Everyday Systems

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I'm not sure how active these boards still are (it's been 11 years since I last visited apparently!) but after trying somany other diets over the year, I'm returning to this one because the last time I reached my goal weight was...you guessed it: when I was no s-ing.

So, it's Monday and I'm ...

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Ha Rea, I do a month before I usually relax. But I don't "stop" doing NoS, I just have red days.
That's a good way of putting it. I usually throw in the towel completely though but hey I'm one week green again so go me!

Rea, it's the brain pattern of the habit trying to assert itself. Yes, it ...

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Count me is as another returnee. I do well for a week or so, maybe two, and then I think "I'm doing so well, I can relax a bit!" Why on earth I tell myself THAT...it's completely illogical. At any rate, back on the wagon :) Going to build some healthy habits again and stop using stress as an excuse.

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I think my meals are extremely calorie-dense right now. I am consciously fearful of "being hungry", but I can see that in two weeks that's already improved a little.
I think this is a common experience when you abandon old eating habits in favor of No S. I always afraid I'm going to be HUNGRY and ...

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I don't agree with the whole blog, as some things like gluten free are too restrictive for those following Vanilla No S, without medical conditions. Of course Averyl knows what works for her. She makes a lot of good points about the health of society in general several decades ago. There is no ...

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oh and if anyone's interested, there was a series in Britain called "The Supersizers Go..." where they went through various eras of British history and how people ate and measured their health at the beginning and end of a week (I know, not very long but still interesting :D)

Here's a link to the ...

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Processed foods were minimally consumed in the 1950s even though the magazines were filled with fabulous and oftentimes funny ads that would lead you believe otherwise
But I think the 1950s had a much higher rate of processed food consumption than (say) the 1930s due to the industrialization of ...

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Okay, minor complaint about this blog and the idea that she went on a "1950s diet" to lose weight. If you read it, you'll see that she also 1) cut out sugar for a whole year, 2) cut out all fake and processed foods (they ate a lot of processed foods in the 50s, such as margarine) and 3) went gluten ...

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I liked the part about "Future You" being considered another person. I do that to myself all the time. "Hmmm, if I do this now, Morning Me won't have to rush around trying to get it done on time. But I don't feel like doing it now, so screw her."

Hah! This is totally me. Apparently I only love ...

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Just finished watching all of the Thin documentary. It made me decide to give up diet soda. I'll still eat things with xylitol because that's a more natural artificial sweetener, but I'm pretty sure that aspartame isn't doing me any favors. So hey it's having an impact!

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Germanherman, how exactly does one go about eating low carb in Germany? I was doing primal diet before I went there before last Christmas and there was just no way it could be maintained. My host family eats very traditional German: BrÃ¶tchen for breakfast, meat with cabbage and potatoes for lunch ...

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Thanks Kittykat! I'm throwing the rest of the cake out today, no one is eating it. But I didn't have any yesterday, I wasn't even tempted. Blech.
Perfect day yesterday and today I've decided that I'm going to stop drinking diet soda. I don't need it. It's probably bad for me. It tastes like ass ...

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oh man I just realized there were two different documentaries: the Men Who Made Us Thin and the Men Who Made Us Fat. I watched episode one of Thin and then the other two of Fat. I wondered why when I went back and rewatched it all, the first episode wasn't the same...now I got it.
My comment above ...

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We celebrated my son's bday this weekend and there was left over cake. I was eyeing that cake after lunch and saying, nooo, no, don't have it, you'll have to mark the day red. And then I said, fine, I'll mark the day red AND have the cake. So it's red.
But I regret having the cake. Not really worth ...

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It was interesting to watch it and tic off the number of things they mentioned that people do that led to the obesity epidemic that they didn't used to and see how they jive with No S.
*Snacking: "in between meals used to be known as a dead time to the food industry until they started inventing new ...

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good day today again. I'm not even tempted any more to cheat. I have my meals and that's it. Having snacks/sweets (they tend to be the same thing :D) on the weekends seems like too much and I feel overly full. I'm glad that I've reached this period again. I was already commenting to myself how easy ...

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you and I have the same goal. I'm about 167 (well, 165, but today I was 167

) and want to lose 20 lbs). No wedding to aim for, but still. Good luck! I'm rooting for you!

