I'd skip this step, and make a dentist appointment now. Tell the person you talk to on the phone at the dentist's office about the problems you're having.ARG wrote:I will give it till the end of the month and if it doesnt improve ill get to a dentist.
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- Wed May 18, 2011 1:42 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Teeth
- Replies: 11
- Views: 17517
- Wed May 18, 2011 1:36 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: S Events- how many per week, and how to track?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 20306
I went to S events. I allowed myself 5 a week with each S counting as 1. So if I had seconds and a dessert that was 2. But even that was too much tracking for me so I went back to Vanilla No S. Complex tracking does not work well for me. HabitCal is about all I can do, and even then, I'm often fill...
- Wed May 18, 2011 12:37 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: S Events- how many per week, and how to track?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 20306
S Events- how many per week, and how to track?
Those of you who do S events, rather than S days: How many S events do you give yourself each week? Also, do you use HabitCal to track, and, if you do, how do you do it? Is any day with an S event yellow, or what? My S days at this point usually consist of seconds at dinner and maybe one snack. I'm ...
- Tue May 17, 2011 9:01 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Teeth
- Replies: 11
- Views: 17517
Re: Teeth
Hi guys I'm nearly 3 weeks into no-s after a botched start a while ago. Everything is going great,using a calendar to help keep me on track which is helping loads. I do have one issue and that is recently i have had bleeding gums and a yucky taste in my mouth like u get when u haven't brushed your ...
- Mon May 16, 2011 2:09 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Coming up on one year of No S later this month
- Replies: 9
- Views: 13817
Coming up on one year of No S later this month
May 27 will be my one-year anniversary of being on No S. I started on it after I had quit my job and come back from a vacation in North Carolina. I didn't start keeping a HabitCal till August. I'm still sticking with No S. I had never been able to stick with a diet this long before in my life. If yo...
- Mon May 16, 2011 1:37 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: fear of hunger
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9304
Re: fear of hunger
I think the hardest part about all of this is changing my thinking process and learning that hunger is a good sign and is a normal process for living things. It is. I had known this, intellectually, for a while. It really hit me emotionally last Friday, almost a year after I started No S. Thinking ...
- Mon May 16, 2011 1:23 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Healthy vs. "Tasty"
- Replies: 18
- Views: 25666
Healthy and tasty should be, and can be, synonymous. Salt, Fat and Sugar: Why Eating Tasty Food Can Solve America's Food Problem . I think the best way to make food tasty is to learn to cook it properly. It's not that difficult. Know that the reason that corporate chefs (at chain restaurants and th...
- Fri May 13, 2011 1:22 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: other readings
- Replies: 9
- Views: 14791
Not really. The closest I've found is the 9inch Diet. I like this one. I do both the 9 Inch Diet and No S, and they work rather well together. I use 9" plates on N days, 10.5" plates on S days. Some here have found books on intuitive eating helpful, but I like the structure and boundaries of No S. ...
- Wed May 11, 2011 6:09 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: new to no s and feeling guilty about eating carbs
- Replies: 26
- Views: 29424
But there are still cultures whose diet consists mainly of potatoes or rice or bread -- and they're not fat or unhealthy. At the end of nearly every month my diet becomes largely potato-based. Without fail, I lose weight. I'd still guess that how much you eat matters a great deal. You probably eat ...
- Wed May 11, 2011 3:15 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: new to no s and feeling guilty about eating carbs
- Replies: 26
- Views: 29424
bread for example. It's flour, water and yeast. Bread will not make you fat. Potatoes will not make you fat, but the oil you fry or roast them in might, so boil, bake or use low-cal sprays. I agree with you that carbs are not evil, but bread or potatoes certainly can make you fat, if you eat them a...
- Tue May 10, 2011 9:16 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Healthy vs. "Tasty"
- Replies: 18
- Views: 25666
I kinda loved that there was a related article entitled, "I love you Mom, but you suck at cooking vegetables." http://summertomato.com/i-love-you-mom-but-you-suck-at-cooking-vegetables/ Huh. I didn't know my sister had a food blog. The cooking she describes is so similar to what I suffered through ...
