Everyday Systems

Aug 25:
11:00: oatmeal w/fruit (slept in a little)

Aug 24: FAILURE
10:00: toast, fruit
1:00: leftover pasta/beef/veggie salad
7:00: leftover pasta/beef/veggie salad (yup, made way too much), and dessert (ooops)
10:00: small bowl of natural corn chips

Exercise: took day off, sore from ATV riding

Guess I was enjoying S-days so much, I didn't ...

Aug 23: FAILURE
10:00: 2-egg omlette, fruit
3:00: sandwich, veggies, fruit
10:00: everything snackish (cereal, olives, donut). Got so busy unpacking from the weekend, that, by the time I got around to dinner, I once again was just a vacuum cleaner for half an hour or so.

Exercise: More ATV riding.

Aug 22: S-DAY
10:00: french toast, fruit
2:00: sandwich, veggies, fruit
7:30: salad, pork chops, corn
9:30: s'mores

Was essentially an N-day with the exception of s'mores. :-)

Exercise: Went riding ATVs, which doesn't sound like much exercise, except I normally stand, as this is more comfortable ...

Aug 21: S-DAY
10:00: oatmeal w/fruit & nuts
2:00: ww pasta with veggies
8:00: pasta salad with beef, veggies
10:00: s'mores

Was essentially an N-day with the exception of s'mores. :-)

Exercise: didn't 'exercise', but did do a lot of running around, packing, etc. to go camping. I think it ...

Aug 20: SUCCESS
9:30: 1 ezekiel toast w/peanut butter, string cheese, fruit
2:00: half sandwich on multigrain, chick pea salad
7:00: steak, corn, veggies
10:00: 1 small bowl natural corn chips

exercise: day off from gym, spent 2 hours running errands/grocery shopping (ok, not the best, but at ...

Aug 19: SUCCESS
8:30: veggie quiche, fruit
2:00: itty bitty leftover shepherd's pie, cascadian farm granola bar, fruit
6:30: ww spaghetti w/meat sauce & veggies.
10:00: I was still so stuffed from dinner, I didn't need my bedtime mini-meal

exericse: lunchtime weight training class

I'm going back ...

Aug 18: SUCCESS
9:30: 1 ezekiel toast, peanut butter, string cheese, fruit
2:00: veggie & cheese sandwich on multigrain
6:30: Half bandito with corn chips. Funny stuff: chips arrived before dinner, so I counted out 15 to fill the other half of my plate.
11:00: 1 bowl kashi cereal, 2 kashi granola ...

Aug 14: SUCCESS
Aug 15: S-DAY . Made my favorite home-made chocolate-covered toffee.
Aug 16: SUCCESS
Aug 17: FAILURE . Sure enough, 11 days in, I mess up. What seems to be my common mistake occurred again--I didn't eat enough at lunch to prevent myself from being ravenously hungry come dinner ...

Well, I weighed myself today. I'm working on my relationship with my scale. I'm still at 139.5. At least I haven't gained. I am trying to ignore the scale, but after feeling hungry for the better part of 3 weeks, I though I'd see some sort of progress. I know there's natural fluctuations, and that ...

Aug 13: S-DAY: had a planned dinner out with my boyfriend. Enjoyed dinner and dessert. The unplanned S is that I ended up getting up to eat at 2 am, after laying in bed awake for 3 hours. Oh well.... at least it's an S-day.

Aug 12: SUCCESS. Had my 3 meals + bedtime mini-meal. Felt rather low on energy for most of the day. My bedtime mini-meal was smaller than usual, even though I was hungry most of the day. Hopefully this is a good sign.

Question for you folks.... Do you use the site Reinhard references to calculate your BMI (http://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/assessing/bmi/adult_bmi/english_bmi_calculator/bmi_calculator.html)?

The corporation I work for has a fabulous on-site fitness center. One of the services they provide is BMI ...

