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JillyBean

Ooooo, those crabs sound good! Hubby and I bought some fresh dug clams yesterday when we were in Bar Harbor for the college tour for our daughter. We'll have those for dinner tonight. I'll think of you with your crabs then...

JillyBean

SUCCESS! AND we were away from home for two meals! Hubby was tempted by the huge muffins offered at the college tour, but they didn't bother me at all. I looked at them once and thought, nope, not worth it today. Then at the restaurant on the way home he was enticing me (teasingly) with a margarita...

JillyBean

SUCCESS!

No time to post this morning. We got up early and were gone all day checking out a college. Since today is almost over, I contemplated writing this post for both days, but I like the idea of being able to get up in the morning and type SUCCESS! again!

JillyBean

My son is 25, graduated last year with a degree in parks, recreation and tourism and can't get a job in that field that pays well enough all year long, so he is now working construction! He hates it and is still looking for other options. He bought a place last spring and then the construction compa...

JillyBean

... I've been nosing for 1.5 years and have lost (and kept off) 30lbs. I have another 30 to go. Ok, Question 1. I found that at first "my eyes were bigger than my stomach" meaning I wanted HUGE portions on my one plate. I'd eat it all and then my stomach would be aaaaangry with me! Eventually I had...

JillyBean

blueskighs wrote:
It's really great to have life be about more than just when, what and where my next meal will be.

Yessssssssssssssssssss!

Blueskighs

Thanks, Blue! I think I needed to be reminded of this this morning.

JillyBean

SUCCESS! In addition to the No S food plan, I am not getting on the scales except for once a month. This is easy most days, but lately I am beginning to feel like I want to lose weight faster than I am. I have been working to convince myself that 2 pounds a month will be acceptable to me, because I...

JillyBean

This is one of the things about No-S that has been such a help to me: I don't have to start all over. Every N day is just that - an N day. For me it's not Day 1 or Day 90 (which I was always trying to reach in OA so I could share at the meetings I attended). Every day is the first day of the rest of...

JillyBean

SUCCESS! Went out to lunch with hubby yesterday and then didn't have dinner until almost 7:30. I can't believe I was not starving by then. It seems that it's all just mind over matter. I was very satisfied after lunch and I was not thinking about my next meal at all. It's really great to have life ...

JillyBean

SUCCESS!

Can't say it was extremely easy, but I can feel the "habit" part kicking in now.

Hubby says we have a couple different sledge hammers, so I'm going to look into shovelgloving today. And as I type my friends are on their way here to get me for our walk, so... gotta run!

JillyBean

I am very sorry for your loss. I always used to be so surprised that I wouldn't want to eat when I was really upset. I mean, I used food for comfort, didn't I? And now is when I need comfort the most! Why don't I want to eat? What I tried to do was what has been suggested here - small, easily digest...

JillyBean

S-Day Once again, I was ready by yesterday afternoon for the structure of n-days. Some time in the future I am going to get up on S-Days and eat very much like I do on n-days. I think what I am doing right now is learning what my body really likes. I've never listened to it before. So, as Reinhard ...

JillyBean

S-Day

A good day. A fun night!

Thanks, Blue!

JillyBean

"Well, what do you know?"

Cool, isn't it?

JillyBean

NoelFigart wrote:Cheese isn't ORANGE!!!!

*hides under the desk and shivers*

Thanks for the laugh, Noel!!

JillyBean

I am usually so behind with my work that I think I shouldn't be doing other things because I should be working. So while it is ok to go and have some food because "I am hungry and you can't work when you're hungry" it feels less ok to go for a walk or watch a movie. Which is really stupid, because ...

JillyBean

Yeah, Blue! S days are here! Let's enjoy. Actually, if you read my daily, you'll see that I sort of started last night!

But, it's okay. I am sure when Monday gets here, I'll be ready again. I'm with you on the gratitude point too.

JillyBean

Hey, Noel!

