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by eschano
Thu Aug 02, 2012 9:33 am
Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
Topic: Your best advice
Replies: 14
Views: 23533

Over43 wrote: I'd probably have to do another rhinoplasty.
:lol: Brilliant! Me too.
by eschano
Wed Aug 01, 2012 9:00 pm
Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
Topic: Your best advice
Replies: 14
Views: 23533

It doesn't matter if you fall flat on your face. What matters is what you do next.
by eschano
Wed Aug 01, 2012 8:58 pm
Forum: Daily Check In
Topic: eschano every day check-in
Replies: 145
Views: 121280

YEAH! Success! So happy on N days (but also glad for S days always being around the corner). All super easy as long as I remember to put enough on one plate and to enjoy my food. Tomorrow will be a bit of a challenge as I'll be at a BBQ.
by eschano
Wed Aug 01, 2012 9:39 am
Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
Topic: Back again, saying hello again
Replies: 6
Views: 12016

Hi Ruff, It's really inspiring that you managed to mostly stay on No-S in the midst of this storm of things happening. Very sorry to hear about your dad. Starting to run is one of the healthiest responses I've ever heard of. Most people just go back to their old ways when faced with such exceptional...
by eschano
Tue Jul 31, 2012 6:50 pm
Forum: Daily Check In
Topic: eschano every day check-in
Replies: 145
Views: 121280

Success I really want to get into the 21 days club. Ambition is a funny thing. I'm taking it slower than my first 21 days which means that I make bigger portions and allow myself everything within the rules rather than restricting vanilla no-S further. I'm quite excited about this new start which i...
by eschano
Tue Jul 31, 2012 1:09 pm
Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
Topic: * * Dog Days Of August Challenge * *
Replies: 28
Views: 34061

I missed the July challenge but I'm all in for this one! Might do this week though if that's ok 30 Success :D 31 Success :D 1 Success :D 2 Success :D 3 Success :D 4 S Day 5 S Day Oh, I forgot about this - I made it! YEAH! :D Taking a cue from ironchef and will continue with it here: 6 Success :D 7 S...
by eschano
Mon Jul 30, 2012 8:47 pm
Forum: Daily Check In
Topic: eschano every day check-in
Replies: 145
Views: 121280

The first day of my second 21 Days challenge :D
My body is still letting me know that the last two S days were way over the top so smooth sailing today when it comes to temptation - there was none as I was busy holding my tummy.
Success
by eschano
Mon Jul 30, 2012 10:47 am
Forum: Daily Check In
Topic: eschano every day check-in
Replies: 145
Views: 121280

S days gone wild. A chain reaction of exhaustion, TV, staying at home mostly, and eating constantly (and chocolate of all things). There's nothing to mark or report other than I was ok with the weight gain on Monday (2kg) and am back on track. Acknowledging what happened and moving on. New 21 days s...
by eschano
Fri Jul 27, 2012 11:17 pm
Forum: Daily Check In
Topic: eschano every day check-in
Replies: 145
Views: 121280

Today Fail
I went to a big cinema night from 7pm until 11pm and gave in to small salted popcorn. The reason: I had too little dinner too early, just something I packed, so I felt it was ok to eat extra an hour later. Truthfully, it's snacking, so unfortunately a fail. Lesson learnt, solution noted.
by eschano
Fri Jul 27, 2012 10:44 am
Forum: Daily Check In
Topic: Question about your S days...
Replies: 3
Views: 9864

2 meals. I get up quite late and usually have brunch with friends so I feel stuffed for ages. I often have some sweet in between brunch and dinner though. So maybe that makes it 3 meals. It's only my third S weekend coming up. The first one was wild. It was 1 big meal throughout the day, really. I f...
by eschano
Fri Jul 27, 2012 10:37 am
Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
Topic: Who hear used to do Low/No Carb before No S?
Replies: 10
Views: 19120

