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<t>Izbiz:<br/> <br/> regarding fruit, or yoghurt with fruit: you don't really have to put it on the plate with the main dish. For instance you could put it in a cup and put that cup on the plate, if you are literal-minded. Or, arrange the main dish on your plate so that some space is left, and have ...

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2nd attempt of sweet dessert on Friday night gave similar results: woke from unpleasant dream at 4:30 (however I was able to sleep again afterwards) and felt sluggish on Saturday. I might give up the Friday mod. But I still like the Sunday mod, so I will keep it on ordinary Sundays. (additionally, I...

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Sat: housework, 1h walk. Sun: nothing. Mon: shovelglove, 12 floors, 4x10' walk. Tue: ttapp, 12 floors, 4x10' walk. Right knee is almost back to normal. Some issues with shoulders. Not sure whether sweet dessert on Friday evening was the cause of insomnia. I followed the plan for my S days mod. Frida...

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Exercise: Mon shoulder rehab, 12 floors, 4x10' walk. Tue light abs and back, 12 floors, 4x10' walk. Wed shovelglove, 12 floors, 4x10' walk. Thu dance, 6 floors, 4x10' walk. Fri shoulder rehab, 12 floors, 4x10' walk. I am supposed to vacuum clean, scrub the bathroom sink and possibly scrub the floors...

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what makes me feel hungry between meals: - sugar at breakfast. (my breakfast is now sugar-free except for the sugar naturally contained in fruit). - fast-food bread. (kebab bread, hamburger bread etc) - really unbalanced meals. Forgot carbs = feel tired in the afternoon. Forgot fat/protein = feel hu...

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For the record: this was a "perfect" week regarding exercise. Now I don't expect all weeks to be like this one, but I like that I managed it at least once. My N day morning exercise was very light and rather short, but enough to wake me up properly, and to keep me in the mood to climb stairs later i...

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Some trouble with sleep. Some trouble with work.
NoS failure on Tuesday (contained, however, to a single Kinder Bueno).
Head full of silly notions. It's winter.

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Why do you need the meal before your workout? I would think, if you eat before your workout, then during the workout you will "burn" the quick-acting carbs in your meal... how about burning fat instead? Or is your workout very strenuous? If so, eating a full breakfast before the workout might not be...

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woohoo! This morning as I was working on the vocab list for a language exam, searching for sample sentences on the internet, and wishing I had not sent the vocab books home by boat from overseas, the doorbell rang. The package finally arrived, 1.5 month after I posted it. Of course the books are not...

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I find if I eat any sugar at breakfast I am very hungry by 11am. Even a tiny bit of jam on a toast (technically allowed on NoS) is a problem. So I now drink unsweetened herbal tea, have unsweetened muesli cereals (although the dried grape does sweeten it a bit), unsweetened yogurt, and fruit (natura...

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ahhhhhhhhh the power of HABIT! the thing is, my habits seems linked to a working day's schedule. Perhaps I should switch S days so that I can really work on building NoS and other habits on non-working days, so as to prevent vacation madness... Anyway. I have now a beginning of a weight chart. My 20...

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Jan 1st: first session of housework-as-exercise to start the new year right. Then promptly fell back into internet-crawling and chocolate eating until I made myself sick. Good thing I did _not_ expect a perfect day. But still a little disappointing. At least my flat is now marginally cleaner. But ac...

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hmmm... Ate a lot this past week... lots of S days, and perhaps a few seconds on N days (but did good on sweets and snacks). Today was a minor S day due to travel. Now I only need to get back on track... erm... let's start with cleaning out the kitchen and buying some fruit and veggies. ~*~ Also: I ...

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I merely ticked the "Disable BBCode in this post" box when posting.

What I would like to know is, how did connorcream manage to mix BBCode with no BBCode in a single message ??

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hmmm today is a red day. I knew getting a twix from the vending machine was bad, I haven't done this kind of thing in ages, yet I did it anyway. Why?

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Technically a green day but I ate too much. Or is it the satay sauce?

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Actually perhaps Sunday's idiocy was an instinctive response to a physiological need. You don't want details. Feeling better now.

Today was a planned minor S day due to a "sports" event with workmates.

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was an idiot this evening. oooof.

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It might help if you track NoS compliance and failure management separately for a while. So you had only red days on the NoS calendar this week. But on the failure management calendar, you might have some red days (when you gave up and totally overate) and some yellow or even green days (when you ha...

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minor failure yesterday: had a few stale appetizers after the evening meal (stupid)

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agrrrr
today is a red day.