- Tue May 10, 2011 9:14 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: new to no s and feeling guilty about eating carbs
- Replies: 26
- Views: 29424
Let go of guilt. It doesn't do anyone any good. It doesn't make any sense. Do this: Consider about all the carbs happily consumed by the Italians, and then do a google search on "Italian Street Fashion." Those folks sure don't look like they're suffering, do they? Or look at a page that has their o...
- Tue May 10, 2011 6:45 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Healthy vs. "Tasty"
- Replies: 18
- Views: 25666
Re: Healthy vs. "Tasty"
How to get your family/friends to eat healthy food. I love this food writer! :) It's true. Brian Wansink did a study on this at a kids' summer camp. When they gave the food more appealing names, the kids ate more of it, and said they liked it better, even though the food itself was not changed. Geo...
- Mon May 09, 2011 3:24 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Getting silly at weekends
- Replies: 8
- Views: 15554
Re: Thanks
I spend most of the weekend gardening at the moment, so my hands are full (and dirty) much of the time. Then I come in and pig out. I'll have a look at the other suggestions. Try plating up a moderate snack when you come in from gardening (after you've cleaned up your hands, of course). Then take i...
- Mon May 09, 2011 3:07 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: still trouble with evenings
- Replies: 20
- Views: 25720
Re: It works!
The question I now have is whether any of you hold off on an S day if you are coming in to the weekend with some red days. I feel that I should have at least two or three green days on my calendar before earning an S day. What do you all think? I think trading red days for S days is a very dangerou...
- Fri May 06, 2011 5:06 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: still trouble with evenings
- Replies: 20
- Views: 25720
Re: Afternoon Hunger
I have had two failed days in a row in my second week of starting the No S diet. Largely because I the last two evenings I had events to attend where dinner wasn't served until 8:30 or even 9pm. My hunger peaks around 5pm and I barely make it to 6 or 6:30pm for dinner at home but I have been managi...
- Fri May 06, 2011 4:55 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Getting silly at weekends
- Replies: 8
- Views: 15554
I have a couple of mods to keep my S days under control. No Eating from Packages (NEP). Anything you want to eat has to go on an individual plate or bowl (eating off serving plates is not OK) before you can eat it. Food packages must be closed up and put away before you can start eating. This means ...
- Fri May 06, 2011 12:49 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: The Weather
- Replies: 9
- Views: 16076
Re: The Weather
Anyone else reach for snacks (or want to) alot more on rainy and gloomy days? It was sunny and somewhat warm today for the first time in a long time. I noticed my cravings were cut in half and my willpower strengthened. I'd experienced this before. What really got driven home for me this week, thou...
- Thu May 05, 2011 7:51 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Food Revolution "postponed"
- Replies: 17
- Views: 22890
They like chicken nuggets? Well, show them that chicken nuggets made from scratch aren't difficult and are equally as tasty. You cut some boneless, skinless chicken breast into whatever shapes and sizes you want (fingers and nuggets are pretty easy). You put some bread crumbs and seasoning in a pla...
- Thu May 05, 2011 7:42 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Ketchup a sweet?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 19031
- Thu May 05, 2011 7:31 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Starting again!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 18412
Yes, unfortunately my favorite peanut butter is sitting on top of the fridge along with cookies, chocolates and other sweets that are visible for the rest of the family to devour. On days I would crave for its taste, I would eat it straight out from the jam and cannot stop myself. I have a weakness...
- Thu May 05, 2011 12:58 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Starting again!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 18412
- Tue May 03, 2011 9:17 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: A high-sugar diet may make you look older, as well as fatter
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8586
Do you think that would include fruits? I tend to have a banana with my breakfast and two or three pieces with/as my lunch. It's just sooo good! The article only talks about limiting added sugar, not limiting foods that are naturally higher in sugar. It's a huge pain in the butt to totally eliminat...
