Everyday Systems

Thanks Reinhard for your reply. I did celebrate with my Grandma, went over to her place and had cake.

However no welcome for me, I'm very ashamed to say that I cracked on day 21! How stupid is that? I wrote in my daily check-in that it almost feels like I sabotaged myself on purpose. I mean who ...

I feel like I'm driving the car into the lampost over and over again!

thanks for your support, it's just one of those days where i really, really don't want to try you know what I mean? I will just go with the flow today and see how I feel tomorrow...

Day 21 RED! started well, stayed good all day, then cooked dinner for us and a friend, still stayed good and had 1 plate and then.....had a cup of haagen dasz belgian chocolate. I can't beliebe I went red on the 21st day, it's almost as if I'm sabotaging myself on purpose! what's wrong with me?

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I'm very sorry for your loss. *HUGS* I'm glad you're starting again, we've all tried and failed several times and as Michael Caine says in Batman Begins: "What do we do when we fall sir? we learn to pick ourselves up" (read with a cockney accent!):D Best of luck!!

I started on April 6th. So today is day 21. Now April 12th was my grandma's birthday, although I had planned to make it an N day (because I had just started NoS and I thought it was too soon for a non weekend S day) I did have a piece of cake. In my mind and on my habitcal I marked it as a red day ...

Day 16 Tuesday GREEN

Day 17 Wednedsay GREEN
Started exercising. walked 18 minutes (15 minutes, plus 1 minute run, plus 2 minutes wind down) it's not much, but I decided if i want to make this doable, I wills start very small and try to maintain consistency, and then we'll see!

Day 18 Thursday ...

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want to be able to eat an entire jar of caramel macademian clusters if I want to. It's great that I can eat whatever I want and however much I want and still lose weight.

Amen! And congratulations on being able to wear those pants, that's the BEST feeling!

apomerantz I'm taking your advice and starting with small chuncks, did 20 minutes on the treadmill. I will aim to do that at least 5 days a week and see how that goes. thanks for the advice!

I didn't mean for my post to cause all this stir! I was just having a bad day, like we all do, and was venting that's it. So to bring back some positive vibes to this post I would like to announce that I've lost a little under 2 pounds!! Yay!!!

and I did it the moderate way too (sorry Marc ;))! And ...

noni I didn't mean I didn't make my grandma's day special! now i'm feeling bad :( No, of course my grandma's birthday is very special, and I took my son over to her place, and flowers and we celebrated, I just thought since it hadn't been that long since I started NoS that I would keep it as an N ...

I'm sorry to hear about your father, that must've been a very hard time. It's great that you're back though! it's very inspirational! I'd be quite happy to lose 17 pounds in a year, it would be the slowest weight loss in my experience but I know that this is the ONLY diet I can sustain for life. yes ...

6. Thou shalt realize that you will not starve-Particularly if you live in the United States, you are not going to starve to death. If you have to wait a few hours until your next supersized order of curly fries, your family isn't going to find you dead in your recliner.

LOL this made me laugh ...

Thanks Debs, how long have you been on NoS? I'm guessing you put on muscle weight, which is good!

Day 15 Monday GREEN
Started with bigger breakfast (more cereal in the bowl) but ended with smaller dinner plate (chicken and rice) was still hungry but felt fine leaving the table, lighter. i'm having difficult days overall though, it's unrelated to the diet, but being on the diet doesn't help, and ...

LA_Loser thank you for your support and for your empathy, that was actually all that I was looking for when I wrote this post!

Ahem.....:) First a smile...

I did call my topic "a long nag post" specifically so that people who didn't want to hear a long nag wouldn't click on it an read. And a nag post to me is a good way of letting the negativity out so that I can start fresh.

Also getting motivating replies to my post ...

LA_Loser thanks for your reply. Everything you said makes absolute sense, and deep down inside i know you're right. i will stick with it just because i feel the most comfortable with this diet and also because i know that if I don't i will just spiral down again (or up!)

