Everyday Systems

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Hang in there! Learning to navigate around casual spontaneous offers of food is something that takes (IMHO) lots of practice, and I still struggle with this sometimes, mostly when I feel the person offering the food is going to be disappointed...

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Safe travels!

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Thanks for sharing - it does help to be reminded of the basics to keep on track. I also focus on sticking to foods that are less processed and lower in calorie density and following the No-S eating structure but it is a constant work in progress. Mainstream food culture is diametrically opposed to t...

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Happy Anniversary!

Definitely a good reason to take an S day

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Mark it and move on - a wise decision. You've been doing great, Deb!

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Happy birthday, Deb! (56 here too

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Wishing you good luck moving forward with lots of green days

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Well done on your first fully green week!

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Welcome back, Deb! Of course I remember you

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It sounds like you managed to fit No-S into your travel nicely! I think it is quite normal to be thinking about it a lot at the beginning, until the habits just become second nature and you find yourself doing it without the low level anxiety and mental chatter. Hang in there and keep going! :mrgreen:

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Exciting!

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Enjoy your trip! Well done on thinking about your eating strategy beforehand and good luck sticking to it!

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Welcome to the No-S boards!

My best advice is just to stick with it - if you can live with some imperfection and slow progress, you will find the habits creep up on you over time and will completely change your relationship with food. Good luck!

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Same here...also because (I find) after you stop eating certain foods very frequently, your body doesn't seem to tolerate them as well as when you were eating them regularly. Which seems unfair in a way, but is also a good deterrent!

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I remember when you reviewed the Marie Kondo book! I personally found her method a bit too extreme - I am much more for the gentler, habit based approach like you describe here. Have you heard of Swedish Death Cleaning? Another book with lots of food for thought about our possessions...

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Well done!

I think the habit of eating the way you expect to have to eat to maintain your weight in your desired range is really key. As well as knowing what foods can trip you up, and learning to be very moderate with them.

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Well done!

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Exciting!!!

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This: "Your compensatory power is precisely the ability to compensate, with systems, for your natural deficiencies." I needed this reminder! My tendency to give into my cravings, even though rationally I do not want to do that, is definitely one of my natural deficiencies.

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I love this: "Sweets don't make me happy. Being light and fit enough to go for long walks in the bush does." :mrgreen: I think over the long term, gaining the ability to recognize that a certain food or drink may be enjoyable in the moment, but that it has a negative effect on other aspects of life ...

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Great to hear how well things are going for you!

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That sounds encouraging! Fingers crossed!

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Food for thought! This resonates with me: But I also wonder whether to some degree the personal punch cards and life log represent a hubristic, excessive systemization of life. Whether there might not be something better between total chaos on the one hand and what sometimes verges on OCD-level trac...

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Checking in daily could be something that helps - I hope you find your momentum! I am looking for lots of green in February, too! Let's do this!

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Well done on the green week!

What do you think made the difference for you?

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It starts with just one solid green day, right?

I'm going for a three day run, as well. Let's do this!

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Well done, Soprano! It is so nice to hear how you've got on, thanks for being an inspiration here! That pound will come off soon enough as you are back to your good habits now. If only you would have that kind of success with finding things in the clothes shops that you like

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Happy New Year, Reinhard! And thanks so much for keeping the boards going!

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I think about this an awful lot, too. But if I am not thinking about it, and staying aware of what I am doing, then it is too easy to slip back into old disordered eating habits. It's the learning along the way, staying aware of what we are doing, and making permanent habit changes that is going to ...

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Well done on having the persistence and patience to keep at it, as well as giving yourself the time to figure out strategies that work for you when you hit a rough patch. It is very inspiring!

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Happy New Year, everyone! Wishing you all a year full of green days and peace around food.

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Indeed!

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Oh no, severe heartburn, that sucks! I hope it clears up soon with your adjustments.

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Glad to hear your results were good! Hang in there!

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Same here, Linda, reset, reset, reset!

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Welp, December bit me in the rear end - I have only managed three green days this month so far! :shock: Last December I did so much better. Having all the pre-covid social events back on the calendar this year threw me for a loop. The only thing to do is to mark them and move on. I am determined to ...

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Hi Sinnie! I think you are right, No-S is for a lot of us the best way to get peace around food. And for some reason the boards have definitely been more lively lately! Welcome back!

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Congratulations on your 2 stone milestone! And the way you accomplished it, by making permanent habit changes, is huge, and I totally agree, well worth the effort. It may be the slower way, but it is definitely the more sustainable and sane way!

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Just wanted to share a motivating blog post by Kathryn Hansen (from Brain over Binge) on not letting everything go in December. In it, she says: You don’t want to spend another December being miserable, promising yourself you will do better in January. You can do better now. You can learn to recogni...

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Very wise not to overload yourself with a bunch of restrictions, just focus on the one plate habit. One plate of junk food is still one plate of food!