- Tue May 03, 2011 7:07 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: A high-sugar diet may make you look older, as well as fatter
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8586
A high-sugar diet may make you look older, as well as fatter
Just some extra incentive to stick to "no sweets":
http://www.prevention.com/9aginghabits/list/2.shtml
http://www.prevention.com/9aginghabits/list/2.shtml
- Tue May 03, 2011 6:49 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Red Day
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11591
Re: Red Day
I guess if I have one red day on a calendar of 30 days, I'm not doing so bad. eh? No, you are not. Think how much better you're doing compared to your pre-No-S habits. Before you started No S, every N day was probably a red day, or at least most of them would have been. You've gone from 20-some red...
- Mon May 02, 2011 7:00 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Starting again!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 18412
I'll tell you a couple of things that might help with the cravings. Even if that old idea about how you crave what your body needs is true, if you're living in a first-world country (and don't have a metabolic disorder or eating disorder), it's extremely unlikely that you have a nutrient deficiency ...
- Fri Apr 29, 2011 1:54 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: gain weight
- Replies: 11
- Views: 17006
- Thu Apr 28, 2011 5:43 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Oprah episode - 20 years younger?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 15627
- Tue Apr 26, 2011 5:04 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Michael Pollan is funny
- Replies: 9
- Views: 12034
But there's a problem with this. The French did have Puritans, or at least Calvinists. They were called Huguenots. They didn't overthrow a king in France, the way they did in England, but they were there. I'm of Huguenot descent. (My family is also from Richmond, VA, where they *shudder* pronounce ...
- Tue Apr 26, 2011 4:10 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Michael Pollan is funny
- Replies: 9
- Views: 12034
- Mon Apr 25, 2011 4:57 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Feeling like quitting
- Replies: 14
- Views: 20884
I've been feeling crabby lately, too. I usually do, around the end of Passover. I'm sick of matzo and my brain chemicals are out of balance from a week of lower-carb dieting. It will be a year for me in May, and I still get the "I don't wanna"s sometimes when I go from S days back to N days. Of cour...
- Thu Apr 21, 2011 4:34 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: The Nightly Pleasures of French Women
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8944
- Wed Apr 20, 2011 9:36 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: The Nightly Pleasures of French Women
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8944
The Nightly Pleasures of French Women
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/washington-cooks-the-nightly-pleasures-of-french-women/2011/04/12/AFXWe95D_story.html Some echoes of No S here. Of course, they eat for pleasure, not health or fuel. At the end, when asked how they eat this way and don't get fat, they say: " We don’t e...
- Mon Apr 18, 2011 12:00 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Happy Passover to Jewish No-S'ers!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4380
Happy Passover to Jewish No-S'ers!
Chag sameach! Happy Passover!
- Fri Apr 15, 2011 6:55 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Hunger pains in the middle of the night
- Replies: 5
- Views: 14062
I'd try eating more at dinner, certainly. Stuff that plate! Pile the food high on the plate. Really. What this plate-stuffing will do is to show you that yes, you can be satisfied with one plate of food and no snacks later. I had a much easier time with No S once I got past that realization. It does...
- Fri Apr 15, 2011 4:05 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Just want a simple life
- Replies: 12
- Views: 18906
- Thu Apr 14, 2011 7:59 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Advice needed re special days
- Replies: 15
- Views: 22911
Really? What if it was something really FILLING and lovely and special and time-consuming? :wink: And you know you'd have leftovers to take for lunch the next day, or have for dinner again? I'd probably still be mad when I had to stop eating at one plateful. I generally reserve time-consuming stuff...
- Thu Apr 14, 2011 6:16 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: You are not a garbage disposal
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8385
I beg to differ. I am a garbage disposal! :lol: No, you're not. Or, if you are, you're a very expensive one to maintain. I suggest using the one in the sink instead. If something happens to it, the worst that is likely to happen is you'll have to replace it and call a plumber. The cost of that, plu...
- Thu Apr 14, 2011 6:09 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Advice needed re special days
- Replies: 15
- Views: 22911
Agreed -- you can make something special and lovely and time-consuming for dinner, and still just eat one plateful with no snacks or sweets. I'm not to the point yet where I could make something special and lovely and time-consuming and not eat more than one plate of it, at least not without resent...