I did. I never felt full at all and often couldn't sleep from hunger. Then I'd stuff myself on some chocolate binge as I just couldn't sustain it. Obviously I ended up overweight. Now I feel really full after every meal. Sometimes in the evenings of N-days I still go to bed feeling really guilty abo...
by eschano
Thu Jul 26, 2012 8:49 pm
Forum: Daily Check In
Topic: eschano every day check-in
Replies: 145
Views: 121280

Success
No questions asked, no grey areas, nothing. Yeah!
by eschano
Thu Jul 26, 2012 2:53 pm
Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
Topic: Happy Failures
Replies: 5
Views: 9566

Hi Jethro, Your comment has been great! I looked at my compliance rate for the first time - this is really useful. I'm still in the first three weeks so not a lot of time to fall off the wagon. I have 88% including S days. It was especially heartening to read how much progress you've made without 10...
by eschano
Wed Jul 25, 2012 9:41 pm
Forum: Daily Check In
Topic: eschano every day check-in
Replies: 145
Views: 121280

Success Finally. I was worried it would become a streak but I got lots of encouraging posts on Happy Failures today :) There was a big temptation-moment at my writer's group where we had chips and all kinds of other snacks on the table but I ate my packed dinner and abstained from the snacks! The d...
by eschano
Wed Jul 25, 2012 3:11 pm
Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
Topic: Happy Failures
Replies: 5
Views: 9566

Many thanks for your very inspiring post Vicki. Congratulations on your healthy habits. It's very inspiring and reassuring to hear that you barely went without making the "21 Club" and still managed to lose weight and maintain healthily without bingeing (which was my biggest problem) and yo-yoing. T...
by eschano
Wed Jul 25, 2012 3:02 pm
Forum: Daily Check In
Topic: eschano every day check-in
Replies: 145
Views: 121280

Thanks for that TUK. It's very reassuring to know other people went through the same!

As for my comment to Rachel in her daily check-in about strictness: I'll call yesterday a failure not a yellow success. Walk the talk and all.
by eschano
Wed Jul 25, 2012 3:00 pm
Forum: Daily Check In
Topic: Rachelocity's Accountability Thread
Replies: 31
Views: 40489

Hi Rachel, So I'm still new and therefore all about strictness. I remember reading on the No-S page that Snacks are not what but when you eat so I think it's a snack. However, if it's just not feasible for you to eat at lunchtime then maybe you can decide to make it a mod and stick to it. I guess I'...
by eschano
Wed Jul 25, 2012 10:45 am
Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
Topic: Happy Failures
Replies: 5
Views: 9566

Happy Failures

Hi, I thought about what threw me off my diet-path in other diets and, like many other No-Sers have noticed for themselves in this forum, it comes down to perfectionism. This is the first diet where I can indeed go from failure to failure without loss of enthusiam (a tweaked quote from Churchill). W...
by eschano
Tue Jul 24, 2012 9:12 pm
Forum: Daily Check In
Topic: eschano every day check-in
Replies: 145
Views: 121280

Success edit: 25th July (see reasons below) FAILURE There were about 20 minutes between the first and the second bite from 1 virtual plate but it was a canapé, so maybe that's snacking but it was a social occasion and talking isn't food-friendly so I'll count it as a yellow success day. It's final...
by eschano
Tue Jul 24, 2012 1:15 pm
Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
Topic: Food and love - reflections
Replies: 8
Views: 12848

Hi KCCC,

This post is brilliant! My grandparents fed me a lot of their love. Although, I just ate it willingly :)

It's a very insightful post about food, love, effort, and appreciation.
by eschano
Tue Jul 24, 2012 12:52 pm
Forum: Daily Check In
Topic: Thtrchic's Daily Check-in
Replies: 17
Views: 18725

Also, I read on someone else's check in that just because you back into a pole, doesn't mean you have to wreck the whole car! Liz Thanks so much for this quote! I always suffered from "What the hell"-effect and it's the one quote that kept my fail-day yesterday fairly sane! I wonder who said it. Ch...
by eschano
Mon Jul 23, 2012 10:42 pm
Forum: Daily Check In
Topic: eschano every day check-in
Replies: 145
Views: 121280

