Everyday Systems

MerryKat

oolala53 I love your posts. First off, congratulate yourself on coming back here. That is a big step towards getting back on track (I know, I 'run' away for months when I step off the wagon). Secondly, take one day at a time and before you know it you will have weeks of lovely green squares. Lastly,...

MerryKat

Hugs Jane. A belated welcome to a wonderful place. Not only is this site full of amazing and loving people, but here sanity finally prevails in the land of food. I am an excellent example of Reinhard's "fail 12 times or more". I do great for a few months and then decide to tweak - that ends in disas...

MerryKat

You poor, poor thing. I am so glad to hear that your dental woes seem to have passed. Well done on the 4lb down. I would not stress over the no exercise - you had a bunch of Sick days and those also count as S days. The fact that you stayed on track with the food is the important thing. Pray your he...

MerryKat

I aced friday and it was a perfect N day. I kept busy and out of the kitchen apart from when making dinner. My saturday was a bit idiotic, with snacking sweets, but nothing like a month ago and they were all individual items not packets. My sunday was saner, a bit of chocolate after lunch and some m...

MerryKat

I would keep my S days if I were you but have only one S per day - and make it worthy of an S day. I have also been trying the plating plan and it makes a difference. Make a concious effort to have less protein and carb and up the veggies. Go all out to choose the healthiest versions of your usual m...

MerryKat

I Did It!! No pudding was had or required! I happily sat and watched the rest of them munch away. I did 14 min walking on the spot with high knees - whew my thighs and butt were rather exhausted! Friday is another challenge for me as my mind always tells me that as soon as work finishes, weekend beg...

MerryKat

KCCC - Congrats on resisting the goodies! Every Thursday we have dinner with the In-laws and there is always pudding of some sort. I resisted last night and just watched them have their apple pie and custard - it was surprisingly easy as there was no actual decision to make - It is Thursday therefor...

MerryKat

Thursdays are one of my extra challenges, we go to my in-laws for dinner and there is always pudding! Usually tinned fruit and icecream or custard and periodically cake or doughnuts or easter eggs or mince pies. I am determined that I will not have as I do not need pudding after dinner and while it ...

MerryKat

Debs

CONGRATULATIONS on only eating 5 and for removing the rest from your reach.

Unfortunately for me my DH is a chocoholic and has a couple of pieces each night - and he was given loads for Christmas.

Hugs

Mo

MerryKat

Thanks for your kind comment funfuture. I miss you guys when I cannot be around. With not having internet connection at home, if work is busy I do not get chance to 'visit' here. Most of the time the No S has become instinctual for me now after 3 years in Sept 08, but I insist on allowing the snacki...

MerryKat

Reinhard

Thank you so much for sharing your photo's of your beautiful family - you are a very blessed man.

Wishing you all a phenomonal 2009 full of God's richest blessings.

Hugs
Mo

MerryKat

Congrat to all with such fantastic successes. After wondering around lost in the world of diets and other 'bright' ideas, I am back to No S (forget 12 tries, this has to be around 24 or so!). My successes this week include: Monday - Happily drinking a cup of coccoa after dinner (no sugar & only a li...

MerryKat

I followed the link and sent my submission to add to the call for Reinhard to be on Oprah.

MerryKat

One thing that has worked in the past is to declare an S week. Dangerous for habit, I know, but this is what I mean: the only rule about eating is that it has to be healthy and I have to love it. The point is to nourish myself completely and lovingly. So breakfast is whole wheat oatmeal pankakes wi...

MerryKat

Hi All I am BACK AGAIN. I have had a fairly good few months eating wise, and lost around 1.6kg (4lb) in the last 6 months (April - Sept). However, I tend to stick 100% to No S for 2 weeks, third week the 'healthy' snacks start creeping back in and by the forth week I am endlessly munching before and...

MerryKat

24th & 25th - Still feeling sick but stuck with my No Sneaky Eating.

26th - Success - Feeling better

27th - Feeling sick again

28th - Failure - Sneaky Snacking on Sweets!

