Everyday Systems

Time to try this out. I just re-started No S last Tuesday (April 26). I was successful every day except for last night. I have a history of binge eating (especially at night) and after relaxing with a few beers (it's Friday) I lost my self-control. I ate a plate of nachos, some Pirate's Booty cheese puffs, and some wheat thins with cheese (was I cheese deprived or something??).

I am hoping this check in will help me stay accountable and honest with myself. I plan on recording the food I eat, even on S days. I know this is tedious but it is certainly better than counting calories and/or measuring food. Yuck. Just because in the past I have had many many S days gone wild, I think this could help. Then I also can't "hide" what I am eating.

On the plus-side I did follow No S for 3 days religiously and I also exercised for 5 days (15 minutes) and walked very regularly.

Breakfast = 3 donuts and some berries.
Snack 1 = cheese curds
Lunch = Chicken sausage and 3 bean salad
Snack 2 = cheese curds and 1/2 of an unfrosted cupcake
Snack 3 = a now frosted cupcake
Dinner = Chicken mole and a cupcake for dessert

It's nice to get it all out there!

Oh man oh man.... I do love cheese curds.

I live in WI so they are really hard to resist.

What are cheese curds?!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese_curds

There basically little chunks of cheese. You can also get the fried at restaurants as a very unhealthy (but extraordinarily delicious) appetizer.

I am already feeling that this approach (of recording what I eat) could be tedious and lead to failure. I just checked out Reinhard's everyday systems site and found this guideline for his "everyday system"

"No keeping track of things. The system shouldn't require you to keep track of anything beyond the day of the week, what planet you are on, etc. You have too many things to keep track of already. Sometimes it's interesting to keep track of things for a week or two. But it gets unbearably boring and onerous fast. "

There is a lot of wisdom in this and I know i have failed spectacularly at systems like WW in the past (after some initial success, like most people).

There's no need to record what you eat if it's not something you find helpful - maybe try using the habitcal. You just record green, red and S days and it's a great visual check of how you are doing habitwise without the faff