Everyday Systems

I'm new here, looking for a way to stop thinking about food so much! Actually, I stumbled upon the site a couple of years ago but didn't stick around long before I found something harder I wanted to try. Why make it easy when you can make it difficult????

What brings me here is an interest in cutting out the snacks and putting some parameters around sweets (including alcohol, for me). I'm fortunate that I enjoy exercise and am healthy enough to run as a hobby. One result is that I don't need to lose any weight. But I may not always be able to exercise the way I want, as I see from my friends who are just a bit older than me. And I'm tired of trying having my good fitness habits undermined by poor eating choices.

I tend to eat healthy food (home cooking with no prepared foods--lots of veggies, fruits, lean protein), but when I work from home, I just pile on the snacks. I go from sweet, to salty, back to sweet, a little dairy, a couple crackers, etc. When I plug it all into a calorie counter, I find that I'm getting 1/3 of my total calories just from snacks! The truly damaging part is that it occupies so much mental space, and that I almost feel FEARFUL at the prospect of doing a complex task without a snack to keep me company.

I look forward to learning from you all!

Hi StephC

Welcome! Food sanity is coming your way

Thanks so much, bunsofaluminum! Your words are music to my ears.

Welcome! NoS is a great approach for your goals, and I think you'll enjoy the simplicity .

Good luck on your journey! Keep us posted on your progress.

Welcome StephC! I'm new, too - been here since the start of october. It's a great system, and everyone's very chatty on the boards

hi and welcome, steph!
i love your reasons to join noS...
and that you like to exercise...

StephC wrote: I almost feel FEARFUL at the prospect of doing a complex task without a snack to keep me company.

this made me chuckle a bit, dont know why... probably laughing at my old self...

i know the feeling... and it is gone with noS... such a relief to not have that weird fear any more...

Thanks so much for the support, everyone! How's my fellow newbie, ModBod?

I guess I'm counting today as a RED/fail, mainly to keep myself to STRICT rules. I haven't snacked or had sweets, but I popped a couple of sugar snap peas into my mouth while making my lunch salad and decided only AFTER I made up my lunch plate that I should eat the rest of the salmon cake I made. So if I'm putting a fence around it, the peas were a snack and the rest of the salmon cake was "seconds."

But that's OK, as a failure doesn't have to be a bad thing, right? And it teaches me to be a little more generous with my lunch, since trying to have a modest salad and then power through until dinner is part of what's been triggering my snack-happy afternoons in the first case....