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. Do strict no S. If you have a mod... be strict. Write only one post until the 5th to be sure everyone gets in at the top, and edit that one as often as you can. After the 5th we can all keep in touch at the bottom for encouragement. Good luck! 
Debs xx Debs x
See my new Avatar and signature - more details in my daily check in...
I need to tie a bigger knot...I won't elaborate here, but I slipped...
YOUPIIIII felt crappy to mess up my green streak still in a rut -- will try to make a new beginning tomorrow
- 163.5 SUCCESS ). Weight: 161.5Deb, I just read your update. You know what I think? You are going to have some AMAZING S days! And you know those gourmet chocolate shops let you buy one perfect piece at a time, so I predict you are going to have no problem at all.Our new place might just screw up my whole diet tho!!!
It's three doors away from *the absolute best* pizza place ever, and, hahah get this guys,,,, directly next to,,,,,,,,
A gourmet hand dipped chocolate store!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL!!!
Helppp!!!!!!!!!!!
Debs x becauseIcan wrote:I'm thinking that I'll need a mod to get myself back to no s full swing.
My May plan is N days mon-fri but allowing one, portion controlled S on Wed evening to carry me through the week. And no more than 3 red days to consider May a success.
I'd also like to weigh in once a month to help with accountability but I'll need to buy a scale before I can start that.
I have about 80lbs to lose.
Heidi
May 1 Ugh my first red day for the month
May 2 S day
May 3 S day
Plan on getting a scale next time I'm out shopping to do a monthly weigh in. It will help keep me honest I think.
. Oh man, I've been on that runaway train so many times ... I don't quite know how to explain how I reel myself in after these kinds on incidents. It has something to do with going deep inside and telling myself that I will follow my plan no matter what happens.butterfly1000 wrote:by Saturday afternoon I started getting off track, and it ended up feeling like a runaway train for the rest of the week-end ... I'm kind of feeling discouraged
I didn't have much of a plan for the week-end. On Friday I was hoping that the week-end would be more of a Non-S day, then I adjusted it to 2 deviations, and then it was free-for-all. I agree with you that we need a plan for the week-end -- I was actually glad that it was Monday today, so that I didn't have to decide what was allowed or not. I'll try to plan next week-end a little better.winnie96 wrote:[That said, you gotta have a Plan to be committed to a Plan. Did you have a plan for the weekend? In the beginning of my No-S-ing, I thought weekends were sort of a free fall zone, where I didn't have to pay any attention whatsoever. Lately, I've come to the conclusion that although S-Days are kind of "days off", it still helps to put some kind of plan/fence around how "off" you really want them to be.
Mimi has lost 4.5 already... no input Marc?... Debs, I could never have food as neighbors! keep strong...Thalia, are you still boring? great!.. there are so many of us doing great! Does this challenge help? ) and this is more like a team. right? Can you tell I was a cheerleader in highschool? oh yeah and a pair of pants and a couple of shirts ... I don't really like buying clothes actually. Besides I have a lot of clothes in my closet that I can put on now, a lot of things that weren't fitting me anymore. They were in the back and now they fit perfectly since I've been shrinking, it's really as if I had bought hundreds of dollars' worth of clothes. Too many choices now !! It's been going quite well for me since april 27th, right on track, not a lot of cravings and my PERSONAL alternate methods help me with that too (DISCLAIMER !!!) , exercising well ... so I am pleased. Does everyone have that disappearing-link-thing happen if you save it as a favorite after logging on? . I added the tulips because it will remind me that exercise can be fun (some yard work is) and the red will remind me that snacking is a pretty temptation that will show up as red on my habitcal! I know, I think too much... or so my Dad tells me. In case you're wondering how old I am... 42. No flower child Hey, Happy Mother's day to you ! That was right before going to a thai restaurant for dinner on Saturday evening. I'm all too familiar with emotional eating. I was having a good week last week (the first really good one since I started in March), and then on Friday night I had a dessert at supper, but it was an S (special) supper so it was o.k., then later in the evening I had more dessert (no excuses for that one) -- over the week-end I was feeling so overwhelmed with everything I needed to get done on top of the special events because of mother's day (I'm not complaining about mother's day, it's just that my week-ends are already quite filled up, and this is over and above everything else). So my self-control went out the window, and I ate and ate and ate .... (sorry for all the complainingmarcdesbiens wrote: I guess I was disturbed and it lead to the 'emotional eating' after the incident ... anyway my day was ruined due to the EMOTIONAL EATING.
, but sometimes I feel like an alcoholic or a drug addict where my head is telling me that I don't need to eat that dessert, but, for the life of me I can't stop myself). and get on with it. You deserve it. You're doing great! No punches at least, just a lot of insults and later I was making sure he wasn't still following us as he had done previously. ... so that will probably cause some extra water weight, I am already worrying I won't be under 220 tomorrow morning despite being spot on with my exercises and diet for 2 days in a row (Sunday and now monday) ... Yu'll get there. I think most of us have those little slips WAY more often than you... I do! Keep talkin' so we can all learn how you "don't stop until you're there"!!!!! 2 snacks - 1 bagel & 1 scoop vanilla ice cream... both were yummy! Moving on... I am not supposed to eat between meals, period. The wimpy pangs of hunger will go away. The more I resist, the less often they will show up to taunt me. Building good habits is hard, but I am determined this time to get it right. Tomorrow will be a success. It was a huge hurdle for me to even get 5 weekdays in green until April and now it's getting easier! I know I could fall back to my "whatever" attitude at any time, so I try to keep going. Like Marc says... if you have a red day, act like a monk (or nun) for the next 2 days. I think it kind of makes up for the red. Don't wait... jump on track today! Thanks Renée, for the encouragement. You're right! I'm in a major rut.~reneew wrote:Butterfly! ... Jump quick, you're in a rut!!! You did at least 7 non-red days in a row... you can do it again! End your little streak of red today! If you need a goal, go for the 21 day club!
What exactly is the 21 day club, and does it work the same way as other posts? I've seen it mentioned in some conversations, but I'm not sure what it is. I'll try to look it up in the main No S site. ) As for the popcorn, for goodness sake, you guys almost had me going to make some!!! Popcorn is one of my favorite things and I have a theater machine myself (a dream I always had ), and I love it, but don't use butter. When I counted fat grams, I ate tons of microwave popcorn. I have a popper for the microwave that uses no oil if you want. It's a bowl and lid and it's from Walmart too. It's handy because it's already in a bowl. I use butter spray to make the salt stick too. Marc, I think we're worried about you because people have started fires doing the bag thing. Be careful... or go to Walmart. I've started 2 microwave fires. The first was food in a bag tied with a ribbon with a tiny gold stripe. (My grandma used to tie everything with ribbon ) It sparked and caught fire almost right away. The second was microwaving stale corn chips in a bowl to crisp them up. I think there again it was the oil content. Thalia, I hope you know I'm teasing! It really is getting easier for me since I started back on no s April 1. I can't wait to have popcorn. No, No, I can wait! )