No-S is the basic framework upon which we can hang lots of other good habits, but we have to get the framework solid first.

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Hi Ellis, thanks for stopping by! And how cool that we are neighbors 8) 8) Yes, we are lucky this year how the holidays fall on S days! I feel really motivated to do well on the N days this month. :mrgreen: Dec 1st is in the bag. I am taking it day by day. So focusing on today - when I am in a good ...

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It's so nice to see that there is some more activity around here, just in time for the last month of 2022! I always feel like December is a watershed month as far as food habits - if I really focus on getting my N-Days right, it can be a great time to renew my habit energy and finish the year out fe...

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Getting to the point where your set point is reset to a lower range is huge! Well done. And smaller pants as well!

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Welcome back! Glad to hear things are going well in the greater scheme of things, despite the frustration of feeling like you are treading water when it comes to food habits. But just keep hanging in there. I think a lot of us who have been here a long time can confirm that to really cultivate the h...

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You are doing really well! :D LOL on the country club! And well done on the Pilates - I had no idea they gave out milestone gifts. Weight Watchers used to do that, too, I had my milestone keychain for a long time until it finally broke a few years ago. Keep up the great pre-holiday work, Linda! :mrg...

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Thanks for stopping by, Linda! It's been a busy fall, had two rounds of house guests and that always gets me out of my routine - I feel like I need to recover! And the holidays are right around the corner... Always something, right?

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Wow, Diego, it is great to hear about your success and consistency - it sounds like you have really made No-S work for you! Thanks for sharing!

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Thank you! Definitely something to think about for those times when I hit that upper alarm weight (usually when coming home from a visit to family in the US). I have only gotten into normal BMI range in the past year and am navigating my way around maintenance...

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How lovely you got to meet up in person, and it is great to hear that Must Lose Weight has found her mojo!

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Hi Renee! Welcome back. Good luck with regaining some peace around your eating with No-S! You can do this!

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Thanks, Ladybird! Being able to look things up on the internet, including restaurant menus, helps a lot. We ended up going to a place in Bismark, North Dakota, that we would have never gone to (just going from the outside of the building, it looked like a dive!) that ended up being a wonderful meal ...

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We are all a work in progress, aren't we?

Nice you are able to give yourself flexibility around your walking group!

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Yes, I can imagine a steady work schedule really helps with keeping a regular eating schedule. How does it impact your meal planning and prep to be at work all day?

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Yeah, it's a challenge! We didn't stop at any fast food places but I had pizza three times! :lol: Other than that, we had a few really nice dinners at local restaurants (I researched places to eat ahead of time because I try to find places I can eat vegan - it's not always possible but in a couple o...

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Ten days since we got back from Texas and I am finally over my jet lag and slept normally for the first time last night - crazy how long it takes me to readjust these days. We were there three weeks and even though I felt like I did pretty well, I gained three pounds. We did a big road trip for 12 d...

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Congratulations on your new job and on consistently holding steady on your weight - that is great!

Especially considering what an adjustment it must be to be working full time after so many years at home.

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Thanks for sharing, Ladybird. It is so helpful to hear about the process you went through to get to where you are. We all come to this with a desire to change our relationship to food, and No-S is a tool to do that, but we have to figure out our own way of using that tool. It is so great that you ha...

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Thanks for sharing what you have been through in your journey out of bingeing. It sounds like you found an approach that really works for you and you have had the patience and determination to stick with it over the years and are in a good place right now. At what point did you add No-S to what you ...

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Thanks Ladybird!

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Nice to see you here again, Linda! Yeah, the alcohol thing - it really is a big factor in so many issues. I just got back from 3 weeks in the states, visiting my mom again. Had to navigate all the same hurdles as when I went in January, and I am fairly happy with how I did. I am getting better at no...

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Glad your reflux has improved! Yes, I think a few of us have been here for a decade or more, occasionally testing out different approaches, but generally coming back to some form of No-S...

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Welcome back, Liz!

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Well done on navigating the boundaries of your No-S to accommodate your walking - sometimes a challenge to work around things that affect appetite in a different way.

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Well done, Dave, and thanks for letting us know that the habit continues to serve you so well!

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Thanks, Pink! This weekend we are helping to move my oldest son and his girlfriend into the house they just bought - a big job! I am feeding everyone tomorrow night - going to be making some salads ahead of time today. It's been a very full and busy week, but I did manage to keep to my green lines y...

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What a relief that you do not have an ulcer! And thank goodness the iron is helping! But still a challenge with all the adjusting you are having to do with your diet to manage the reflux symptoms. Hang in there! If it is perimenopause related, it should resolve once your hormones stabilize - keeping...

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Good luck with the new job!

I hear you on that panicky feeling when you don't know when you'll be able to eat, very familiar

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Hi Octavia, and thank you! Coping juice - now that is an apt description! I found I was having a very hard time mindfully limiting it to one glass, and it really began to affect my sleep. Not to mention not feeling my best in the morning, and the extra calories. For me, taking a huge step away from ...