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Friday was another successful day. It's amazing how little I eat now. I feel genuinely hungry before meals and while I'm eating, around the time i finish I feel full :) No need for snacks. Hooray! Hoping next week will be just as awesome.

Now it's the weekend, and we had crepes for breakfast ...

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two more good days--maybe this is more of a sporadic check in :)
To give an idea how my days usually go, here are the meals:
breakfast: omlette with kale, cheese and tomato
lunch: chicken salad thing with lettuce and some nuts and a pluot
dinner: ate out, basically sandwich with fries.

Not bad ...

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I like the No S book. It adds a bit to the website, though I really think the website is funnier.

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I've tried:
Calorie restriction in college
then after my first kid found No S
Then fell off
Then tried it again, couldn't stick after my second
Tried low carb/primal diet and lost 10 lbs there, but couldn't stick. Kept those 10 lbs off though! I went back on it, lost another 6 lbs, but gained it ...

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Thanks!

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I guess this is an almost daily check-in. Weekend was good. Then found a friend committed murder-suicide

and it ended very badly. But hey I've been on track both today and yesterday. Too distracted to really think about cheating I guess.

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A green day for today. This evening was a struggle, but hey I made it through. And now for the weekend.

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Thanks--I always remember that thing about getting some failures under my belt :D Well, I've had plenty. Every time I get back on, I hope it will be my last time getting on! So lets hope this one is! yay! Today was my husband's birthday and I was exempt, but still did well with normal breakfast and ...

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I've been doing No S off and on again since the beginning of June with *some* success, but things keep happening and I keep falling off. I keep getting back on, which is good, but I'd like to have a better track record so I figured I'd start daily check ins again. I had a sneaking suspicion I ...

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This is good to see. I'd like to lose the last 10 lbs of pregnancy weight before I get pregnant again, but unlike previously, I'd like to stay on the No-S diet during the pregnancy. But they always advise eating small meals every few hours so you don't feel sick. So this time around (not pregnant ...

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I try to steer my kids towards more of a 'no S' style eating. If they ask for a snack, yea they get one, but usually I try to keep them so busy they don't think of it and neither do I.
At dinner I give them some of everything but if they want to desert they know they have to eat their vegetables ...

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ooh will they have this online somewhere viewable in the US? I hate it when I hear about great shows the BBC is making and then try to watch them online and it says "Too bad! You're in the wrong country! HAHAHAHA"

I tried a proxy once but it didn't allow video

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Welcome! I hope you like it here!

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Bringing Up Bebe reminded me of dealing with my european relatives. I never snack when I'm over there and always lose at least a kilo (the added walking also helps). The kids do well not snacking when we're over there because they're always so busy. Besides, in the afternoon...there's cake time and ...

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No sense in being so strict with yourself. This is your reward for doing well during the week. Who rewards themselves while saying "I'm horrible! This is horrible! What I'm doing is horrible!" I had...well, no ice cream because my husband ate it all :(, but I'm eating kit kats (yay!) and had some ...

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Last night was a struggle for me not to snack. My mind was being very sneaky. You did so well this week! It's practically Saturday! Go ahead, have some nutella! Or ice cream! It's so hot! You need it!
But I remained firm: It is almost Saturday, I can hold out that last 90 min before I go to bed! And ...

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Me too! Same situation: I get the kids in bed and sit in front of my computer and just want to eat...here's what helps me:
1) Cleaning up the kitchen after dinner so it's clean and I don't want to mess it up.
2) Brushing my teeth when I want something to eat instead of waiting before I go to bed.
3 ...

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Well I wasnt going to have Independence day be an S day for me since I did soooo awful last week, but darn it! you've convinced me!

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Can I join in a day late? I'm currently couch ridden with a foot sprain. I failed all last week out of sheer boredom though I never intended to, I just can't keep busy like I usually do to distract myself. So let's give this ago :)

1--Fail, but I didn't read about this challenge until today so ...

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had a successful day

It was a really hard one, I was soo tempted all day long, but I managed to make it through. The tea saved me in the end. Now I'm baking christmas cookies (making dough today, baking tomorrow) and getting ready for Christmas weekend

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So I failed yesterday/ Tried my best, but finally went for the chips. I'm just as tired today as I was yesterday inspite going to bed 30 min early. So I'm not optimistic. We'll see.

