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Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2019 8:11 am
by nettee
Hello No S. I am restarting after a long break. Feeling positive and ready to go.

I have reread the book and am feeling remotivated.

I have two green squares on my habitcal from Monday and Tuesday and have not had any sugar withdrawal headaches yet.

I resisted chocolate at work yesterday, a major achievement after my recent red mist of sugar addiction.

I have recently been on a 12 week diet and health app program which worked beautifully for 6 weeks until I lost focus and spent the second six weeks gaining the weight back again. However I have stopped drinking caffeine, regained an enthusiasm for running and been reminded about some good principles of nutrition.

Starting weight on Monday was 13st 5.5lb (eek). Recorded here so that I can see how far I have come over the next weeks and months.

Links to my old thread and testimonial here:

https://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopi ... =8&t=11101

https://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopi ... 13&t=11235

My old habitcal records are really inspiring as I can see so visually how long I stuck with this before.

Here is a link to my habitcal (the ‘extra’ currently means a 20min run twice a week and a Parkrun on a Saturday):

https://everydaysystems.com/habitcal/vi ... et&t=Extra

Back tonight with another green success

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2019 8:02 pm
by nettee
Success

A good day today. So pleased to be back here on the no S board. I have downloaded the Happy scales app for recording weight loss. I enjoyed all my meals. Was very hungry by supper time but that is ok.

I am planning a run in the morning and have ordered a big food shop including some healthy and tasty no s food such as steak and pita bread among lots of other things.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2019 8:25 pm
by ChandaLikePanda
Great job! :D

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2019 12:59 am
by automatedeating
Hi Nettee!! Welcome back!

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2019 7:07 am
by nettee
Thank you both

I’ve just finished my second 20 minute run of the week and am pleased that it was further than Tuesday’s run. Next step is to see if I can go faster on Saturday’s Parkrun too.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2019 2:20 am
by liveitup
You got this! Maybe I'll hit the sidewalk tomorrow morning for a jog too!

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2019 5:02 am
by nettee
Go for it liveitup, running is a surprisingly addictive and fun thing to do. My goal for tomorrow’s parkrun is to keep running for 30 minutes with no walking until that point. I am not fast so will still have at least 10 minutes to go but it will be longer than I have run for about 20 months.

success for yesterday.

We have a bank holiday today in the UK today but I am not going to take an S day for it. I may do on Monday because we are feeding our parents that day.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2019 7:52 pm
by nettee
I think I will give myself a success for today. I got a bit too hungry while making dinner and did some stretched virtual plating but nothing too disastrous.

My first S day in a long time tomorrow. I have no plan which is not so good but hope not to be an idiot. I am going to see my mum - perhaps she will offer me a hot cross bun - that would go down well.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2019 5:41 am
by nettee
Happy Easter all.

I did my parkrun yesterday and I ran my 30 minutes followed by a 2 minute walk and then finished in just under 41 minutes. Very pleased.

The S day was ok ish, although I did eat things for the sake of it I think. I had my one hot cross bun at Mum’s which was a proper S day treat and then just a lots of pointless grazing once I got home. Never mind. Easter today and I have a plan for a very small Easter egg 🐣.

Maybe I will try to stick to that as my one S for today.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2019 8:34 pm
by nettee
Hello - not a bad S day. I stick to my plan for most of the day and had my egg at 4. Some nibbles before and after supper on healthy things and then I had some of my children’s eggs that they were eating in the evening.

Tomorrow is another bank holiday and we are having family round for the day. I do want to get back into N days though. Should be able to make it work as long as I don’t buy in anything tempting for snacking on.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2019 10:57 pm
by automatedeating
Nettee -- I like your signature. :-)

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2019 5:55 am
by nettee
Thanks - it sums up no S for me :D

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2019 8:45 pm
by nettee
Success for today. Rather proud of that one as we were entertaining and I resisted various afternoon cake, ice cream and Easter eggs.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2019 3:06 am
by liveitup
Well done Nettee!

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2019 6:49 pm
by nettee
Success. Another good day although I am eying the Easter Chocolate. We were given a Lindt bunny yesterday and so I am planning on that for an S day treat.

