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maggie

I am so glad you did an August Challenge. I didn't participate in July. I have 3 things I am working on in August, the diet(of course), but also walking
M-F, and drinking at least 6 glasses/small bottles of water a day. Water has always been a challenge for me.

I am so excited. This will be fun ...

maggie

Well Wednesday was Red. I gave into a later afternoon snack/sweet.

But, Thursday was Green, and hopefully today will be too.

maggie

Tuesday Success

maggie

I think milk can aggravate it more than help it. Although, things like yogurt (because of the bacteria present) can be helpful. But you don't need one of the yogurts that are designed to be helpful.

To quote Michael Pollan: don't eat anything you see advertised on TV and/or claims to have health ...

maggie

Thank you harmony. I will try the lighter meal with milk. I really love my milk and would hate to have to give it up.

Thanks again!

Maggie

maggie

Carrying my dinner plate one night is what gave me the idea for the topic. I picked it up and thought, wow, that's heavy.

I need to be careful, I may strain my wrist. Embarassing, but true.

Maggie

maggie

Thank you all for your advice. I started having heartburn with reflux Saturday night, it continued all day Sunday and Sunday night, into Monday morning. It was coming and going, but pretty constant. Lots of burping, I know, gross.

So Monday night I had a very light dinner, and had no milk products ...

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Monday Success

maggie

I used to get it... but now just occasionally.

The big thing for me is to not eat too much too close to bed time. The more that's in there when I lay down, the worse it gets. That's what my Dr. said anyway and it's worked for me. So, either eat earlier, or less food at your last meal. :wink:

I ...

maggie

Hi Maggie,
Have you changed the kind of foods you are eating, or are you eating the same meals but in larger quantities? No, except the no sweets.

I'm prone to heartburn. After some detective work I have determined that it has more to do with what kind of foods I eat rather than how much I eat ...

maggie

Good Morning everyone,

I think I may be getting heartburn/reflux from eating only 3 meals a day. My meals are larger than before because I have cut out snacking in between. I know sometimes I have eaten to excess, but not always.

I have started getting pretty bad heartburn/reflux, bad enough that ...

maggie

mimi wrote:CONGRATULATIONS, Maggie!

You gotta love NoS, don't you!

Mimi

Thank you Mimi. Yes, I am loving it! I talked to my sister about it today, she wants to get her husband going on it. I hope she does, it is the easiest diet I have ever been on.

Maggie

maggie

Blithe Morning wrote:

... you can't see the person on the other side of the table.

This one cracked me and my husband up!!!

Maggie

maggie

Whooo Hooo!!!! I finished my first full week! Friday was a success! It feels good to have one week behind me. I don't think I have ever felt this positive after one week of dieting before.

2 pounds down! I cannot believe it, I was actually afraid that I might have gained weight, I couldn't believe ...

maggie

mimi wrote:
I thought about starting a thread entitled, "You know your plate is too full when......"
That would be a good one Maggie! I'm sure some of our wittier NoEsers would have quite a bit of fun with that one!

Mimi

Oh they have been, they are cracking me up!

Maggie

maggie

Your five year old daughter screams, "Daddy, that's too much pizza! Put some back!" :-)

Aren't children so refreshingly honest :roll: It reminds me of the story I once heard about the pregnant woman. After fixing her plate for dinner her seven year old son asked, " Mommy, just how many babies are ...

maggie

You guys are too funny!

maggie

Oh these are great! I so needed to laugh today.

Thanks guys!

I have another one:

...you find something at the bottom of your plate that you forgot you put there.

maggie

I thought this might be kinda fun, get us to laugh at ourselves anyway.

Fill in the blank.

You know your plate is too full when.....

....I sustain a wrist injury from carrying my plate to the table!

Have a funny fabulous Friday!

Maggie

maggie

Thursday No snacks is getting much easier. The thing I have to work on is not overdoing it at mealtime. I think I am afraid of not eating enough and then being hungry in between meals.

I thought about starting a thread entitled, "You know your plate is too full when......" :shock:

Maggie

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Wednesday Success.

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Hi Bonnie,

I had my gallbladder removed 19 years ago. The pain you are feeling could be gall stones or it could be heartburn like winnie suggested.

When it happened to me the pain was very similar to heart burn and at times I felt the pain in my upper middle back. The night before my husband took ...

maggie

Me, too! I've been making homemade challah bread on the weekends. Plus blueberry pie. There's something so wonderful about enjoying home-baked stuff on the weekends. So much better than shoveling in oreos all week.

I don't know oreos are sounding pretty good right now. But seriously, I know what ...

maggie

Welcome Patty!

I have only been on this diet for 6 days, but I can tell you it is the easiest, most common sense diet I have ever seen.

Good luck and let us know how it is going for you.

Maggie

maggie

Iowa, California, New England, and look Ma, I'm talking to London! Wow!

I WANT this diet to work, perhaps that will make a difference. I WANT to not eat between meals, seems tidy and self-controlled. I WANT to eat one good helping of whatever I make, makes sense. I WANT to relax on weekends and ...

maggie

Yesterday Monday, ended with failure. I had a snack after dinner, an orange. I love oranges, but I didn't want to give anything up on my plate at dinner to make room for that orange, I let myself get too hungry before dinner. Then later I was really craving my orange and I gave in.

