Liz's daily check-in

mimi · Post by **mimi** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 2:14 am

But that'll be fun! And NoS can go with you! My husband and I are going away the week of July 20th to Williamsburg and then in August my daughter and I are taking her two kids for a week at the beach. I'm taking NoS with me both weeks! I may have some S events (like ice cream in the evenings from the boardwalk) during both trips, but other than some once-a-day treats, I plan to do strict NoS. That's the plan anyway, so we'll see!
Just make sure you enjoy your daughter and both your sisters and let diet take a back burner. Life is short.

Mimi

guadopt1997 · Post by **guadopt1997** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 12:38 pm

Monday, July 6: success

guadopt1997 · Post by **guadopt1997** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 4:09 pm

Am updating on habitcal and July challenge for now.

~reneew · Post by **~reneew** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 4:00 pm

Lets go Liz!!! We're on to 21 days. Our slump has ended! Green and yellows until August 5th.
Woohoo! Lets go!!!

guadopt1997 · Post by **guadopt1997** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 12:55 pm

Until August 5 AT LEAST!

I'm making a change. Instead of weighing on monday mornings, I'm going to start weighing myself on Saturday morning. That way, maybe the loss from non-S days will inspire me to keep my S days in control.

We'll see how that works. It's great to start a 21-day stint on a thursday since S days come so quickly! And I have to say, knowing that I'd committed to this with Renee helped a LOT to stay green on Thursday and Friday. A LOT!!!

~reneew · Post by **~reneew** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 12:59 pm

Sorry! I am weak! I'll try again, you'll just get there a bit sooner!

guadopt1997 · Post by **guadopt1997** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 11:50 am

I had a good week. Not deprived at all mind you. Had some really good meals in fact. But all green.

So I weighed in today (Saturday) to try to make myself do better over the weekend. I'm down a bit from last Monday, when I was up following an excessive weekend. We'll see how this strategy works...

mimi · Post by **mimi** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 1:07 am

That's great! Keep it up!
I'm so pleased that my vacation plan worked out well. I stuck to Vanilla NoS, with no more than one treat each day.
We'll see how it goes at the beach in two weeks!

Mimi

guadopt1997 · Post by **guadopt1997** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 5:11 pm

Didn't weigh in on Saturday because I was out of town. Over-the-top weekend ensued, but back on track since Monday and will weigh in this Saturday and assess damage.

I'm posting success/(hopefully no) failure on August challenge and will soon be completing my second 21-day challenge, which I thought I should undertake because I had a few red days here and there. It does not feel as successful as the first 21-day challenge because of my continuing problem with weekends.

guadopt1997 · Post by **guadopt1997** » Fri Sep 04, 2009 3:50 pm

Haven't been posting for a while. Was doing the August challenge plus more 21-day attempts then went on vacation for two weeks. Started in again on September 1 and have been doing pretty well. Green (except for an S event) but with a growing awareness that some of my "plates" have gotten a bit large. Need to focus on that.

guadopt1997 · Post by **guadopt1997** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 1:34 pm

I'm back to my pre-vacation weight

. Have to try to stay under control this weekend. Will be seeing my doctor on September 18 and would like to be weighing a little less by then.

guadopt1997 · Post by **guadopt1997** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 12:10 am

Bad weekend. Saturday: box of Good Humour chocolate eclairs (though I didn't eat the chocolate ice cream part, which I find too bitter).
Sunday: post-dinner mini-binge, no physical hunger involved.

I just had a great idea! From now on I'm going to write in my daily check in the food I eat on S days. Maybe that will help me keep things under control. Worth a try anyway...

guadopt1997 · Post by **guadopt1997** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 3:00 am

Sat:
breakfast: bagel with butter, a little jelly and 1.5 cups of milk with tea, plum.
Lunch: Medium quiznos ham and cheese with mayo (no chips!)
snacks: 4 strawberry candies and 5 mini twix saved from last Tuesday
slice of german chocolate cake saved from yesterday
5 small clementines
dinner: two slices of thin crust pizza, slice of watermelon, oj
2 thin fudge popsicles
small bowl of cereal with milk
4 hard candies

Sun:
B: bagel with butter, a little jelly and 1.5 cups of milk with tea, nectarine
L: chicken ceasar salad with croutons from Safeway
Snack: one GH choc. eclair (improvement over last Sat.) and one lemon popsicle.
D: turkey taco mix on freetos with salsa and tomatoes, watermelon
Hershey bar
Raisin crunch and milk

guadopt1997 · Post by **guadopt1997** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 12:54 pm