If you check out my daily, it wasn't one of my shining glories either, but, like you, I am moving on. I guess it's bound to happen, huh? I mean, where did we get the idea that life is supposed to be perfect? Or that we can control everything?

Hang in there. Enjoy your weekend.

JillyBean

FAILURE Oh how I hated to type that! My first one! I even thought about calling it an s-event because that's sort of what it was, but I had planned to skip the dessert and I didn't and it would be dishonest to say otherwise. So, for a failure it was far from a massive one and today is an n-day and ...

JillyBean

Oh, my. Does this make No S a polygamist?

Thanks for the laughter!

(After more wild, tumultuous affairs than I care to remember, I have finally settled down too.)

JillyBean

SUCCESS! Thanks, Moxie and Blue! "Go crazy :D " I love it! Another great day yesterday! My daughter made cookies (chocolate chip - a little on the underdone side) this week and I am going to have her make some this weekend because I have been thinking about them some... Here is how it went: She doe...

JillyBean

Hey, Scott. I just was reading about the Kindle recently, but I think I might have misunderstood. Are you saying that each book you choose to read costs about $10? I was under the impression that the books were included in the $300 price? Was I being naive?

JillyBean

Hope you are feeling better soon, Shirls!

My thoughts are that when I look back at my habitcal and see yellow I'm going to say to myself, "hmmm, I must have had a good reason not to put a red in there..." and then I will let it go.

Still appreciating the freedom this plan gives me...

JillyBean

Hi Blue, I don't think I will plan mine ahead, but it's just nice to know they are there. I used 4 in April after only being on No-S for a little over a week! We went on vacation. It seemed at the time like I ought to just wait and start this plan when I got back, but then I thought, that's diet men...

JillyBean

Hey, Betty! I like that idea! I tend to be a perfectionist too and I am learning to let go of some of it through doing No-S. I just came from a very strict group in OA where you weigh and measure all your food and there is NO sugar, NO flour and NO wheat allowed EVER. If you have any, you go back to...

JillyBean

Hi Blue, Yes, I see myself cycling with different foods too. I eat salads every day for lunch for a while, then I just have had it with them! Last night I made pizza because I have been serving the traditional meat and potatoes kind of meals for a while and I am tired of that. I just didn't want mea...

JillyBean

SUCCESS! Thanks, Moxie and Blue for the positive feedback. :D It was good to get on this morning and have your reminders there. I am seeing a habit that needs work - I am putting too much on my plate still. Last night we had pizza and I put one big slice on my plate, then added broccoli and since m...

JillyBean

A small dish of ice cream which often turned into several small dishes has been my habit for awhile. I do miss not eating after dinner but am experiencing the pleasure of being able to avoid raiding the freezer these past 2 weeks. My daughter has been pleased that the ice cream that I have bought f...

JillyBean

I still havent succeeded in the no snacking habit. I havent snacked on N days but the desire is still there. Also the temptation. I still have to mentally resist that, and sometimes it is difficult. Debbi: Does this mean that you don't think it's a success unless the desire is gone? I think most wo...

JillyBean

SUCCESS! I put too much on my plate yesterday at lunch, (I know this because I was too full to finish it), but besides that it was a great day. I hope to be able to judge a little better in the future. I think it was probably some backlash from the day before because I had gotten hungry so, I was t...

JillyBean

Betty wrote:And by the way, Jill, you really do look great!

Gee, thanks, Betty, but I think you meant Nichole!

JillyBean

MerryKat wrote:amazingly 3 meals with the odd treat has become the norm.

That is amazing! I look forward to that day. Thanks for sharing.

JillyBean

I've developed a horrible habit of bingeing at night, after DH goes to bed. :oops: You've gotten some great suggestions here, so my only addition would be to realize that night eating is a habit . A habit that you don't want to do anymore will need to intentionally be replaced by something else unt...

