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tracey

I used to crash with low blood sugar but that has stopped since I started on NoS.

I am eating decent meals but nothing unusual for me. I just found that when I stopped snacking and eating sweets that I stopped crashing.

Sometimes between lunch and dinner, around 4pm, I'll get to feeling a bit ill ...

tracey

CrazyCatLady -

I'm with you on not posting menu's, this plan isn't about that for me and focusing on it makes me feel like I'm on a diet which is the opposite of how I feel about NoS.

Welcome!

tracey

I definitely agree.

If I keep to schedules I find I have more freedom, it's somewhat of an oxymoron but that's how it is.

tracey

Phew.

OK, here goes ..

SW: 285
GW: 150

Yeah .. that's a lot of numbers to get rid of.

Hey Airen, you've lost 49 pounds, that's awesome. What did you do to lose the weight, the lean cuisine? I notice you've only been doing NoS for a month and a half and I hope you haven't lost all that in that ...

tracey

well, I haven't been posting, I seem to follow several patterns. No posting and haphazard plan following and then avid posting with stickler to the rules. I need to somehow overlap those two!

I stepped on the scale this morning, bleh. I was at 286. I really need to get that scale moving down and I ...

tracey

Hey there -

I've got over 100 pounds to lose and always look for others in the same situation.

I figure I've probably got 140lbs to lose, give or take how my body looks and cooperates.

tracey

It's been a few days since I've posted but I've been busy.

I am so pleased though because I went on a work trip and was away from home for three days without my routines and normal "life" and I still stuck to NoS. Woohoo!! I think what's amazing is that even though two of the days were S days, I ...

tracey

It's interesting how sweet things are becoming to my palate. Things which normally aren't sweet to me are very sweet.

Fresh strawberries are in season now and I'm loving it. Last June I went 100% raw and I just ate so much fruit and greens, it was a great time for me and I'm looking forward to ...

tracey

I can understand the frustration with the medical profession.

I went to see my Dr. and had lost 25lbs since I'd last seen her and was starting to exercise and she looked at me and told me it wasn't good enough. That I should be doing a lot more.

Talk about a burn .. it's like, what the heck? Can ...

tracey

Why not try one of their teas? They have hot and cold. Avoid the tea frapps as they are loaded with sugar too.

They have a hot chai which is tasty if you add some half & half for richness. It is different than their chai tea latte since it's an actual chai tea bag in water, not the heavily sugared ...

tracey

Ice-cream is a sweet.

Anything that is sweet tasting is considered a sweet. Small amounts of honey or sugar in tea/coffer are generally considered fine as are trace amounts but clear desserts like cakes, cookies, and ice-cream are sweets.

tracey

Today was good .. a success! I think I'm getting better at this.

tracey

Right now, I'm more focused on getting the habits ingrained than what I'm putting into the body.

Once I feel like the habits are true habits and second nature I will likely begin taking strides toward eating more quality foods.

I can't handle too much at one time or else I'll just give up entirely ...

tracey

Leftover lasagna or other pasta dishes is good for lunch. I also make fried rice with chicken and chicken noodle soup which are good.

I used to make pita sandwiches a lot. Pita bread, a little mayo, cucumber, turkey, some monterey jack cheese, and sprouts. YUM!

Pita makes good bread for anything ...

tracey

I am definitely guilty of "tweaking" because if it works well one well, tweaking it MUST make it work better.

Not.

I'm also the queen of justification. "It doesn't taste sweet, so it's not a sweet" when confront with natural/tart frozen yogurt. Um, yeah. It's a sweet. Deal with it and move on. You ...

tracey

I know where you are coming from with this ... I like having boundaries but I don't feel fenced in by them. It's very much a relief to me.

It's strange too how much time has been spent thinking of food, wanting food, making food, planning for it .. it's weird to not do it anymore.

This is how ...

tracey

Hey there -

I have hypothryoidism (Hashimoto's Thyroiditis) and PCOS with IR so I have a double whammy ..

I am losing but more importantly to me is my mind is changing, my cravings are abating and I *feel* better.

I'm going through a lot of stress right now and I still want to eat but not the ...

tracey

I'm feeling a bit off balance lately. Emotionally I'm ALL OVER the place. I've got a lot going on with work and just stress out the wazooo. It's not something I've ever dealt well with before and doing NoS has helped to a degree but it's put into focus how much I would normally stress eat.

Last ...

tracey

well, today was a fail ... I did fine all day but after dinner, in which I ate too much, I had 3 mini pb cups and a small white chocolate egg.

I knew what I was doing and did it anyway. I didn't feel any better afterwards but ...

Overall it was a good day though.

tracey

A good day today ..

I had 5tbs of Hemp Hearts for breakfast and that satisfied me much longer than I thought it would and I made it to lunch without any problems.