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Well I've just spent one month in a foreign country for work. So not only did I eat every meal in a restaurant, I also snacked (!!) on the food provided by the client company to entice us to stay late at work. And, of course, my usual routines were all undone and basically I "exercised" only on Satu...

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I ran today for about one minute. I am almost certain it was a very foolish idea that I will regret tomorrow when my knees start to act up. All this because of a dream a few nights ago in which I was running. I woke up with slight leg cramps. All that buttocks and belly fat jiggling about felt stran...

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What can I say? I am verrrrry lazy. Someday I'll write out more details or perhaps link to my older posts. Also I have somewhat lost the habit of posting on this board because I have been busy with other things. But I am still NoS-ing OF COURSE. Being lazy makes NoS so appealing, because NoS elimina...

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Knee rehab 3/10 (but skipped morning exercise). Had to have a nap this afternoon as the medication for my toothache is really tiring... Small s(ick) day: had one (big) square of chocolate at diner. (I am again considering this as an alternative to my allowance of 1 cup of hot chocolate per N day. We...

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Knee rehab 2 down, 8 to go. But I can't really evaluate impact on pain levels as I on painkillers due to a toothache. :evil: It was easier than I anticipated to get back into some kind of routine (it is not perfect still, but the basics are here). I had a failure on Tuesday as I ate two biscuits bef...

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I don't know exactly why I let go of all my good habits this past week. Now my flat is a mess, my sink is full of dirty dishes, I am overstuffed on almost a pound of chocolate, my sleep schedule is completely off and so on... Well, back to work tomorrow. I don't dare make any kind of resolution, I j...

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Wow! 202 posts! I was convinced I had written only about 100. Today, I went to the doctor's office twice. The first time, there were a lot of people waiting, no chairs left, and I was starting to feel anxious - which is usual for me when going to the doctor's - so I left after only one minute. Read ...

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I second KCCC's suggestion... you can work both on accepting your body and establishing or maintaining good eating habits. Although I like to think of myself as a successful No-esser, my body is still quite fat and not in a "curvy" way either (think big tummy pouch, waist larger than hips, with cell...

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Travel days are now small-s days for me, meaning I don't go out of my way to exercise (underground stairs with luggage are quite enough), and I allow myself some sweets if I really feel like it (but no big dessert). Now I am on a supposedly quiet holiday at home, with successful N days so far. Well,...

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This is what I wrote in my checkin today: "After thinking about the past year I realized it has probably been one of the worst years of my life with daily life issues, health issues and family issues, which also caused some trouble at work. I have been clinging to my eating and morning exercising ro...

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Remember a few months ago I was spending so much time on MUDs? Well I have been spending my time on real-life hobbies/projects instead, because learning actual music is so much more interesting than having a bard char defeat goblins with a lyre. Made some progress on the keyboard, and now that I am ...

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I've just found out I drink way too much on work days (2.5L). Who would have thought a single bowl of herbal tea is half a liter? This might explain my magnesium issues. So I will be more careful about this! Solid N-days, but not so good S-days. And it's cccccold. It actually snowed this morning. No...

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Confession time: I've spent the past 4 days lazing about and eating chocolate, whereas I had planned outings and Mon/Tue as N days. I did go to the NIA class though, and I have not given myself a stomach ache so far.

Weight is stable at 63kg but I am building a little muscle in back and arms.

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Yesterday I had half a dozen good reasons not to go to this morning's NIA class. Somehow they all melted away. I went and had a good time. Food was disappointing (taste-wise) this weekend but no matter. Had a long overdue clothes sorting session: garbage, rags, donation, yard work, desk work and spe...

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Hi Katie, how are you?
found back your habits already?

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I have a cold (snif). My coworkers are saints and they have not complained about the constant sniffing, sneezing, and noisy use of tissues (fortunately I had a full box of theses. these. my eyes are crying.) My weight has been lower this week, around 62.5. Nothing exceptional but better this than 63...

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This morning as I hesitated between going to the NIA class (for my second time) or staying at home, I put on old dancing tights. The good new is, I was able to put them on. I did not like the way my belly fat showed in them however. So I put on baggy sweatpants again and went to class! Strangely lib...

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Hello Larissa, could you please explain what you mean by "5 lbs overweight"? Do you mean 5lbs over BMI 25 or 5lbs over your "ideal weight" (and how do you compute it?). These are very different things. Regarding hunger, no you are not supposed to very very hungry on NoS, vertainly not hungry enough ...