Fail My first fail. Usually, I totally would have wrecked the car over it and had a WTH effect. I was with friends in the park for our first day of sunshine in the UK and we got fish'n'chips, well actually calamari and chips for me. The reason it's a fail: Those paper bags of foods would have fille...
by eschano
Mon Jul 23, 2012 2:14 pm
Forum: Daily Check In
Topic: TUK's sporadaily check-in
Replies: 25
Views: 32967

Hi TUK,

I'm always happy to read your comments- I'm Austrian so much of your cultural differences also apply to me. (And kinder chocolate too - but only on S days :D )

Anyways, you seem to be doing great so keep up the good work!
(what's shawshank?)
by eschano
Mon Jul 23, 2012 10:46 am
Forum: Daily Check In
Topic: eschano every day check-in
Replies: 145
Views: 121280

My S weekend: My focus was mainly on ENJOYMENT and not on deprivation and S-scarcity. This led to me eating all kinds of esses but also enjoying fresh fruit and vegetables. I've only just started my third week but I think that my tastebuds are getting more refined. Fruit seems sweeter to me and some...
by eschano
Mon Jul 23, 2012 10:41 am
Forum: Daily Check In
Topic: Georges' 21 day Daily check-in
Replies: 16
Views: 21290

Hi Georges, About the reminder bracelet: I went to Brazil for carnival (yes, super lucky me!) and one of their traditions is to tie a thin strip of fabric around your wrist with three knots. Every knot represents a wish you make. You're not supposed to take the bracelet off until it a) falls off, wh...
by eschano
Sat Jul 21, 2012 3:18 pm
Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
Topic: serving sizes
Replies: 6
Views: 11295

Great graphic. Thanks a lot
by eschano
Fri Jul 20, 2012 10:21 pm
Forum: Daily Check In
Topic: eschano every day check-in
Replies: 145
Views: 121280

Today Success : I'm still struggling with my diet-mentality. It was a clear success. Three plates, no snacks, no sweets, no seconds. But for my dinner (the 3rd plate) I did meet a friend at a restaurant and had pad thai - now this was a normal plate, no more or less than at home. It's a small family...
by eschano
Fri Jul 20, 2012 12:46 pm
Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
Topic: Why.....
Replies: 10
Views: 15389

Hi ZippaDee, I totally get where you're coming from! For me it's usually one of two things. These were pre-NoS and I really hope it won't happen this time: 1) I think I deserve a treat after all of my efforts (which is the start of one long binge that has me go unconscious of my diet for weeks). 2) ...
by eschano
Fri Jul 20, 2012 12:37 pm
Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
Topic: 11:59pm -- Friday night
Replies: 8
Views: 15320

Hi all,

What about fencing around the law and just take Fri and Sat as your S days. Count them until you go to sleep and not worry about the time and then have Sunday (from when you wake up on Sunday) as an N day?

:)
by eschano
Fri Jul 20, 2012 10:42 am
Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
Topic: First week at the forum
Replies: 5
Views: 8764

Hi Heddi, It's so reassuring to hear that S days levelled out for many people on this forum. I guess it's this support from you and from reading other people's posts that keeps me from obsessing over it too much. I'm sorry to hear about your inflammation! It's very inspiring that you will stick to N...
by eschano
Fri Jul 20, 2012 8:23 am
Forum: Daily Check In
Topic: eschano every day check-in
Replies: 145
Views: 121280

Many thanks for your post Rachel!

It's so good to know that there are other with the same tendencies and the same struggle to replace those habits.

