would be able to find for myself (at the very least something vegetarian, which is not always low calorie in restaurants) and whether or not it would fit in...

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The nice thing about No-S is that you get to start over the very next day and earn a green day...how did it go for you yesterday? Hang in there, we are still learning the ropes to all of this! BTW - my portions on my plates are pretty darn big right now, too - my kids have been giving me strange loo...

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Thanks for stopping by my check in and the encouragement!

I am a mainly vegan eater too, primarily for health reasons.

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Thanks so much for the encouragement on my check-in thread! I've been posting for just a week now and there is so much support here. I've also been trying to use the habitcal, but I also printed out a blank calendar page for April and stole three colored pencils from my son (red, green and yellow - ...

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Thanks so much for the encouragement! Yesterday was another GREEN day - no apple! It is very empowering to KNOW that you can make it til meal time. I am also down 3 pounds since I started last week, which feels good too. I am going to keep chugging along with this, it makes me happy to not be all ob...

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Wow - good for you - I totally get the way it could have been an epic fail, coming home late at night and hungry. That has always been a very dangerous time for me, too!

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Not having a shower is great motivation to get to the gym - hopefully the renovation goes well and you have a beautiful new bathroom to enjoy soon!

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I had to count Monday as a red day even though I was pleased with how it went. I kept to my plan but when we got home from the badminton tournament, my son and his girlfriend had made brownies and they were so proud of themselves, I had half of one to taste it for them - it was good, too! They were ...

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Thank you for stopping by my check in! I like the way you described the beauty of this plan, and it sounds like you have really been able to make it work with your lifestyle. I have been doing the same thing with an apple after lunch - I don't like to eat fruit right on top of a meal, so I've been c...

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I feel happy about my two S days and I am eager to get going on a good week of green N days! Today is actually a holiday here in Belgium (2nd day of Easter) but for me it is an N day - what a relief! Yesterday evening after coming back from the in-laws I did have some desire to eat just to relieve t...

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I agree about the need to be very careful when using the word "addicted"! Much better to think of it in terms of a bad habit, then you have the power to do something about it. In the same way, I used to tell myself "I have an eating disorder" - now I look at as having some disordered eating habits -...

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Hi Bert! You inspired me to give this a try as well - what a treat to find you on the check in board!

I have high hopes for this - it makes so much sense and like you said, no one even has to know what you are doing, so there is no fuss.

groetjes!

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Thanks for stopping by my check in! I was telling my friend about the No S diet yesterday - it helps to try to explain it to someone else, to clarify it in my own mind. I have an idea that the key is to get the S days figured out so that they don't undo all the progress we make in the week! Easter S...

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I've never heard of Gayle's bakery but it sure sounds dangerous! But if it was an S day then it was okay, right? I really enjoyed my S day yesterday. I went hiking for two hours with a friend of mine and in the past I would always feel tormented when we would go back to her house afterwards and she ...

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Hi Lara,
I started No S the day after you - and I am also a mainly vegan eater!
There is a bit of a learning curve with this - I am nervous for this weekend - I don't want to go crazy but the idea is to be relaxed about S days, right?

Cheers,
Amy

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Hi there! I'm new to No S and have just gotten through my first week testing the waters... I started on April 1st with an S day, and then had four green days this week, plus one red day on Wednesday (but I did contain it instead of going crazy like I might have in the past). And today is another S d...

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