Had a slow run this morning but at least I got out there I guess.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2019 6:54 pm
by automatedeating
Definitely "at least you got out there". I'm firmly in the camp that simply moving is what it's all about. :-)

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2019 9:29 pm
by nettee
Thank you for your encouragement

Success

An early supper tonight so I am hungry going to bed. But not so I won’t sleep.

Will avoid doing that again if I can.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2019 5:44 am
by nettee
success for Thursday. I did get a migraine and wonder if it is because I am not eating enough or having to big a gap between meals. Maybe my early supper on Wednesday followed by quite a small breakfast on Thursday morning. And a run on Thursday morning. I will aim to eat a bit more than two crackers, a bit of cheese and some strawberries this morning.

I have also developed a cold and wonder if I should skip parkrun tomorrow.

On the bright side the scales are being kind to me and I have lost nearly 4lb now.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2019 12:51 am
by liveitup
Wow, congratulations!

If you're still feeling ill tomorrow, maybe just take a walk so you can keep up the habit, even if it's just a slow 10 minute stroll around the block. Or, take it off and rest so you can recover more quickly!

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2019 1:52 pm
by nettee
Thank you liveitup. I felt better this morning but set out in a yellow weather warning for wind to do one of the few parkruns that wasn't cancelled today feeling very intrepid. In fact it was sunny, there was no rain and mostly sheltered from the wind. So I achieved my objective of running all the way round this time and it’s my fastest time this year. Rather proud of myself.

I also had a success yesterday and have not yet turned into an idiot today :D

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2019 5:33 pm
by Octavia
Well done on your run, Nettee! Sounds like you are doing really well. Hope you’re having a good S weekend.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2019 5:45 am
by nettee
Thank you Octavia.

Unfortunately I did turn into an idiot after Saturday’s post but they were S days so never mind. It is Monday morning and so can have a green day today.

My daughter made me run with her in the Junior parkrun yesterday so I have another green on my exercise habitcal.

I think it would be good to have an anything goes S day in a Saturday and a one S day on a Sunday. See if I get on better with that this weekend.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2019 9:24 pm
by nettee
Success

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2019 9:51 pm
by nettee
Success

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Thu May 02, 2019 7:13 am
by nettee
Success for yesterday. I had supper very late and there was a bit of seconds involved but nothing too serious.

Also did my run yesterday 😀

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Thu May 02, 2019 7:10 pm
by Soprano
You're doing well, keep it up :)

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Thu May 02, 2019 10:35 pm
by nettee
Success

Stir fry for supper tonight. One more day to the weekend and the 21 day club!

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Fri May 03, 2019 1:21 am
by automatedeating
The 21 day club! Cool!

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Sat May 04, 2019 5:37 am
by nettee
Success for Friday

Whoohoo I made it through the first three weeks. :D

I was quite tempted last night but held it together. I hope I can get through the weekend without going too crazy. We have another bank holiday on Monday which makes it harder to get back on track.

No 5k parkrun for me this morning as I need to take my daughter somewhere else while my husband is working but I did my 20 minutes yesterday evening and will run the 2 k junior park run with the kids tomorrow. Maybe it will do my legs some good to have a gentler week.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Sat May 04, 2019 1:11 pm
by automatedeating
I'm all about moderate exercise and having gentler movement days. :-)

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Sun May 05, 2019 10:02 pm
by nettee
I did my 2k this morning which is a bit like an interval trading session trying to keep up with my daughter between walking rests.

My one S Sunday was going beautifully until I had a melt down at about 5 and ate a whole medium sized Easter egg plus its mini egg and four squares of other chocolate.

Oh well, N day tomorrow, back to it.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Mon May 06, 2019 2:08 am
by automatedeating
Yep - that's the theme today apparently - back on with a fresh start tomorrow!

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Mon May 06, 2019 9:35 pm
by nettee
Success

A nice bank holiday with some singing and a roast and no Sweets, snacks or seconds :mrgreen:

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Tue May 07, 2019 10:00 pm
by nettee
failure for today. Started with some cake mixture from my daughter’s baking and set off a spiral of wth eating :oops: also no run today as planned.

