Everyday Systems

I totally understand your need to retire the discussion board; I'd be perfectly OK with a read-only or, if I want to, I can easily join the Facebook group. I have your book, which is really all I need! Go have fun with your family and get on with new adventures! We all deeply appreciate your ...

Although I have always intellectually found NO S to be a perfect solution to my struggle with food, I have found the system SIMPLE but not EASY. I actually yearn for it to be a seamless and no-stress way, but I obviously have unhealthy habits that are hard to ditch -- mainly snacking at night ...

I bought the paperback and I've read it about 8 times over the years.

I haven't posted on here for about 3 years, but I've been (mostly) sticking to No S and, over the course of about 6 years (had some backsliding), have lost 30 lbs. I've been keeping it off with No S. I may be able to lose 10 ...

Five green days in a row! Now I'm enjoying a few snacks and a small sweet each day this weekend. I feel really good about this year-long commitment.

The problems haven't come from the philosophy of No S, but from the fact that I have had Type 2 diabetes for 5 years -- 3 meals a day has been perfectly OK, but I've been so sick of having to watch carbs that I have no interest in food. Specifically, I have come to hate cooking (I never liked it ...

Poptart, although fast foods aren't the best for your body, as long as you 1)eat only a plateful, 2) don't take seconds, and 3) don't have sweets (like a milkshake), you are following no S.

Plenty of people here have started out by only modifying the times they eat (3 meals a day) and by only ...

Don't forget that drinks don't count as food -- have a glass of whole milk if you are starving between meals. That helped me when I first started.

Count me in. For some reason, I have been seduced away from No S EVEN THOUGH it worked fine (although slowly, but I knew that), made my iffy stomach feel great, gave me tons of energy, and calmed my whole attitude toward food. But I can have this stupid all-or-nothing attitude where if I mess up, I ...

I have always lost weight on vacation, except for the time we went on a cruise -- dang, the food on cruises will trip anybody up.

But, normally, on one of our 2-week vacations, we do moderate hiking, sightseeing, and outdoor stuff. We often eat only 2 meals a day because neither of us wants to take ...

I had a marvelously green day today after being gone for a while. Alas, I do have to be careful about high-calorie foods, but the structure of NO S is so soothing that I've combined it with a bit of a watchful eye on the fatty/hical stuff.

Good luck, everyone.

I like reading this thread, because I have been "an idiot" on my S days even though, like someone said, my "gut hurt" afterward and the stuff didn't taste very good. I must be like a dumb kid who has to eat dirt 5 times before he figures out it is not pleasant!

Anyway, my goal for this next weekend ...

Wine, because it's a drink, is allowed any time, as far as I know.

I also wondered whether I should consider Veteran's Day an N or an S day, and have decided to make it an N day for the very reasons you cite -- generally it is a somber day, not filled with picnics or parties, etc. I also have had ...

I participate on a couple of other message boards that have IM enabled, but I have used it in only a few cases when the poster REALLY could have used my help, but I did not want to post the very personal stuff so everyone could read it. IMing was perfect.

BUT along with IM, that board had an ...

Today was especially hard for me at work for some reason. I was partially bored, partially irritated that I hadn't thought to take today as a day off and give myself a 4-day weekend (tomorrow, Veteran's Day, is a holiday), and partially really hungry even though I had had breakfast.

I had constant ...

Yes! I eat what I want. For instance, the cafeteria at work makes killer onion rings, and every couple of weeks I will have their (fried) chicken tenders and the onion rings. Delicious! Not so 'healthy,' but once in a while won't kill me. And that's what this site is all about -- stopping the ...

Is your plan a lunch and a dinner, or a breakfast and a dinner? If you're having trouble getting out of bed for the breakfast, I'd try to arrange my life so I could take advantage of the breakfast, and then have dinner at a normal dinner time.

If the plan allows you to eat at any time and you want ...

grandbaby's birthday and election last week and this week, well, hell, I'd have no green days and, as you say, we're heading into the dangerous time of year anyway. So, I didn't want to make this an S day, tho I can see how it would qualify...

