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BrightAngel

mjn wrote:A milkshake for me is a sweet, most definitely, no doubt about that one!

Well.....Yes !!!
It is ice-cream...for goodness sake.

BrightAngel

So I was wondering, have any of you faced the same failures after doing so well? What makes us do that, our old habits? I wish that commitment I felt the first three weeks could stay with me. Jamie, I'm pretty new at No S, but I've been "successfully" dieting for quite a long time. You can see some...

BrightAngel

My children are grown, and it's just my husband and me. However, we have 8 working television sets, and all but one are attached to cable. The "main tv" is a 46" HDTV hanging on the living room wall right in front of my husband's spot on the couch. We have the HDTV connected to a cable box with DVR...

BrightAngel

But....but....sometimes I NEED to stack! LOL! If we have pizza, I might need to stack to get two slices! So long as I don't stack and get 6 slices, right?!? Even a salad can get stacked pretty high....squeezing in a few more peppers or cucumbers.... :) My take on stacking is that I can only do it w...

BrightAngel

Day 7 of 6 week committment I changed one of my HabitCal calenders to reflect Ate1499orLess instead of 1400, because records of my daily calorie burn shows it is consistently somewhere inside the 1400 range, and I still want a Green box if my day's food totals are anywhere under 1500 calories. Obse...

BrightAngel

blueskighs wrote:BrightAngel,

I love kitties!

Blueskighs

That's a love we share.

BrightAngel

An hour and fifteen minutes? Dear GOD, professional bodybuilders don't train for THAT long at a single session! But no-one in their right mind is gonna train for over an hour strength training. You'd HURT yourself. Noel, The "Dummies" DVD to which I referred takes about an hour to run, as it works ...

BrightAngel

Beckycan wrote:Brightangel,
I'm inspired by your long-term maintenance! I hope to someday be at goal and do as well as you have done with maintaining your loss!

Becky

Thanks Becky

I hereby declare Day 6 to be over, and a
SUCCESS

BrightAngel

I found a DVD I want to try... it's called "Shaping Up with Weights...for Dummies" (part of the " for Dummies " DVD series). I like my "Yoga...for Dummies" DVD, so figured I'd give the weights one a try, too -- but I have to wait to buy it, as I have to save (don't have a ton right now). I've had t...

BrightAngel

how could I not wait just 24 more hours or less to my "S" Day. Marilyn aka MollyMouse Marilyn, I think Fridays are just very hard days. Maybe it's because they seem like the beginning of the weekend. I've only been doing No S for two Fridays, but last Friday I blew it all together, and I found this...

BrightAngel

Tonight I'm making homemade hamburgers, one of my favorites. I use the frozen ground sirloin patties from Costco, Whole wheat hamburger buns from Trader Joe's, sliced onion, tomato, iceburg lettuce, mustard, ketcup, and relish. So I can have other food with it, My share is 1/2 a hamburger (278 calo...

BrightAngel

As a former member of OA who feels that OA is Not the solution for eating disorders or weight problems, I met many wonderful people in my 5 years there. I am still friends with some of them, and when I run across any one of the people who were my fellow members, I always feel a special bond between...

BrightAngel

* Leslie Sansone Walk Away the Pounds DVDS - these are great - IMO Yay! Another Leslie fan! :D I love those, too! - remember the health benefits of moving -- any kind of movement! As Leslie Sansone would say, "We were made for movement!" Leslie's DVD's are also a large part of my exercise program. ...

BrightAngel

I searched for an "Introduction" thread and didn't find one, so I'm using a New Topic to Introduce myself. I'd love to see others use the thread to give some details about themslves also. I am 5'0", 63 years old, and 115 lbs. My top weight was 271 in 12/1992 just before a Gastric Bypass. After the ...

BrightAngel

It's 5:30 a.m., day 6 of my 6 week committment. I finally learned how to use Habit Cal, and have decided to track No S by being strict, but not require absolute perfection to earn the label "SUCCESS" . "MostlyNoS" is how I will track NoS in my HabitCal. I'm also going to use HabitCal to track: "NoS...

BrightAngel

BrightAngel, your SUCCESS is truly impressive and what a great picture and who is that furry friend with you???????????? Thanks Blueskighs, That's Tashie, one of my two tabby cat sisters. When we went outside to take the picture, she followed, and did her best to entice me to pet her. I love them b...

BrightAngel

Thanks for sharing your experience,
and Congratulations for hitting the 21 day mark.

BrightAngel

I think for a lot of people there's a tough spot that comes maybe a week or two in, right between when the excitement of the novelty wears off and habit really starts to take hold. There can be a window of a few days or even weeks when you're running largely on willpower alone -- and that's hard. I...