- Thu Apr 14, 2011 5:08 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Advice needed re special days
- Replies: 15
- Views: 22911
Re: Advice needed re special days
I'm wondering if you consider days off work (I mean regular weekdays) as special. I do. I always plan fun things to do, meet some friends in town, whip up something special and time-consuming to eat, spend the whole morning reading in bed... Sooo much looking forward to tomorrow! :D For me, days of...
- Thu Apr 14, 2011 4:56 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: WSJ article on the office candy jar
- Replies: 17
- Views: 29716
"If I have to smell it, I will move it"? What do you want to bet that she's a high-maintenance type? I wouldn't be surprised if she's the only one in the office that complains about the smell of lunches that her co-workers eat at their desks. What does she plan to do when she goes to an environment ...
- Wed Apr 13, 2011 4:23 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: WSJ article on the office candy jar
- Replies: 17
- Views: 29716
- Wed Apr 13, 2011 4:10 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Introduction: suggestions for first mod
- Replies: 14
- Views: 23984
True about restaurants. They are a killer. They certainly can be, but they don't have to be. Lots of restaurants have healthier options, it just isn't always obvious what's healthy and what's not. Fast food restaurants can be better for you than other restaurants. This is a huge irony to me, who gr...
- Wed Apr 13, 2011 3:23 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Introduction: suggestions for first mod
- Replies: 14
- Views: 23984
How big are your plates? I do the Nine Inch Mod, in which I use 9" diameter plates for meals on N days. Are you eating out a lot? Would limiting eating out possibly work for you? Are you eating a lot at casual chain restaurants (Applebee's, TGI Fridays, or similar)? If you are, you might want to che...
- Tue Apr 12, 2011 11:02 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Question re late-afternoon crashes
- Replies: 24
- Views: 32644
If you look at different cultures around the world, you notice that there is not one single eating pattern that dominates everywhere. Different cultures eat at different times. That tells us that there isn't a single, optimal pattern of meal times for humans, or, if there is, it doesn't really make ...
- Tue Apr 12, 2011 7:55 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: don't get too smug!!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 17255
- Tue Apr 12, 2011 6:31 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: don't get too smug!!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 17255
- Tue Apr 12, 2011 2:29 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Question re late-afternoon crashes
- Replies: 24
- Views: 32644
I have been told over and over and over how bad it is to get hungry and how important eating 5 times a day is I was afraid of not snacking, and crashing like you said. Being hungry is not a red emergency alert situation, for someone with a normal metabolism (ie, this doesn't apply to you if you hav...
- Mon Apr 11, 2011 5:29 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: how many false starts before this was your habbit???
- Replies: 12
- Views: 19309
- Mon Apr 11, 2011 5:28 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Question re late-afternoon crashes
- Replies: 24
- Views: 32644
I went through this with the nori seaweed I used to eat for snacks. I figured, it doesn't have significant calories, and it's healthy, it must be OK. But when I was honest with myself, I realized that snacking on seaweed was threatening the barrier between "eating times" and "non-eating times". The ...
- Wed Apr 06, 2011 4:41 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Habit formation and the extinction burst
- Replies: 18
- Views: 31343
Rewards: Planning a really nice meal, which is also a good reminder that No S does NOT mean you don't eat anything that tastes good, unlike some diets. It could even be a reminder that rewarding yourself with food or alcohol doesn't have to mean unlimited or even large amounts of food or alcohol. A...
- Wed Apr 06, 2011 4:20 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Habit formation and the extinction burst
- Replies: 18
- Views: 31343
Despite the name, an extinction burst can persist for a while, at least according to Wikipedia. Mine wasn't just one episode of resentment over having to stop at one meal, it was more extended than that. For me, non-food rewards often take the form of re-reading a favorite book, re-watching a favori...
- Tue Apr 05, 2011 6:15 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Habit formation and the extinction burst
- Replies: 18
- Views: 31343
Re: Habit formation and the extinction burst
I think this is an excellent article that helps explain what goes on when we change habits and form new ones. Stay with it until the end...a short course on classical and operant conditioning with the main point for us dealing with extinction of unwanted behavior. http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/0...
