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Welcome funfuture! Glad you found the site. I've been here a couple of months and found the bulletin board to be a very friendly and helpful place. Personally I still allow myself yoghurt as part of my lunch, some days - I'm not sure how much sugar it has but I've never thought of it as a sweet. (Al...

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Day 44, Tuesday (N-day): NoS=SUCCESS Exercise=SUCCESS

Not a good day. Went to bed too late, got really hungry & made myself a snack but then didn't eat it. Feel like I've really earned the double green today!

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Day 43, Monday (N-day): NoS= FAIL Exercise= FAIL A bit of a borderline day because I did well all day, but my dinner in the evening was more than a plateful (although I didn't go back for seconds, I had soup followed by a main course, and I didn't adequately make room for the soup on the main plate...

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Day 41, Saturday (S-day): NoS= EXEMPT Exercise= EXEMPT Day 42, Sunday (S-day): NoS= EXEMPT Exercise= EXEMPT Pretty much recovered by Saturday, but still ate fairly carefully. Sunday was another story - we had a bag of donuts in the house to offer to a large group of people who were coming round, bu...

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Thanks for posting this - once I've got my No-S habit firmly embedded I want to start dealing with this one myself. I have a real problem with getting up early (and although everyone says that having kids will help, it hasn't made a massive difference in my case - I think we've just passed on our ba...

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Larisa, I like your idea - I might just start doing that! As for the original question, I say keep it simple - walking for 14 minutes per day is all that's needed. Generally if you set out to walk for 14 minutes you probably will end up walking for quite a bit longer anyway. The only chance I get mo...

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Good plan - I think there have been some threads here in the past about the idea of only stepping on the scales once per season - i.e. first day of winter, first day of spring, etc.

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I agree - I think No-S, in it's pure form, is 'sticky' because it's very simple - by which I doesn't take much mental processing to do. It basically becomes completely automatic very easily. On my previous (failed) attempt of No-S back in April, I added a lot of my own complications to it. I spent a...

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Welcome Linda! The thing I love most about No-s is not having to even think about the calorie content of the stuff on your plate - just follow the rules and you'll be fine! I agree with Kevin too, walking more has made a big difference to me, and I've found ways to fit it into my daily routine so it...

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Day 39, Thursday (S-day): NoS=EXEMPT Exercise=EXEMPT
Day 40, Friday (S-day): NoS=EXEMPT Exercise=EXEMPT

Getting sick of feeling sick

November is shaping up to be a very yellow month on my habitcal!

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Day 37, Tuesday (S-day): NoS=EXEMPT Exercise=EXEMPT
Day 38, Wednesday (S-day): NoS=EXEMPT Exercise=EXEMPT

Got a nasty stomach bug, having a couple of days off.

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2. you should be able to do this by selecting the "blank" radio button and then clicking the date. What browser/os are you using? It works exactly as you described. Weird. I must have been doing something wrong! (Firefox 2 & Ubuntu Linux, for the record) 4. That's a good suggestion, but I want to t...

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Day 36, Monday (N-day): NoS= SUCCESS Exercise= SUCCESS Back on track. :D :D Had no time for breakfast so ate a banana on the way in, but was really hungry by lunch time and so lunch ended up being bigger than I would have liked (a large sandwich made with home made bread which is impossible to slic...

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Day 35, Sunday (N-day): NoS= FAIL Exercise= FAIL Ugh, big fat fail. It was already going wrong at breakfast time. Got started on a packet of biscuits in the evening and ended up eating WAY too many. This is the second time I've failed early in the day and ended up going crazy later on. Annoyed.

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Day 28, Sunday (N-day): NoS= SUCCESS Exercise= SUCCESS Day 29, Monday (S-day): NoS= EXEMPT Exercise= EXEMPT Day 30, Tuesday (S-day): NoS= EXEMPT Exercise= EXEMPT Day 31, Wednesday (S-day): NoS= EXEMPT Exercise= EXEMPT Day 32, Thursday (S-day): NoS= EXEMPT Exercise= EXEMPT Day 33, Friday (S-day): No...

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Day 26, Friday (N-day): NoS= SUCCESS Exercise= SUCCESS Day 27, Saturday (N-day): NoS= FAIL Exercise= SUCCESS Let myself down today - my first N-day that wasn't a work day. Lunch at friends' house included dessert, so I had already failed by lunch time (this issue does seem to be a slight problem wi...

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Hi, I've been using the HabitCal successfully now for a few weeks, and I love it - but I have a few suggestions for improvements... 1. I find it slightly counter-intuitive that successive months appear in reverse order. The dates within the months increase as you go down the page, so it would be goo...

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Day 25, Thursday (N-day): NoS= SUCCESS Exercise= SUCCESS Takeaway pizza for dinner. (They were doing a buy one, get one free which meant we had waaay too much pizza). Anyway, had a (virtual) plate of 4 (smallish) slices. I always find that I can't stop eating pizza until it's all gone, but managed ...

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Day 24, Wednesday (N-day): NoS=SUCCESS Exercise=SUCCESS

No problems at all today

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Day 23, Tuesday (N-day): NoS= SUCCESS Exercise= SUCCESS Getting my bike repaired so I can start cycling again. Rode it to the bike shop this morning and then walked from there to work. I did eat a small amount of food while cooking in the evening (about 3 teaspoons of soup and a small piece of chee...

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Woo hoo! 12 days on habit for No S - half way to the 21 day milestone - that's more than I ever managed the first time I did this, back in April/May. The exercise is going to be tougher, but I'll get there. I've just been looking back through my personal calendar from my previous No S attempt. I thi...