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Okay checking in again.
Had a good weekend :) Enjoyed myself thoroughly on Saturday, less so on Sunday (because I already ate everything sweet I wanted toe at on Saturday, but did you know you can roast marshmallows in a toaster oven and it's delicious? My son and I did that a lot this weekend ...

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My problem time is right after I eat lunch. I never feel satisfied until I've had something sweet. I am planning to have a little coffee, yogurt, or fruit at the end of lunch to fight that urge for chocolate and cookies. Maybe some tea will help you since it's before bedtime?
Probably. I may have ...

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green! The habit is coming back to me I think. Now I feel stupid for not knuckling down and doing this sooner

Two more days and then I'll enjoy myself!

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Can't you eat just about anything for a meal on No S? Do people meal plan because they run out of food and just have a Coke and some American cheese in the fridge? Just curious... Maybe it's the vestiges of my obsession that I always have meal food around. Or maybe because I live in a big city and ...

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Another green. This time the kids went down early and I really, really wanted more chips or something sweet. So hard. I knit instead and talked with my husband and made it through by getting ready for bed early :p It is really quite hard to change your habits and I am definitely in the habit of ...

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1. Chew gum.
2. Drink Tea (gives me more energy to replace the energy I tried getting from sugar and it's relaxing and takes a loooong time to drink)

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great job!

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so yesterday...success! It was in no short part to being fully occupied by two kids with colds yesterday night wihich prevented me from having any of the sweets I so desperately wanted. So, yay! Green!

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Rubyslippers wrote:Rea-

I'm pysched to join you in gettting a jump-start on the New Year's Resoluters! I promise to be faithful in keeping up my daily check-in and I'll peek in on yours too.

Let's get 21 days under our belts before 2012!

Ruby

sounds good!

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Dinner went well. Homemade pizza (with Kale hidden in the sauce so my son gets some veggies--nack), side of chips (yay!) and an apple. Large full plate and it was delicious. I felt satisfied afterwards, for sure. But I have to say even after eating that, I wanted more chips. Usually I'm a sweets ...

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hi guys! Coming back, trying not to hang my head too low...I tried so hard yesterday, but fell into eating chips when the baby woke up after going down for (what I thought was) an early bedtime. No free time for me :(

And try to find other ways to take care of yourself - food is often a mis ...

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So, first day starting back on the No S Diet (see the thread I started in the discussion forum, I'd post a link but I'm too lazy to go over there and open it). And as I predicted, it's afternoon, I'm dead tired (why does the baby wake up from her nap right after I manage to fall asleep?) and my mind ...

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Good luck with your journey and remember milk.
Okay, what's milk? Unless you mean drinking it...which I don't!

I think you need to look back and see what kind of things you tell yourself when you "fall off the wagon." And realize that they are all just plain wrong.
Usually I think, "I want ...

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Well, I'm going to No-s tomorrow. No really! My husband probably wouldn't believe me if I told him because everytime I tell him I'm seriously going to actually no s the next day, I make it until dinner time and then totally fall off the wagon. Or I make it until after lunch. The short of it is ...

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Sadly, this is the new weight loss orthodoxy. YOU HAVE TO SNACK. FEELING HUNGER IS BAD. SNACK SNACK SNACK.
We have such an idea nowadays that feeling hunger is a bad thing and if you do not stop that hunger feeling, you will starve to death or something like that. Anytime I mention to people that I ...

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Thanks

Yes, welcome back, and good luck! Having done it once before, at least you know you can do it.

Yes but I also know I can stop!

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Hi! I've posted a few times here but never actually introduced myself. Here I go, to correct that!
I'm 25 (almost 26), have one son (20 months old) and have been no-sing for....well, it's complicated.
I first heard of it as a shovelglove offshoot and I thought it was interesting b ut at the time I ...

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Seriously, try the steel cut oats! If you only need one serving, soak them over night (1/2 cup water for 1/2 cup oats) and then cook in the morning (they won't take long and this improves digestibility. They are delicious and so much more filling.

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I lost all my baby weight while breastfeeding, the last 10 lbs went off by going back on the no s diet (though I went off during the holidays and now have 6 to lose again :oops: ) . I think if you're not losing weight, try to cut back a few calories at every meal. Either that, or lift weights so ...

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