Disappointing, but maybe not entirely surprising, weight gain this week, up to 208. Have a doctor's appointment on Friday. My non S days are going very well. It's those S days for sure, plus high sodium dinner last night (I hope that was it...).

guadopt1997 · Post by **guadopt1997** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 5:39 pm

Trying to keep my weekend under control:

Saturday:
B: 1 cup cheerios with milk, milk with tea, banana
At soccer: did NOT have a donut!
Watermelon juice
L: quesadilla with one flour tortilla and cup of lentil soup, two small plums and a Hershey bar
tomato juice
D: stir fried pea pods, rice, and 3 oz steak, watermelon
One Ben& Jerry's choc. fudge brownie 3.6 oz container
one apple
(thought about having Reese's peanut butter cups and/or Skinny cow cone but had apple instead)
2 hard candies
Pretty good S day.

Sunday:
B: 1 cup cheerios with milk, milk with tea, banana
L: carrots with dressing, two slices of pizza, one clementine
slice of bread with butter (at grocery store--did not get a cookie)
One Ben& Jerry's choc. fudge brownie 3.6 oz container
D: salad from Harris Teeter, handful of grapes.
2 skinny cow cones
4 hard candies
handful of m&ms
bag of chips

guadopt1997 · Post by **guadopt1997** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 2:47 pm

Sat:
B: granola bars and milk with tea
2 Reese cups
Most of a Hershey bar
Two mini scones from let's dish
L: Ham and cheese sandwich at quizno's
4-5 tastes of sweet potato pie at HT
Slices of bread with butter
2 mini-popcorns with butter
Skinny cow cone
Lemon popsicle

Sun:
B: bagel with butter and milk with tea
L: lentil soup, sour dough bread with butter
3.5 oz. B&J
2 klondike bars
Bag of smart food popcorn minus one serving
3.5 oz. B&J
(Could have been worse since I'd also bought three slices of pizza at Z's but then felt sick and didn't eat)

guadopt1997 · Post by **guadopt1997** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 1:58 pm

Very reasonable lowish-carb weekend. Had spicy peanuts both days. Walnuts, macadamias, and almonds. Had no sweets and no bread/pasta/fruit but lots of veggies.

guadopt1997 · Post by **guadopt1997** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 12:15 pm

Didn't have snacks, sweets, or seconds last night, but took the cheese off Isabel's pizza leftover after I'd finished dinner. Not exactly a red maybe.

guadopt1997 · Post by **guadopt1997** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 2:56 am

Sat 10/17: was so thrilled this a.m. to be at 198. Did pretty well during the day, thinking about getting those twix ice cream bars. Decided not to drive over to the Giant and got Bryers mint choc chip instead. Ate most of it after dinner. Feel sick.

Sun 10/18: ate dinner despite being full from snacking on mini twix bars. Belly distended. Had to stay up til 1:30 I was so uncomfortable!

guadopt1997 · Post by **guadopt1997** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 1:44 pm

October 1: success
October 2: success
October 3-4: tame S days
October 5: don't know. Finished my plate, then ate the cheese off the leftover of my daughter's slice of pizza. It would have fit on my plate but wasn't there originally. Marked it and moved on.
October 6 and 7: success
October 8: success
October 9: success
October 10-11: unhealthy S days (late evening binges) October 12-13: success
October 14: failure Made six parmesan cheese crackers as part of dinner (it was a week from expiring) and gave my daughter half. She only ate 1 and after I'd finished my meal, including apple for dessert, I ate hers. Marked it and moved on so success of a sort.
October 15: success
October 16: success
October 17-18: miserable weekend
Next weekend I may be trying Kevin's idea: You *might* want to try the "double sabbath" mod (sundown Friday to sundown Sunday) and see if it makes your Saturdays and Sundays less food frantic.

I would caution you - there's a slippery slope here. Don't let this be an opportunity to just introduce another 12 hours of excess consumption. You will need to "religiously" guard those Sunday nights (part of why I call it the sabbath mod). Make your last meal on Sunday an event to be observed.