BrightAngel

I'm still new at this, but... I feel so sad that Lunch is over. http://smilies.sofrayt.com/fsc/sad.gif In fact, I feel that way after every meal. While I look forward to mealtime, I'm beginning to want to delay starting it, because it's over so soon....and it's such a long time till the next time I...

BrightAngel

The book: "Mindless eating"
Good book to read.
I have it, and love it.

BrightAngel

I don't have the book yet but just wondered what it says about skipping meals. It says don't. Some Quotes from the book: "Meals are not the problem; they are the solution" "A meal isn't just a meal. It's not just "one time". It's a link in the chain of habit." it's important not to "smudge the clar...

BrightAngel

It is 6:30 a.m. on Day 5 of my 6 week committment to No S. A committment of 6 weeks is a long-term committment to me, since I jump between diets frequently and continuously. 6 weeks is 42 days. As a result of eating the no s way, I want to see: My weight maintain or drop; Change of prior eating Hab...

BrightAngel

I need to keep this in mind.
I believe that yesterday's snack and sweet attack might have been avoided
if in the afternoon, before getting into the cupboard,
I had sat down and sipped a small glass of tomato juice,
or a cup of my sugar-free hot cocoa.

BrightAngel

BrightAngel, thank you! You are a sweetie! I think your journey is going to be very interesting to follow as you are mostly working on maintenance? Yes? And CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU on that! you have done AMAZING! Blueskighs Blueskighs, Thank You...I Liked being called a sweetie. :oops: Yes, I have b...

BrightAngel

blueskighs wrote:I have just faced the scale monster and posted my thirty day results on my blog www.nosdiet.blogspot.com

Congratulations.

BrightAngel

shamrockmommy wrote:you might just have to be stricter with your tummy toddler.

I like the term "Tummy Toddler".
It's new to me.
I've been saying "the baby inside",
but when doing so I'm afraid people will think I'm refering to pregnancy.

BrightAngel

SUCCESS [/b] Yesterday was a successful N day on No S. Today begins my 4th day of my 6 week committment to No S. It is 5:30 a.m., My normal day is 4 a.m. to 8 p.m., however this morning I arose at 2:30 a.m. and yesterday morning was at 3 a.m. I'm working to keep my mealtimes near a regular time. Ro...

BrightAngel

Too solid flesh wrote:http://www.world-science.net/othernews/ ... ontrol.htm
Basically, exercising self-control takes effort, and we have limited resources. Hooray for no-s, which helps set automatic habits so that self-control resources are less stretched!

I found this link to have interesting information.

BrightAngel

Are you Hungry?

Yep.

But I do know it's more "mind-hunger" than "stomach-hunger".

BrightAngel

Reinhard: Self-command requires self-obedience, and that takes time.

Seems like Reinhard has some good advice here.

BrightAngel

I call it the endless hunger ... This ALWAYS happens when I am on a diet or eat reasonably for any period of time ... I have also experienced this a few times on No S. "the endless hunger" Good name for it. Something I am very familiar with.. ....no matter what diet or food plan I'm on. I'm Hoping ...

BrightAngel

Blueskighs,
Makes sense to me.
Would love to be able to do it too.

BrightAngel

I think it boils down to three things. "Sticky" habits (or "habit friendly behaviors") are: simple, natural, and unobtrusive. They need to be simple because habit is dumb. You can't automate complicated conscious processes into something unconscious and routine. By natural I mean they should resemb...

BrightAngel

KCCC wrote:And all of us together are smarter than any one of us.

Good Thoughts.

BrightAngel

I enjoyed reading this discussion, but it seemed a bit deep...even for a lawyer. I'm not really into right or wrong or black and white, I tend to be pragmatic about things....including food. To make it simple. I like what works, if it also feels good. I just want to eat tasty food in a way that doe...

BrightAngel

I have not encountered that problem yet,
but am interested in how that solution has worked over time.
Anyone?

BrightAngel

Hoo-Ray for you.

BrightAngel

I'm not feeling stressed or bored, but what I notice that minus my continual snacking I seem to continually feel anxious. Not worried or fretting, just a general feeling of impending doom..for no particular reason. I've begun reading that book "The Power of Now", will it help? Probably not...but on...

BrightAngel

I like these examples.

BrightAngel

Good luck at this. It's been 15 years since my gastric bypass surgery, (pre-surgery high 271 - Post-surgery low 160..(.till after 9/2004.) Ever since my surgery I've been having tiny meals, but continual snacks, nibbling and grazing all day long. For example: while I can't eat a dozen doughnts at o...