Usually you'd think emotional eating was worst when you are depressed, sad, unhappy, bored, etc., but today I had an overwhelming urge to snack and eat all day. This election, which I have been waiting for for 8 years, has me all nervous and excited at the same time, and it has obviously generated ...

As many of you here have done, I *decided* that maybe No S just wasn't going to result in enough weight loss to make it worthwhile. Maybe I would tire of it. Maybe I would come to feel it was just as restrictive and annoying as Weight Watchers or any of the other weight-loss programs. So I stopped ...

After 3 weeks of perfect no s-ing, I also had a wild falling out of the habit -- one thing that happened was that I got very stressed at work (I know this is a big trigger for me) and overate/ate sweets/ ate snacks for nearly a week, off and on.

I felt physically horrible. Yesterday and today I ...

Like you, Jamie, after 17 days I am not hungry between meals any more. I used to get really hungry around 10 a.m., when I would just HAVE TO have a muffin. No more. I get slightly hungry before meals, and that's it. I used to snack after dinner, and I don't even think about it any more. The feeling ...

May I ask why you stopped no-S-ing? I have only been doing it for 3 weeks, but it has been so easy and such a relief from "diets" that I can't imagine doing anything else. Did you have the munchies, or sweet binges, something like that? I would like to know the warning signs so I could recognize ...

Funny you should mention it, but YES. After only two weeks on no S, today I just hit my second set of S days and, despite my anticipation and longing for the premium ice cream I bought, I found that it didn't taste very good!! I ate less than a cup and I said to myself, "Uggh, that's plenty." And I ...

Shamrockmommy, I would give myself a LEGAL sweet -- for example, an English muffin with pineapple cream cheese (full fat) on it. I had that tonight as a part of my dinner and it hit the spot.

Or perhaps a fruited yogurt, or canned fruit in light syrup?

That's interesting...when I was a girl scout 45 years ago, we never had snacks. Back then, people pretty much stuck to 3 meals a day. Imagine that! I never thought about it, but that's the way it was.

It makes perfect sense to do that. I can occasionally put a "bad" food on my plate and not feel guilty at all. As long as I keep to the one-plate limit and the no sweets, I have no guilt about whether I have salad or potato chips -- I just know that I will feel better if I choose the salad/veg over ...

I read the website before I got the book. I was led to no S by his associated shovelglove website and the urban rangering website. I have lurked for a while (about 6 months) before I started following no S this past week. I am amazed at how easy, intuitive, and natural it feels. Try it!

Yes, I started Monday. I also feel pretty good about how I ate. I purposely saved the pint of ice cream and dreamed of that as my treat, so it really WAS a treat. I enjoyed everything, did not feel deprived, but did feel lightheaded/shaky in between meals if they were more than 4 hours apart. I do ...

I didn't find it hard to do the first 5 no S days. In fact, it was easy and restful because I could have anything I wanted (except S) but had to confine it to the plateful.

My only problem has been feeling a bit like I had low blood sugar a good part of the week. I assume this may be because I am ...

I officially joined yesterday, but I've been lurking for nearly a year, mostly because of shovelglove. But I've started no S after giving up on the fad diets!

KCCC, I love baking, too, and I plan to bake on weekends as you do. I also always felt guilty about the ingredients, but no more -- think of the crap that's in commercially-baked stuff! Now THAT junk will kill you, if you're not in France!
I find I DO think about food a whole lot less, because my ...

It focused my attention on food too much. If I have this cookie, I have to cut dinner in half--etc., etc. Arrggh! Awful! Some people hated counting points but I didn't mind that -- I just realized that points put me in a frame of mind that destroyed any possibility of a normal relationship with food ...

It's so true -- on WW, after a while, just counting the points and realizing that maybe I had only 5 left for the day.....it made me crazy! I hated that feeling! It was a prison. No S is so easy in comparison.

Thanks, Reinhard, for your hard work. Like many others here, I have been seduced by various quick wt loss diets, and by "sensible" diets (WW in particular). I have lost weight on all of them, but in the middle of my progress I would get so insane about food that I would binge. Counting calories or ...