29th - Failure - Sneaky Snacking on Sweets!

30th - Failure - Sneaky Snacking on Sweets!

MerryKat

17th & 18th May - Sensible - No Sneaking Eating

19th - Success (Not feeling great)

20th - Sick

21st - Sick

22nd - Sick

23rd - Sick (Still feel so weary and flat)

MerryKat

Another delicious way to enjoy marmalade (providing it is not a problem food for your) is a teaspoon on oats instead of honey or sugar. It is not as sweet tasting and makes a pleasant change.

MerryKat

Vanilla No S = the original No S with no modifications or tweaking.

MerryKat

I don't eat toast often, but when I do it is always with PB and orange marmalade. For me it is not a trigger food and I can have it on toast without eating spoonfuls of it, so I enjoy it as part of the blessing of No S.

MerryKat

Reinhard Thank you for this podcast. The "No Sneaking" jumped off the page for me. My S days are pretty much N Days with the odd treat inbetween, but reading this I realised just how much the odd handful of things (anything from raisins to smarties) eaten away from my family everytime I went into th...

MerryKat

I speak from experience - Vanilla No S is the way to go. I started No S in September 2006 and did about 3 to 4 months of vanilla No S and I lost weight (slowly due to my metabolic issues) and it stayed off. Then I decided I knew better and started tweking, at various points I also tried adding diffe...

MerryKat

Moxie I have definitely found that the longer I have followed vanilla No S with out my own tweaking (which just leads to disaster for me) the healthier my meals have become. Breakfast has definitely gone from more sugary cereals which do not stick to the ribs to more filling and long lasting breakfa...

MerryKat

I would definitely recommend talking to your doctor, but be aware many medical doctors are not dieticians and the info they have can be out dated. I have Type 2 diabetes and I have definitely found that with eating 3 good meals a day rather than permananently snacking my insulin / glucose levels are...

MerryKat

10/05 & 11/05 - Successful S Days

12/05 - Success & Morning 8MM

13/05 - Success & Morning 8MM

14/05 - Success & Afternoon 8MM

15/05 - Success

16/05 - Success

MerryKat

Noel

I had to chuckle at this sentence "I'm looking at it as a kaizen style progression."

I work for a Japanese company so we are always having terms like these thrown at us. I never thought about it in terms of my life before but Kaizen is a very effective system for many aspects of life.

Enjoy.

MerryKat

Hey Laff
It was great to see your name pop up.

I am well, just getting my habits down pat and getting back to exercising. I have started my 8MM in the morning as that was what did the trick last time on WP (WW). I now need to find a form of cardio to further the exercise regime.

How are you doing?

MerryKat

My standard lunch is a sandwich with a protein filling (egg, cheese, left over dinner meat, cold meat), fruit, 2 veggies - chunk of cucumber / carrot / celery / pepper / tomato.

This gives me 2 veggies and a fruit for lunch and the combination fills me till dinner.

MerryKat

My boys are 10 and 3 1/2. My 10 year old is a solid kid who is all muscle and very little fat. He eats what ever you put in front of him with no arguement. On an average week day he has breakfast at 06h30, packed sandwich and fruit 10h00, cooked school lunch 13h00, mid afternoon snack at school 15h0...

MerryKat

Wow guys thanks for all the great answers and advice. I have a few new machines to add to my list to have a look at. I have tried DVD's but I am so unco-ordinated taht I ended up feeling frustrated and irritated with myself and got very little benefit from them. I need something simple like walking ...

MerryKat

Hey, Mo! Do you remember, when you very first began No-S-ing, were the weekends as easy for you then as they are now? Or did it take a while for you to relax and let them be what they are now? Did you used to have "a big sweet tooth"? Please share some of your story, if you would. I was a total per...

MerryKat

LauraAnn Good for you. It took me 2 1/2 years to figure out that whenever I tweak No S is when I stop loosing. It took me this long to realise that eating on a daily basis does not have to be a war or even a battle. We can just eat 3 times a day and be happy and satisfied and have SO much more time ...