BrightAngel

flipturn wrote:It is funny because this morning I was going to tell BrightAngel that her postings look like poetry!

I read that.

I like to make my lines short
because it seems like they are, then, easier to read.

BrightAngel

Noturningback says: "I LOVE Fage Yogurt!! The protein content is high so it keeps me full." ME TOO !!! Most plain yogurts...even good ones, I needed 3 Splenda and a big sprinkle of cinnamon to make it tasty. In my 0% Fage Yogurt, I put a packet of Splenda in it and, although I love cinnamon, I can'...

BrightAngel

Good question. I've been making sure any bowl I use fits on my plate with all my other food, like the book suggests with an apple, but then I move it off the plate because I don't like my cold yogurt to be right next to my hot cereal. I'm still putting the salad right on the plate with my food, bec...

BrightAngel

I also questioned whether I could have a Granola bar as part of my breakfast.
I'm glad to hear that it's okay.
I would love to have one with my 1/2 cup of 0% Fage greek yogurt,
and a small bowl of strawberries...
Yummmmmm.

BrightAngel

There's no question there's been a major pickup lately. The volume of new posts and discussions has been such that I've been wondering whether "general discussion" is going to cut it going forward, whether I shouldn't maybe split it up into several sub forums (suggestions and votes for/against this...

BrightAngel

I'm cooking roasted chicken thighs
(I peel the skin from mine and give it to my husband)
Baked potatoes
(I use butter buds on mine)
Green beans
Lettuce and Tomato Salad
(I use zero cal Russian Walden Farms dressing on mine).

BrightAngel

I'm just a few days into No S, and still living minute to minute working not to snack. Around 8:15 this morning I felt so sad that breakfast was over, and I couldn't eat till lunch, that I just went back to bed and took a nap. Perhaps that would sound a bit better if you knew I got up at 3 a.m. At ...

BrightAngel

I'm very new to this plan. I fear I could do lots of "diet damage" on an S day, because bingeing has always been a problem for me. However, that problem exists for me whether or not I'm "given permission". I've been successful at weight-loss and maintenance even though my pattern has always been to...

BrightAngel

Where I am right now....which is in day 3 of my "firm committment" to the No S Plan.... It isn't so much that I have to make lots of decisions re specific foods. It's that I keep having to tell myself No. And to continually remind myself of my committment to keep from snacking. I'm hoping that, for...

BrightAngel

I got the book last week and read it through the day I got it.
Now, a week later, I'm reading it again.
I want to get these principles firmly in mind,
and get another dose of "common sense".

BrightAngel

reinhard wrote: Snacking.... The good news is that when it's gone, we don't miss it at all, any more than we miss scratching an itch that's no longer there.
Reinhard

Oh. I. So. Hope. that your above-stated Truth proves to be true for me too.

BrightAngel

I don't have enough room in this forum to list
the hundreds of foods I want to eat right now, this very minute.

I think I'll go eat my breakfast now.

BrightAngel

Interesting, and really good calculations. ....but I think I'll stick to just the one plate rule, along with whatever other small bowl or saucer fits on that plate... And, although the no s diet is supposed to eliminate the need...???? (I will continue to weigh & measure my food while counting my c...

BrightAngel

Interesting...I'll watch for it.

BrightAngel

I find it interesting that there's a lot of desire to look for more rules. I really think before any tweaking is done, you oughta rack up a strict month on habit just following the basic rules of "No Sweets, No Snacks and No Seconds, except (sometimes) on days beginning with S". Master the basics f...

BrightAngel

I agree with the No S author when he says that we'd be surprised to learn how little anyone else thinks at about what we eat. I've found that to be totally true. In situations where someone might really notice...like a mother-in-law, it is very easy to evade receiving negative vibes from others abo...

BrightAngel

For me it's Snacks. I love sweets, but I don't want them as part of a meal. I want them as a snack. I also want crispy things, or salty things as a snack. I even want crunchy things like veggies as a snack. I don't care about seconds....because I don't want to stop eating my firsts. In fact, I don'...

BrightAngel

SUCCESS
Yesterday was another successful day.
3 meals, no snacks and within my calorie limits.
That's 2 successful days toward a 21 day habit.
Wishing myself good luck for today.

If I find my 6 weeks to be relatively successful,
I plan to extend my committment.

BrightAngel

My only involvement in this controversy is that 13 posts ago , I did my best to: smooth the waters here, and ask people to just be tolerant of each other. I'm really getting tired of all this bickering over what some might consider "ill advised words", over what appears to me to be in no way a pers...

