Everyday Systems

ladybird30

Congrats, heading in the right direction

ladybird30

Walk in the bush with friends today, so all good

ladybird30

I started 3 meals every day as my aim from the beginning as I thought it would be easier.

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Mar weight range 133-134lbs April Sat 1, Sun 3 meals Mon success, Tues failure supper, Wed, Thurs, Fri success Sat, Sun 3 meals Mon 10th extra hungry, so had an early dinner and then a second course a couple of hours later. Spent morning walking and on the e-bike. Nothing too strenuous, just relaxin...

ladybird30

Good progress

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Mon success
Tues failure 3 meals, supper
Wed, Thurs success
Fri failure 3 meals, snack

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Mon - Fri success.
Haven't had much trouble sticking to no snacks this week as had a few days off from exercising.
Exercise makes my appetite go up, but still helps me keep my weight down
Sat 3 meals, 2 snacks
Sun 3 meals

ladybird30

Good to hear that things are going well with you.
I have never been able to stick to a particular calorie count, and by mostly eating a home cooked diet 3 times per day when I am hungry it hasn't been necessary.

ladybird30

Mon, Tues , Wed success
Thurs S day, 3 meals supper
Fri success
Sat 3 meals, snack
Sun 3 meals

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On another thread I posted that I only (well, at least for the past couple of years) eat sweets during Xmas socialising. Sweet fruit is an exception. This would probably seem excessively strict to most people, I thought that I would explain some of the reasons I do this. I like to eat. I like to eat...

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I would like to add that I do try quite hard to make sure that I am genuinely hungry when I eat. Sometimes I find myself checking and waiting a bit til I am sure. Don't know how that would fit in with having Type 1.

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I have always thought that S days were a good safety valve. Mostly I use them to have additional snacks, very occasionally sweets if I am socialising around Xmas time. (Seriously, that is how rarely I eat sweets nowadays.) I still really enjoy eating sweet fruit, sometimes quite a lot. It doesn't ma...

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Yeah, that has been the prime measure of success for me, not what the scale has been doing. Although I am pleased about the weight loss as well.

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Thanks Pink. Mon to Wed, technically failures as I had snacks, but I was just too tired and hungry. Any day I don't binge, graze or nibble is a success as far as l am concerned. Thurs S day - 9 mile walk in morning, then had a lovely surprise when an old friend who I hadn't seen in many years contac...

ladybird30

If a personal trainer helps you to keep strong, go for it.

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It's good you are getting on top of a small weight gain before it becomes a large one.

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Thanks Amy.

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Feb report- 1 failure day, 1S day, snacks some weekends and 3 visits to the butcher to buy sausages so definitely hungrier than usual. After the 3rd lot the craving for salty fatty meat seems to have worn off. Weight still 133 - 135, finished month at lower end of range, probably due to averaging 10...

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It took me a lot of practice, and longer than one would think, before I stopped comfort eating, but I got there eventually. Well done for keeping on going afterwards.

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Thanks Kate. Backyard tomatoes are a bit of a thing where I live.

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Mon , Tues success

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Looks like you had a pretty good week overall, well done.

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Mon success Tues failure, 3 meals, 2 snacks Wed success Thurs S day - had a day off where I just ate small meals or snacks when I was hungry. Woke up tired and hungry, so had a small breakfast at 7 am before going out for a 9 to 10 km brisk walk with my walking group. Then food shopping, and home ag...

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Hi Soprano, being outdoors is much nicer than being in a gym. I do bodyweight exercises at home, and enjoy the challenge of mastering progressively more difficult ones. But what I really love is being strong enough from squats to walk confidently down hill on rough, steep bush tracks.

ladybird30

Hi Oolala, I would like to lose a few more lbs of weight around my middle for health reasons, family history of high blood pressure, diabetes, also my knees would last longer. At the moment, I've increased the amount of walking I am doing, and I am hungrier than I used to be. I am not really interes...

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Also, lots of kudos for continuing to maintain your weight.

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I totally agree that one has to be careful not to get injured by a resistance training program, especially for us 60+ people. But my own experience suggests that it is quite possible to start at a low comfortable level and work up gradually from there. Indeed, whenever I have to have time off, I dro...

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Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri success
Sat, Sun 3 meals

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Good that your normal eating habits have banished that lb . Well done on the walking and skipping.

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I don't know if mindfully eating your sweets on S days will help your overeating or not. But you may get more pleasure from your food. And if you eat for pleasure, you may get more selective about what sweets are worth eating. And then perhaps you might progress to thinking about wanting to be hungr...

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Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs , Fri success
Sat 3 meals, supper
Sun 2 meals, 2 snacks

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I have considered lowering the grains a little as an experiment. My previous goes at low carb haven't been encouraging because they left me feeling weepy. So I need to be cautious about how much I reduce carbs. Although that was in the days when most of my carbs came from wheat bread. As I have been...

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Thanks Soprano. I'd cut way back on the fatty meat because it was hindering my weight loss efforts, but apparently a diet of lean meat, beans and grains & olive oil (and a few other things) just wasn't cutting it in the hunger department. As you say, as long I'm eating out of hunger and taking notic...