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Hello Blue, how strange! I tasted quinoa for the first time just a week ago. Thank you for the advice. I don't get headaches but I often get leg cramps and the stressed-out feeling. I will try it. This week: one failed day (seconds): the infamous sushi orgy again. It seems I have to make the same mi...

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One thing is, "no seconds" is pretty vague. A similarly-sized plate of food will not have the same effect on everyone. You have to determine the necessary quantity for yourself. Since your habits are now established, perhaps you should work on portion control. Choose your biggest meal, fill your pla...

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Welcome Amie!
No-essing with your daughter

good job! Now she is on a good track and you can give each other support.

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Thanks Blue! and congratulations again about your success! The convoluted rules about having dessert during the week provided the weekend was moderate I posted about some time ago did not work out. Too complicated. I did not have failures or extra S days because of it though. I just couldn't be both...

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IMHO learning to accept failed days and LEARNING from them is one of the steps towards NoS long-term success. I think the failed day = infidelity is too much. If you want to compare NoS and marriage, then a "failed day" would be like getting yourself in a situation where you get emotionally or physi...

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Congratulations Blueskighs.

I wish you a successful maintenance and life-long habits.

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Emotions! Tiring. Peanuts orgies last weekend. Seconds consisting of a carrot half on an N-day of this past week. Lots of energy today. Saw Mamma mia: Pierce Brosnan can't sing (well he sings in tune but that's it) and he's getting fat. How disappointing. He should shovelglove. Anyway. It (the movie...

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And now, the same with "Disable BBCode in this post" unchecked.

failure
or success

The colors should work.

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Okay.
In the editor window, you should write
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or [color=green]success[/color]

And, uncheck "Disable BBCode in this post" below the posting window.

Then press submit.

I am posting this with "Disable BBCode in this post" checked.
So the colors won't work.

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Okay, that Saturday I really did overeat (stomach ache later on and all). This weekend: Saturday Ss: chocolate croissant as a mid-morning snack. Classic Magnum at diner. Sunday Ss: 5-hour lunch meal. So seconds and sweets. Had a few candies for diner (usually I don't buy candy but I figured out as I...

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@anndelise: Not sure if you mean real tea or herbal tea. I drink herbal tea. I find fruit-only flavors (apple, berries...), and flower flavors (jasmine, rose...) somehow don't taste so great without sugar. Perhaps because they are usually associated with the sweetness of the natural sugar in the fru...

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NoS is supposed to be compatible with normal social life. I mean, you should be able to follow it without standing out. Do you usually gain weight during the Ramadan? If not, perhaps you can just do as usual during that time (meaning you might have a full month of S-days if your family is in the hab...

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This past week was ok NoS-wise but I hardly ate any vegetables (all routines disturbed) so I am a bit afraid about the results. Today: Usual breakfast, Midmorning snack = single square of chocolate and single biscuit, Lunch = small pizza, apple, chocolate pastry (lighter than usual, from another sho...

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Thank you for the advice LA_Loser. I'll think about it. Problem is social situations are not predictable like meals. I don't deal very well with surprises.

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Please have a look at the chart in my signature. Up to 2kg variations are not significant in my experience unless it's an average variation. Keep in mind that the contents of your bowels, stomach, bladder, the water contained in your body and which varies depending on hydration level and water reten...

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Why do I feel so tired on Mondays? The day started pretty well but it soon turned bad as I let my bad social habits get the better of me in an unforeseen situation and exhausted myself mentally over it all day long. Also got a surprise call and was afraid it was bad news. Which it wasn't. But still ...

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Recipe #1: throw everything in dish, top with lots of cheese, heat until reminded that you put something in the oven by burnt food smell. Result: slightly heavy to digest but no need to throw away. Recipe #2: try to follow chocolate mousse instructions on chocolate bar. Result: surprisingly good des...

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Reinhard: no problem. I only hope I don't goof up now :) Went on vacation, had a lot of cheese (at least 5 different kinds from 3 different kinds of mammals' milk), picked berries, ate wild cherry cake (lots ot chewing since stone ratio very high), had reasonable exercise (shoulder rehab, ttapp and ...

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Today was supposed to be a N day at home. Mmmf. On the other hand it's the first day of my vacation. Ah well. Had a small brownie at lunch and some M&M's at supper.

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Had seconds last night. Argh.

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I thought LA loser meant "someone who loses weight in LA"

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Congratulations Blueskighs!
I wish you strong habits and lots of lost inches in the upcoming months!

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I digged up my old threads... in chonological order: 6 months and 15 months: http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=2184 more recent: http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=3409 Please note: it may look like I spent a lot of time doing exercise (well, not as much as some other board me...

