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The thing is, you can have snacks. You just have to wait until an S day to do it. That's entirely different than never having snacks again. It really helped me to be able to say to myself, "you can do that, just not now", rather than "you can never do that again".

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Oh and by the way: I am struggling with it too! But I sometimes get those moments when I feel different, when I don't want to eat anymore.. Little signs that show that I am making progress, I am sure you'll notice them on yourself too (soon!) I never really noticed them until after they happened. I...

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Before you did No S, were you overdoing it to the degree you do now on S days, on average, at least two days per week? If you answered yes to that question, then you have absolutely no reason to feel guilty about overdoing it on S days now. You are eating less than you were before No S, and that was...

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Welcome from Luna and Katya's human. I love dogs, too.

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I realize that it's highly unlikely to kill me, or even to do any lasting harm to a person without any metabolic diseases (talk to your doctor, if you have diabetes or something like that). One way we know this is that several religions have fasting as part of their observance. We Jews just had Yom ...

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Just do what seems best, and try to stick to a reasonable portion. Using common sense and being reasonable are what we're trying to do here. I might say that, in a restaurant, you'd probably get three tacos, therefore, three tacos is a reasonable portion of tacos. Or you could pick some arbitrary nu...

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Shanah Tovah (Happy New Year) to Jewish No S'ers celebrating Rosh Hashanah tomorrow. May you have a year full of health, happiness, and green days.

For the rest of you, may you also have health, happiness, and green days until September 16, 2012.

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I suppose muffins are "in" as long as it's one, not ten.... okay, that will be a super corny new motto! That's how any reasonable diet has to work. There is a huge difference in calories between eating one muffin and ten muffins (ten times as many, if the muffins are all the same size). Any diet th...

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Welcome!

NDMom wrote:My hubby came home for lunch and brought me a yummy sandwich....of which I ate the whole thing with no guilt or shame. I did put the chocolate cookie he also brought home in the freezer for tomorrow!

Good for you!

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It might help. I added the Nine Inch Mod to No S, where I eat off of nine inch plates on N days, and they work fairly well together. It gives me an extra visual cue that this is an N day. A 9 inch plate has about 66.9% of the area of an 11 inch plate (remembering 4*pi*r^2 as the area of a circle fro...

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sometimes I feel like my S days are a "free for all" And that's normal, OK, and pretty much the way things should be, at least at first. Remember not to compare your eating habits to some diet book model of perfection (that you never have attained and almost certainly never will), but to what your ...

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I generally consider a sweet to be anything that you wouldn't find it odd to have for dessert. I do consider muffins and fancy coffee drinks from Starbucks to be sweets. One problem with muffins is that they've gotten so BIG . I remember making little muffins in muffin trays at home. You'd have abou...

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It mentions that you shouldn't try to tame every bad habit at once. You've only got so much willpower to go around, and if you try to fight all of your bad habits at once, you will not end up accomplishing anything. Too many people who go on diets try to tackle all of their bad eating habits at once...

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Just keep substituting a different thought and distracting yourself. I bet it will go away for the most part. If you have the thought, so what? Remember, thoughts are not failures. There is no way to fail at No S that doesn't involve food going into your mouth. You might try just acknowledging the ...

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I'll tell you something that might help: if you have a normal metabolism (ie, you don't have diabetes or anything like that), being hungry between meals isn't the end of the world. It's a mild discomfort, really. Think about how uncomfortable being hungry really is, and compare it to other discomfor...

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I take a middle road. I eat as much fresh as possible, but it's not always organic. I am learning to make more and more from scratch, but it's stuff like gravy, baked beans (although I do use HFCS free ketchup), ranch dressing, taco seasoning, roasted potatoes and sloppy joe sauce. I can make my ow...

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I'd start with the normal sized plates, then maybe in a few months, when you've got the No S habits down, switch to smaller ones.

