Everyday Systems

Friday - Failure, accidental ingestion of kids' leftovers before dinner. Negligible in terms of actual calories.

I feel more regret about it now I know someone is reading though. Thank you, shwermert, it is genuinely encouraging to know!

Huh. Okay

Monday - Success
Tuesday - Failure (minor snackage before dinner)
Wednesday - Success
Thursday - Success

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Wednesday
Thursday

Success.

Friday 14th May - I'm starting again. I will do no-S today. I will eat birthday cake tomorrow. And I will post here every day.

I have 6 weeks before I go on vacation, I want to get the no-S habit back by then.

I have been backsliding badly.

Tomorrow I'm starting properly again.

I just don't feel optimistic about it though. When I first started I felt so optimistic and for three weeks it really went well. I felt like it was getting easier, and I didn't mind being hungry, I would think about having a ...

Oh dear. 3 failure days in a row.

Tuesday I was fine all day but went out for dinner with some other moms from my daughter's class and had a guacamole appetizer.
Wednesday I thought I was going to gymnastics class so had a snack at 6pm. Then my husband didn't get home until too late, so I ate ...

Monday

Breakfast - plum, cherries and yogurt
Lunch - turkey chili and rice
Dinner - thai chicken curry

No S - success
Exercise - 45 minute swim

I find coffee incredibly helpful for the exact opposite to the reasons outlined in point 2) - 'coffee time' is an important social thing for me - I meet other mom's from my daughter's class, I take the kids to a cafe, whatever. For me, coffee made by someone else in a nice cup with a friend to chat ...

I've been doing this for almost exactly 3 weeks, so I'm no expert. But my opinion, for what it's worth, is that most of us probably have one 'S' which is our main eating problem. For me it is snacks, not sweets. And I think if I'd decided to just cut out snacks, that would have been 80-90% of the ...

Breakfast - oatmeal
Lunch - carrot and beetroot salad, slice of bread
Dinner - turkey chili with rice

No S - success
Exercise - core strength class

Thursday 11th March

I finished off my son's fruit salad at lunch today. Why did I do that? I think it's because I don't like wasting food, so now that my snack cravings are diminishing my new most challenging time is the children's dinner. I used to eat so much of their leftovers sometimes that I ...

No S - success
Exercise - success, gymnastics class

Breakfast - blueberries with yogurt, slice of toast
Lunch - pea and ham soup, slice of bread and butter
Dinner - tuna & bean salad
Post-gym snack (I allow on gym class nights) - apple, crackers, piece of brie

I did not include enough vegetables ...

Tuesday

Breakfast - oatmeal
Lunch - bean casserole with rice
Dinner - smoked pork chop with new potatoes, carrots and broccoli

No S - success
Exercise - rest day

I am very pleased with my success yesterday evening. I sat for 3 hours at my book club meeting with a huge plate of brownies and a bowl ...

Monday March 8th,

no S - failure. Did not manage to resist the cheese I served to our dinner guests.
exercise - 50 minute swim - 1900 yards, strange number. Try 2000 next time!

Breakfast - fruit with yogurt
Lunch - bean casserole with green beans
Dinner - roast chicken with mashed potatoes and ...

Thanks for all these ideas! I am going to do the figs, also have cheese and grapes. Now I just need to resist the cheese...

It's Monday and we have guests coming for dinner tonight. So I have to make some kind of dessert or second course. I can't serve dessert but not have any myself, that just seems rude or at least socially awkward.

So I was thinking of serving a cheese-and-fruit plate, then I could just have some ...

I've been doing this for almost two weeks and the no snacks thing is the hardest for me too. But I knew that snacking was a big problem for me and I was expecting to be hungry between meals at first. Since I was expecting it, I don't mind it that much. I've been drinking a lot of tea in the ...

Friday - day 12

No S - success
Exercise - 45 minute run, 10 mins abs

Breakfast - yogurt, fruit compote & granola
Lunch - tomato soup with roast veg & chickpeas
Dinner - beef stir fry with noodles

Thursday, day 11

Breakfast fruit with yogurt, bread and marmite
Lunch - chicken stirfry
Dinner - spinach and feta pie with roasted veg

Success - no s
Failure - exercise. Was very sore from gym Wednesday night though.

I am still getting hungry between meals, but I know it is just because I was in ...

This is day 10 for me on the no-S diet, so far I've had one failure which was entirely predictable - my cousin was in town for one night only and we went out to a swanky restaurant. It wasn't terrible though, I had a 2 1/2 course meal but the plates were small.

I'm planning to track my meals and ...