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Well done! Keep up the great work!

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Great to hear from you and well done on figuring out what configuration of No-S plus something else works for you! I dare say there are a lot of us who have modified and combined No-S with other approaches to get things moving in the right direction.

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Well done avoiding the slippery slope. Especially at the beginning of the day!

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Me too!

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Doing this is definitely more of an art than a science, isn't it? And learning to make adjustments along the way, as well as listening to what the body is telling us, is a big part of it.

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Thank you, Ladybird! I will be having some celebratory bubbles today, though - our youngest son graduates from university! :D I guess I have slowly shifted from someone who had a couple of glasses of wine pretty much every evening, to enjoying it as a special treat for a special occasion. And I am h...

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Hi Soprano! Yes, it really is easy to get carried away with alcohol! Abstaining from it has been a huge piece of the weight loss puzzle for me. It was really hard at first, but it has gotten easier over time. Aside from the addictive qualities, and the habit of it, also how drinking is such a big pa...

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I modified No-S for myself a long time ago to include a discrete one plate healthy snack on N days, and it is generally an apple and a Brazil nut (one Brazil nut a day apparently helps with cholesterol). Like you, I would get way too hungry by dinner time and it would really trip me up. Having the a...

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Good going!

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My process goal for July and August is to get lots and lots of green on my Habit Cal - I track No-S and No Wine. The last time I had months that were mainly all green was back in November and December. Hard to believe I did that during the holiday months but I did. :mrgreen: It does help to look bac...

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You are off to a great start!

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Congratulations!

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Oh, wow, you guys have a lot going on. Thank goodness your cholesterol and blood sugar were normal. I hope in the end both you and your husband get things sorted out - it is not fun to get hit with that stuff as we get older!!!

But nice that you are maintaining at a lower weight!

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Nice!

I love how you look back to figure out what was going on at certain points in your journey, and I agree that the body sometimes has to get used to a certain weight range before it will let you move further, this has been my experience as well.

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Welcome back!

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Congratulations!

Those insights about what motivates people to make real change are fascinating - maybe shame doesn't ultimately work because bingeing is one of the things that is used to numb those feelings?

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I agree! Getting control of your environment is half the battle!

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Woo hoo to silver lining weight loss! It's funny how these health challenges, if we are lucky, can be an opportunity to clean up our diets for reasons other than weight loss, and then the weight loss is a nice side effect.

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Thanks, Pink! Good for you, too, on getting back into it. It does feel like a clean slate when you've been off for a while due to injury.

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Oh, wow, I am sorry to hear you are dealing with acid reflux! It sounds like you are really looking at lifestyle factors to improve your symptoms, which is exactly what I did when I started having this a couple years ago (and yes - it was definitely during my perimenopause) - gave up coffee, became ...

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Thank you, Oolala! Yes, it was most definitely a consistency challenge - the workouts are tailored to 50+ women and have lots of modifications if something is too hard. I had some company at the end of May that threw me out of my normal routine, and included some recreational eating, but am now back...

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I just wrapped up the workout challenge and am back to "regular programming", which means some kind of exercise every day, whether it be yoga, walking, walk-run, a resistance workout, or swimming. I aim to get two resistance workouts in each week. On Ladybird's thread, she listed three things that h...

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I love this! Focusing on the habits and letting the rest take care of itself, while you get on with your life. It must feel amazing to have a sense of freedom and control with your eating habits.

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That shift in mindset from being overly concerned with losing weight to realizing that we need to focus on changing our dysfunctional habits is a journey that we have all had to make, I think. Like Ladybird said, how worthwhile to be able to coach someone through that shift! But it is probably very ...

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Lots of practice really leads to those habits becoming so ingrained, well done!

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You've been doing really well! Keep up the great work

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I'm sorry to hear you've had a rough week! But you managed to get through it without any failures. You probably learned a lot about what might work better for you going forward. I hope next week is better!

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It sounds like the last week of May has gone well for you, although I am sorry to hear you've been feeling under the weather - hopefully nothing serious! You are right, though, with practice it does get easier to resist the urge to graze. Enjoy your Sunday and good luck with next week!

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Thanks for checking in, Lady and Kyl - my exercise is going really well, I am loving being back into the routine of doing either an online workout or a 45 minute walk every day. I have been a regular exerciser and gym-goer for years, so I have always done some form of regular exercise - I don't thin...

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Wow, Deb, congratulations! That is a huge milestone! And I totally get how thrilled you are

I was so glad when I was done, too.

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One day at a time is a wise approach!

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Thank you, Kyl. I don't feel the need for further restrictions on the food side of things, but I really wanted to get back into a good exercise routine, which the fitness challenge is helping me do. I just have to make sure I steer clear of the food guidelines that go with it...which is not always a...

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Well done on being so consistent, Kyl!

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