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No Solitary Snacking -- even on S-days I'm experimenting with this one right now. Not so much to get more "results" (I'm happy where I am now) but because I don't actually enjoy this kind of eating and it's all too easy to fall into if you have permission. I also think it might be very helpful for ...

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Nicest Husband doesn't do No S. He tried for a while, but went back to his old eating habits. He does do the Nine Inch Mod with me, though (we eat off 9-inch plates on my N days). He's very supportive of my being on No S, though- if I tell him I can't do something because it's an N day, he usually s...

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I have some mods to keep my S day eating under control. The Sitting mod. No eating in any position other than sitting. The NEP mod, which can stand for No Eating from Packages or No Eating without a Plate. If I want to eat a snack on an S day, it has to go on a plate or in a bowl first, and I have t...

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Oh yeah, and if you can afford it I recommend sampling expensive food, even eating out and 'wasting' anything you don't enjoy. If you're overweight (and I assume you are, why else would you be on a diet board?), not eating food that you don't like is not wasteful. In economic terms, it's only waste...

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Be sure to try new foods prepared in a variety of different ways. You might not like something fried, but you might like it if it were steamed. Find a good modern cookbook and see how things are supposed to be prepared. Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything is a good resource for this. I prefer the ...

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1. You used the phrase "on a diet" and I (gently) suggest retraining your thought process with that phrase. No-S is not something to be "on" but something to live. Everyone eats a diet...all the time...some just more consciously than others. The goal with NoS is to ingrain the habits long enough th...

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Over43 wrote:I hope... I can eventually stop hearing about "antioxidants" in every food advertisement on television.

You will, eventually, when they move on to the next pseudoscientific food fad. I'll reveal my age here, and say that I remember when it was oat bran in everything.

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Nicest of the Damned thanks about the parenting thing..I guess we can't turn things back in time and if No S was around I would have surely applied to principles to my family. Can't cry over split milk as they say. Thanks for sharing... If I could send things back in time, the No S book would not b...

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although my daughter struggles with her weight probably from all the years of watching me on WW and other diets. If I had only known.... I'm not your daughter, but I am the grown daughter of a parent (in my case, my dad) who struggled with diets throughout my childhood. I don't blame him or his die...

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I didn't tell Nicest Husband that I was on No S until I was a couple of months into it. He had noticed that I was eating less (though didn't say anything about it until I told him I was on No S), but hadn't figured out anything beyond that. I don't talk about No S with anyone who I think will be les...

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One I might add is that eating events must be separated by a minimum of 20 minutes of no eating (TV addicts could make it 30, or one half-hour show). An eating event is a meal or a single plate or bowl of snack food on an S day. I'll probably start tracking this rule if adding on to S day meals bec...

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http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/health/the-new-trend-in-diet-foods-appeal-to-americans-desire-for-more-more-more-2516462/ New low-calorie pseudo food allows you to eat constantly without gaining weight! (As long as you only eat the low-cal pseudo food.) Sorry, I'd rather nom an entire 1/2 gallon of ...

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Can you incorporate sharing into your hobby? Make a cheesecake, and then invite the neighbors over, and send them home with the leftovers. Everyone wins this way! Or take it in to work. I've rarely worked in places where colleagues didn't eat stuff if people brought it in. This works really well fo...

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I still struggle -- part of me will always be on the "see food" diet (eat whatever I see) If you want to eat whenever you see or smell food, try to think of ways you can minimize the amount of time each day when you see or smell food. Don't hang out in the kitchen, except when you're preparing a me...

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http://www.slate.com/id/2300578/

There's actually no evidence that antioxidants have beneficial effects in humans. Even more reason to believe that you have no business worrying about antioxidants when you're 50 pounds overweight.

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The 30 Minute Rule: After one eating event, at least 30 minutes must pass before you can have anything else to eat. An "eating event" is a meal, or a snack on an S day. Desserts on an S day are part of a meal, not a separate eating event. Also known as the "you just ate, you don't need to be eating...

