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Ah thanks so much Linda!! Okay, that's what I'll do. I'll call it an S event only in terms of not having one plate at one time but will not use it as an excuse to have dessert! I will save that for the weekend. I'll call the start of the S event the start of the meal and the end of the s event, the ...

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ps/ I'm out to dinner tomorrow (Friday) night with some girlfriends and I'm a bit worried because we are going to a Turkish restaurant...I know those kinds of restaurants, they are notorious for bringing little dishes and everyone mucking in. Bit nervous! It might be a little strange to wait for all...

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HI automated! Been reading your check-in blog....really good to stuff! I am the same, mods are not something I am keen or tempted to do because I just know myself right now and it would undermine the system for me and become a slippery slope. But as you say that others have said (!), if needs be I'l...

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Hi Ramona! I too have had disordered eating since I was a child and then at age 14 developed bulimia which turned into anorexia then back into bulimia then just plain old binge eating then bulimia and on and on and on... I have tried every single recovery approach to heal from my bulimia and it has ...

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Day 16 (success): SUCCESS Last night was so much fun! And I know for darn sure that I would not have had the courage to go to this pub quiz with the people in my building if it weren't for NoS. Seriously, I'm not kidding. I feel so much freer. The only not so great thing is that I had 2 cigarettes -...

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Yay! You have your wedding tasting! That sounds like SO much fun. This plan really is genius - do you think Reinhard even knew how clever he was being when he invented it????

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HI Tessy, Hope you're okay today! I really admire your strength and honesty. You will find a way...and you will get a long string of green days soon, when you're ready. I totally understand the awful stress of being exhausted. And grieving. Those are two big monsters. And unfortunately the only way ...

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Oh yes, I think I remember reading that on your post about the milk... decaff tea or decaff coffee?? I think I need to have at least one decaff out of all my other drinks as my caffeine intake has somewhat skyrocketed!! And it's really just the hot milkyness that I'm after rather than the caffeine (...

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Set free sounds good to me!!! Bring it on!!!

Argh, am so annoyed with myself for eating to little for lunch AGAIN. Am hungry! Big mug of milky tea coming up! Do you drink anything between meals Clarebear?

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Yeah, I guess I am

Thanks Clarebear! I feel SO much better!!!! Already! Yay!
x

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Clarebear, I just LOVE LOVE LOVE what you wrote today....that is so powerful - you are accepting your shape and not prioritising weight loss! Hurray!! So inspiring. And I totally support your exercise plan for the week, especially the walking - walking is so under-rated and the great thing about it ...

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Day 15 (yesterday): SUCCESS Thanks so much Linda, I really appreciate you taking the time to write what you did. You're so right, I can get all perfectionistic about how my life should look when the truth is that it's all good enough!! I need to just relax and accept more. Definitely. And it's true,...

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Your food sounds really yummy to me!!! I love how you have a sangria in the evenings...so civilised!!

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DAY 14 (yesterday): SUCCESS. Thanks Kat. That totally makes sense - this is what people talk about NoS having a knock-on effect in other areas isn't it? I can't be respecting my desires (and my need for boundaries) in one area of my life without wanting to apply the same principles to other areas. I...

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Aw thanks for your messages! Clarebear - love what you write...so true, I am soooo grateful that I am not on the diet/calorie counting roundabout. That is such a dark, desperate place to be. My body and soul did NOT like weighing on the scales today at all and it reminded of those times of slavery a...

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Monday blues...I went to the gym at lunch time and STUPIDLY thought it would be a good idea to jump on the scales. I only have about 7lbs to get down to my goal weight but the fact that I hadn't budged at all since I last weighed myself (months ago - I threw away my scales!) made me feel that famili...

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Urgh, I know how you feel. Feeling very fat today and hugely relieved it's a Monday! You're doing so well Clarebear, try not to put too much pressure on yourself in the countdown to your wedding! Only do what you can which doesn't make you feel deprived!! I only say this because I think my S days th...

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Linda - thanks so much! Yes, it really is so wonderful to be able to eat normally! I honestly was beginning to wonder if that would ever be possible for me but NoS makes it possible.. I suddenly feel as though I could travel and visit people and let people get close to me. I have really struggled wi...