- Tue Apr 05, 2011 3:49 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Saletan and food at movie theaters
- Replies: 8
- Views: 14460
Saletan and food at movie theaters
In this Slate article: http://www.slate.com/id/2290459/ William Saletan laments that movie theaters will be exempt from the requirement to list calories on menus. Some quotes from the article: "That's a funny way to put it, because the one thing you can't escape at a movie theater is execrable food....
- Thu Mar 31, 2011 3:06 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: New and hopeful
- Replies: 25
- Views: 28961
Thanks Nice and Sienna. Great advice! My No S book is on my kindle but it might be worth getting a hard copy to have laying around She's away at school right now but I'll think of some way to sneak this into conversation. I really think she might do well with this. Another option might be, when you...
- Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:38 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: New and hopeful
- Replies: 25
- Views: 28961
I have lived Option 1 and that is what brought me to No S. I got tired of living the diet. Day in, day out. Normalcy was nonexistent. Everything was the diet. Unfortunately she has seen me like this. I saw my parents doing that, too. And I saw them eventually getting sick of it and giving up, and g...
- Wed Mar 30, 2011 3:53 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: New and hopeful
- Replies: 25
- Views: 28961
I would love to introduce this to my daughter who is also in college. She abhors any kind of "diet" and I think this system might just appeal to her. I reckon if I am successful that might pique her interest, too! I was like this in college. I'll tell you what I was thinking, maybe it will help you...
- Wed Mar 30, 2011 3:19 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: the hunger pang thang
- Replies: 19
- Views: 26347
I think about my next meal all the time. It's getting quite annoying though. I feel like I think about it all the time now. I did that in my first few months of No S. I still sometimes do it, when I am bored. I suspect it's normal. There's an upside to it, actually. Supposedly, there are studies sh...
- Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:49 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: French Fries
- Replies: 10
- Views: 16085
Old Bay doesn't actually contain any shellfish, it's just often used to season them. It's certified kosher, and shellfish aren't kosher. Of course, your husband could have a food aversion to Old Bay, in which case it wouldn't actually matter if the Old Bay was what made him sick or not, just whether...
- Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:31 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: the hunger pang thang
- Replies: 19
- Views: 26347
Hunger is like a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon (that, unfortunately, I can't find an image of online): Calvin looks at a book and freaks out. "Omigosh! This library book was due two days ago! What will they do? Are they going to interrogate me and beat me up?! Are they going to break my knees?? Will I h...
- Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:41 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: the hunger pang thang
- Replies: 19
- Views: 26347
Know that being hungry is not a red emergency alert situation. Nothing bad will happen to you if you feel hungry for a few hours (assuming you don't have any metabolic disorders such as diabetes, ask your doctor about this if you do). Really. It's not like having to go to the bathroom, where somethi...
- Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:16 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: salads, bread, and apps at restaurants, what do you do??
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7341
I order an entree, nothing else. The entree and whatever comes with it are OK, anything else (appetizers, extra sides, dessert) is not. No bread or chips and salsa before my entree comes. I also don't go to restaurants that serve huge portions (most casual chain restaurants) or a lot of stuff along ...
- Tue Mar 29, 2011 9:07 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: the hunger pang thang
- Replies: 19
- Views: 26347
Were you stressed or bored? Those can masquerade as hunger, too, at least for some of us. Could you see or smell food? Or were you watching TV with food commercials, or doing something that might make you think of food? Those can make me feel hungry. You might want to try to stay away from food duri...
- Tue Mar 29, 2011 2:26 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: New and hopeful
- Replies: 25
- Views: 28961
Thanks a lot everyone! I have a lot of habits that I am going to need to kick while I am at school for the week. Soda is a big one, and energy drinks. Do a few at a time, not all of them at once. As a human, you've got a limited supply of willpower. If you spread it too thin, you'll end up trying t...