Bushranger, good point about his thought process. On one hand, he seems to be very causal, like "oh, for lunch, if I feel like eating, I have some milk and cookies". On the other hand, he seems quite precise, at least when it comes to counting grams of meat he eats. This is an interesting ...

Welcome and congrats on the green S-day! I think that every small success leads to greater success! We're supporting you! I'm a night snacker, too, so you have some company (along with a few other folks on this site). Reading your post on the 11th, from what I've read, you can count sick days as an ...

Aug 11: SUCCESS . Had my 3 meals + bedtime mini-meal. Felt rather low on energy for most of the day.

One thing I do like about this plan is its convenience. I think, to eat healthy, planning meals helps a lot. I've tried a 6-meal-a-day plan, and what a pain in the butt to plan and create six ...

I'd like to share this article about a 97-year old doctor, Shigeaki Hinohara. I read this article a while ago, and it struck me that many of his philosophies fit in well with No S principles. One of the things he says is, "All people who live long — regardless of nationality, race or gender â ...

Aug 9: SUCCESS
Aug 10: SUCCESS. After dinner, I was hungry, but after a while the hunger started to fade. I still had my bedtime mini-meal, as I wasn't confident I could sleep without it.

Aug 8: SUCCESS. (Another S-day turned into a success due to convenience.)

Aug 6: SUCCESS ! I was hungry right after lunch, but I had some vanilla almond tea with lots of milk and that took care of my sugar craving, and got me through the afternoon.
Aug 7: SUCCESS ! (Technically, Friday's are S-days on my calendar, but I've had two failures already this week, and it ...

Thank you, for sharing your knowledge and for the encouragement!

Thalia, I like your theory. Hopefully, No S will help with this. :-)

Bushranger, this is fascinating information about the bluezones. Thank you for sharing this—this definitely helps to put the whole 'protein power' approach into ...

It seems, when we adopt a given approach to eating, we see the world through that diet's “glassesâ€. It seems so many diets focus on lots of protein in one way or another. As a result of reading their 'reasons' for such an approach, and after trying to each in such a manner, has left me thinking â ...

I have tot add an additional “cheat†for last night, as I got up at midnight, a couple of hours after going to bed, to eat. This is frustrating, because I ate right before I went to bed. Normally, my best hope of preventing getting up to eat at night is to eat at bedtime. But, sometimes I don't ...

Aug 3: FAILURE . Once again, I was starved by dinner. I had my one plate, but then I had chocolate, and more chocolate.
Aug 4: SUCCESS ! My plan is 4 meals/day. Well, three meals, and one mini-meal, as this is the only way I know to prevent getting up in the middle of the night to eat. I had an ...

Thank you Bushranger! I'll try to avoid the scale.

Thank you Mimi and Bushranger for your kind words and encouragement! :-) That was a pleasant surprise! :-)

July 30: SUCCESS
July 31: S-day (Fridays and Saturdays are my S-days). Was an N-day with the exception of a brownie after dinner.
Aug 1: S-day . Was an N-day with the exception of s'mores ...

July 29: SUCCESS. Ate a little more for b-fast and tried to time lunch a little better.

Today has been difficult. So far, so good, but I'm definitely dragging--no energy, feeling kind of blue.

Thank you all for your quick responses and suggestions!

Wosnes, thank you for the link! Most of my default food is real food, I think. I haven't read Michael Pollan's books. Dinners are normally home-made food (a protein such as chicken, fish, or low-fat or grass-fed beef, a starch such as corn ...

While I really like the simplicity of Habitcal, I'm going to give this check-in thing a whirl, maybe draw some useful conclusions. I'm starting with today, even though I've been working at this for a couple of weeks, and today was a failure.

July 28: FAILURE . I suspect I ate too little at ...

First and foremost, a heartfelt thanks to Reinhard for sharing his No S system with us! I've been lurking around the discussion boards and you have a fabulous, supportive community!

I've been a closet No S dieter for two weeks. I've failed at so many diets, I don't tell my friends when I'm trying ...