Good luck to us :wink:
by eschano
Fri Jul 20, 2012 8:21 am
Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
Topic: Inadvertent snack?
Replies: 7
Views: 11847

Hi Jethro, for me the clarity of the program is one of the reasons I believe I'm able to do it. As for what happened: I'd mark it as a grey day or even as a green day as the real success is that you noticed a possibly derailing behaviour that over the course of a year can amount to quite a bit of ex...
by eschano
Thu Jul 19, 2012 7:51 pm
Forum: Daily Check In
Topic: eschano every day check-in
Replies: 145
Views: 121280

I started another 21day challenge this week. :!: It's my first NoS 21 day challenge but this second one is so related to my food binges that it nearly doesn't make sense to tackle them separately. I have started a 2episodes/1film per day glass ceiling. On my nights in, I usually come home and start ...
by eschano
Thu Jul 19, 2012 7:45 pm
Forum: Daily Check In
Topic: eschano every day check-in
Replies: 145
Views: 121280

Day 11: Success Good day today. Although I left dinner a little late so I overate by basically eating a whole plate and let's face it: a pile of food on one plate is still an awful lot. However, I feel good today. This is easy enough although I haven't had any of the emotions yet that usually trigge...
by eschano
Thu Jul 19, 2012 1:02 pm
Forum: Daily Check In
Topic: JayEll's Irregular Check-In and Commentary
Replies: 17
Views: 26918

Hi JayEll, I was wondering if maybe you're already at your ideal weight? I think No S only works for people who are overweight and above or at least on the upper limits of a healthy bmi to find a natural ideal weight. I might be completely wrong about this though - I'm a newbie. You sound like someo...
by eschano
Thu Jul 19, 2012 12:47 pm
Forum: Daily Check In
Topic: Rachelocity's Accountability Thread
Replies: 31
Views: 40489

Your post really made me smile and I love the Julia Child quote. Congratulations! This anti-food journal seems like a brilliant idea to get a feeling of how much more we would usually possibly eat on a day and of how often we have to resist. Personally, it's a bit too much effort but I enjoy reading...
by eschano
Thu Jul 19, 2012 9:35 am
Forum: Daily Check In
Topic: Rachelocity's Accountability Thread
Replies: 31
Views: 40489

Re: Rachelocity's Accountability Thread

Hi Rachel, Congratulations on your success! In fact, my history with diets has given me two labels - one for the overweight and another of borderline OCD with all the checking, counting, weighing, measuring, etc. I just want to trust my body again. Is that so bad?????: I completely get where you're ...
by eschano
Thu Jul 19, 2012 9:16 am
Forum: Daily Check In
Topic: eschano every day check-in
Replies: 145
Views: 121280

Day 10: Success Breakfast: Tall cafe latte and porridge with berry sauce, one filter coffee with a drop of milk Lunch: stir-fried vegetables and plum and pear yoghurt (I made it myself with literally plums, a pear and plain yoghurt so no sweet): it all fits on one plate. Dinner: dinner out at a mexi...
by eschano
Thu Jul 19, 2012 9:00 am
Forum: Daily Check In
Topic: Lilycat path
Replies: 1
Views: 4973

Hi Lilycat,
welcome back. I agree that this makes the most sense of the "diets" out there. I'm sure you can do it! Keep us updated on your progress.
by eschano
Wed Jul 18, 2012 9:14 pm
Forum: Daily Check In
Topic: eschano every day check-in
Replies: 145
Views: 121280

eschano every day check-in

Ok, so today was the first time that I ever posted on any kind of online forum, inspired by Heddi55, and here I am, apparently not getting enough of it. As I'm in my second week and 10th day of the NoS diet I will just sum it up so far. Until now, and probably greatly aided by a cold that suppresses...
by eschano
Wed Jul 18, 2012 8:48 pm
Forum: Everyday Systems General Discussion
Topic: Decision Fatigue
Replies: 2
Views: 10688

Many thanks for this. I found the article quite useful. I recognise the problem of depleting willpower more from shopping sprees than from dieting (as my default was to eat the chocolate cake).

Cheers
by eschano
Wed Jul 18, 2012 3:19 pm
Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
Topic: First week at the forum
Replies: 5
Views: 8764

Hi Heddi, Your post inspired me to post for the first time in any forum as well, so many thanks for this! Like you, I felt this community is extremely supportive, which encouraged me further. I am no stranger from binge-dieting. When I looked for support in the past it always turned out to be more o...