We don't do a lot of going-out-socially anymore, so I use a tightened up sabbath mod - if I want, I'll eat seconds or perhaps dessert on Friday night (but still no snacking), and I always stop with dinner on Sunday. Works for me, and I think it keeps me from gorging on Saturday and Sunday.
October 19: failure (last minute invitation to dinner--reasonable, actually small dinner, but two cookies; and yet, that was it, so success in a way)
October 20: success
October 21: success
October 22: success
October 23: failure Snacked on clementines during afternoon. Then had the couscous before soccer game and two slices of pizza after. Then I had a box of twix ice cream bars.
Sat, October 24: over the top S day, with another box of twix. I definitely need to stick to single servings on ice cream etc. Decided to not have an S day on Sunday.
Sun, October 25: success
October 26: success
October 27: success
October 28: success
October 29: success
Stuck to the rules but German bread came last night. Had a slice for breakfast with butter and fresh mozzarella and another slice with butter with lunch, plus chicken salad, jicama, and lettuce salad. Went out to dinner at Chili's. Kept it within bounds more or less though the chips weren't on my plate, but weighed slightly more this a.m.
October 30: not sure what to put for today. I had yucca and mashed potatoes and french fries for lunch along with a few slices of meat and lots of sauce. Tonight I didn't overdo but I had butter with honey with chestnuts and that seems a little too desserty for an N day. So I guess I'll call it a failure, even though I didn't crash the car.
October 31: bad S day.

guadopt1997 · Post by **guadopt1997** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 2:38 pm

11 red days in October (because I count S day gone wild as a red day), 4 of which were weekdays. Will shoot for fewer red days in November though I'm not off to a good start.

My goal is to keep S days yellow. I make them red if I go wild.

1 S day
2 success difficult not to succumb to Halloween candy!
3 FAILURE
4 FAILURE
5 FAILURE
6 FAILURE
7 S Day
8 S Day
9
10
11
12 S Day (my birthday)
13
14 S Day
15 S Day
16
17
18
19
20
21 S Day
22 S Day
23
24
25
26 S Day - Happy Thanksgiving!
27
28 S Day
29 S Day
30

guadopt1997 · Post by **guadopt1997** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 1:29 pm

6 bingy red days in a row. Puts most of my other red days in perspective. They'd be pinks at most. Need to recommit. Had lost 7 pounds in the last month and have now regained them.

mimi · Post by **mimi** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 2:10 pm

I hear ya Liz! I had a horrible week last week too (more red days than I've ever had since I started!)...must have been something in the air!
Let's all have a good week this week!

Mimi

~reneew · Post by **~reneew** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 2:49 pm

guadopt1997 wrote: Had lost 7 pounds in the last month and have now regained them.

Same here! But we're back on track and I'm not even changing the "down 26" on my signature 'cuz I'm going to loose what I've gained again so fast it's not worth changing.

guadopt1997 · Post by **guadopt1997** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 4:12 pm

Took me a little longer to get back on track but seem to be now, with two green days under my belt.

Felt a little shaky an hour or so ago, thinking I sure would like a second breakfast (my first one was an hour earlier than usual). But I managed to get over the feeling.

guadopt1997 · Post by **guadopt1997** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 1:25 pm

Wednesday: SUCCESS

Dinner was a little odd and lunch was a little large.

guadopt1997 · Post by **guadopt1997** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 1:13 pm

Thursday: SUCCESS

Felt really sick in the late afternoon. Almost carsick. Luckily it passed but since I was in the car for the worst of it, I opened the windows and moonroof. Then when I got home I was so chilled. No fever though.

~reneew · Post by **~reneew** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 8:49 pm

Hope you feel better.

guadopt1997 · Post by **guadopt1997** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 2:58 pm

Thanks, RenÃ©e, for checking up on me.

December 4: not terrible, but did have seconds for dinner
December 5-6: s days gone wild
December 7: 2 ice cream bars in the late evening with milk, 6 chestnuts
December 8: trying again

guadopt1997 · Post by **guadopt1997** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 1:16 pm

Dec 9: success during the day, avoiding goodies around the office. Not so good after dinner, so failure.

guadopt1997 · Post by **guadopt1997** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 2:05 pm

It's been a while but I think I'm back.

~reneew · Post by **~reneew** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 3:54 pm

miss ya!

guadopt1997 · Post by **guadopt1997** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 1:18 pm

Took a friend to lunch for her birthday and decided to treat it as an S event. We overdid it because we got the three-course prix-fixe. But I took some of the food home so it wasn't obscene...

