Everyday Systems

Hello! I'm Betty, aged 25 from the UK. Trying to lose a stone and a half in 2011!

Well today is Thursday and I spent all of Tuesday reading about the No S diet (and getting very enthusiastic about it - an epiphany! it's so simple!!)

Then I spent all of Wednesday trying to stick to it 100% so that today I can start my check in log with a big green SUCCESS!



Had 3 square meals yesterday, no snacks, no sweets, no seconds.

Feels good!!

Congratulations on your first great start! Welcome! I'm pretty new to this too, so I have no advice, but I'm happy you're trying to be healthier and joining us!

thanks! Looking forward to sharing our successes

Day 2 was a SUCCESS!

Had a cuppa at about 4pm but never have sugar, just a splash of milk, so I think it's a drink not a snack.

Had a low fat/low cal turkey curry for dinner (home made, but bought the sauce in a jar) added lots of veg and then had 2 home made mini samosas on a seperate plate but that was only because I dont like the curry sauce on them!! they would have fitted on the plate easily though, just my fussy tastes didnt allow it!!

ok so it might be an idea to keep a food diary for a bit.

Here's my diary for the 1st 3 days of No S.

Day 1
Breakfast: Scrambled egg on 2 wholewheat toast
Lunch: Cous cous, veg, banana, yoghurt
Dinner: home made lean burger and home made oven chips

Day 2
Breakfast: Scrambled egg on 2 wholewheat toast
Lunch: 2 small tuna mayo rolls, low fat crisps, satsuma
Dinner: lean turkey curry, boiled rice, 2 mini home made samosas

Day 3 (today)
Breakfast: 2 egg omelette with ham, veg, low fat cheddar
Lunch: 2 haddock fish cakes with salad, yoghurt
Dinner: not sure yet!!

Looking forward to 2 S days!

Day 3 was a FAILURE in the end - bit annoyed to slip up this early in the game, but the fish cakes were not very nice so i was still hungry and that Friday afternoon feeling got to me and I ended up eating toast and crisps...

Day 4 + 5 were S days and predictably overindulgent - had fast food and chocolate. Also a few glasses of wine but I'm not going to beat myself up over that - my 'glass ceiling' is 1 drink a day and 2 on S days, but I only really drink 2 week nights out of 5 anyway, then we open a bottle on saturday and finish it on sunday.

Day 6 today (monday) - so far I've had 2 eggs scrambled with 2 brown toast and light spread. and 2 cups of tea with semi skim milk.

thinking of going for a run today, need to exercise more! The sun is out so that should be my motivation!!

Failure today - had a bad work day and the malteasers leftover from sunday got me!

did 20 mins on my stepper though, nice to do some exercise. shame i didnt have time for a run.

better day tomorrow, me thinks.

As long as you look at any failures as lessons learned and get right back on track, you can view them as something positive. Great job on fitting in some exercise.

Well done for exercising!

I try and eat everything 'bad' by the end of the weekend so I'm not tempted!! Not necessarily a good thing, but I've tried to avoid buying LARGE packs of bad food for that purpose

Thanks for your replies
Unfortunately my one failure then turned into a whole week of failures!

April tomorrow, new month, new start.