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so this is clearly no longer a 'daily' check-in, but I thought I'd update:
a little while after my dissertation was handed in, I got back 'on the wagon'. Looks like daily checking in in this thread is too much 'overhead' (great concept!) for me, so for now I'm using HabitCal and nothing else. My ...

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UGH,
I fell off the wagon! During the week of my dissertation hand-in, I didn't sleep well and didn't eat in any kind of structured way. I went down to my lowest weight yet through stress, and fit into my skinny jeans, so I guess it's not all bad, but I didn't do it healthily!

Two weeks after hand ...

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05/03/11 & 06/03/11: S-days. Been so busy this weekend that I don't much remember what I ate

Didn't do much exercise except walking into-around-back from town yesterday.

But new batteries arrived for my scales today. Nude-not-eaten-yet this morning I was 117.6

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my favourite lines were "that's what food eats" (repeated so. many. times.)

and "it was a bagel. it was bagel sized."

the first, because I'm vegan, and plenty of people I know are convinced that nothing I eat is food, it's just what food eats. I guess I must be a medical miracle, seeing as how I'm ...

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04/03/11: No-S success. 14MOA failure.

I really need to pull myself together on the exercise front

At least No-S is largely habit now.

coffee · 03/03/11: No-S success. 14MOA Success.

03/03/11: No-S success. 14MOA Success.

coffee · 01/02/11: No-S success. 14MOA failure. 02/02/11: No-S success. 14MOA success.

01/02/11: No-S success. 14MOA failure.
02/02/11: No-S success. 14MOA success.

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we did pancake day when we were kids, but it was never a big deal for me. Since I don't live 'at home' anymore, and I routinely forget pancake day unless I am reminded, and I can't be bothered to make vegan pancakes really anyway, and I don't practise a religion, I won't be taking an S day.

I agree ...

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28/02/11 No-S: success. I had the same thing for both breakfast and tea: coconut and cherry cereal, fresh raspberries, soymilk. lunch was a massive salad of raw spinach, raw cucumber, chargrilled bell pepper, grilled tomato slices, fried chopped up vegetarian sausage (tomato and garlic flavour). I ...

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Sure, I'm in!
March will be a tough month for me. My dissertation hand in is this month, aaaaaghhhhhh! (Seriously, I am FREAKING OUT).
Last month I had one big red failure, so this month I want to keep it totally failure free!

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I just ordered the No S book :) Of course, I'm doing fine without it, but:
a) This system has been SO helpful to me that I feel I should at least give *something* back.
b) I wanted a reward/motivation thing because ... I spend money to make myself feel good (is there an everyday system that helps ...

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26/02/11 AND 27/02/11: S-days (weekend). For once, the boyfriend wasn't staying with me this weekend, I had too much work to do. I don't know if it was that that made an impact on my eating, but either way, my eating wasn't great! Cookiegate, as mentioned above ( 8 cookies in a day, people! And I ...

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Kevin wrote:2/24 NoS, SG, UR. Rain, rain, go away, I'll have to walk some other day.

So I noticed I'm down 10 pounds in seven weeks, which is pretty respectable. I guess I don't have to worry that I'm still eating too many calories.

wow, what an AMAZING weightloss! well done!

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Sinnie wrote:I feel like my body is trying to be on my side, I just need to meet it half way.

that's such a cool concept! And way better than the alternative, of your body NOT being on your side. Keep up the positive attitude, and keep on keeping on!

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Sinnie, Kevin, thanks for your congratulations :)

I feel I'm really settling into no-S now. I still haven't come up with another behaviour goal yet, though. I'm considering either '14 minutes of anything', OR something to do with S-days. My S-days are currently a bit awful. I ate ~800 calories of ...

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Cool Coffee! :lol:

I'm working on my second 21 day string now, too! I almost had dessert the other night at a friends house...she made something special for me, but I asked if I could just take it home and that was cool. (was going to save it for the weekend but my husband ate it in the meantime ...

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you know, if I had JUST ONE vice, I would be pretty proud of myself!

Thanks for the insightful post

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I made it over here as of last Thursday!

been following no S 40 days total now, but one slip-up made it take longer for me to reach this club. The slip up was actually worth it so I'm okay with that. I'm here now, anyway!

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Number of days following No S: 40 <- wow! it feels like I only just arrived here!!

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Number of N-days: 26
Number of successful N-days: 25
Number of unsuccessful N-days: 1 <-- no more failures since the first one! :)

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Number of S-days: 14
Number of weekend S-days: 10
Number of Non ...

