Steve's Daily Check-In

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 4:12 am

Hi everybody. I found No S last week via somebody's blog and have been lurking for a few days before finally jumping in myself. I've been calorie counting for a couple weeks now and it hasn't been that bad (even kind of fun, using a ruler and junior-high geometry to figure out how much pizza I ate because the US RDA information lists calories per square inch). But I'm liking the sound of No S quite a bit more, so I'll probably overlap calorie counting and No S for the next week or so and then just go to No S exclusively.

Anyway, here we go with Day One:

Wouldn't you know it, today's the day our office manager picked to come around with ice cream treats for everybody. Tempting, but I politely declined.

Breakfast: Yogurt
Lunch: Smoked beef on wheat bread, and an apple.
Dinner: Chinese chicken (some orange, some mandarin) and rice. I suppose the sauces on the chicken might be a borderline case (kinda sweet) but I think that should be okay so long as I don't make a habit of it.

So I'm thinking I can call Day One (Tuesday) a SUCCESS.

Bonus: a little over 3 miles of (Sub)Urban Rangering. Probably won't be an everyday occurrence, but I'm surprised at how easy it was.

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 3:44 am

Day Two:

Breakfast: Oatmeal and orange juice.
Lunch: Turkey sandwich and apple.
Dinner: Tacos and chips.

That's what we call a SUCCESS.

No Urban Rangering today, sadly...tomorrow's much more likely.

pangelsue · Post by **pangelsue** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 3:49 am

Hi Steve,
You are doing great and heading on to the weekend which is the best part of this plan. Welcome and hope to hear more from you.

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 4:38 am

Thank you so much! I think these check-ins are really helping.

Day Three:

Breakfast: Cereal and OJ
Lunch: Corned beef sandwich and an apple
Dinner: Pizza

SUCCESS.

operababe · Post by **operababe** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 8:52 pm

Welcome Steve! You're doing great, and I like your avatar, it's the kind of reminder we all need. You must be one of those urban rangers I keep hearing about!

Congratulations on your success with No S.

gratefuldeb67 · Post by **gratefuldeb67** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 12:20 am

Hey Steve!
Welcome and good luck!
Looking forward to more posts about urban rangering and successful office manager/ice cream avoidances!

Peace and Love,

Deb

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 8:59 pm

Thanks Deb! Yesterday at the office they actually had cake for some reason. It's not usually this common to have work-provided junk food, I guess this week was just kind of an anomaly.

Anyway, Friday/Day Four happened to be an S-DAY for me on account of it being my birthday. Just a little bit of seconds on breakfast and dinner, and a sweet for dessert.

Plus about 3 miles of Urban Rangering. (Which is going to get tougher as we head into summer -- better stock up on mosquito repellent...)

gratefuldeb67 · Post by **gratefuldeb67** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 3:25 am

Happy Birthday Steve

Enjoy the rest of the weekend!
Peace and Love,

Deb

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:23 am

Thanks.

Saturday/Day Five: S-DAY with another 3+ miles of Urban Ranger.

Sunday/Day Six: Ditto, though this time around my walking didn't have a destination to speak of. I'm really surprised at how easy it's been to walk what I had previously thought of as a pretty big distance -- and how good it feels. I found a great forest preserve to walk in -- but it's 1.5 miles just to get there, so I imagine actually walking through it is something I'll have to work up to.

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 4:11 am

Still going strong!

Day Seven: SUCCESS

Day Eight: SUCCESS with another 3 miles of walking.

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 4:18 pm

Day Nine: Success plus 3.5 or 4 mile walk.

Post by **reinhard** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 8:00 pm

Welcome Steve!

Great start (and great avatar!).

Reinhard

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 3:17 am

Thanks Reinhard! I'm surprised at how easy this is so far -- I was expecting a lot more snack cravings, but other than a particularly rough evening of Day Two, it hasn't been bad at all.

Anyway, just to catch up:

Day Ten: Success

Day Eleven: Success with a little funny stuff of the "well, I COULD put this all on one plate if I wanted to, but it'd be awkward" variety.

Day Twelve: S-Day

Day Thirteen: S-Day

No urban rangering, per se, over the weekend, but plenty of practical exercise helping my fiancee move. I sure *feel* like I walked a marathon...

gratefuldeb67 · Post by **gratefuldeb67** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 1:39 pm

Good for you Steve!!!
Moving is one of the most underestimated intense workouts, and it's easy to overdo it...
No wonder you feel like you did a marathon!!! LOL..

Keep it up

Peace and Love,

Deb

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 3:56 pm

Days Fourteen, Fifteen, and Sixteen - all Success.

Getting closer to club 21!

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 4:56 pm

Days Seventeen and Eighteen - Success

Days Nineteen and Twenty - S-Days. Little too much pizza on Sunday, I think, but ah well, at least it was an S-Day.

gratefuldeb67 · Post by **gratefuldeb67** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 6:06 pm

Oh boy Steve! I bet you can taste that 21 days!!!
You're doing great!

Peace and Love,

Deb

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 3:05 pm

Day 21 - three weeks of success!

And day 22 was an S-Day, being the Fourth and all.

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 4:24 am

Finally had my first outright failure -- ah, pizza, bane of the "no seconds" rule. Ah well -- if my math is right that means I've got a 38-1 record, and I can't complain about that!

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 2:47 pm

Checking back in...

- 2-3 minor failures over the past month or so (granola bar late at night when I get *really* hungry...not a huge deal, but I should still try and get back in the habit of just trying water first).

- another pizza-related "seconds" failure...It's such a specific thing (seconds on pizza on the occasional Friday nights that I'm visiting with my long-distance fiancee) that I'm not too concerned about its overall effect on my diet so long as I don't let it lead me down a slippery slope.

- Overall, things are going quite well. Averaging 2 pounds lost per week.

- After a bit of plateauing, my moving average from my PhysicsDiet profile is finally 20 pounds down from when I started dieting (most of that is no-S).

- Still walking a few miles each day that weather permits, though it's not really for a practical purpose (other than exercise and relaxation) so it's not technically urban rangering as such.

gratefuldeb67 · Post by **gratefuldeb67** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 3:51 pm

Awesome Steve!!!!
20 lbs is very significant!!!
You see! Even with occasional messups, this stuff works!!!

Yay you!
Peace and Love,

Deb

gettnbusy · Post by **gettnbusy** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 4:47 pm

YAY! That's so great! And it sounds like it was relatively effortless for you to do that. You must be so proud of yourself. I am.

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 6:54 pm

Thanks Deb and Cristi! You're right, it is easy, and I am pretty proud of myself. Given some of the junk binges I used to go on, it's really surprising.

Anyway, one more failure to report -- early this week, I had to be in at work around 3am, which threw my whole schedule out of whack and had me eating a second breakfast without even really thinking about it. Whoops!

(...okay, I had a donut too.)

Back on the plus side, I think my weight's starting to go back down after a bit of plateauing, so that's good.