JillyBean

OrganicGal wrote:
I'm still amazed at the ease with which this last 32 days have gone by. Am I really on a diet? Well, no, because this is not a diet. It is a traditional habit building eating plan!!!

I'm with you. Amazing!

JillyBean

blueskighs wrote:
Ahhh .. but it's Monday, an N Day, so i didn't ... just got to work instead ... and finally somewhere along the way it all passed.

Ain't it grand?!!

JillyBean

"You're not" is right. Simplicity is a big part of the beauty of this plan. We are a big and varied group though, with lots of diet baggage. Some complications are bound to arise. My suggestion is that you have your salt shaker right by the computer and take everything you read with a grain of salt....

JillyBean

SUCCESS! I love being able to type that! I was so glad to be back to an N-Day yesterday. It was not easy because I did get a little hungry (probably more head hunger though, really) but I am determined to not get a red mark, so I persevered. Hubby came home from work and told me he has an s-day. I ...

JillyBean

I wonder how many kids in Africa, China, Ethiopia, or even right here in the States will get a decent meal if I eat everything on my plate and never throw any food away. Seems to me it's just another way of using guilt as a manipulator. And No-S has really helped me learn that guilt does not work fo...

JillyBean

Congratulations! The trend I have been on (while continuing to try this or that diet and this or that exercise plan all the time ) is to gain about 5 - 10 pounds a year. If I can continue with what I am doing right now and be 30 pounds lighter in 2 years (give or take - I know we are all different),...

JillyBean

Sheiler wrote: ...I don't know why it should be a big deal to people if we say no thank you one day and yes please the next. Isn't that what non-dieting people do?

Loved this!

JillyBean

S-Day Although it was an S-Day and there are no failures, I am not thrilled with yesterday. I didn't feel good by the end of the day. Just too much food and not hungry enough to eat it. So, as my quote says, it wasn't a failure, but there was feedback. I hope I remember it for the next s-days. I am...

JillyBean

S-Day

Happy Mother's Day to me (and any other mothers reading this today).

Thanks, blue!

JillyBean

Right now I like checking off each day one at a time. I think as I settle into this lifestyle more and more I will do it in spurts and less often. But I am (just a little)

gung-ho right now and so I want to be able to mark my progress every day.

JillyBean

Thank you all for your kind words about the book! I can't tell you how happy it makes me to see it resonating like this. For an English major/Librarian who'd basically given up on the idea of writing English because writing code seemed a more reliable way of paying the bills, this is a dream come t...

JillyBean

Amyliz: I think you've gotten some great responses here. My two cents would be to just try it a couple times. Choose a couple days next week when you are pretty sure your stress level will be low and then at meals just eat what feels right for then. Tell yourself you are going to stop when you've ha...

JillyBean

Try: Very nicely said. You're welcome and thank you!!

JillyBean

SUCCESS! And it was earned ! (A stressful evening getting DSL hooked up.) I am thrilled to have DSL, but the price I had to pay (asking for help from a man who hates me using the computer - aka my husband) was a little steep. Since he doesn't use the computer and is resentful of my time on it, he w...

JillyBean

I'm rooting for you!!

JillyBean

If it has frosting on it and tastes like dessert, it's a sweet. But just because a muffin looks like a cupcake, doesn't mean it is. Donuts on the other hand... If you don't want to count it as an S day, I'd say you should be able to do fine with the plans as they are, as long as you can get enough e...

JillyBean

We hear all the time about how walking is the best overall exercise there is. That's why I'd vote for the treadmill. I have a treadmill and I use it during the winter and on rainy days. I prefer to walk outside when I can, so it's not getting much use this time of year. If you go with a treadmill I ...

JillyBean

In another thread Rose wrote: After more than a year, I can say there are no hard days anymore - or at least, no weekly recurring hard days. Following the rules is not difficult, it's automatic, at least as long as I am in good health and in a familiar environment. There were some recurring hard day...

JillyBean

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.