- Tue Mar 29, 2011 2:16 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: New and hopeful
- Replies: 25
- Views: 28961
If you like salad, this is good advice (at least assuming you don't go overboard with the extras like dressing). However, as a salad hater, seeing someone tell me to have a salad every day might have been enough to get me to give up this plan in the early stages (and if you happen to be like me in ...
- Tue Mar 29, 2011 1:39 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: New and hopeful
- Replies: 25
- Views: 28961
Re: New and hopeful
Hey, I was introduced to NoS by my dad who has lost about 17lbs since the new year, and I have been unhappy with myself so I wanted to give something new a try. I'm living at college at the moment, and plan to live on my own come summer time. Right now my only big question is 1. I have a meal plan,...
- Tue Mar 29, 2011 1:14 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: New and White Knuckling It
- Replies: 24
- Views: 32723
Why are we talking about leaving food? You get to eat all the food on your plate. I have a bad habit of continuing to eat if there's still food on my plate, regardless of whether I'm full or not. I'm trying to train myself not to do that. Obviously, I think it's a good idea to train yourself not to...
- Fri Mar 25, 2011 1:21 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Question about home fried potatos
- Replies: 13
- Views: 18975
No, you shouldn't feel guilty about eating fried potatoes. But, you also shouldn't feel obligated to finish the food on your plate, if you decide you don't want it all. Cleaning your plate may have been a good idea when food was scarce and expensive (think WWII), but food is not scarce or expensive ...
- Thu Mar 24, 2011 6:58 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: NEW a college student!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 21965
I wish No S had existed when I was in college. I would have been so much better off in college if I had known of a moderate way of avoiding overeating that didn't require me to give up everything I liked. See, at that time, I thought "healthy eating" was an all-or-nothing thing- either you ate as mu...
- Wed Mar 23, 2011 5:13 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Could we use Everyday Systems for this?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9721
My exercise goals are "5 of 7" (exercise 5 days of the week, doesn't matter which days). I just keep a habitcal where I put on a green when I exercise. I don't worry about yellows or reds. It's a simple count, that I can see at a glance. For something like 5 meals out, I wouldn't even worry about w...
- Wed Mar 23, 2011 4:58 pm
- Forum: Everyday Systems General Discussion
- Topic: How do I look at someone else's HabitCal?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 10582
How do I look at someone else's HabitCal?
I've heard that I can look at other people's HabitCals. How do I do that?
- Wed Mar 23, 2011 4:45 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: newbie with a question about snacks
- Replies: 10
- Views: 17413
I have always suffered from what I call "compulsive and " It means that I find myself saying i'll just have a sandwich, and some chips, and a yoghurt, and some chocoloate, and a sugary coffee etc etc until i have and -ed myself all day long!! I think that planning everything for a meal in one go, w...
- Wed Mar 23, 2011 4:28 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Could we use Everyday Systems for this?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9721
Re: Could we use Everyday Systems for this?
Not online, but... Have a couple of jars sitting in your house. At the start of the week (and taking your examples), put 3 red lunch marbles and 2 blue dinner marbles in one jar, and take one out when you use it. When that jar is empty, no more meals out. In the other jar, place one marble at the s...
- Wed Mar 23, 2011 2:32 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: newbie with a question about snacks
- Replies: 10
- Views: 17413
For now at least, I would put them on one plate, or at least have everything together in front of you before you start eating anything. One reason for this is that you want to see everything you're going to eat together before you start eating. If it's excessive, you can see the excess. I used to ha...
- Wed Mar 23, 2011 2:10 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Brand New!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10355
If you're having cravings, it is a good idea to make the foods you crave inconvenient to get to at the wrong times. Don't keep snacks on your desk, or in your purse. Don't have change for the vending machine handy. Don't hang out in the kitchen, except at meal times or when you're cleaning up. You w...
- Wed Mar 23, 2011 1:44 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Brand New!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10355
Re: Brand New!
They were technically S days so I let myself buy chocolate when we went to a chocolate shop. I was surprised to find that after 10 days of no sweets everything tasted way too sweet. Privately I was glad. Perhaps my sweet tooth was broken. But later, because I could, I at more chocolate. Less sweet!...
