success
3rd try - first success
Jill's check in
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Welcome, Jill!
The hunger is mostly habit. It'll pass if you're firm. All those little snack cues (boredom,stress) will lose their associative power. Instead, mealtime and hunger will gradually start to go together.
If you need to placate hunger somehow, try a drink, even a caloric drink. Milk is good: caloric and protein rich to address any actual physical hunger, but not sweet.
Reinhard
The hunger is mostly habit. It'll pass if you're firm. All those little snack cues (boredom,stress) will lose their associative power. Instead, mealtime and hunger will gradually start to go together.
If you need to placate hunger somehow, try a drink, even a caloric drink. Milk is good: caloric and protein rich to address any actual physical hunger, but not sweet.
Reinhard
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Two dates and a banana? I wouldn't get too worked up about that! Technical failure, but not huge, and at least they were healthy foods. No-S definitely has a learning curve, so just count this as part of your complete adventure! Fix yourself bigger meals for a while until you get the habit and hunger under control.
So after I posted about that banana...there was the spoonful of ice cream, the couple of potato chips, the handful of fries, the cherry coke 
(you know, since it was failure already). This is the second diet I've tried (the first was five years ago) so experiencing a learning curve on dieting as well. Now there is a much better understanding of those blow up effects. I'm looking forward to starting again on Monday.
(you know, since it was failure already). This is the second diet I've tried (the first was five years ago) so experiencing a learning curve on dieting as well. Now there is a much better understanding of those blow up effects. I'm looking forward to starting again on Monday.Monday
success
I'm not quite sure if it was a success when we ordered appetizers as well as entrees for dinner, but I ate about 1/3 of the dinner portion to compensate. The main reason I consider today a big success is that I wasn't hungry between meals!
I'm not quite sure if it was a success when we ordered appetizers as well as entrees for dinner, but I ate about 1/3 of the dinner portion to compensate. The main reason I consider today a big success is that I wasn't hungry between meals!
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Tuesday
failure
I knew today would be a failure because my friend is having a dinner interview at her house and asked me to cook. I'm going for the healthy today instead of no-snacks because I have to taste test although healthy has never helped me lose weight.
I knew today would be a failure because my friend is having a dinner interview at her house and asked me to cook. I'm going for the healthy today instead of no-snacks because I have to taste test although healthy has never helped me lose weight.
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wednesday
success
I needed today to be completely successful because last night was such an abject failure. The interview got canceled so my friend had dh and I over for dinner to help her eat all the food I had cooked.
I started tai kwon do classes with dd. Since I've never had any lessons before, I'm in class with 3-5 yo kids. It's really fun, but I can't help thinking that the mothers sitting on the sidelines are never going to let my daughter play with their kids because normal moms don't take tai kwon do with their children.
I needed today to be completely successful because last night was such an abject failure. The interview got canceled so my friend had dh and I over for dinner to help her eat all the food I had cooked.
I started tai kwon do classes with dd. Since I've never had any lessons before, I'm in class with 3-5 yo kids. It's really fun, but I can't help thinking that the mothers sitting on the sidelines are never going to let my daughter play with their kids because normal moms don't take tai kwon do with their children.
Last edited by Jill on Fri Feb 29, 2008 12:35 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Thursday
success
Down another 2 pounds. I like the way the no s diet shows where I have problems with food. I always thought that I was overweight because of my thyroid, but two years after treatment began, I was 15 pounds up. That is obviously not thyroid.
Down another 2 pounds. I like the way the no s diet shows where I have problems with food. I always thought that I was overweight because of my thyroid, but two years after treatment began, I was 15 pounds up. That is obviously not thyroid.
Monday & Tuesday
near miss dd gave me a piece of chocolate off her ice cream bar and I ate it.
success
success
Thursday
failure
It started with a homeschool group tour of wild oats. For some reason, I wasn't thinking about samples so I had lunch beforehand. Somewhere between the cheese and the 2 bite cupcakes I decided this was going to be a failure day and I was going to thoroughly enjoy it.
We went to a friends house for dinner and I ended up eating two donuts for dessert.
When I was young, I remember stopping when I wasn't hungry, but an hour after dinner my friend put out popcorn for the kids, and I was eating handful after handful even though I wasn't even hungry and it didn't taste that good. I thought about the new research that shows fat "communicating" with your body. Somewhere, I have learned to listen and I need to stop.