BrightAngel

I haven't started the No S Diet yet and am awaiting the book to arrive from Amazon on Tuesday. Question -- I have to eat lunch early (around 11:30, which is the time I get for lunch at work.) I'm usually not that hungry at lunch, but am ravenous at 2:30pm when I usually have a snack. Is it okay to ...

BrightAngel

SUCCESS Yesterday was a very successful day. I had 3 tiny meals on a saucer which was VeryLowCalorie, although in the afternoon I reviewed some of the book and read the part that said not to make an S day an N day, because it's like opening a line of credit. Good Thought, so I'll avoid doing that i...

BrightAngel

Have been trying out No S.
Today I made a 6 week committment to the basic Structure.
If it is still an option,
Perhaps I can work toward getting a medal in May.

BrightAngel

Today is Day One of a Six week commitment. Today is my actual 6th day of attemting the plan, however, Yesterday I ate everything possible to eat, ....all day long.... which was not a good thing for me. So, I'm focusing again on the basic Structure of the Plan. Since I've had 2 days in a row where I...

BrightAngel

This is similiar to the methods I've used to track my weight-loss,
and watching a graph of my overall results has been very positive for me.

BrightAngel

I hate to burst your bubble, but it's probably not the not being an idiot on S days that did this. Your weight loss, which is worthy of congratulations, is probably more reflective of what you did last week and on your N days than the one S day. It could also reflect water weight loss or other thin...

BrightAngel

re: descriptive adjectives of overeating. I say, Let's all get over it. It's just a matter of sematics. Here on the forum, we are a diverse group. Each of us has our own values, our own ideas of "political correctness". I feel that anyone should be able to describe his or her own eating behavior in...

BrightAngel

During my lifetime of dieting, I've done many different kinds of diets. http://www.millan.net/minimations/smileys/bokmal.gif During my past two years in maintenance, I've had lots of experience with alternate day diets like QOD and JUDDD. These two diets are very similiar in that they both consist ...

BrightAngel

Today is day 5, and Saturday begins with S. Yesterday I failed miserably with food. No identifiable meals, ate all day long, including sweets. My total calorie burn including exercise is 1400 per day. Yesterday I had 2046. Prior 3 days my calories averaged in the 1100s. In order to continue this pl...

BrightAngel

Today is the beginning of Day 4 for me. Note the thread in general discussion about Gastric Bypass, which explains that I had one 15 years ago. I couldn't follow medical advice to eat only three meals then, even post-surgery, when I was very fat AND food made me feel sick, so why I thought I could ...

BrightAngel

I belonged to OA for 5 years, ending more than 15 years ago. Great company, wonderful philosophy. I believe that working the 12 steps made me a much better person, however, I don't think that program is the answer to losing weight or keeping it off. When I made the above statement, I hope I made it...

BrightAngel

I belonged to OA for 5 years, ending more than 15 years ago. At that time the group was quite tolerent of any kind of diet plan, with some old timers very gung ho and into "Grey Sheet"... Grey Sheet...what appears to be a modified Stillman/Atkins diet. I understand that after I left, OA had a big s...

BrightAngel

Why do you want to drop any weight now, since you weigh so little? I think you will adjust, BrightAngel, if you give it a little more time. It sounds like you have been very structured (like I was for several years) and good about your meals and snacks, etc. If you could tell yourself and your next...

BrightAngel

There is no set number of meals. If you have a medical condition, ie: gastric bypass, and need to eat 4/5/6 smaller meals you can still follow No S. If you scroll down the nosdiet.com home page you will find more info. It is also in the book. My gastric bypass was 15 years ago, and my body has adap...

BrightAngel

I'm starting my 3rd day. I'm finding the no seconds really easy; The no sweets isn't too hard; but the no snacking is incredibly hard for me, as this has been my primary way of eating for many years. My normal day begins at 4 a.m. and ends at 8 p.m. I'm eating around 7 a.m., 12 noon, and 5 p.m. whi...

BrightAngel

It's Thursday morning, and I was successful yesterday. So I've had 2 successful NS days. I'm starting my 3rd day. I'm finding the no seconds really easy; The no sweets isn't too hard; but the no snacking is incredibly hard for me, as this has been my primary way of eating for many years. My normal ...

BrightAngel

I was "really fat" in high school -- 145 lbs. (and 5' 8" tall). Becky, Your statement must have been "tongue in cheek". :shock: I was only "a bit plump" in high school, (1959-1962) and my weight bounced between 125 and 130, while my height was 5'1". :P That's an inch taller than now, but my weight'...