JillyBean

Hey, Viggie! Enjoy your vacation. I just came back last week from a trip to Arizona where I visited my sister and her family. I called 4 days (Tues.-Fri.) S-Days. So, I really had 6 S-Days in a row. What it did for me was take away the obsession and the guilt. I was not eating all the time or eating...

JillyBean

Congratulations, Rheba!!

You're an inspiration! Are you planning to weigh yourself just once a month?

JillyBean

SUCCESS! That's my stand. Hubby says the raw green bean I had before we sat down to the table was a snack . I say he's trying to get even over the Life Cereal incident! :wink: At any rate, this is MY daily check-in and I say yesterday was a success ! :D Thanks, Dawn for the well-wishes. I have had ...

JillyBean

I think I'll chime in here too as I have a thin and healthy 25 year old son and a normal weight and healthy 17-year old girl. They have watched me struggle with diets and my weight their whole lives. Even through all that I was sooo very conscious of giving them good body images. I remember when my ...

JillyBean

Nichole, In my opinion, you look great! My daughter is 5'5" and weighs between 145 and 150. She is 17 and she is beautiful!! There are dozens of guys that make fools of themselves over her! It's the media and hollywood that seem to want us to think we should be pencil thin in order to be okay. Don't...

JillyBean

SUCCESS! I was hungry some yesterday, but somehow I seem to know that it's okay to be a little hungry once in a while. I know a decent, satisfying meal will be coming soon and I have been able to just let it be. It is becoming more and more apparent to me that the diet industry has really messed wi...

JillyBean

Joce, I hope it sticks for you too. I am in my 4th week and still loving this. I just know I can do this for the rest of my life. I've never eaten this way before (well, at least not as an adult). I've always been either 1) just coming off a diet (and making up for "lost time"), 2) on a diet (and re...

JillyBean

Blueskighs: Before No S I would have thought this was impossible as I was brainwashed by overeaters anonymous ...that I was an addict and powerless ... but 6 1/2 weeks .. I just had a really bad sugar habit and with time and perseverance and a lot of Nos I am pretty sure this is going to be as much ...

JillyBean

So, " if I get hungry between meals, then I will just wait until the next meal." As opposed to, " if I get hungry between meals, then I will eat whatever looks good to me." Nothing seems to be as simple as it first appears. Our brains are complicated and I know I'll never figure mine out.

JillyBean

Noel,

Thanks for sharing this. I have been looking for some way to graph my weight over the long haul too. Is that chart something I can find online? I did a little searching last night, but haven't come up with what I want yet...

JillyBean

SUCCESS!

A great day yesterday. I have lots I want to accomplish today, so I'm now going to check out a few other posts and then get my day going.

JillyBean

Thanks, everyone. Even if you did side with him! Just kidding!

He's doing the happy dance now.

JillyBean

Hubby and I are having a debate. I would call Life Cereal a sweet. He had it for breakfast with 2% milk, a glass of OJ and a banana. Is this just my "diet head" talking? Because to me that seems like a high carb meal. But the real question is : Would YOU call Life Cereal a sweet? You are not going t...

JillyBean

Sueze, I hear and relate to your frustration. A couple months back, before I had discovered No S, my husband wanted to do an incentive thing with me around losing weight and I flat out refused to go that route. He ALWAYS loses more weight than I do. And he doesn't have to take drastic measures to do...

JillyBean

SUCCESS! What do I call this day? Day 22? Day 1, Round 2? To me, now that I have completed 21 days, I think I will just call it a success. I am keeping track on HabitCal, so anytime I want to look and see what day I am on I can always look it up there. Anyway, no funny stuff for yesterday. I am gra...

JillyBean

I've never seen it explained anywhere, but I think it means, "plain, old-fashioned." As in just follow the rules as they are with no tweaking...

JillyBean

flipturn wrote: In a way, though, I am coming to appreciate every day for the proximity to/distance from an S.

Me too!