By the way--don't take ...

Daisy73 I don't think there either too unhealthy or too healthy if there is such thing as too healthy!

mostly it's salads, and dinner will be rice and veggie or stew or pasta. i've had fries once but other than that I'm not going crazy I think...

vmelo thanks for your reply and your encouragement! I'm not weighing myself just because i don't think i can handle seeing my suspicion confirmed by the scale. so i'd rather wait and weigh myself when i'm feeling a little more positive...

Hi Kathleen, thanks for your reply.

I'm actually doing ok with handling the 3 Ss, it's the lack of change that's discouraging. and i don't want fast weight loss, I just want some...something i can use as an incentive, to tell myself "yes, this works so i'll keep at it" you know?

anyway, i'll just ...

Day 14 Sunday

GREEN with some funny stuff.
was a long difficult day. was hungry most of the day and kept thinking of food. i noticed that's i feel after 2 S days. it's harder to get back into it.

breakfast at 7:30, lunch at 11:30 so was starving at night, and couldn't have dinner before 9:30 ...

So it's been 13 days and today i'm feeling very negative about everything.

First of all, i don't feel like i've lost an ounce, and even though I know this is a slow process, it still is disheartening to feel my clothes are as tight and uncomfortable as they were when i started, I had 1 red/S day ...

Day 11 (Thursday) GREEN

Day 12 : S day, rather good. regular toast and coffee breakfast, then 1 plate lunch (some rice and veggies, 1 small bread bun with pate and cheese)
snack 100 calorie pack pringles and 1 digestive chocolate biscuit.
At night were invited to party, so had 2 whiskeys with coke ...

Hi! first of all congrats on doing so well with that heavy schedule of yours.

Just wanted to say I can relate to a lot of your posts. I'm 35, I work as an instructor in visual communications and I'm teaching 7 sections this semester, that, with all the meetings, committees, grading and still ...

Day 3 GREEN

Day 4 GREEN

Day 5 S-DAY walked the dogs 45 minutes

Day 6 S-DAY

Day 7 RED even if it was my grandma's birthday, i hadn't planned it as an S day, so i'm considering an N day gone red.


Day 8 GREEN . Walked the dog 20 minutes

Day 9 GREEN put my pasta in a smaller plate for dinner ...

Thanks marleah and wosnes for your replies.

wosnes, maybe i should've mentioned that my S days are Fridays and Saturdays, because I live in Kuwait and these are the weekend days. Also I didnt consider my grandma's birthday an S day because I only started the monday before, so it didn't seem like a ...

So I've been on the No S diet for a week, just! and yesterday I fell of the wagon big time! I was doing so well last week, before my 2 S days, i didn't even feel hungry, it was smooth and easy, then yesterday, after 2 S days, it was just so hard.

It was my grandma's birthday and when I went over ...

Thank you! No form of dieting is easy I guess (i'm craving sweets as i'm writing this!!:)) but as you said, I like the structure + choice combination.

Thank you John! Loved the way you put it!

thank you! i'll try to update as often as possible!

Day 2: GREEN!
did have coffee with skimmed milk in the afternoon though, how does that count?

shovelglove 15 minutes

Started yesterday April 6th.

Day 1: GREEN

with the excitement of a new beginning, day 1 was easy...I know it's not always going to be this easy, but I have a great positive feeling about this diet which doesn't feel like a diet so maybe I should call it something else...mmhh will think about that.

Thanks Marc!

I don't know who comes up with them, but if I ever see another cabbage again I think I'll just die!

thank you! it is great! i was constently fretting about what I would be eating next! it's kind of liberating not having to do that anymore!

Hi everyone! This is a little something about me:

I've tried (in no particular order):
the 3 day diet
the cabbage diet
the atkins diet
the low calorie diet
the "eat only 1 kind of food all day" diet
the banana diet
the protein diet
the "i will cut down on food" diet
the "i will ban sugar" diet
and ...