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Hi Linda, I hope your weekend is going well! Thanks for posting on my page... I also have surrendered to the fact that I need strong boundaries BUT also freedom within them. Been doing a lot of reading about how the masculine and feminine principles work best together within a person's psyche and ba...

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Note to self: I do not like pick n mix anymore! It's such low quality food...I'm not making any pronouncements - nothing dramatic - but I just want better quality treats in future. Yuck yuck yuck! I'm worth more than that crap!!

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Urgh, poor you!! I've just recovered from a horrible 2-week coley fluy bug and tonight felt my glands up again..it's that pesky time of year!! Try to settle into it and not fight it, it'll make it go quicker...and well done for cancelling the food tasting. It'll be there when you're well again! Xx

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Go Linda!!! 70 days - what a huge achievement!!! Do you feel like the habit carries you through most of the time? Even on days like yesterday when you ate too little for lunch, it doesn't really sound like that desperate white-knuckling that we all know so well from diet days! I also ate too little ...

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Day 10 (yesterday): SUCCESS. Yesterday was fine. Nothing amiss. LUnch was too light so I had a big mug to finish off the coconut/rice milk in latte form. It definitely helped see me through BUT once again I got the blood sugar wobbles last night just before I ate supper. I think there is something a...

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Day 9 (yesterday): SUCCESS. That fruit at breakfast together with the slighter sweeter than milk coconut/rice milk lattes gave me a bit of a blood sugar wobble yesterday which I haven't had for ages. I go a bit sweaty and shaky. It's not hunger exactly, it's very specific. I'm probably hyperglycaemi...

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Welcome! I'm relatively new to NoS but also finding it exciting and really working for me. As you say, it is IE with training wheels - it is the perfect balance of structure and freedom. I am totally sold on it. I feel free for the first time in a long time. IE also didn't really work for me over th...

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I love Oz! My brother lived in Sydney for years and I was trying to move there for a long time but gave up in the end. He's in San Fransisco now anyway. I totally get the whole fruit and vegetables reminding you of the eating disorder days, Clarebear. How about starting with veggies that you find ea...

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gosh, I've had exactly the same thoughts about my S days! To have one treat on both days and no snacks. I just can't have a weekend like I had last weekend - I was totally f*ct and felt depressed until yesterday! Not real depression, but a sugar-induced depression. I listened to Reinhard's podcast o...

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Thanks Clarebear!! I love it when you post on my page! God, you're so right - it's good to remember that about protein....I feel shakey now after a fruit-only breakky but it's not long until lunch! I was contemplating going to the gym before eating my lunch but I really don't think I have the energy...

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Hi Linda! It's great to read you.... I like the idea of 'S events'. It makes life so much more fun because we are still 'on plan'. This programme is so magic, isn't it? I also read what you said before about your past entries. I read the NoS book over a year ago and tried to do it but I wasn't ready...

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Thanks Linda! Is that what is called 'virtual plating'? I did it and it was a success. In the past, I would've done something like that and then thought I'd 'messed up' and would binge to make good and sure I'd messed up. But last night I just got home, had a nice milky cup of tea and went to bed. N...

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Day 8: SUCCESS! There were a lot of canapÃ©s and I lost count but I think I had more than 12... But some of them were teeny! And what I had would definitely have fitted on a plate. Had 2 alcoholic drinks (glass of champagne and a gin with slimline). I feel so pleased with myself for making it work. ...

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Day 7 (yesterday): SUCCESS. I'm going to start counting my milky drinks as well with a view to slowly slowly slowly (very slowly) cutting down! My limit for now is 1 coffee and 3 teas per day. I use very large mugs and a lot of milk! I will stick with this quota for a while until it becomes effortle...

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H! It's been so fun reading your posts...I was in GS too after years in OA then FA then OA-how then CEA-How..I've been around the block in the 12-step food groups! I love how you're making NoS work for you. I just had my first weekend on NoS and I binged...not good for a recovering bulimic! No purgi...

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Day 6 (yesterday): SUCCESS but it was an S day and in terms of how I felt and feel today, it was not a success. I have a really bad headache. I guess yesterday I woke up feeling crappy after all that I ate on Saturday. Food yesterday: Breakfast: 1 orange, 1 milky tea, 1 large latte Lunch: Pret a Man...