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Jan report- quite a bit hungrier than usual, uncomfortably so. May be due to increasing my average step count to 10,000 per day, or disturbed sleep or both. So more failures and snacks than usual. Weight still sitting between 133 and 135 lbs Wed Feb 1- 3 meals Thurs - after an early and inadequate b...

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All the best as you get back on track. The good news is that those years of no s haven't been wasted, you have a solid foundation to start on again. The last time I got seriously off track I found writing down my food for a short while helpful. You might also have a useful reinforcer you could use. ...

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Carolyn1006 wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 18, 2023 10:36 pm
Today is already red, but I am not waiting until tomorrow to start fresh.

Good on you

ladybird30

2 hours ahead is often as far as I can maintain my determination. Just long enough to get to the next meal.

Glad to hear things still going well on the alcohol front.

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Mon 3 meals
Tues failure supper, Wed failure late (very) supper
Thurs, Fri success
Sat 3 meals
Sun 3 meals, snack
Mon , Tues , Wed , Thurs, Fri Success
Sat 3 meals Sun 3 meals, supper
Mon success sort of - breakfast was in 2 parts
Tues success

ladybird30

Yes, our brain is trying to save us from the famine that never comes.

Hope Kathleen that you and family have a good 2923. err- 2023

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With all the exhortations to consume, consume, consume, we are a long way from our traditions of fast days, gluttony as a sin, don't eat now you will spoil your appetite for dinner.

I see self imposed rules of moderation as a necessary substitute.,

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I thought I would just put in a note about how many calories I need in a day to stop me getting excessively hungry. It's less than when I was younger, but it's still somewhere around 1800 to 1900 Kcals per day. That works out as at least 600 Kcals per meal. I have worked this out by food logging whe...

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I couldn't really say which I disliked more, the extra pounds or the overeating, but it was the overeating that was having the bigger negative effect on my life.

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Mion, Tues , wed , Thurs , Fri 3 meals
Sat 3 meals, supper, Sun 3 meals, snack

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We have a lot of mental baggage to get rid of on our way to food sanity.

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Boredom would set in for me if I was doing high reps on the same exercise. Even if I am exercising the same muscle group, I like to do lower reps with different exercises. But whatever suits is the best exercise.

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Fingers crossed for you

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Welcome back Traci.

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Yes indeed

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My strategies have come from the work of other people, such as science communicator Stephan Guyenet who explains the brain systems that keep us wanting to eat in his book The Hungry Brain. I have also found formerly obese scientist Dr Amanda Sainsbury-Sallis's book The Don't Go Hungry Diet useful. B...

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Reinhard - thanks for your continued generosity in keeping this forum alive.

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I spend a fair amount of time still thinking about this whole dieting and overeating business. The longer I practice moderate eating, the more important I think it is for me to practice ordered eating first and put weight loss second. Of course I might feel differently if I had a pressing medical is...

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Thx Soprano

ladybird30

Look forward to hearing more about your cinnamon variation. Congrats on getting your eating calmed down in December while still enjoying yourself.

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Happy New Year to you too Amy

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So far since joining NoS in May 2017, have gone from 151 to 135 lbs, and down 26 lbs from my all time high. 2022 saw a drop from 142 to 135, which I have been maintaining for 4 months. More importantly, I rarely overeat now and my moderate eating habits have become much more solid. I am still tempte...

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Happy New Year Carolyn, and congrats on goal weight and pregnancy.

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I love the way my body feels after an exercise session.

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Well done getting going with the exercise. I like bodyweight and home exercise myself rather than gym work. As for the pain, there is also the pain that comes through not exercising. Sorry to hear you are still having hip problems, chronic pain can really draining.

ladybird30

Happy New Year to everyone. Dec report- went pretty well on the whole. My weight is still sitting between 133 and 135 lbs, mostly closer to 135. Had a few weeks off from exercise due to an infection, but now gradually working my way into it again. Did an 8km (5 mile) walk last week, but still a bit ...

ladybird30

Good thing that Dec is only once a year then.

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Back in the saddle, or possibly behind the reindeer.

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thanks Amy, so far so good

Mon, Tues 3 meals, supper
Wed , Thurs, Fri 3 meals
Sat 3 meals, supper

ladybird30

Hummus, baklava, yum.

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That's a relief.

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Teachers are pretty busy people, especially with a family, but I have found regular updates here very useful. This especially applies to finding patterns where I am drifting off plan, and seeing what works to get me back on track. There is a reason I am still doing this after all this is time.

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Mon , Tues, Wed success Thurs failure - not sure why, but lunch left me hungry again two hours later, so ended up having an afternoon snack Fri S for severe heartburn. A few minutes that were so unpleasant that I'm not in a hurry to repeat them. I will be having smaller meals for a while, so won't b...

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Also all the best for biopsy results.

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Mon success Tuesday failure- supper Wed S day, had sweets for lunch with friends. Tried 4 different sweet things, 2 of which weren't worth finishing, one of which was ok, and one I enjoyed. A hit rate of one in four is not particularly good. If I am going to eat sweets, which I rarely do, I am going...