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How often do these failures happen? NoS does not require perfection... 2-3 red days per month are not a critical issue especially if you don't binge. Now if there are really too many failures, or if you are really tempted very strongly too often, it may help if you try to analyze these failures or n...

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Hi Trytrytry, I noticed the same tendency last year (month long plateaus then 1kg lost "suddenly" => lowest weigh-in a few days before period). Must be some water retention thing. Also I used to think that the urge to have an unbalanced meal of pasta carbonara when I dropped some weight was due to s...

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Yesterday as I was whining about real life on clan talk (in a MUD = multi-user dungeon) I was about to add "and on top of it I'm hungry and it's not meal time" when I realized my character was hungry, not my real-life self. Phone calls: 1/2 complete. I am even thinking about real life tasks as "ques...

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Grazing-free weekend :D and I did not finish the sumptuous dessert I had at lunch (perhaps ordering it was a mistake, but at least it filled me up for the whole afternoon!!). Mild knee discomfort and lack of balance. (ttapp on hold until Tue or Wed, MA class tomorrow - I hope!). Failed shopping spre...

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For the record: 4th day of ttapping on end. I am slowly learning the 15' routine (takes more like 40' since I still need to check the moves in the book). Doing it this way is easier than using the PBS record I made - I should have remembered that the anticipation of effort exhausts me. This is why k...

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erm...

Do you really want to go back to snacks, sweets and seconds? (I sure don't)

Why not just combine NoS principles with whatever eating plan you're considering?

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Rather tame long weekend food-wise despite 6-hour meal on Saturday. Ice-cream portion on Monday evening was needlessly and shamefully big. I wanted two different flavours.

Emotions. I did not notice that they interfered with food though. They interfere with other decisions.

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The Columbia researchers put six obese subjects on liquid diets and reduced their weight by 10% Ugh. In other words, forceful, unsustainable diet that reduces your weight quickly and then I suppose you don't stay on the diet. All reverse of the NoS diet principles. Re-read the front page at http://...

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I usually have plain yoghurt with fresh fruit and either muesli or bread, with herbal tea. Addind sugar (or honey, or jam, or syrup) to my breakfast resulted in cravings around 11am. So I gave up on that. Fruit is usually sweet enough. No more cravings. And my sweet tooth seems to be on vacation Mon...

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I actually got hungry at mealtime last weekend since I abstained from grazing on chocolate. But I think I overate on uninteresting food.

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What KCCC said. On the other hand you're young, male, and exercising. A lot of the board members these days are not so young and female. So... the way NoS works for us might be different from the way it will work for you. Have you read the NoS diet front page? Reinhard's experience as a male No S di...

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You decide for yourself. Some people do NoS one way, other people do NoS another way. For instance, put your sandwich on a plate (cut it in two if it's too long and thin to fit) and ask yourself if it looks like a proper meal. Adjust at will (for instance, add an apple, or shorten the sandwich, or l...

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What they said. And: have a look at my progress chart in my signature. A 2 pound gain or loss is not significant unless it's a mean weight gain or loss. (also I do allocate about 1/3 to 1/2 of my plate to veggies and fruit on most N-day meals, but I don't beat myself up if I occasionally break this ...

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After 18 months on NoS I very rarely have cravings after supper. But at first it was not so easy. I still get anxious for a snack sometimes on Friday evenings if I am not busy enough. Train your belly, don't let it order you about! (as always, paraphrasing Reinhard's advice on the NoS front page). A...

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Alright... tentative weekend rules: - Chocolate must not be the main ingredient of breakfast (or any meal). No ice-cream at breakfast. Croissants are ok, preferably a single one. A single croissant with a bar of chocolate inside is ok. A single square of chocolate is ok IF it's accompanied by bread....

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There were 4 eggs left, I felt I had to eat them before I had to throw them away, felt too lazy to cook 2 today and 2 tomorrow so I ended up cooking all 4 of them and overeating. Idiot.

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Hi Gionta, your approach is interesting. I don't think it would have worked for me when I first started NoS and probably it still wouldn't work now (eating a SINGLE BITE of dessert?? especially at the canteen), but in a way it is similar to my "single cup of hot chocolate" policy. My problem is, my ...

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Some tweaks are meant to make NoS easier . For instance, two months in, I decided I was unable to handle "no seconds" when eating Kebab, so I made it an S-food, and had a lot less N-day failures without any deprivation. (but, after a year, I found I was able to have kebab dishes without overeating, ...