I resisted the urge to eat because I'm feeling very emotional/cranky right now and that's always a challenge. I know eating isn't ...

tracey

Another good day for me ... I wasn't hungry this afternoon so I think that yesterday was just the reaction from the eating on the weekend and this will likely be the norm from now on.

We'll see!

I'm enjoying this WOE.

tracey

This is my third week and the first was easy .. the second hard .. the third, has been a relief.

I find the structure easy to follow and yet I don't feel deprived in any way. I was hungry this afternoon (almost 5pm) and I still had an hour and a half before I could eat at home and I told myself I ...

tracey

ya know, this is pretty interesting .. it takes less sweets to satisfy me on the weekends (woohoo!) and when they hit my system they hit HARD!

I slept until 11am yesterday and that's unusual and then on top of that, by 8pm I was exhausted and ready for bed. The only think I can attribute it to is ...

tracey

Hey there,

Welcome!

I try to speak the truth and not varnish it. If something doesn't work for me then I'm not going to say it is.

Keep in touch!

tracey

The mention of black tea during TOM is interesting. I didn't have hardly any issues with TOM this month but I drank tea like a fiend last week.

Curious ....

tracey

My Mom always made us eat breakfast before school and was continually praised by our teachers for being the only alert kids in their classes. ;)

Here are some of my favorites:

grilled cheese & vegetable beef soup
scrambled eggs cooked with hamburger and toast or bagel
bagel sandwich with eggs ...

tracey

The other thing to remember is that this is a prepared food world. Most people do not cook for themselves and if they do "cook" they are making a boxed/canned meal.

Our ancestors all cooked their foods and no matter what it was they cooked with lard, butter, etc, it was still probably healthier for ...

tracey

When you diet, you are immediately setting yourself up to fail because you are looking forward to when you get OFF the diet.

Like wosnes said, this isn't a diet. There isn't a time to go OFF the "diet", it's habit building and once a habit is built it's something that is a part of you.

Now, that ...

tracey

Last week I had S-days all week. I was just incapable of eating properly for whatever reason.

Monday morning, I dusted myself off and said I'm going to stick to this. I had a week of No-S!

This morning, I was down 3.5lbs from last Saturday and since I'm doing T-Tapp as my exercise, I'm also down ...

tracey

Two days of failure.

Nothing more to say.

tracey

Thanks Jan ...

The deal with meals is that I stop wanting the food before I'm finished with my plate and it's just not enough food for me to get to my next meal so I'm pushing myself to eat more to make it. I don't really like that feeling. I've worked hard over the past years to stop eating when I ...

tracey

I'm actually kinda glad the weekend is over ... I ate too much all weekend and I feel kinda icky.

I expect that as I do this more my weekends will be less extreme but ugh for right now. I did stick to no snacks today but had sweets with each meal. I'm sugared out ..

tracey

Today was a good day too .. an S day.

I started off with donuts, which made me sick. I didn't snack between brekkie and lunch .. lunch was at a picnic and I had some sweets for dessert. Again, I didn't snack between lunch and dinner. About 25 minutes before dinner I had some nuts, so technically ...

tracey

Today went well. I had grapes around 4:30 as a snack I suppose because I knew I wouldn't be eating dinner until at least 7:30.

I can't go from noon to 7:30 without feeling ill, maybe in time I will but not now. I don't count that as a failure because it was either that or be sick. I didn't eat junk ...

tracey

Hi Tiffani -

I'm new to all this but doing really well so far!

I do feel a bit strange now that I'm not thinking about eating as much. What do I do with my time ....

Anyway, good news on your losses, there's hope for me!

~Tracey

tracey

Interesting. I was down 1.5lbs this morning from yesterday. I felt good yesterday with my choices and actions and today is starting out to be good as well.

I've always been an emotional eater so this is a challenge for me as I'm going through a LOT of things at work. I want to just eat and make the ...

tracey

I saw about 5 copies in the B&N in Campbell CA (South Bay). It really stands out in it's vibrant black/white with red.

I loved that I didn't have to read everything in it to get the point. I will probably go buy the book to support you but I liked that I didn't need to.

tracey

Anna -

I'm with on how amazing it is how often you reach for something (snack or sweet or double-whammy, sweet snacks!). I am floored by how often I think of eating now that I'm not doing it. It's crazy!

I think I'm going to write down what I wanted to eat instead of eating it to show me later on ...

tracey

Day 2 is almost over and I'm doing well.

I feel like I'm eating a lot at each meal to go longer because I'm not snacking but it isn't an exorbitant amount I don't think.

Yesterday I started to wonder how this could work and how would just these simple changes make a difference and I thought about ...

tracey

Hello everyone -

I'm new here. I saw the No S book at B&N on Sunday and was intrigued. I read a bit of it while standing in the aisle and decided it was worth looking into. I came home and found the website and liked what I read.

I find I need a bit of structure, not heap tons like most diets but ...

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