- Wed Mar 23, 2011 1:14 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Could we use Everyday Systems for this?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9721
Could we use Everyday Systems for this?
I'm thinking of implementing some rules where I'm limited to a certain number of events per week or per month. I'm wondering if anyone has figured out a way to use HabitCal to do this, since I've found HabitCal so helpful for keeping me in compliance with other rules. Maybe some of you who track S e...
- Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:58 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Back from the land of Low Carb Diets
- Replies: 10
- Views: 17668
I go psycho if I try going on a low-carb diet. I eat lower-carb every year at Passover for eight days. By the end, I usually describe myself as "mean as a snake" and "a bitch from hell". I get really irritable. The brain makes serotonin out of carbohydrates, and I've got depression that is treated w...
- Tue Mar 22, 2011 2:47 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Bless me, fellow No-S'ers, for I have transgressed
- Replies: 13
- Views: 19861
Yep, you had a downright awful terribly bad day. They're going to come around now and then. The trick is to realize that they're going to happen and when they do, just mark it and move on. I don't think one should try to "prepare" for them and I don't think we should feel guilty about them. They ha...
- Tue Mar 22, 2011 12:47 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Bless me, fellow No-S'ers, for I have transgressed
- Replies: 13
- Views: 19861
first of all, you are not bad, you just ate a hamentashen.. lol Oh, I know that. I was frustrated with myself, though. but we all have moments like this, so no, you aren't alone. i had some ice cream tonight. i really had a good day till then, but it was left over from the weekend and i was too foo...
- Tue Mar 22, 2011 2:17 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Bless me, fellow No-S'ers, for I have transgressed
- Replies: 13
- Views: 19861
Bless me, fellow No-S'ers, for I have transgressed
Confess your No S sins here, or just read mine and say "tsk, tsk". When Nicest Husband came home tonight, he told me "go out and get some ice." I asked him why, and he said he'd known since lunchtime that the freezer wasn't working right. I went and got the ice, then tried to move as much of the stu...
- Mon Mar 21, 2011 5:12 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: 290 lbs.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 25300
You can hurt yourself walking in snow, especially if there's ice, too. Nicest Husband hurt his tailbone that way a few years ago, and still has pain from it. He's in his 30's, so it doesn't just happen to old people, either. I've managed to fall on snowy sidewalks, though fortunately I've managed no...
- Mon Mar 21, 2011 5:07 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Stuffed....and fed up with myself!!!
- Replies: 26
- Views: 29235
This am, I went through my freezer; Man, do I spend a LOT of money on treats - half of which never get eaten! Reluctantly, but feeling positive, I tossed most of them into the trash. i.e. all the scones, cake bars, baked goods that I had accumulated over the past weeks. Some of which were probably ...
- Mon Mar 21, 2011 2:30 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Stuffed....and fed up with myself!!!
- Replies: 26
- Views: 29235
putting a little bit of an obstacle in my way can be enough to stop me from excess indulgence. Brian Wansink talks about this in his book, Mindless Eating . Even a tiny bit of extra inconvenience can make people eat surprisingly less. It makes a difference to the number of Hershey Kisses you'll eat...
- Mon Mar 21, 2011 1:47 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Stuffed....and fed up with myself!!!
- Replies: 26
- Views: 29235
I have a couple of mods to keep me from grazing all day: 1. No eating food directly from a package, unless you're out of the house and it's a single-serving package. At home, all food has to go on a plate or in a bowl before I can eat it. No keeping the package handy while you're eating, either- it ...
- Fri Mar 18, 2011 1:56 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Sugar and your mood
- Replies: 16
- Views: 18780
- Thu Mar 17, 2011 3:09 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Introduction and Hello!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 19646
- Wed Mar 16, 2011 7:55 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: French School Lunches
- Replies: 8
- Views: 14150
Are we so afraid of wasting time? Is it economic efficiency that drives us? Fear of competitors in the Far East who will out-produce us if we take long lunches? Or are we still stuck in the Puritanical "Food is only for fuel, not pleasure" frame of mind? Can we get off this self-denying treadmill? ...