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Urgh. I don't think Reinhard meant for the NoS diet to be an excuse to binge on weekends... I've eaten a lot of junk this afternoon and evening after quite a normal start with breakfast and lunch. Oh well. I think for me as someone recovering from an eating disorder, I can't really justify bingeing ...

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Another success....but for some reason I'm feeling fat tonight. I think I often feel fat when I've been hanging out with my Mum. Just something I've noticed. I compounded the feeling by looking at skinny friends on Facebook - skinnier around the middle than I am despite 3 kids. I tend to have fairly...

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Kat, I am SO googling that carrot cake recipe! I might actually jump on the bandwagon of not weighing until Jan1st. That would be the longest without the scales EVER for me. But I am so ready not to be a slave to the number.

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Thanks Kat...yeah, definitely a turning point! This is so much fun. Who knew giving up the diet head could feel so in control? And so .... just 'right' somehow, and as though food is in its rightful place. I totally get the hungry between lunch and dinner thing. I am finding extra fat at lunch and e...

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Thanks guys! jw - yes, it's such fun to just eat something which I formerly binged on in a normal way...I think that when I first read NoS and tried it about a year ago on my own, I made the mistake of thinking that I would eat 'perfectly' during the week on Ndays ie uber healthy and then go with th...

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Thanks Linda - good to know I won't be hungry forever! Today was better than yesterday, dare I say I'm beginning to enjoy the discipline! I did meet my friend but fortunately he was hungry so we had one drink (gin and slimline tonic) and then went for a burger. I had a hotdog actually with chilli an...

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Success! I had much less trouble with hunger today but there was still the sense of urgency after work to get home and eat supper ASAP! I don't know what I'll do if I ever want to take a class or do something fun like rock climbing or a dance class. I'll just be too hungry to last until later than 7...

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OK jw. I will trust the process and save my pennies! I am also drinking more milky teas/coffees between meals at the moment which I'm sure is also just compensating for the fear that I might get hungry. Without snacks though I do think I get hungry between meals but hopefully this will be manageable...

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Thanks jw!! I need to invest in more crockery, I think! More little bowls for fruit/nuts and bigger plates (not TOO much bigger;-)) I feel good today - so much more positive about my food than I have for ages. It feels exciting. I had a delicious breakfast and so far feeling very sustained by it (yo...

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Oh my goodness, sickness will do it!!! I had a cold all last week and like you, it wasn't bad enough to take the day off but I just felt bleurgh! I'm really learning that when I'm under the weather, I tend to lose my joy and everything just seems a bit bleak. That makes food a lot more inviting! Go ...

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I hear you Clarebear!!! Can you make sure that your lunch is PARTICULARLY yummy and satisfying and decent portion-size wise? I know that on tough days, there is usually something going on for me emotionally which I want to soothe with food. Can you take 5 minutes out to take some deep breaths and tu...

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I'm actually going to call today Day 1 because Friday was an S day but only in retrospect ;-) and yesterday I was sick but only declared it an s day after I'd snacked. I know I'm probably being a perfectionist but still, now that I am feeling better after a horrible virus, I feel much clearer. Today...

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I'd love to jump on this bandwagon. I am new to No S although I bought the book a year ago. I'd like to get some good habits going as soon as possible! My goals for October are: -Vanilla No S -Meditation (with heartmath app) every N day for at least 5 minutes in the morning and 5 minutes at night 1 ...

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Thank you so much for the welcome Tessytwinkle, Lpearlmom and jw I think I'm still on track...I say 'think' because on Friday night I didn't stick to the plan BUT in retrospect I should've called it an 's' event....every 2-3 months I meet with a group of girlfriends, ex-colleagues, for a book club. ...

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Clarebear, thank you so, so, so much for your lovely and speedy post. Just what I needed to hear! I feel very encouraged and it's great to hear from someone with a similar background. I'm a bit older than you (by a decade) and it's taken a long time to realise what I need to live a happy life in ter...

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Hi everyone, I've been stalking No S for about a year now. I have never really formally committed to it and as such, have never really experienced the joys of it. But after quite a lot of experience in various 12-step groups for eating disorder recovery and a lot of diets and a lot of different food...

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