The odd thing was that I felt totally sleepy starting about an hour after the meal and had to go straight to bed when I got home at 5. Had a two hour nap and still felt tired! What was that all about!

For this month, I'm tracking breakfast lunch and dinner separately on the habit cal to make sure that even if I go off track at one meal (I have the no snacking thing down pretty much), I can see whether I go back on track after that. That's a really important aspect of No_s for me: not calling the day a total loss just because of a slip that would (on other diets) have "allowed" me to go whole hog.

~reneew · Post by **~reneew** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 6:16 pm

Yea, you're back. Give it your all girl!

guadopt1997 · Post by **guadopt1997** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 3:52 pm

Had a permasnacking evening that included sweets and I'm guessing it's because my one-plate dinner form McDonald's was full of fat and salt.

guadopt1997 · Post by **guadopt1997** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 8:36 pm

Trying again when, right in the middle of Tuesday afternoon, after large breakfast and lunch, I decided I didn't want to chow down on sweets like I've been doing for a while, which having blown the "diet" that day already would give me license to do and which would then lead to an evening of overeating. So I thought No S would help, and so far, so good, even though I had birthday cake at work yesterday afternoon (and it was not MY birthday). Still, I didn't crash the car so I felt good about that.

Weight (10/12/10): 221.5

When I first started no-S, in January 2009, I weighed 235.5. I got as low as 198 (10/16), but had gone back up to 201 by the following Monday. Damn those wild S days!

guadopt1997 · Post by **guadopt1997** » Sun Oct 17, 2010 4:45 pm

Good, in control S day, yesterday.

Friday not good. Crashed the car.

guadopt1997 · Post by **guadopt1997** » Tue Oct 19, 2010 2:23 pm

Pretty good weekend, did not go wild.

Monday: SUCCESS

guadopt1997 · Post by **guadopt1997** » Thu Oct 21, 2010 3:44 pm

Tuesday: SUCCESS
Wednesday: SUCCESS (had a bit of pizza off Isabel's plate, but it would have fit on mine.

guadopt1997 · Post by **guadopt1997** » Fri Oct 22, 2010 6:28 pm

Thursday: SUCCESS

Going to the block party tonight. Not sure what I'll do. Maybe make it an S event and then be careful on the weekend. Maybe I'll wait to see what they have. Anyway, new people, maybe better to get to know them than eat!

How did it go? I had one plate of food. Nothing worth spoiling my success for.

Friday: SUCCESS

guadopt1997 · Post by **guadopt1997** » Sun Oct 24, 2010 7:25 pm

Saturday: over the top, after a really good morning and afternoon.

guadopt1997 · Post by **guadopt1997** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 12:38 pm

Sunday: a very reasonable S day.

Monday: success
Tuesday: success
Wednesday: success
Thursday: qualified success in that one avocado roll would have been enough at lunch (though all still one plate) and I finished Isabel's grapes at dinner even though I'd had my own.
Friday: Michael's retirement lunch but not an S day for me. Still, it's impossible to judge amounts at Fogo de Chao and I ate more than one plate. Still, no dessert, and had my regular breakfast, nothing in between so let's try not to crash the car tonight. They had chocolate at the end and I took a couple for tomorrow! I'm keeping track of each S separately in my habit call so let's go for two greens out of three!
Saturday: Thai for lunch, Poets with Ellen for dinner (no dessert), then two B&J
Sunday, October 31: careful with meals and then Halloween...two steps forward, one step back.

guadopt1997 · Post by **guadopt1997** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 12:54 pm

November:

1: 216 (sigh...) SUCCESS
2: SUCCESS
3: FAILURE (taste of apple pie at lunch to see if I wanted to buy, then Halloween candy (6 minis and one bag peanut M&Ms, and small bowl of cereal, two jolly ranchers--crashed the car)
4:
5:
6: S day
7: S day
8:
9:
10:
11:
12 (birthday): S Day
13: S Day
14: S Day
15:
16:
17:
18:
19:
20: S Day
21: S Day
22:
23:
24:
25: Thanksgiving
26:
27: S Day
28: S Day
29:
30:

guadopt1997 · Post by **guadopt1997** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 12:21 pm

Yesterday was a very difficult day. I walked around the office, hoping to find somebody's leftover Halloween candy. But luckily I didn't find any. Back at home, faced with Isabel's stash, managed not to have any. I really wanted a green day under my belt for fear that it would take me forever to get back on track.