Sarahkay and Lily, thank you - I am going through a couple of rough days emotionally (family of origin drama) and it cheers me up so much to hear that something I said is encouraging to you.
I'm so glad actually right now I have No-S as my foundation through all of this - I haven't medicated myself with food or wine at all the past two days. Yesterday was a very solid
GREEN. Now, I'm not saying that I will never trip myself up again in the future, and I'm trying not to get cocky and think I have this licked for good, but the fact of the matter is that No-S is so low key that it is entirely possible, once you get the habit going a bit, to keep it up even during stressful times, and that is amazing to me, because I know if I was supposed to be counting calories or points right now, everything would have gone out of the window and I'd be stuffing my face with food and sucking down red wine.
In fact, I would say that having No-S as a framework for myself is actually reducing my stress level, because in preventing me from medicating myself with food/wine, it also relieves me from having the post-binge guilt and self recrimination. And as we all know, that only makes a bad situation worse.
And - coming to this board with all these supportive people is a bright spot in my day, too!
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