BrightAngel

What to do in general if you get hungry after your last meal? Have a drink. Even a caloric one. I find whole milk excels in this capacity because not only does it have sufficient calories and fat to dispatch any real physical hunger, but it also has a soporific effect and will help put you and your...

BrightAngel

You really need to keep it simple and just keep it 3 plates of food end of story. once you start fudging here and there it's just going to get more and more of how you used to eat hence why even bother. I'm on my 2nd week and I haven't slipped up yet. Snacking was my biggest problem though and neve...

BrightAngel

It's Wednesday morning.
I was successful in Day one of the No S plan.
Today begins Day two.

BrightAngel

In the book Reinhard says that he's not a healthcare professional, he's not an expert. He came up with a few rules, a few habits, surrounding eating that enabled him to lose weight and keep it off. He shared it on the internet and now in a book. He really doesn't even mention specific foods to eat ...

BrightAngel

This is my first day too. It is 5:30 p.m. here and I just finished dinner. Although my body is satisfied, I feel so sad that I can't eat anymore today. :cry: I'm pretty sure I'll be going to bed really early tonight. My day usually starts at 4 a.m. and finishes at 8 p.m. Breakfast is around 7 a.m.,...

BrightAngel

I've been on most diets mentioned above....at least once, and sad to say some of them several or many times. My most severe and difficult have been: Optifast, which was a medically supervised liquid formula only...about 300 to 500 calories per day, I did that 6 months plus; and, of course, my inabi...

BrightAngel

I agree that the Mindless Eating book is great. People's preferences determine whether a food is delicious or disgusting. For example, the author of the No S Diet book thought artificial sweeteners were disgusting, but I, personally, love to use foods with artificial sweeteners, especially Splenda,...

BrightAngel

This is my first day too, and it's mid-afternoon. I AM thinking about food constantly, I really missed my mid-morning snack, and I want my usual afternoon snack (or snacks) so very badly. I suspect I'll feel that way about my evening snacking too. But perhaps the cravings get less over time. I hope...

BrightAngel

Bright Angel -- were your family members overweight? No, not at that time. My father and brother have never been overweight. When my mother aged, she put on a bit of weight, but at 5'4" she was never above 160 lbs. I developed a weight problem after puberty....but with effort...stayed only "plump",...

BrightAngel

Hi. I had a gastric bypass 15 years ago. At that time I weighed 271 (I'm 5'0"). Before my bypass I had a lifetime of yo-yo dieting, and I had lost 100 lbs and regained it three separate times, plus smaller amounts many times. In my surgery, my stomach was cut apart, forming a small pouch, my intest...

BrightAngel

I'm now age 63 and my first "diet" that I can recall was in 1953 at age 9. I was 5'0" tall and 105 lbs, and had just entered puberty. My mother said I was getting fat and put me on a diet...which began my lifetime of yo-yo dieting. Of course, I was a perfect healthy size, but scary for the mother o...

BrightAngel

I ordered the "No S Diet" book from Amazon, and got it within a few days. Yesterday I read it. I loved it, http://precisionnutrition.com/members/images/smilies/msn/heart.gif http://precisionnutrition.com/members/images/smilies/msn/nerd.gif I agree with it, and today I'm beginning the No S Plan. htt...

BrightAngel

It's Monday night. I just finished reading the No S Diet book, and have decided to begin the Plan in the morning. My overall goal is Maintenance, however, I would like my weight to drop lower inside my Weight Maintenance Range http://www.pcollins.com/upload/Emotions1/crossfingers.gif (between 115 -...

BrightAngel

My favorite thing about No-S - waking up and not feeling guilty every day. This is only my second day of trying No S, but that would also be my favorite thing. I' am so very tired of feeling "less than" because I ate too much or too little, or the wrong thing, or at the wrong time. It would be so n...

BrightAngel

I've already gone to Amazon; searched inside the book; and ordered it.
Pretty good for having only heard of this program yesterday.
Wishing everyone the best of luck at weight-loss or maintenance.

BrightAngel

Day 1 I just found this plan today. I very much like the concept. I already have been very successful with various "diet" tools and plans during the past 3 1/2 years. It looks like No S could add to and blend in with some other "diet/no diet rules" I'm already currently using, so I've decided to ad...

BrightAngel

For more than two years I've been maintaining a large weight loss. I lost my weight while using a computer software program and recording all my food. I still do that daily, and have grown to actually enjoy it. However, WHAT I eat, and the WAY I eat varies a great deal. In maintenance I have been e...

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Homemade Hamburgers, yummm

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Gastric Bypass 15 years ago

Age 63 and my first "diet" was in 1953 at age 9.

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