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Day 22, Monday (N-day): NoS=SUCCESS Exercise=FAIL

Another car day today. Came very close to a fail in the No S. Feeling a bit down this evening and decided on some comfort eating, but managed to avoid it at the last minute...

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After some further thought I'm now back to thinking that I will go for option #2, to have some extra non-S days before and after my holiday. Otherwise I end up with 9 S-days in a row, which is probably too many. Is this a dumb idea? I'm starting to think that the extra discipline will actually make ...

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Day 20, Saturday (S-day): NoS=EXEMPT Exercise=EXEMPT
Day 21, Sunday (S-day): NoS=EXEMPT Exercise=EXEMPT

Enjoyed some very unhealthy Ben & Jerry's ice cream this weekend!

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Day 19, Friday (N-day): NoS= SUCCESS Exercise= SUCCESS Today went well until late in the evening. Really tempted to have a midnight snack before going to bed. Had to remind myself that S-day does NOT begin at midnight! Exercise wise, I'm walking rather than running at the moment. Today's walk home ...

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Thanks for the replies. As I think I mentioned, willpower is not my strong point - that's why No S is working for me, because the rules are simple and unambiguous, and there's no wiggle room. So, while I quite like KCCC's idea of changing the S's, I really want the simplicity of either sticking to m...

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Hi all, I'm currently about 3 weeks into my second attempt at No S and it's going quite well (details are in my check-in thread), but in just over a week I am going away on vacation, and I'm currently trying to decide what to do about the diet while I'm away. I'm away from Monday to Friday, so no of...

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Day 18, Thursday (N-day): NoS=SUCCESS Exercise=FAIL

Took the car to work today as I had to be in extra early. Didn't have time to do any exercise in the evening, Back to square one again!

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Day 17, Wednesday (N-day): NoS=SUCCESS Exercise=SUCCESS

Another good day. Funny stuff - had melon followed by pasta for dinner, on separate plates. A little hard to visualise plate size.

Why is it that I get hungry about 2 hours after eating pasta?

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Day 16, Tuesday (N-day): NoS=SUCCESS Exercise=SUCCESS

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Day 15, Monday (N-day): NoS=SUCCESS Exercise=SUCCESS

Nothing much to say, except that the late night snack cravings are subsiding now, which is good.

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Day 13, Saturday (S-day): NoS=EXEMPT Exercise=EXEMPT
Day 14, Sunday (S-day): NoS=EXEMPT Exercise=EXEMPT

Ok, so after two weeks NoS is definitely NOT becoming a habit yet! I was straight back to my usual snacking this weekend. I'm sure it just takes time.

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Day 12, Friday (N-day): NoS=SUCCESS Exercise=SUCCESS

Another good day. Missed bus home so walked all the way, about 1 hour. Tired out by the time I got home. Very much looking forward to my first non-flu S-days!

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Day 11, Thursday (N-day): NoS = SUCCESS Exercise= = SUCCESS This evening we were both too tired to cook anything so had an indian takeaway, which meant 30 minutes' walk (there and back) - good enough for a green on the 'exercise' calendar. Ordered only about two thirds of the amount of food I usual...

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Day 10 (N-day): NoS= FAIL Exercise= SUCCESS No run to work again, but I had to go out in the evening so I made a special effort to park a mile away from my destination and ran there & back. Did well with the diet all day, but my wife made a special meal in the evening which didn't fit in well with ...

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Day 9 (N-day) NoS= SUCCESS Exercise= FAIL Back on track with the diet but I just didn't have the time to walk or run to work today. Normally I would try and do some exercise in the evening to make up for it, but I didn't really have the inclination and to be honest I don't think it would have been ...

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Day 8 : (N-day): NoS= FAIL Exercise= EXEMPT The day was going fine until I absent-mindedly ate a piece of chocolate that was lying around in the kitchen. Only one square, though. Also while preparing my daughter's lunch for today I nibbled some bits of bread & ham. So no major transgressions but st...

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Day 6 : (S-day): NoS= EXEMPT Exercise= EXEMPT Day 7 : (S-day): NoS= EXEMPT Exercise= EXEMPT Thanks Jaxhil, it was going well, but I feel like a bit of a fraud having more yellows than greens on my habitcal! Hopefully that will change soon. Still getting over flu this weekend, so didn't worry much a...

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Day 5 (S-day): NoS=EXEMPT Exercise=EXEMPT

More of the same

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Day 4 (S-day): NoS=EXEMPT Exercise=EXEMPT

Got flu. Spent most of the day in bed feeling horrible

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Day 3 (N-day): NoS=SUCCESS Exercise=SUCCESS

Think i overdid it with the running though - I can hardly walk now.

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Day 2 (N-day): NoS= SUCCESS Exercise= SUCCESS Going well so far. Haven't been too tempted to snack yet - the worst time of day is about 11pm. I'd got into the habit of having a piece of toast or something similar at bedtime, so I think I'm going to start really missing that in a few more days.

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Day 1 (N-day): NoS= SUCCESS Exercise= SUCCESS Of course, it's day 1 so anything other than success would be a bit worrying! Thanks for the welcome Finu! Actually, thinking about it, the main mistake I made last time was being too obsessed with monitoring my weight. So the other thing I have resolve...

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Hello - I'm Spook. This is my check-in thread for my second attempt at NoS. I did try this a few months ago but I somehow got distracted and went back to my old habits. (I think the reason was that I made things too complicated, got on the scales too often and tried to do too much too quickly.) So, ...

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