- Tue Mar 15, 2011 3:19 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Sugar and your mood
- Replies: 16
- Views: 18780
Trying and failing to accomplish something is generally frustrating. Frustration certainly doesn't put me in a better mood. Make sure you're not using your bad mood to excuse your failures. The problem with doing that (well, one of the problems) is that there are going to be situations that are goin...
- Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:58 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Heartfelt thanks and other musings
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10711
They don't kick you off this forum for having a failure and marking a "red" day on your HabitCal. The earth does not stop turning if you fail at No S. The sun will still rise the next day after you fail. I didn't fully realize these things on an emotional level until after my first failure. Now, fai...
- Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:43 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Swapping S-Days while still establishing N-Days
- Replies: 16
- Views: 20076
I failed my exam, but managed to stick with the No S rules. Sorry to hear about the exam, but congratulations for sticking to No-S! Failing an exam would probably have been enough for me to justify breaking the rules, even though I know it would be cheating. It felt good to be able to have some con...
- Mon Mar 14, 2011 4:42 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Swapping S-Days while still establishing N-Days
- Replies: 16
- Views: 20076
- Mon Mar 14, 2011 3:58 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: No S is good for stress eaters and boredom eaters
- Replies: 12
- Views: 21221
No S is good for stress eaters and boredom eaters
I'm a stress eater and a boredom eater. When I am stressed or bored, I feel something that, to me, feels an awful lot like hunger. No S is a good diet for this, because it doesn't require me to tell genuine hunger from other feelings. I eat at meal times and not at other times, regardless of whether...
- Thu Mar 10, 2011 4:36 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Swapping S-Days while still establishing N-Days
- Replies: 16
- Views: 20076
Another problem is, for most people in most situations, there really is no such thing as "just this once". If you let yourself give in to your food craving once, you lower the bar to doing the same thing again when you get another food craving sometime in the future. Everything you do and don't do s...
- Thu Mar 10, 2011 4:04 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Swapping S-Days while still establishing N-Days
- Replies: 16
- Views: 20076
I'm fighting a battle very similar to this right now. It's a little different. My problem isn't food cravings, but that I'm a stress eater. I like to eat when I feel stressed. I'm taking a Red Hat Linux certification exam tomorrow (wish me luck), and I am feeling extremely stressed about it now (sor...
- Thu Mar 10, 2011 3:47 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Finally Did It
- Replies: 21
- Views: 26514
Re: Finally Did It
Hi montanajack - I did intermittent fasts (IF from now on) almost out of the block with mine, but I was used to them and did them in the context of No S. I guess I'd call it a mod - aggregate No S. IF days I move my plates up to the evening. I would say that anything you were already doing before y...
- Wed Mar 09, 2011 9:40 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Swapping S-Days while still establishing N-Days
- Replies: 16
- Views: 20076
I plan my S days in advance at the start of each month. I let myself add one in later if I get a social invitation, but I don't let myself add one just because I'm craving something or feeling hungry, or because I'll have a chance to eat something I really like. I know that, if I let myself do that ...
- Wed Mar 09, 2011 9:21 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: What's a Fail?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 28325
I don't consider diet sodas sweets. I need them as a source of caffeine. You do not want to be around me, if I don't get my caffeine. I'm not giving up my caffeine until someone comes up with some definitive evidence that not doing so is likely to kill me. Since circa 1995, I have only drunk non-die...
- Wed Mar 09, 2011 9:12 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: evening swap
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8871
Re: evening swap
I just started this last week and I have a problem with it. My "indulgences" usually happen on Friday nights AND the weekend. Can I start my S-days Friday after dinner and quit my Sunday S day before dinner? In other words, treat Friday as an N day until the evening, but no snacks or sweets after d...
- Wed Mar 09, 2011 5:29 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: What's a Fail?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 28325
Most especially, do not confuse having a failure with being a failure. Having them is normal - and one of the valuable things to be learned from No-S (at least for me) is how to cope with them productively. There are three kinds of No S dieters: 1. Those who have had at least one failure 2. Those w...