MerryKat

I came to this conclusion the last time I lost weight (5 years after having my first son) - how I felt was way more important than the numbers on the scale. I was down to wearing a SA size 10 and 67kg (148lb) and still fed up because I had not reached the 63kg (139lb) goal I had set myself. I finall...

MerryKat

My DH has offered to buy me some kind of exercise equipment to allow me to up my cardio.

Help - to all of you who have tried exercise equipment. What in your opinion is better treadmill / bike? What other options are worth looking at?

Thanks

MerryKat

I never have this problem for S days. There is always plenty of choice for me for treats. I love the fact that over the weekend I can enjoy a few bites of this or a handful of that with no guilt. Amazingly the more I stick to the N days, my S days are 3 standard meals with a couple of snacks if some...

MerryKat

Monday 05/05 - Success - a little Yoga Tuesday 06/05 - Success - Monday & Tuesday 8MM in the afternoon Wednesday 07/05 - Success - Morning 8MM Thursday 07/05 - Success - Morning 8MM (I have sore arms from yesterday's tricep & bicep exercises - what a great feeling to get these muscles moving!) Frida...

MerryKat

Laff
Is that you? Welcome back to No S.
Hugs
Mo

MerryKat

The three exercise routines that I find fit best into restricted space are: I love Yoga and do various stretches (particularly Sun Salutation) before starting any kind of exercise. I just find that a lot of the moves are better with someone to watch you and help get you in exactly the right position...

MerryKat

Since my last check in I have been OP even though we had 2 long weekends here in SA and went away caravaning with friends for one of those long weekends. I made the caravaning trip S days, but I amazed myself at how good I was without any difficulty or any feeling of being the odd one out. I did not...

MerryKat

To my Mum: I am blessed at 35 to still have my mum alive and living close to me. I am an only child and was 11 when my dad passed away unexpectedly, so my mum and I are very close. My mum is a pillar of strength and love and is always there for me and my family with her truth and honesty shining thr...

MerryKat

I try to do Yoga (for 14 min) a day. For me Yoga is a great stress reliever and really helps keep mind and soul calm and peaceful. I would love to Urban Ranger, but her in SA it is not practical much of the time (things are too spread out and it is not safe to be out on my own) and I don't have time...

MerryKat

I really have to agree with KCCC. Due to my metabolic issues, I loose very slowly, but that is better than gaining, and when I follow No S 100% I loose. Whenever I gain, I have been fooling myself somewhere and or tweaking to try and make me loose faster (this never works for me). Just follow the ba...

MerryKat

At the moment I am trying my utmost to follow No S to the letter, so I count carrot sticks or chocolate as the same thing - breaking the habit I am trying to build and therefore a red block. For me the minute I start making distinctions between snacks (ie but that is healthy and won't hurt) I am ope...

MerryKat

I just realised that on Friday the 18th April I reached my first (for a long time) 21 days - and I feel fantastic for it. I look forward to many many more.

Thanks once again to Reinhard.

MerryKat

Further to my post a few posts up - "sometimes" means to think about what I am about to eat and decide if I actually like the item (often I eat things just because they are there and I pick them up and put them in my mouth with out thinking and I don't enjoy them and when I think about it won't nora...

MerryKat

I have always thought my hardest was snacks, but thinking of my the last few months and reading here it is sweets as snacks that are my downfall and where I have the strongest urges between meals. As others have said my salty snacks can be made part of a meal and enjoyed, but sweets are just that - ...

MerryKat

Has anyone felt this diet is NOT restricted enough to lose weight? Has anyone been on this new habit for a month or over and NOT lost any weight? Any input would help. I read where someone lost 1 pound a month..... To go back to the original question. Terpnessa I have found over my 2 1/2 years here...