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@blue: I wish I did not get my monthly insomnia just the night after I made resolutions. Saturday: 4 am "breakfast": 4 squares of chocolate, double chocolate magnum Lunch: 1 square of dark chocolate, double chocolate magnum Evening: medium size cup of Ben & Jerry's (strawberry cheesecake flavour) Su...

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Should have done the small ttapp workout again this morning but I was lazy. Yet I would have had ample time to do it. The problem is I am still stressed out (June!) and my reaction is to remove all non-mandatory activities that require any kind of effort in order to relax. Plus, for some reason, kno...

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Example 1:
http://everydaysystems.com/habitcal/vie ... &t=nosdiet

Example 2:
Please click here to see my habitcal

Also Example 2 in my signature! (except I used the address of my progress chart instead of my habitcal)

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Open your habitcal. Click on "switch to public view". select the address with the mouse. It should start with: http://everydaysystems.com/habitcal/view/?o=....... Copy the entire address (Ctrl+C on windows, or open the edit menu of your browser and click on "copy"). Then you can 1) insert the adress...

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Come on, REALLY DARK chocolate is borderline, just like putting sugar in your coffee. The fat contents of a single square could be compared to having a few peanuts as part of a meal. Peanuts may not be forbidden by NoS rules but of course gorging oneself on them would prevent weight loss. However ha...

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I abstained from climbing stairs yesterday as a preventative measure, so far my knees haven't complained too loudly. Slight soreness in triceps, lats, and glutes.
No workout today (I was lazy AND late).

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Hhmmm... perhaps we have different ideas of what healthy or balanced food is... what I meant by "veggies" was actual fresh, unprocessed vegetables, containing mainly fibers, water and micronutrients. Oh, and fruit too. From what you described in your S-day menu I understood you ate mainly processed ...

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One way to go at it is to trust the process, accept that you might gain some weight at first, and hope/believe that your stomach size will decrease (due to N-days) and that the novelty of being able to eat anything and will wear off after a few weeks. Another way to go at it is to define your S-day ...

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First t-tapp experience today. Last week-end I recorded myself on my computer reading a script I made from the instruction for PBS. Without repeating the 1st part, it lasts about 13'. This morning I played it back and followed the instructions. It was slightly more taxing than my current morning rou...

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Sunday: drove another car, stalled twice. Breakfast: two big squares of chocolate (entirely superfluous) While waiting for outdoors concert to start (late): 1 coca-cola (how come they didn't have plain water ??) Lunch: 1 double chocolate magnum. Afternoon/evening: 2 cups of Ben&Jerry's. I've just br...

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Saturday: 4 big squares of chocolate. 1 ice cream stick.

Edit: make that 6 squares. I have to get away from the computer. Let's go buy some fruit.

Supper: strange couscous cake with honey and something that might be curled milk (both sweet and seconds).

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I'd suggest consulting your doctor. Osteoporosis is no fun. Looking thin is not worth risking a calcium defficiency. If you really eat a lot of cheese, consider having plain yogurt or milk instead. Personally I would tend to eat dairy products more often, not less. AND I wish I was pear-shaped inste...

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Rose - What software did you use to graph that? It doesn't look like the bog standard Excel chart? Yes it's a standard Excel chart. I used a line chart with dots. I may have edited the data series properties in order to make the line invisible to see only the dots. I may have edited the axis proper...

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Hmmm... keep in mind no 2 persons eat the same way... I don't count calories, don't eat no-fat etc... I do try to eat balanced meals most of the time, meaning veggies/fruit, bread/rice/noodles and some protein at every meal. I avoid eating fast food or very greasy foods more than once a week. I usua...

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Venting is fine ;) Anyway, even without such tragic circumstances, life is full of upsets and setbacks. Each time you make the effort to get back on track after holidays/having a baby/surgery/whatever, you gain some experience, and possibly next time you will know how to deal with it better (I mean ...

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Hello Gail, it helps to analyze why you fail and take steps to minimize temptation. If you eat because you are bored, get busy. If you eat because you are thirsty, drink water instead. If you eat because of a craving, think about your last meal: was it balanced? was the quantity enough? If you eat b...

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I only have one problem: I am afraid it isn't going to work! What I mean is that I am afraid I am not going to lose weight unless I add some more rules like, eating "healthy" during the three meals. It is difficult to fathom eating cheeseburgers and fries and losing weight. NoS gives you the framew...

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Randi: I usually weigh myself every N-day after breakfast. As you can see it doesn't prevent my weight from jumping around. Also I usually weigh more on Mondays than on Fridays because of the weekend indulgences. That's why the moving average line is interesting.

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