Never mind, tomorrow is another day.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Tue May 07, 2019 11:34 pm
by oolala53
OOhhh the number of failures I had from trying to bake. Dough and batter were my drugs of choice, and sometimes the dry ingredients!

In any case, glad to see you again.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 1:53 am
by automatedeating
I seriously don't think I've ever "baked" anything without having a fail day! :roll:

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 6:05 am
by nettee
Thanks for the support. Yes somehow cake mixture is a bigger challenge than what is is the cupboard. The kids live to bake though - maybe a S day activity in future 🙂

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 8:43 pm
by nettee
Success. Great to be back on it today.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Thu May 09, 2019 8:55 pm
by nettee
Success

Despite meeting food temptation today :mrgreen:

Still no running though.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Fri May 10, 2019 12:09 am
by automatedeating
Nice job in the face of temptation!

The running will come back! If you'd like to join me, I'm working on a 30 day walk/jog challenge.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Fri May 10, 2019 3:03 am
by oolala53
You didn't ask, but I think it is a very good idea to reinforce the specialness of saving baking for S days with your kids. The American habit of baking and having sweets around all the time is way out of line with older traditional cultures, especially the intensity and portion sizes we're used to, and keeps upping what we consider the acceptable baseline of sweets intake. But it does have to be done without a lot of heaviness. Anyway, something to consider in the future.

Onwards!

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Sat May 11, 2019 6:01 am
by nettee
Thanks guys - you are right about the children. Far too much sugar in their lives.

I am off to parkrun this morning- maybe my fresh legs will get me round quicker! Are you walking or jogging every day, automatedeating? How long for?

Success for yesterday.

Two S days ahead but I have not been planning for all the treats I might eat this week which I hope is a good thing. Also less sweet treats around in the house this weekend now that Easter is further behind us.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Sat May 11, 2019 3:01 pm
by automatedeating
Hi Nettee! I am going every single day!!! Can you believe that? My goal is to just get out there everyday.
I am a 7 day streak as of today.

Generally between 30 minutes and an hour. I listen to a podcast while I'm out, but yesterday I just preferred to listen to the birds. They were so happy.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Mon May 13, 2019 5:51 am
by nettee
Wow well done automatedeating. Sounds good.

I cut my 5k time by 3 minutes on Saturday - partly because I had rested so much I guess but will go back to my two training sessions this week so things don’t slip.

My S days were reasonable over the weekend which is nice although the scales don’t seem to agree with that assessment! Back to Monday and 5 N days coming up.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Mon May 13, 2019 9:56 pm
by nettee
Success

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Tue May 14, 2019 9:46 pm
by nettee
Success

It has been quite hard these last two days but somehow I have resisted all sorts and am on track.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Wed May 15, 2019 12:43 am
by automatedeating
Congrats on working those habit-building muscles. :-)

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Wed May 15, 2019 9:02 pm
by nettee
Thank you

Whoop whoop - I did my run today and had another Success

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Sat May 18, 2019 6:06 am
by nettee
success for Thursday and failure for yesterday. I went out to a party with nibbles after supper and drank something sweet and ate a few nibbles. I was quite pleased though because when I got home I considered eating all the things at home I have been resisting as it was a red day already but I didn’t.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Sat May 18, 2019 3:51 pm
by automatedeating
You resisted the WTH effect! Nicely done! Remember how nice that felt the next morning when you woke up. :-)

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Wed May 22, 2019 6:11 am
by nettee
Thanks :D

Two Successes so far this week. The weekend was not too crazy - we had a guest staying so some big meals but the snacking was ok. Also did my parkrun on Saturday.

I am struggling to keep up with my inbetween parkrun training though.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Wed May 22, 2019 2:23 pm
by automatedeating
Good job on the weekend parkrun.
Good luck for "in-between" parkruns. :-)
I started an account on coach.me to keep track of RUN. I try to go 7 days a week - this morning was only 10 minutes but oh well! Better than nothing! My username over there is Auto E. I'm also tracking NO ALCOHOL and CLEAN.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Fri May 24, 2019 5:43 am
by nettee
Well done Automatedeating- that sounds interesting, I will have a look.

