Instead of imposing restrictive rules Tricia, enjoy your freedom, but redefine what enjoying freedom means to you...
If you don't like being bloated and overstuffed and mindlessly eating, those are great goals in themselves...
Plan, ahead of time, a few nice S's for the weekend, and just have them..
Too many extra rules on the weekend are going to cause internal conflict..
You want freedom/you need structure and rules...
The brain can't take it!
I think we all have been going a little bonkers with Winter and all...
You aren't the only one...
Still, take it one day at a time and don't over finagle with this system..
Reinhard's advice is always the same...
Plan ahead, on something you really have wanted to eat for a while, and then enjoy it on an S day... Opportunistic eating only happens when we bring too much into the house to begin with...
If you plan out what you want, and really think it through, you won't mess up... I've decided that we are going to go back to single portions of chips, in the one serving bags... Also, I think we did pretty well in the past when we would go out on one of the S days for an unadulterated "junk food party" and then not bring more into the house...
Yes we were eating nachos, slurpees and slim jims (how healthy) but we didn't have seven servings of nachos in a bag...
If we get ice cream, it will always be a pint container, not a quart!
Have a nice day Tricia, and don't be too freaked by the scale..
Real habit changing comes from all of our experience, positive and negative... We learn from our mistakes, hopefully...
Don't let the scale readout throw you too much and don't go nuts with mentally beating yourself to death!!!
It took me a very long time to feel successful on NoS, and I *still* sometimes have some monumentally bad days, but overall, I am definitely different now...
If I went back to my old ways for more than a day or two, at this point, I would be completely miserable... That shows I have a new food and body awareness that is real... There's no turning back!
N days should define your success.. Focus on those!
Have a nice Valentines Day Tricia!
Enjoy something that doesn't make you feel bloated! LOL..
How bout trading nice romantic massages with your hubby???
Love,
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