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I think both of those rules are brilliant. They're "eating like an adult" to my mind. They kept me from going wild on S days, without feeling too deprived. I also try not to hang around in the kitchen, except when I'm preparing meals, eating a meal or snack, or cleaning up after one, and I don't ke...

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First, define "no longer going wild". What specific behaviors are happening on your S days that you don't like? Be as specific as possible, the more specific you are, the easier it is to do something about it. I instituted a couple of mods to deal with this. But remember, restricting S days is like ...

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Basically: You need to learn to separate food from social activity and hospitality. A lot of us on this board could stand to do this. Wanting to be polite and sociable is one reason why people overeat. I'm sure we all have our stories of doing that. A lot of people think others will make a bigger d...

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What really confuses me is cup measurements in cooking. They are impossible to convert!! Do I pack the ingredients in tightly? Float them in loosely? Will all hell break loose if the top isn't perfectly flat? ARGH! With a few exceptions, in cooking, generally not. Baking is another story, and there...

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One thing to watch out for: sometimes food dislikes turn out to actually be food allergies. When you're trying a new food, unless it's seasoned with Szechuan peppercorns (which is not something I recommend you try for a while), it is NOT normal or OK for you to have a tingling, itching, or numb feel...

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I'm not a supertaster, so I don't know if this will work for one. But one way I've been able to get less picky is to try foods cooked in different ways. I thought I hated Brussels sprouts, but it turns out what I can't stand is overcooked Brussels sprouts, the way people in my mom's generation and e...

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Yay, ginmarie!

I had my own close encounter of the buffet kind on Sunday. I managed to keep it to a reasonable amount, even though they had a dish I really like on the buffet. I felt resentful afterwards, but I did manage not to overeat.

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I try to avoid "just one more" situations, because I know I tend to overeat in those situations (OK, "will damn near inevitably overeat"). My strategy is to avoid such situations if at all possible. I try to make clear rules for when I have to stop eating, rules where you're either following it or y...

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But you will feel hunger between meals. This is normal! Ride it out. This bears repeating. You will feel hungry between meals sometimes. This is normal, OK, not a failure, and not likely to harm you if you have a normal metabolism. (If you have diabetes or something like that, it might be another s...

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Your field of green didn't all turn red. What you've got is a field of green with a few red spots. July might have had as many as 21 N days (depending on how many NWS days you had). You probably succeeded on more of them than you failed on. Don't compare your performance to perfection. You can't ach...

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One problem I can see with this is that you get used to eating a pint of Arctic Dream every night. Then you find yourself in a situation where there is no Arctic Dream available, but there is regular ice cream (maybe a restaurant, or someone else's house). Now you've got a choice between eating a pi...

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I can't join you on this (I don't weigh myself as is), but I will offer some of my musings in support. I was thinking of starting to weigh myself (in stone or kilograms, rather than pounds, so I wouldn't obsess over the number), but I decided not to do it. I prefer focusing on what is absolutely und...

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I've been seeing these Special K "Embrace snacking" commercials and I just have to laugh. Basically, they show females sneaking "bad" foods like doughnuts and greasy chips, while rationalizing to themselves why it's okay. In comes Special K to save the day (sarcasm) with their supposedly healthy su...

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Stones are part of the imperial measurement system which also include pounds. There are 14 pounds in a stone so if you weigh 140lb you also weigh 10 stone, if you weigh 146lb you weigh 10 stone and 6lb. It's similar to feet and inches, you can measure yourself in just inches but most people would s...

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The scales in the UK are in stones but they do also have markers for pounds - so that you can see where you are within the stones (if that makes any sense!) I just came back from a vacation in the UK. I saw a scale marked in stone, and heard a talking scale on television. It looked like they said, ...

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"Failure" is not a dirty word. HAVING a failure isn't BEING a failure, so don't be afraid to be honest when you slip up -- it's not the end of the world and it doesn't reflect on your character or your value as a person, just keep going. A failure is something you have , not something you are . If ...

