Everyday Systems

I am in the Habit of checking all the S days on my No S Habitcal yellow right at the beginning of the month. I do that because with those days there really is no possibility of failure according to Reinhard. Now obviously if I eat allllllllllll day, including all 3 Sesses. then I would change the square to red for sure. But I am not and have not been doing that at all. Not even close. So for me, I just do it at the beginning of the month because it saves time.

Anybody else do this?

I don't do it for the whole month, but I do check out S days as S days somewhat in advance.

Right now I like checking off each day one at a time. I think as I settle into this lifestyle more and more I will do it in spurts and less often. But I am (just a little) gung-ho right now and so I want to be able to mark my progress every day.

I'm with you Jill - I'm actually slightly concerned I'm developing some sort of discussion boards addition. I keep checking it several times a day, so at least when I can enter those pages with an actual aim of ticking a box, it feels a little more justified

Hey, Try, I also check the dicussions boards frequently It helps to keep me focused: dieting is a lonely business at best but try discussing NoS with family and friends and it gets nerve-wracking as another thread has pointed out. Like on a Sunday when you accept a dish of ice cream with chocolate sauce: "Is that on your diet?" and on Monday when you refuse the same: "Can't you make up your mind?"

OrganicGal wrote:I am in the Habit of checking all the S days on my No S Habitcal yellow right at the beginning of the month. I do that because with those days there really is no possibility of failure according to Reinhard. Now obviously if I eat allllllllllll day, including all 3 Sesses. then I would change the square to red for sure. But I am not and have not been doing that at all. Not even close. So for me, I just do it at the beginning of the month because it saves time.

Anybody else do this?

I don't think S days can become red for any reason. Just my two cents worth.

I actually agree with you wosnes about S days can never become red days. I would only do a red square on an S day it I were so totally outlandish that I made myself ill from eating or something...and then it would be used as a learning tool for myself.

Hey Shirls! I think this is why I still hesitate whether to tell people about my noSing and that's why it is definitely good to have people here who understand!

OrganicGal, I think you are cute to check off all those yellow squares for the month! this thought has flown through my mind but like some of the others I just get a little spike out of doing those checks daily.

THEN I almost always get a good look by resetting my page and seeing my progress from the beginning. That seems to give me a GREAT sense of satisfaction.

I have also recently come up with a way to use Habit Cal to aid me in developing good habits for a project I am doing at work. So now I will get to check off two squares each day .... YIPPEE !!!!!!!

Does deriving such great satisfaction from such simple pleasures make me a SQUARE!!!!!!!!!!??????????? oh maybe I am a green square! I know for sure there is a supernerd deep within
ooops ... ok .. maybe not SO DEEP!

Blueskighs

blueskighs....you are a funny not so deep green squared nerd!

i like that ... deep greem squared nerd!

maybe I should change my name!

Blueskighs

I have set up habitcals for each of the 3 noS's so that I would be able to see where I fall apart if or when I do. I love the green/yellow look so far. I do have one more and that is to get me to bed before midnight. As you can see, I am not doing so well at that. Now that I have completed 21 successful days it is time to get that other part of my life in order!! I do like ticking the boxes --- maybe I should have more.
Time for bed, goodnight to you all. ((*_*))

OrganicGal wrote:I am in the Habit of checking all the S days on my No S Habitcal yellow right at the beginning of the month. I do that because with those days there really is no possibility of failure according to Reinhard. Now obviously if I eat allllllllllll day, including all 3 Sesses. then I would change the square to red for sure. But I am not and have not been doing that at all. Not even close. So for me, I just do it at the beginning of the month because it saves time.

Anybody else do this?

While I don't change any of my Yellow days to Red, even if I've been a idiot on an S day, I do tick off all those Yellow boxes right at the beginning of the month, 'cause I like the anticipation of it... I only have to tick off 5 boxes before I get the "freedom"! (yellow days). I like the no-obligation weekends.

And, besides... weekends are way too busy for me, so I don't normally get on to tick off those Yellow boxes then anyway. So, it just makes more sense to tick them all off at the beginning, and only have to fill in the others during the week.

Shirls,
I know what you mean about people being confused about what you're eating or not eating. I haven't even told my husband that I'm on the No-S eating plan, but he's noticed that I've changed my eating pattern. Today he had a bowl of ice cream for dessert and he didn't offer me any at first. That's not like him. I had said no thank you to dessert a couple of nights ago, so I guess he just decided that I had stopped eating desserts and he didn't want to tempt me. I told him that he shouldn't worry about asking if I'd like something, that I would tell him yes or no. He said that he had noticed that too.

If your family knows that you're dieting, then it seems like it would be pretty easy to tell them the rules, since they're so straightforward, but I don't know why it should be a big deal to people if we say no thank you one day and yes please the next. Isn't that what non-dieting people do?

On the topic question, I haven't gotten into checking days off yet. I'm beginning to think that I might like to do the graph to keep track of the overall trend of weight loss, but I haven't had any days so far that I wouldn't have checked off as successful. For some reason, this is just working for me. If I find it getting harder you'll find me checking in regularly too, because I think it's a great form of motivation. I'm into clicker training, and it's like giving yourself a click as a reward for getting it right.

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

Loved this!