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I have never found calorie counting a useful way regulate how much I eat. What has helped, apart from NoS, is trying to eat in accordance with my bodies appetite signals - being hungry at meal times, and eating enough to feel satisfied but not stuffed. Still get it wrong sometimes. It is my belief t...

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Mon, Tues , wed success
Thurs technical success, but didn't eat enough (misjudged) which lead to Fri failure- supper.
Sat 2 large meals and a snack
Sun 3 meals. Went for 1st walk for several weeks after having time off due to an infection.

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Lol re country club.

Good news on the alcohol front - that is something to be proud of.

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Thanks for the quote Amy. Another way of looking at it is that promising ourselves that we will behave well tomorrow helps justify our current behaviour today. I used to do that a lot about food.

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Big congrats Soprano, both on your weight loss and your changed eating habits. Great to hear.

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Thanks Amy.

Thurs 1dec, Fri success
Sat , sun 3 meals

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Pretty socks I hope

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I have always found that eating 3 meals a day is enough of a challenge. I deal with what I eat at the shopping stage rather than in the kitchen.

Fortunately, my food shopping choices have improved a lot over the years.

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Good to hear from you again. Some of us are more susceptible to the siren call of tempting food (aka food reward) than others. My guess is it may be at least partly genetic. Unfortunately for us, we live in a world of 24/7 tempting food.

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Hi Linda - to tell the truth, I would still like to lose a bit more of the weight that has settled around my middle, but maintenance is greatly to be preferred to regain. I've been on antibiotics, which upset my tummy enough that smaller meals more often felt better. Hi Ellis, I've gone from 151 to ...

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Always happy to hear how you are going Linda.I
I noticed that Reinhard said somewhere that his weight goes up during holidays, but with NoS it comes off again.

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I will second your comments Oolala. One of the reasons for the normalisation of highly processed food consumption is that some of them have become seen as healthy, whether that image is deserved or not. We all know that some processed food products aren't good to eat in large quantities, but others ...

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Congratulations Diego. Your 'small' weight loss certainly much better than the weight gain so many of us experience in our thirties. And as you say, from your height and weight you are already thin. Keep up the good work.

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Losing that diet mentality is a big part of making peace with food, but I have found that being consistent with NoS really helps. I also have another No S - no starving.

Making your own version of NoS you can stick with really helps, so sounds like you are on the right track.

ladybird30

mon, Tues, wed success
Thurs, Fri S for sick day
Sat, sun 3 meals, supper

Mon, Tues , wed S for sick day

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Mon - Fri success
Sat 3 meals, supper
Sun 3 meals

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Mon,Tues,Wed , Thurs, Fri success
Sat 3 meals,a couple of nibbles out of the garden
Sun S day - ate meals and snacks when I felt like it. No overeating, but good to loosen the reins occasionally.

ladybird30

Welcome back to NoS Jen. Those knee problems do take a long time to heal.

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Tues Nov I, Wed success
Thurs walking with group S day
Fri success
Sat 3 meals, Sun 3 meals, supper

ladybird30

It might indeed be possible, as weight maintenance can occur at various body sizes. But the weight maintained might be higher than desired. Anyway, not an experiment I wish to try.

ladybird30

October report- another month of weight maintenance, 133 - 135 lbs. Eating - had been feeling rather hungrier than I cared for, as well as getting bored with my meals. Have had a few more energy dense meals as a consequence, and feel like I have caught up with how much I should be eating. Doing this...

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Good to hear that news about Mustloseweight

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Hi Oolala, actually recently I have been just getting really bored with what I was eating. Partly Covid is to blame, as I have been avoiding my crowded local greengrocer where I was buying good quality fruit and veg. The local supermarket just doesn't cut it in that department. I may have to reconsi...

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Mon 24, Tues, Wed, Thurs , Fri success
Sat 3, Sun 3 meals
Mon 31 success

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No, there was no failure involving overeating there But undereating at a meal, mainly because I hadn't got my food organised properly is not good either. I am actually starting to feel the need to have a break from my current rather plain and boring diet and do some more maintenance for a few weeks....

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Mon 17 failure - supper after not enough dinner
Tues, Wed success
Thurs S day, out walking in the bush with a group - had a mental break and didn't think about number of meals or snacks
Fri success
Sat 3 meals, supper
Sun 3 meals

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Mon 10, Tues , Wed, Thurs , Fri success
Sat, Sun 3 meals

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It sounds like you really did the best you could to plan for meals on your trip.

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Such a big change in your life Pink. Congrats on your new job.

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Great to hear from you again Renee. I hope that this time you can find a way of eating that you can live with permanently.

ladybird30

Hi Reinhard, thanks for this episode. Being in my 60s, dealing with injuries is happening more often.
But being inactive is worse.

Please accept my sympathies for your losses over the last few years.

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Well, it's a work in progress, and I don't want to pretend I have all the answers. SEP report Weight 133 - 135, down a little from August. Have started calling days when I go for long walks with a group S days as it is harder to fit my usual meals around this activity and I want the flexibility. So ...

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