The wonderful thing about this diet is that I always know I'll get right back on the next day, something about the daily check in, even if I'm the only person that ever sees it. I'd like another color though, one for minor failure and got right back on the same day. Maybe orange.
It started with a homeschool group tour of wild oats. For some reason, I wasn't thinking about samples so I had lunch beforehand. Somewhere between the cheese and the 2 bite cupcakes I decided this was going to be a failure day and I was going to thoroughly enjoy it.
We went to a friends house for dinner and I ended up eating two donuts for dessert.
When I was young, I remember stopping when I wasn't hungry, but an hour after dinner my friend put out popcorn for the kids, and I was eating handful after handful even though I wasn't even hungry and it didn't taste that good. I thought about the new research that shows fat "communicating" with your body. Somewhere, I have learned to listen and I need to stop.
The wonderful thing about this diet is that I always know I'll get right back on the next day, something about the daily check in, even if I'm the only person that ever sees it. I'd like another color though, one for minor failure and got right back on the same day. Maybe orange.
Monday & Tuesday
failure
success
Monday I met some friends at the beach. I drank one of their sodas before I realized that there was a water fountain not even 15 feet away.
Yesterday I did much better even though I ate a whole Beef O Brady's cheeseburger at lunch (it did fit on one plate). I was aware that it was way too much and I wasn't hungry halfway through, but I knew I wouldn't be eating until dinner. However, if I'm being perfectly honest with myself, I would admit that I would have eaten the whole thing before I started on this diet, but I wouldn't have been aware that I wasn't hungry halfway through it.
Another big success is that I'm now drinking coffee without sugar or artificial sweetener. When I first started the diet, I was using a heaping tablespoon of sugar per mug (x 3-4 mugs a day), switched to sweet n low, and then saw the study about artificial sweeteners and obesity. Without the sugar, I taste a lot more nuances in the flavor of the coffee, but so far this is small comfort.
success
Monday I met some friends at the beach. I drank one of their sodas before I realized that there was a water fountain not even 15 feet away.
Yesterday I did much better even though I ate a whole Beef O Brady's cheeseburger at lunch (it did fit on one plate). I was aware that it was way too much and I wasn't hungry halfway through, but I knew I wouldn't be eating until dinner. However, if I'm being perfectly honest with myself, I would admit that I would have eaten the whole thing before I started on this diet, but I wouldn't have been aware that I wasn't hungry halfway through it.
Another big success is that I'm now drinking coffee without sugar or artificial sweetener. When I first started the diet, I was using a heaping tablespoon of sugar per mug (x 3-4 mugs a day), switched to sweet n low, and then saw the study about artificial sweeteners and obesity. Without the sugar, I taste a lot more nuances in the flavor of the coffee, but so far this is small comfort.
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
success
failure
success
The failure on Wednesday was due to a cuban coffee which I do consider to be a sweet, but then as usual, I kept going once I failed. I've gained two pounds this past week. I think that I may need to reevaluate my portion sizes and I also need to look at the issues around my eating.
Wednesday night we ate at a mexican restaurant. It wasn't that they had great homemade chips and tortillas like my neighborhood place that is well worth a failure day if I can't wait for a weekend. No, this place had commercial chips that have the vague undertones of beginning rancidity in the oil, and the salsa was so bland that the waitress had to bring over a bowl of chopped jalepenos and hot sauce after the spicy sauce failed to jazz it up. So why did I keep eating them? I don't know.
failure
success
The failure on Wednesday was due to a cuban coffee which I do consider to be a sweet, but then as usual, I kept going once I failed. I've gained two pounds this past week. I think that I may need to reevaluate my portion sizes and I also need to look at the issues around my eating.
Wednesday night we ate at a mexican restaurant. It wasn't that they had great homemade chips and tortillas like my neighborhood place that is well worth a failure day if I can't wait for a weekend. No, this place had commercial chips that have the vague undertones of beginning rancidity in the oil, and the salsa was so bland that the waitress had to bring over a bowl of chopped jalepenos and hot sauce after the spicy sauce failed to jazz it up. So why did I keep eating them? I don't know.