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For me it's all about money. This raises a very interesting question: if it is all about the money, might we benefit from applying a No S/Everyday Systems approach to that too? What would being moderate about the getting and spending of money do for us? Moderation in all things - sanity, work/life ...

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I'd recommend making it as inconvenient as possible to get your late-night snack. Don't hang out in or near the kitchen, and don't have food on hand where you are. If you're out of the house, hang out somewhere that does not serve food instead of somewhere that does. Don't buy the foods you would no...

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When I start thinking, "this is already a red day, might as well..." I just tell myself to stop, and say to myself, "you're doing it again". Then I try to find something to do that doesn't involve food or being around food (for example, in the kitchen), and make sure I don't have food handy. The key...

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I was able to comply with No S right away, but it wasn't as easy as I thought it would be. I had a much stronger emotional response to not being able to eat until I felt stuffed than I had been expecting. I resented having to be on this diet, and was :evil: that I had to stop eating before I wanted ...

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1. if you could offer 1 tip for all us newbie's what might that be? The same advice I give in most subjects: relax. You don't have to be perfect straight away, and you don't fail until you give up. Don't try to fight all your bad habits at once. It's tempting, but it doesn't work. While you're in y...

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Grammy G wrote:What great reminders for all of us and I love the term "health halo"! I have been guilty of the exact kinds of thoughts posted here. something for me to think about, for sure! Thanks for bringing this up.

Brian Wansink talks about health halos in Mindless Eating.

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This happens with food, too. It's called the health halo effect. People think of certain foods as "healthy", and think they can reward themselves for eating those foods. "Since I only had a salad for lunch, I can get a cookie." That's enough of a problem right there, but it gets worse when the salad...

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The Mediterrasian Way is one of the books I take diet inspiration from, although I was eating mostly Mediterranean and Asian food before I was on No S and was still overweight. We eat mostly Mediterranean and Asian style foods. I loooves me some Japanese food. The idea of eating only one type of cu...

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I got a copy of the Chopsticks Diet at Half Price Books recently. The idea of the Chopsticks Diet is that you make Asian-style food, eat lots of vegetables and fish and less red meat and poultry, and eat everything with chopsticks. The idea is that eating with chopsticks slows you down when you're e...

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So yesterday I had this bright idea..mmm I love tuna noodle casserole, so why not eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner...well to my surprise I find myself sick today from the overkill of carbs and the fact that it is not such a favorite food of mine as I thought...and my dessert that I waited all...

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You know what? This is a brilliant idea, that's what. Maybe someday I will get a metric scale. Or I wonder if I could get a scale that measures weight in stone. I have even less feel for that than for metric. Do they sell those in the UK? You could even use this idea to track progress in pounds (or ...

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If Alex Bogusky's Nine Inch Diet can be believed, there was only one size of fries available at McDonald's until 1972, what is now the small. There was no supersizing before 1993. I remember when they introduced supersizing. I would get supersized portions at McDonald's, because "it's the best value...

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I'm not a planner by nature, but I force myself to plan meals in advance. There's research showing that people who plan meals eat healthier food than those who don't, and this squares with my personal experience.

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If eating three squares doesn't take any willpower for you at this point, go for it. But if you're used to eating burgers and fries, and think you need to switch to salads at the same time that you're trying to get the No-S habits down, maybe you should slow down. Basically, anything that you're al...

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I love tuna noodle casserole and never make it because I always binge on it, but I thought okay, I'll make it and allow for seconds, well the rest of the night was history. Oh ya and I allowed for a special dessert...which turned into 3...I won't mention other things. I love tuna noodle casserole, ...

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Remember, it's that you HAVE a failure, not that you ARE a failure. Those are different. I have a cat, and that doesn't mean the same thing as saying I am a cat. A failure is something you have, not something you are. There are three kinds of No S'ers. Those who have had failures, newbies who haven'...