MerryKat

Noel I agree whole heartedly with you. My first 3 months or so on No S in 2005 were 100% successful and they were vanilla No S. I then started tweaking and it has taken me 2 years to get back to vanilla No S - and guess what???? It works. The more I tweak the less it works. The beauty of No S is it ...

MerryKat

Congratulations Rose.

It is fantastic to have proof that the habits definitely translate into slow and steady loss.

MerryKat

Saturday 19th April & Sunday 20th April - success with enjoyable snacks and only a couple of ones that I look at today and know that I was only eating because they were there (but that is what S days are for). Monday 21st April - Success Tuesday 22nd April - Success Wednesday 23rd April - Success pl...

MerryKat

Congratulations James on your fantastic loss and habits that are sticking firm. Your tire bashing sounds like great fun as well as super cardio.

Have a fantastic 2008.

MerryKat

I have Hypothyrodism and early Type II Diabetes and I have found that if I follow No S 100% - No Sweets, No Snacks, No Seconds, Except (sometimes) on S Days - I loose weight, slowly but it comes off and stays off. I posted more in this link http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=2899 Good Luc...

MerryKat

Black Chocolate or Liquorice or Fudge are my two favourite treats.

MerryKat

I don't have a computer at home and DH's laptop is difficult for me to get hold of on a regular basis so work is my only option.

Thankfully my job is full time on the computer, so it makes no difference to anyone.

MerryKat

I would love to eat a cooked lunch but the food in our work canteen is greasy beyond belief and I can't bear to look at it much less eat it (I don't do fat on meat unless it is crisped to nothing) and also very expensive, so sandwiches are my option. I have a whole tomato and a chunk of cucumber bec...

MerryKat

My biggest challenge is snacking around 17h00 - 18h00. My solution is to have a glass of milk at 15h00 which prevents the urge before dinner. My second challenge is snacking after dinner. My DH always wants a snack - biltong, nuts, chocolate - after dinner and I find it very difficult to not join in...

MerryKat

This is the marvel of No S - Any food goes and you can enjoy it provided you don't have seconds and or sweets there is no guilt.

I have had weeks where due to circumstances every meal has been 'junk' food, but thanks to the rules of No S they have had few bad effects.

MerryKat

I also tend towards Lactose Intolerance, but I find that one glass of milk does not hurt as long as I am careful of the rest of my daily intake.

MerryKat

I accept, take savouries and take them back to my office and leave them there. I will then drink coffee and tell anyone who asks, I have my share waiting for lunch.

I then enjoy them for lunch instead of my usual sandwich.

Most people are happy with that.

MerryKat

Hi gracie
Welcome to No S.

I promise that as the N days become more of a habit, they flow into your S days and you find yourself less inclined to eat unthinkingly.

MerryKat

I have very early stages Type II Diabetes and I find that at about 18h00 (lunch is at 12h00) I start battling with shakes and other sugar related side effects from not eating often enough - dinner is only at 19h30 The solution that works best for me is a 250ml cup of milk at around 15h00. This seems...

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Bumpkyns I started No S 2 1/2 years ago and did very well for about 2 1/2 months, till I started fixing things on the nutritional side. On paper the things I changed were right and healthy, but they complicated things so much that I fell off of No S. I would then come back to No S a few months down ...

MerryKat

Noel this is so true of me. I get so obsessed with the tweaking that I loose sight of the original goal and by the time I am finished I am so off track that I am no longer following No S. I have managed to do this for 2 1/2 years and this is the first time since I originally started (and was success...

MerryKat

I drink a cup of coffee with each meal, and various tea's throughout the day (probably about 6-8 cups a day).

Most of my tea I have with a splash of milk and my coffee at night has a level teaspoon of sugar.

Enjoy your tea.

MerryKat

and the Weight Watchers message board version called the Wendy Plan. I would eat different caloric or points amounts each day. Some days I was stuffed and still had 600 calories left to eat other days I was out of calories by lunch. Instead of it being Tuesday it was 1250 day. The Wendie Plan was t...

