Everyday Systems

I didn't check in last week at all, but it didn't go that well. :(
I've been sick and busy at work and getting back into regular exercising (triathlon training) and I started dating someone, and my whole regular routine went up in smoke. Poof!

The weekend went well though. I listened to my hunger ...

Day B4: S-Day Good friend's bachelorette party.
Day B5: S-Day
Day B6: S-Day

Day B2: SUCCESS
Day B3: SUCCESS so far


Through a new relationship, even! Very cool.

Day 11: S-DAY
Day 12: S-DAY
Day 13: FAILURE

It was the smallest of transgressions. A single Thin Mint cookie. It wasn't that I wanted one really, it was that the boy offering it to me was so cute.

In any case...

Day B1: SUCCESS so far...

Day 10: SUCCESS so far

Yesterday at lunch I made myself a HUGE plate of food. (Oh, the pitfalls of free good food at work). I didn't get any of the big moist soft cookies lined up for my eating pleasure, so that was a success. I had intented to eat half of the plate of food for lunch and save the ...

Just think of all the money you'll save by taking a multivitamin with normal water instead.

I don't know the nutrional breakdown of Vitamin Water, so I can't speak to that directly. Reinhard has spoken about liquid consumption before, though:

http://nosdiet.com/group/121.html

Day 9: SUCCESS so far.

Yesterday remained a success as well. Another funny thing, though: I had some apple coffee cake with dinner. I told myself that I wouldn't consider it an S if it were served at breakfast, but since I had already had a scone at breakfast that was already two "iffy" choices for ...

Congratulations! Great work on the weight loss, and especially on the new healthy habits. Fantastic job throwing the cake away.

Many of us use food and alcohol to feel better when life gets tough. It's a very hard habit to unlearn, but it can be done. Knowing it's a problem is the first step. Stick ...

Day 8: SUCCESS so far. :)

Yesterday remained a success, by the way. The only funny stuff was a bit of bread pudding at lunch, but the way our cafeteria makes it it's not sweet at all, just bread baked in milk and eggs with no extra sugar. Plus they put the caramel sauce on the side instead of ...

And maybe develop a taste for tea to add some variety and still be drinking a nice hot beverage.

Without much weight to lose almost any diet system will show very slow results, especially a simple sustainable one.

Are you exercising nearly every day in some way?
Are you drinking enough water?

Yay! Congratulations for sticking with it through your plateau!

A tall soy latte is 12 oz, 160 calories. That's a lot. That's like drinking a full glass of milk. Pretty much a snack.

A short soy latte (8 oz) would be better. They don't advertize that size, but it does exist. :)

A Starbucks coffee "with room" and asking them to add a splash of soy milk would ...

Frappachino: Definitely an S
Latte with syrup flavoring: Probably an S.
Latte without syrup flavoring: Iffy.
Coffee (not espresso) topped off with soy milk: Not an S

Just my opinion.

silverfish, a huge congratulations on your weightloss!

It's very possible you are big boned, many people are. But you may be surprised! I started my weightloss journey (not on No-S) at a BMI of 30, very much thinking of myself as big boned and just aiming for the very top of the healthy range. When ...

Yes! Put whatever you want into your coffee so that you'll enjoy it. It is all about sustainability.

The <a href="http://www.nosdiet.com/#sweets">official word</a> is to "Go ahead and put sugar in your coffee", because sugar and milk and cream in your coffee isn't making you have a weight problem ...

Good points Carole. The other piece I'd add is that hopefully by eating only at meal times and not eating snacks and sweets we become more in touch with our bodies and stomach and signals and hunger, leading to eating the right amount of food for our hunger level and not overeating because although ...

Day 6: SUCCESS Funny stuff: small package of animal crackers with dinner. They are more cracker than cookie, for sure.
Day 7: SUCCESS - so far. :) I'll edit if it changes. Resisted doughnuts at breakfast.

No-S really helped me last night; I stayed at work until midnight finishing up an important ...

Instead of Friday night through Sunday night, why not make Friday a full-on S day and Sunday an N day? Seems a lot more "letter of the law" that way.

Day 4: S-DAY
Day 5: S-DAY

Bad planning at work and lots of work at work led me to skipping my workouts on Thursday and Friday. So today I feel very sluggish and icky. I know I'll be biking around a bit just to do some errands and see people, but I'm going to try to fit a real workout in as well ...

Best of luck on your job search! It is very hard work looking for work.

Enjoy your S day!

More notes: I'm noticing a few things, nothing new to others here I'm sure.

One is that my breakfast plates have been very full because I'm afraid of getting hungry before lunch. I have been a bit too full after breakfast as a result, and should make those plates a bit less crowded.

Two is that ...

Day 3: SUCCESS Funny stuff: Scone at breakfast again. Lunch salad on a small side plate again. But I left a good half cup of orzo which was part of the lunch entree, so I was definitely listening to my body's signals.

Other notes: I have a few cups of coffee through the day, and each has soy milk ...

Day 2: SUCCESS Funny stuff: Scone at breakfast was definitely on the line of "sweets", but was more buttery than sugary. My salad at lunch was on a small side plate instead of on the meal plate. However, I fully passed up the really soft moist delicious cookies they had in the cafeteria. Yay!

Again ...

Yeah, my question was largely academic. I found detailed food logging (and calorie counting) to be very useful when I was losing weight. I'm finding it to be a real pain now that I'm maintaining, and the calorie counting also sometimes led to "cheating" by letting me justify three cookies by cutting ...

Hi everyone, I'm new here. I introduced myself over in my daily log .

I was wondering why so many people seem to write down exactly what they ate in their Daily Check In threads. To me one of the big highlights of NoS is that I can leave all of that obsessive listing and logging behind and just ...

Oh, and thanks so much for the welcome, Deb!

Day 1: SUCCESS Funny stuff: Dessert at lunch today was "pudding with maple syrup and molasses over corn bread", but I saw a smallish bit of corn bread all by itself in the corner of the pan so I added that to my lunch plate.

EDIT: I had a small cocktail at night, well after dinner, but since ...

Hello everyone! Let me try to introduce myself in a few short sentences: I'm an almost-30 year old female software engineer. I have actually already lost almost all the weight I'd like to lose (191 lbs -> 148 lbs, yay!), and have been in maintenance / "maybe I should lose another 10lbs for vanity's ...