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What happens with S days becoming more moderate is, you get used to not eating snacks or sweets, and only having one plate of food at meals. The idea of having a snack, taking seconds, or eating sweets after a meal just doesn't occur to you a lot of the time. This is not going to happen right away, ...

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The author of that study showing that people who don't take seconds eat 14% less than those who do is Brian Wansink. I love his "Mindless Eating". It gave me some good ideas for mods in the spirit of No S. The article also mentioned the Nine Inch Diet, which I combine with No S. Great article, but I...

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I would just caution you against "trading" a weekend S-Day in return for enjoying a small piece of cake on your mother's birthday. You had an S-Event (i.e., you didn't treat yourself all day, using your mum's birthday as an excuse), enjoyed it, and there it is. There is no need to carry that forwar...

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Reading about diet stuff is great, if that's your thing. Talking about diets is good, with a consenting partner. But it's no substitute for doing diet stuff like eating less and exercising more. If you start to think or feel that it is, then that's a problem. I suspect this is a common problem, and ...

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"Eat breakfast at home" would probably be a decent diet rule to follow. There are so many bad breakfast choices at restaurants. And it's simple- no counting anything, and it's easy to know if you've broken the rule or not. Just the kind of thing that is easy to make into a habit. "Eat out less" is a...

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Obviously although this ridiculous high calorie breakfast would technically be allowed on no S, I think most people would not eat this everyday, especially when they're on no s and trying to meet their nutritional needs through 3 meals per day. I think no s works best for those non-obvious excesses...

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Someone already has. They called them "Super-Sized." I don't think that's quite the same thing, though. I think of Super Sized stuff as an extra-large size of something that comes in more than one size. The McDonald's Big Breakfast is not like this- there's not a Medium Breakfast or a Small Breakfa...

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The only problem with counting calories is that it can lead you to think that, unless you're willing to look up everything you eat in some book of calorie counts and keep an accurate calorie count, you can't do anything to improve your diet or lose weight. That kind of thinking kept me away from die...

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I think having a general idea of calories, without specific calorie counting, is good, even for someone like me who balks at doing the math to count calories. If you eat at one particular restaurant often, for example, it might help you to have a general idea of which things that restaurant serves t...

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There ought to be some sort of No S rule or mod that anything with "big", "grand", or similar words, in its name is an S. Maybe someone cleverer than me can come up with one. If you think about it, things with those words in their name are generally not things you should be eating every day. I try t...

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I was a kid who snacked a lot. I ended up overweight and needing to break that habit in my 30s. I suspect it's easier to break a snacking habit when you're young, and it's less ingrained. Don't keep snack foods in the house. Especially don't do what my mother did and keep candy dishes in the living ...

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If you have to take medications that should be taken with food (as many painkillers should) at non-meal times, you might have to schedule mini-meals to accommodate that. I've been doing No S but not exercising (yet). I've managed to lose weight. I'm also a stress eater, and No S is great for us. You...

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Maybe it's an extinction burst: http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=7503&highlight=extinction+burst This is basically your inner animal making a last-ditch effort to get the reward of sweet food, or, if you prefer, your inner toddler throwing a tantrum over not getting candy. As a human, y...

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I have some anti-grazing mods, but I don't recommend you try them yet. I don't recommend any mods during the first month of No S, because the No S habits are enough to deal with in that first month. You'll eat too much on S days at first. That's just the way it is. Let it be. Don't worry about it ye...

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Sticking to diets is hard for me. I know I won't stick to anything that requires me to do math or keep a food journal. I can't do the math in my head, and I'm nowhere near organized enough to keep a food journal. Low-carb diets tend to interact badly with my brain chemistry, and make me really irrit...

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...and, lately, I am its prophetess :wink: (No disrespect to Islam meant, of course) One of Nicest Husband's cousins got married today, and we went to the wedding. We got to see some relatives from his side that we haven't seen in a while. A couple of them told me I was looking great, and asked if I...