Today, Tuesday ...

maggie

You're welcome! (And I didn't need to sound snotty, by the way. It's just that if success meant packing my lunch, I'd be done for). The great thing about No S is that even if you're going out, you can still limit yourself to a single plate. Plus, the plate looks silly if there is nothing healthy on ...

maggie

Mistress Manners wrote:For what it's worth, I don't pack my lunch. And I eat breakfast at work. You don't need to be superhuman to do well on this diet.

Thank you that is very good to know.

Maggie

maggie

Doing ok today, but skipping breakfast was a real mistake! I am hungry and dinner will be a late one. Live and learn.

maggie

"I will have to start planning better."

I have long had a sneaky feeling that my "inability" to plan for my own well-being, regarding food, was not a real inability. I am an amazingly organized person and my job depends on being organized, hitting deadlines and having everything dealt with in ...

maggie

I am also new to this diet. Not new to dieting - I've spent my LIFE on a diet. I was surprised at how much food I put in my work bag this morning. I eat breakfast and lunch at work and even though I would bring stuff to work, I was lazy and greedy and left holes in the menu which I would inevitably ...

maggie

Mimi,

You are so right, I am loving this!!!

Thanks so much for your advice. Talk to you soon.

Maggie

maggie

Hi Ellie
Thank you for the welcome. Yes I agree this is not like any other diet I have ever been on. I saw quickly, the first day, how this can really work. When my husband and I work together we always have an afternoon candybar break. On Friday we skipped it and we were fine. We still ate like we ...

maggie

Success!
Ok! I am on day 3. I have had 1 N day and 1 and half S days! Wow, what a different diet this is!.

Friday, my first day was very interesting. My husband and I are doing this together and we learned alot about our mindless habits just in that first day.

We had to avoid our late afternoon ...

maggie

Welcome Maggie! You will LOVE NoS, as I'm sure you suspect by now from everyone's comments. It's simple and it works. From someone who has been yo-yo dieting on and off pretty much since my teens, I have found this to be the ONLY eating solution that has removed my *diet head*. The angst is gone ...

maggie

Hey, I know what you mean. I struggle with diet and make myself miserable with one extreme or another, but it's not worth it! No S is the sanest, humanest diet you will ever be on. As has been brought up many times, this isn't the only diet that works, but it is probably the only diet that gets ...

maggie

Welcome,

I have lost about 15 pounds or so in a couple months, reaching my goal weight.

The program seems too simple to work but it does.

I have had a pretty easy time, fell off the wagon a couple times and landed roughly :shock:

Today was a bad day, emotional eating due to some bad news ...

maggie

I would rather skip ranch dressing than to eat fat-free. I just don't like the taste.

I don't buy salad dressings anymore. I make them from scratch and they're full-fat. They taste so much better and I'm sure I use less of them.

Yes homemade is sooo much better. I am with you on this. I just ...

maggie

Welcome! No S works from the inside out. I am healing my inner addiction first and foremost... and loosing weight too. I lost 20... quit and gained the 20 at Christmas... and I'm now down the 20 again with probably 50 or so to go before I am happy. I advise you to stick to it and be strict without ...

maggie

I think that many of us have also found that improving the quality of the food we eat also decreases the quantity. Real food is more satisfying than "edible food-like substances."

I think this is so true. I know in the past when I've done things like WW, I was never one that could "re-create ...

maggie

Hi Thalia,

I am looking forward to eating healthier all around. I think this diet will do this without strict rules of how to do this. IOW, I think it will be a natural by-product of the diet.

Thanks for all your help today.

Maggie

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Thanks Ari.

I am hoping that by following this plan I will eventually begin to make healthy choices for my meals. I can see how that would happen. I love fruit and yogurt as a snack, so I will eventually have to include these in my meals which will reduce some of the unhealthy choices I am making ...

maggie

Hello everyone!

I am checking in on my first day. Are you supposed to do this at the end of the day or is anytime ok?

So far, so good. I am working with my husband today, lots of driving in the car. We just avoided one of our biggest weaknesses, the afternoon candy bar snack. He tried to convince ...

maggie

Wow! Thanks so much for all the info. You are getting me really excited that this may be the solution.

Losing wieght slow can be difficult, but I have lost wieght fast and it ALWAYS comes back. I am sure a slow steady weight loss is the best way. I imagine as time goes on and we plateau we will ...

maggie

Whatever happened to this thread? How is everyone doing?

Yes, I hope this one becomes active again. I am brand new to the program, just started today. My daughter and I are doing this together. I have about 60 pounds to lose and my has about 90.

I don't know if I will post menus everyday, but I ...

maggie

Welcome, maggie!

I thought it was too good to be true too, but I've been doing this for six months and it really does work!

Thank you. I figure this will be a slow process, but I think that is going to be a good thing. Do you mind if I ask how much you have lost and what other benefits you have ...

maggie

Hello everyone,

I just finished the book last night. I am excited but a little hesitant. I've always believed if something sounds too good to be true then it usually is.

I have tried many of the popular diets with little or no success. Main reason for this is that I can't or don't stick with the ...

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