JillyBean

I've been doing this just over three weeks now and I have to say that I have not had any sugar cravings. It's not that I haven't thought once or twice (especially in the middle of the week for some reason) that something sweet might be nice. But I have not ever had to fight the urge since starting t...

JillyBean

You thought I was going to say a certain number of pounds, didn't you? Well, that's not what this post is about at all. What I have lost since discovering this way of eating (maybe I should say re -discovering, since it's the way I used to eat when I was young)... what I have lost are feelings of gu...

JillyBean

I have 21 days too! It flew by! I debated with myself about joining today, because I had a few extra s days thrown in there due to the vacation my daughter and I went on, but even on those s-days I was conscious and reasonable around the food. There has not been one binge (or even thoughts of havin...

JillyBean

Day 21: S-Day That completes 21 days for me, but I do not feel entitled to join the 21-day club because of the extra s-days I had in there due to the vacation. To be fair, I feel as if I should have a good three weeks of n-days. Maybe I should say, "to be rigid and a perfectionist." These are the tr...

JillyBean

I committed to only weighing myself on the first three days of the month (morning and night) and taking the average of the 6 weigh-ins as my weight for that month. Each month I will check it again, but not until the first of the month. No arguing with myself about it. That's just the weigh it is for...

JillyBean

Welcome, Marebear! I think you're going to love it!

JillyBean

Thanks for pulling this one to the front, BA. I agree, it is interesting and useful.

JillyBean

Day 20: S-Day Not a bad day. A little snacking, a little dessert after lunch and after dinner. What I imagine "normal" eaters would call a normal day. It's funny how all week I was imagining that I would make a batch of cookie dough and eat my fill of it. Here it is Sunday and I don't think that's g...

JillyBean

Noel,

I wondered where you'd been lately. Just checked out your daily to see. Life sure throws us some curves sometimes. Thinking of you...

JillyBean

Actually, I think I was more of a food snob before! If I was going to be "on a diet" (and by that I mean a REAL diet, not No S, which doesn't seem like a diet at all) then I was going to get the first choice because I was so deprived that I deserved the best and you (other members of my family) coul...

JillyBean

Day 19: SUCCESS! Yesterday was easy. So far today food has been no different than an N Day. We are going out to dinner this evening - a fund-raiser at school, but I don't anticipate too much damage being done. The weighing in for this month ends tonight. There has not been a huge fluctuation in what...

JillyBean

f, I'm standing right beside you bowing three times too. The word diet doesn't quite go with this process, does it? Okay, if we get really literal about it, the word diet does, technically, mean "what we eat." But those of us who have given food so much power over our lives think of a totally differ...

JillyBean

ONLY?? What the heck do you mean you've ONLY lost 3 pounds in 29 days???... So it's either do it quick or do it right - can't have it both ways. I agree on both counts! Only is not a positive word to describe a 3 pound loss in 29 days. It's sort of like the name I chose for this forum " Just Jill"....

JillyBean

My Mom has been gone almost 14 years now. She died at age 74 and it was a shock. I had been for a visit that day (we loved to play Upwords together) and she was (seemed?) fine. She had diabetes which was well under control and she died of congestive heart failure. She never complained, otherwise tha...

JillyBean

I'll check in for April here too. I began No S on April 11, so I have 18 days. I was on vacation last week, so I counted those days as S days, but I limited my esses to only when it was appropriate. (No bingeing, very rare snacking, no huge desserts, etc.) So, I have 9 green days and 8 yellow days i...

JillyBean

Day 18: SUCCESS! Went out to lunch with a friend yesterday and I still cannot get over how easy this way of eating is! But ... She contemplated having a dessert, then said something about sharing one with me, even though she already knew I was following No S because I'd told her that when we went in...

JillyBean

I'm glad I came back and read tonight! I will take another measurement before going to bed. I will take the average of the 6 measurements and keep track of it on a graph somewhere. I am not the most computer-literate person, but there must be some way... Thanks to everyone for responding and offerin...