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I know the difference between bored hunger and actual hunger. I think I understand my body well enough to know when I am genuinely hungry. Good for you. I know I do not know the difference between bored hunger and actual hunger. Having to ignore what feels like real hunger is a must for me, because...

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I wonder if the the "food as fuel" idea doesn't contribute to overeating at buffets. It's always good to get more fuel for less money. Your car will not get fat if you always drive on the top half of the tank. I've never heard of car problems happening because people always kept their gas tank fille...

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I try to keep trips to places that advertise "free refills" (other than on soda- I drink diet), or "all you can eat", or buffets, to once per month or less.

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Hi Breann!

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ThomsonsPier wrote:I just had a quick look on the SPAM website to concoct a joke about tinned meat and herbs, and discovered that a spreadable version of SPAM exists.

Now I feel ill.

Yuck!

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I started on 5/19/11. What I am wondering is if anyone started by simply not eating snacks, seconds or sweets but then again eating foods that are not restricted as in necessarily low fat, whole grain and all the rest. I am eating what I like which sometimes is whole grain, fruits, vegetables but I...

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reinhard wrote:Congratulations! Just 3 more days. It's a Friday, so you'll have to stay up till midnight to properly celebrate.

Reinhard

My days start at dinner time, remember?

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Although real stomach-empty hunger is not an emergency, and can be tolerated, let's just be sure we're distinguishing it from urges to eat that do not arise from hunger. Many people new to No S only discover the difference by becoming compliant on N days. Those fake hunger signals must be resisted ...

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Did your doctor prescribe a low-carb diet for a specific reason, or did she say you needed to lose weight, and that a low-carb diet might be a way of accomplishing that? If it's the former, then you should follow your doctor's advice. In the latter case, you're probably safe trying No S.

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I told my parents about this last night, after hearing that Dad is on his approximately one millionth diet. He was complaining that this one is the "if it tastes good, don't eat it" diet. I ordered a copy of the No S diet book for him. I feel like a cult member. I doubt we'll ever see Nicest Dad on ...

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I hate being this large, especially for a woman. There is nothing feminine about me, I am just a large, round Woman. Do you look, perhaps, something like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_figurines From the article: "Archaeologists speculate, however, that they may be emblems of security and...

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Don't eat food you dislike. In developed countries today, there is no reason to do this. If you eat food you dislike, what's likely to happen is that you'll eat it in addition to food you like. Eating more food is not the solution to overeating. That just doesn't make sense. Initially I lost some b...

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If you feel hunger, you feel hunger and you will learn to adapt to it. It will not kill you. I know part of my problem with my weight was that I was 'afraid' of feeling hungry so I constantly snacked, just in case I got hungry later. When I started doing No S I did feel hungry, but much to my surpr...

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I would recommend doing just vanilla No S, at least for the first month or so, with two S days per week. Don't worry about minimizing fruit, eating more protein, or anything else at the same time. Vanilla No S isn't as easy as it sounds. It's simple, but it is not always easy. There will be days whe...

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hecarte wrote:I'm very new too to No S, but I'm thinking this week that I will start my S days on a Friday evening and carry it through to Sunday lunchtime.

I've done this since I started No S. No S doesn't officially define when a day starts or ends. I adopted the Jewish definition, rather than the civil one.

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Is anyone else hearing Whitesnake singing the title of this thread?

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My "vacation mod" is "one S-event per day, if I want it." I don't usually want that many S-days in a row, but sticking to straight vanilla on vacation seems a little too inflexible. Food is a part of vacation, especially when traveling. I may steal this vacation mod when we go to Scotland this summ...

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I'm female. I still do not think my risk of prostate cancer is sufficiently low, so I'm going to go get some coffee.

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I think that the beauty of NoS is that it takes away lots of decision making. This, too. I'm very good at justifying it to myself when I want to do something. No S is good because it takes away the opportunity to justify having a snack, or seconds (sweets are not so much of a problem for me, I can ...

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