Everyday Systems

Hi! I'm new. I've been on No S for 2 weeks and I love it. I lost 4 pounds the first week and nothing the second week, but I feel great. I'm trying to get rid of 15 lbs of baby weight. My baby is already 18 months old!

We went out for lunch to day with family, and the kids meal included a chocolate chip cookie, one of my favorite things in the while world. I fed my baby a few bites of it and then left it on the table at the restaurant. When I got home, I saw that my mom brought the cookie! I put in the kitchen trash and threw some other trash on top of it. I'm chewing gum and trying not to think about it! Until No S, I had been eating one cookie or candy bar and snacking 2 or 3 times every day since my baby was born. No more! Three meals a day feels great, but gets really hard between lunch and dinner.

Anyway, just wanted to introduce myself. I've been reading through the message boards and find them very inspiring.

This reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where he eats out of the garbage can. And the Special K commercial where it's 5pm at work and she almost eats the cake out of the garbage. This weekend I almost ate a brownie out of the garbage but was able to stop myself. It was tough though.

I also am in week 2. I started off enthusiastic (or was it delirium from the sugar withdrawal?) but my resolve is fading big time. Trying to hang on til Saturday when I can collapse into more brownies.

leafy_greens wrote:This reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where he eats out of the garbage can. And the Special K commercial where it's 5pm at work and she almost eats the cake out of the garbage. This weekend I almost ate a brownie out of the garbage but was able to stop myself. It was tough though.

I also am in week 2. I started off enthusiastic (or was it delirium from the sugar withdrawal?) but my resolve is fading big time. Trying to hang on til Saturday when I can collapse into more brownies.

George Castanza eats the eclaire out of the trash can and gets caught, that's the first thing I thought of when I read Blueberry puts the trash on top of the cookie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t36jwyVncmQ

Good for you!!
Me personally, I tend to flush stuff down the toilet (as long as it won't clog it up) because I don't trust myself to not fish it out of the garbage later
Keep up the great work!
Debs

I compost my organic non-meat waste. I keep it in a large plastic container in the fridge until I have time to go put it under mulch in my garden. Once something goes in that container, it ain't coming out to be eaten. If I lived where the weather is too cold for that, I'd get a container like the one mentioned in [i]Worms Eat My Garbage.[/i] (I don't know why the formatting icons don't work for me. Is there some secret to using them?) But I've also frozen partial portions of desserts.

Geneen Roth, in her first book about compulsive eating, says she once fished some chocolates out of the trash and gave them to a carpenter who was working at her house. Her friend said to her, "You're bad. Very, very bad." Thinking of that story has reined me in once or twice.