MerryKat

Remember the grey word on the website and it is mentioned in the book - SOMETIMES This is where 'sometimes' is invaluable. When the voices in your head start chattering, give them the 'sometimes' treatment and if you are not hungry then use 'sometimes' as your armor to wait till your planned snack o...

MerryKat

I am not a newbie, but I am new to following No S without my own tweaks! This weekend was good (I don't restrict my S days, but I do try to think about what I am doing which seems to help along with the already ingrained N day habits) Saturday - a handful of smarties (similar to M&M's) mid morning, ...

MerryKat

Wednesday 9th April - Another reason this day was a success for me was my DH was out for the evening and I did not snack. In the past if he was out I would pig out! It was so great to be in control and I felt so good and powerful. Thursday 10th April - Success Friday 11th April - Success (it stayed ...

MerryKat

OrganicGal, I also do not worry about my S days. I used to, but the more rules I placed on them the more out of control they got and I finally had to admit that Reinhard is right and I need to just enjoy my S days. I really have found that the more I stick to my N days the more my S days have come u...

MerryKat

Welcome and Good Luck. My tip would be: Stick to the basic plan as written by Reinhard and don't try to improve on perfection. The habits are way more important than the numbers on the scale and once you get the habits going you will see and feel the difference. Try not to bring the diet mentality y...

MerryKat

Heat the milk and add a sprinkling of cinnamon and it becomes a real bed time drink.

MerryKat

Hey Blithe (Anne) Thank you for your kind comments. Thanks to No S, I can forget about my 'conditions' and just enjoy my life. It has taken me a long time to really accept that I am to blame for my weight - my conditions are a contributing factor, but not the whole picture. I am not my conditions, t...

MerryKat

Hi momm243 I have hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid - diagnosed 8 years ago) and type 2 diabetes (diagnosed 2 years ago) and as a result I also have a very low metabolism. If I follow No S properly (no cheating on N days) I definitely loose weight, it is slow loss, but it is a loss. No Snacking is...

MerryKat

You can have jam (as long as it is not tablespoons of jam) and french toast if you want (unless they are foods that will cause you to binge?).

I often have toast with peanut butter and marmalade for breakfast.

MerryKat

You got it. I started this 2 1/2 years ago and thought I knew best, so I imposed all sorts of restrictions on my N days and my S days. The end result was I got fed up with it and tried another 'diet', only to come back here because this is the only thing that works. Then I would add other restrictio...

MerryKat

For now have what you would consider a good plateful of food and enjoy. You can eat anything you like on this diet plan - the only rules are No Sweets (obvious sweet foods) No Snacks (meaning timing not type of food) No Seconds So enjoy and don't over think things. This is definitely not your typica...

MerryKat

Most days I have a sandwich (various types of bread and various protein fillings), 2 veggies (usually a tomato, a chunk of cucumber), a piece of fruit.

I find this fills me up and it is easy to eat at my desk.

MerryKat

Reinhard
Even if you are not able to post it on the web, would they maybe allow you to email it to people not living in the US?

Otherwise I am just going to have to find someone with paypal that I can pay to buy a copy and post it to me here in SA.

MerryKat

Thursday - Success Friday - Became an S day. Saturday - Exempt Sunday - Became an N day thanks to Friday's S day, but there was no sense of punishment, it just felt natural after 2 days of S it is time for N. Monday - Success Tuesday - Success Wednesday - Success I got results from blood work done d...

MerryKat

I have to agree with wosnos and Noel, I don't conciously reward myself. For me the pleasure of this plan is that there is no deprevation, so I don't need to reward myself for suffering. Because this is a lifestyle rather than a diet, the need to reward myself for sticking to it is not there. I enjoy...

MerryKat

Bonnie
I am interested, I suffer from terrible water retention.
Thanks

MerryKat

Between 7 and 8 pm

MerryKat

I have also ditched the scales (a major thing for me who has my daily weight tracked on excel going back about 10 years!) and the freedom and the reduction in brain 'chatter' is amazing. I will weigh once a month currently and in time reduce to nothing - who cares what I weigh as long as I feel comf...