JillyBean

Day 17: SUCCESS! Yesterday I was hungry between lunch and dinner and then again felt like eating after dinner, but I did not give in to the urges. I weighed myself this morning (the 1st of the month) and will again tomorrow and the next day and then take the average of the three days. I will not wei...

JillyBean

Well, this morning I got on the scales for the first time since beginning No S, which was 17 days ago. My weight it up a bit (maybe three pounds from the last time I weighed myself, which was sometime before No S, and that's only a rough estimate), but it is actually about where I expected it to be....

JillyBean

Stuff I've turned away so far this week at work: Free Smoothie Free Brownie Free Ice Cream I didn't really even want them, although if I'm offered the same stuff on an S-day I'm all over it. Habit shapes desire. "Habit shapes desire." Good to know. (I'm just checking out some of the "old-timers" po...

JillyBean

I'm with you all on this one. It is going to be slow for me, I am sure. But, this I believe: I will reach a normal, healthy weight if I persevere. If I keep my no s days truly no s and I don't act like an idiot on s days (well, at least on most s days!) :wink: I just know this will work. It is what ...

JillyBean

But I'm an exception! So is everybody else. And even if you truly happen to be the one, it isn't useful to think this way. Let me put it another way: chances are you're deceiving yourself. And on the odd chance that you aren't deceiving yourself, maybe you should be, the other way. People have done...

JillyBean

Hi all, I thought I might join this conversation, if you don't mind. I wrote today in my daily check-in that I am trying to figure out what to do about the scales. I read in the book about weighing in once a month a few times over a few days (or something like that) and then staying off the scales f...

JillyBean

Day 16: SUCCESS! Last night I finally finished the book (by candle light). Our power was out for 3 1/2 hours. I had been reading when it went out and I was quite engrossed. It is definitely something to be read again and again. I am thinking today about the scales. Yesterday I had sort of made up my...

JillyBean

Today I "officially" have withdrawn from membership in OA. By that I mean that this morning I called my co-sponsor (we were sponsoring each other), I called my very first sponsor, and I called the leader of an AWOL that I was attending and told them all that I am not going to be attending any more m...

JillyBean

I am writing to express agreement here. I have not binged either since starting this new way of eating. For me I think it is so much about taking away all the guilt. Shame, rebellion, and guilt are the motivators for bingeing, in my opinion. This is just coming to me now after having done No-S for o...

JillyBean

Day 13 (Saturday): S-Day Day 14 (Sunday): S-Day Day 15: Success! Oh, it feels so great to be able to type that again! Not that it was a particularly easy day for success and if I'd really wanted to I suppose I could have called it an S day as we were travelling home. But, you know, I just really wan...

JillyBean

Day 9 (Tuesday): S-Day Travelling to Arizona. Not a bad day though for a week-day, S-Day. Only thing was a few samples from a chocolate store in the Chicago airport. Day 10 (Wednesday): S-Day This business of travel is not conducive to eating like at home. I had as close as I could come to a no-s da...

JillyBean

<r>Interesting... I don't think I saw one "seconds" on here so far. And I'm not going to be the first, either! LOL! But, I am not sure which of the other two has been the toughest. I was sure before I started that it would be the sweets, but then when I was <I><s>[i]</s>very<e>[/i]</e></I> hungry th...

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Day 8 (today): SUCCESS! I know, the day is not over, but I may not get a chance to get on tomorrow morning since we are leaving for Tucson in the morning. I want to put down today's success just in case I don't get a chance to get to the computer for a few days. I am certain that I will not be eatin...

JillyBean

Day 7: S-Day I was really craving some chocolate last night, but we didn't have any. I could have made choc. chip cookies, but it was late and I didn't feel like all that work. We had some popcorn, which was good, but I still wanted the chocolate. So far today, I am feeling fine - not resentful abou...

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No, Reinhard. Thank YOU!!

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Would YOU call Life Cereal a sweet?

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