Success for Wednesday and Thursday. I have reached a new milestone on my happy scales app this morning too. 8lbs down now on No S. A few days off work coming up so hoping I can keep the motivation going.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Fri May 24, 2019 2:39 pm
by automatedeating
Good luck with the days off work. Missing routine can be tricky - I like to roughly plan my meals even on days off.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Sat May 25, 2019 5:47 am
by nettee
failure for Friday- I tried but couldn’t resist a chocolate cupcake (and a half). At least it was really good. Should have saved it for today though :( . Off to parkrun soon on a glorious morning.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Tue May 28, 2019 8:30 am
by nettee
successes for parkrun on Saturday and a training run today. failure for Monday but it was at lunchtime and I got back on track so not too bad. Going for green today 8)

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Tue May 28, 2019 12:56 pm
by automatedeating
I love that you call your runs "parkruns". It just has a great ring to it.

Nettee - my sister visited on Sunday and we went on a 40 minute - no stop - run! I couldn't believe I could even do that, since I'm so used to my walk/jogs. :-) Maybe eventually I'll be a real runner.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Tue May 28, 2019 6:08 pm
by Soprano
In the UK parkruns are growing in popularity

https://www.parkrun.org.uk/

Jx

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Thu May 30, 2019 6:09 am
by nettee
Automatedeating- if you can do that then you are a real runner - well done.

Yes parkrun is a real thing! It does have a ring to it and is very motivating as somewhere between 100 and 500 people turn up at each of 7 different and pretty locations close to me at 9.00 every Saturday morning and we all get an official recorded time for running 5k. It is free and inclusive. It is spreading around the world so there may be one near you.

success for Tuesday and failure for yesterday. Back to work this morning so hopefully easier to have some successful days before the weekend.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Thu May 30, 2019 9:52 pm
by nettee
success yay!

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Fri May 31, 2019 7:22 pm
by nettee
Success for today.

Al went smoothly today without too much temptation. The weekend to get through next fingers crossed for not being an idiot.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 12:17 pm
by nettee
1st day of the month and a fresh page on my habitcal. I have a green for parkrun although I only did 3 k with a mixture of walking and running with my daughter. Very proud of my older daughter completing her first 5k parkrun.

Two breakfasts and some crisps so far on my s day. The second breakfast was in a cafe after the running and a really tasty treat.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 1:44 pm
by automatedeating
Great to go with your daughter on the parkrun! :-)

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2019 5:07 am
by nettee
Yes I think the social side of running is brilliant too.

Saturday was a bit crazy but I was pleased with Sunday with just one S in the afternoon.

Back to N days today and a normal week.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2019 6:03 am
by nettee
successes for Monday and Tuesday. And a good run yesterday too.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2019 5:41 am
by nettee
success for Wednesday and Thursday. It is probably a good thing that so am thinking about it less and having less to say on here.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2019 1:02 pm
by automatedeating
happy green days!

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 5:27 am
by nettee
Failure for Monday. Pre dinner nibbles and one lead to another sadly. The weekend was not great. The scales are a bit static just now and I am feeling that this is never going to work. I need to remotivate because it is working slowly and I can stick to it most of the time for a long period.

Also a nws day on Friday as I was out for a big birthday celebration. Nothing too out of control that day.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 1:40 pm
by automatedeating
You've got this Nettee. The beauty of the NoS structure is that you don't need 100% compliance. Aim for 80% green days and you'll probably see some progress.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 5:20 am
by nettee
Thank you. I feel like it is all slipping away this week after last week’s confidence. Success for Tuesday and failure for Wednesday. Just an afternoon binge fest yesterday sadly. Oh well back to it and hopefully two more successes before the weekend.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 2:27 pm
by automatedeating
I know that feeling! I ate so much food yesterday I can't believe I feel fine this morning. I thought I'd get sick or something.
But we must forge ahead! It's a new day!

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2019 5:51 am
by nettee
Thanks Automatedeating. Another failure for yesterday. I am so annoyed with myself. Forging ahead for Friday though.

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2019 3:22 pm
by automatedeating
Forging our Friday! :-)

Re: Nettee’s daily check in 2019

Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2019 9:43 pm
by Candace
Forge away!