MerryKat

i drink hot chocolate over coffee can i still have this? How much does it classify as a sweet? please help me with this.. A Hot chocolate Addict~ Focus on the habits you need to build and if you find that your hot chocolate is derailing your habits, then you can look at reducing it. The most import...

MerryKat

Welcome to all you wonderful new folk. It is great to have all the new enthusiasm you guys bring.

I hope you are all doing well and remember this plan is about learning new habits, so take your time and enjoy the journey (this is an important reminder to me as well).

MerryKat

Honestly as a recovering scale addict, I would say "Don't Buy One!". If you want a starting weight go to your doctor and get them to weigh you. Then you can go back in a year and impress your doctor, but you won't have the temptation at home. The habits are really the most important aspect of this p...

MerryKat

Mandy you look gorgeous. I am sure your family will be thrilled for you. I am frantically casing every stationer and super market in SA to see if I can find one that brings in Womans World to be able to read the article and see Kathleen.

MerryKat

Ok, I have to admit that my starting my S days on friday evening to lunch on sunday DOES NOT work! Friday I was good all day and snacked on friday afternoon and had chocolate after dinner. Saturday was a normal S day with a couple of treats. Sunday night had chocolate and sweets instead of stopping ...

MerryKat

((((((((((((((((((((((((((HUGS for you and your hubby))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

I am so sorry to hear of your loss. Take the time to heal and grieve. I have to congratulate your hubby for pointing you back to No S.

MerryKat

I used to compulsively weigh myself every morning and track the results - did this for over 10 years. Every monday morning that I tracked my weight was up - no matter how good I had been over the weekend and I recon it is because I drink less water over the weekends and I eat different foods, I also...

MerryKat

I have been a web-noser for about 2 1/2 years and I bought the book to support Reinhard. The web has all the relevant info, but I love having the book where I can highlight the sections that pop for me and I can carry it with me - it lives in my work basket. I found that reading the book a couple of...

MerryKat

In my case I have tried adding rules to S days and I find that it just causes a huge rebellion by my brain / emotions! I can manage the 5 N days (when at work very easily, at home on holidays a bit more challenging) but if I restrict my S days then I tend to really binge. In my 2 1/2 years since fir...

MerryKat

As some one who has been doing No S on and off for about 2 1/2 years, don't start stressing about S days. You guys are all really new to this and you need the S days to help you make N days work. Enjoy your S days and if they are extreme, you will find that they settle down as your N day habits beco...

MerryKat

Great interview. You are as brilliant in an interview as you are written on the web and the book.

Thanks again for sharing this with the world and saving me from myself.

MerryKat

Wednesday - Apart from 2 slices of birthday cake my day was great eating wise. I am glad I made the day an 'S' so I could enjoy my son's celebration. Thursday - went well during the day and then after dinner I had a pity party. You know the thing 'Everyone gets chocolate and not me - Poor Me! Poor M...

MerryKat

Thursday was 100% even though we were out for dinner Friday I did not do exercise but I was 100% on No S. Monday became a special day, but I did not really have that much extra stuff - meals were spread out rather than all at one time. Tuesday was back to normal and it seemed difficult for a few occ...

MerryKat

I think your idea to tighten up your N days is great and you will feel even better for eating healthier food. I also agree with the upping the intensity of your exercise.

However, I would recommend against tightening your S days too much. You need the relative freedom to make the N days work.

MerryKat

Monday continued perfectly and included exercise. Tuesday was another 100%. Wednesday I had a breakfast with work and I was so good. I had a bowel of all the lovely different fruits and then I had about 8 pieces of sushi. I did not get too close to the sticky cakes and things and felt very pleased w...

MerryKat

For myself, I do not impose additional measures on S days, I just let them be S days. I am a perfectionist by nature and adding extra rules is the begining of the end for me. I have found that as my N days become more natural and ingrained my S days (even at social functions where snacks are the mai...

MerryKat

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