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24/02/11 AND 25/02/11: success(es). My sleep schedule get pretty screwed so it wasn't always '3 meals between waking and sleeping', so I made sure it was '3 or less meals in any 24 hour period' (actually, 3 the first day, 2 the second day) even though they definitely didn't look like breakfast-lunch ...

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23/02/11: success. for breakfast I had leftover chinese takeaway, cold, which is pretty much my favourite breakfast in the world, not gonna lie. At least it means I always stretch the takeaway out to two meals! for lunch, weight watchers lentil soup, and a wholewheat bread roll with margarine. for ...

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"Is it possible for me to WANT TO LOSE WEIGHT *and* to BE TOTALLY COMFORTABLE WITH THE WEIGHT I AM NOW?"

Yes. And I'd say it's actually preferable to wanting to lose weight and being deeply unhappy/uncomfortable with the way you look already. After all, losing weight takes a while if you're trying ...

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Hi! Me!
Originally from Tyneside, currently studying in York

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Sorry you're finding No-S tough so far. I'm new too, and I'm not a mother, so my ability to give you any advice is limited, but I just wanted to pop in and offer up some cheerleading/encouragement. It really doesn't matter how many times you fail, because you still have days in front of you to ...

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Some clothes I ordered from the internet arrived today. The top that I, on a whim, ordered in a size 8 UK (the internet tells me that's a size 4 US) totally fits. That's not really 'new', I usually try on an 8 and a 10 in tops, depending on stretchiness, and it's about even whether it's the 8 or 10 ...

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22/02/11: success. slept in and missed breakfast again. lunch was sausage sandwiches -- two wholewheat bread rolls with margarine, one tomato and garlic sausage in each, one slice of fried aubergine in each, and ketchup. tea was TAKEAWAY (oops, not so great with the healthy) -- bean curd and ...

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thanks everyone for giving your thoughts on this issue.

After reading your replies, I think I was overthinking it. Yesterday I added more ketchup to my plate when I'd finished the first bit. I probably will treat it as 'seconds' when a 'sauce' makes up a substantial part of my meal (sometimes I ...

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21/02/11: success. slept in so missed breakfast. lunch was a pasta bake thing and some strawberries. tea was two veggie burgers in whole wheat buns with cucumber and tomato, and some strawberries.

I did a little bit of a fun kinect dance game which I guess counts as SOME exercise.

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20/02/11: S-day (Sunday). ate toooo much, FACT. Even went to McDonalds for fries and a cherry pie (yes, if possible, vegan mcdonalds options are even less healthy than meaty ones!!). Can't remember what else I ate, except the can of dandelion&burdock I treated myself to, YUMMY. Still, it was an S ...

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19/02/11: S-day (Saturday). Unhealthy. gorged on apple cookies and etc. beans on toast for breakfast, pasta for lunch/tea (ate late), ate sorbet at the cinema and had a few sweet drinks. ah well.

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18/01/11: success. breakfast was toast and peanut butter, lunch was pasta and sundried tomato pesto, tea was takeaway -- vegetable pathia and boiled rice. A severe lack of vegetables these last few days!!

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17/02/11: success. I only managed to fit in two, pretty unhealthy, meals today. rushed off my feet. had kingsmill 50-50 toast with margarine for breakfast, for tea I had a beanburger, oven chips (fries), and some baked beans.

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forgot to mention that yesterday my housemate bought a kinect and I did a biggest loser workout. I am soooo unfit!!

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Wow -- 112.5. Talk about shock! Well, that ain't gonna happen!

I'm also 5'3" so 'should' weigh 112.5 according to this formula!
Now, I'm actually aiming for around there or a teensy bit lower, but at least I fully admit that's for my own vanity! Yeah, I would love to be 112.5, as I'm sure many ...

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mine was snacks and seconds. I'm not a big sweets eater, but I was a permasnacker, and usually had extra at the last meal of the day.

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16/02/11: success. breakfast was two slices of kingsmill 50-50 toast with margarine. lunch was a chickpea salad& cucumber sandwich (on kingsmill 50-50), and about half a bag of crisps (chips). tea was a pasta bake: pasta, fried onion and aubergine, sundried tomato pesto, all topped with some crushed ...

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weighed in this morning, nude, on an empty stomach, 119.8. I was actually going to try putting off 'official' weighing (I jump on and off the scales whenever I feel like it, but don't strip or record it) for another week or so, but I couldn't help it. If I've truly lost ~5lbs, I'm super happy, but ...

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15/02/11: success. breakfast: sliced apple (just got my new apple corer/slicer! LOVE IT.) with a little bit of peanut butter on each slice, yum. and a handful of grapes. lunch: 'open' sandwich (so just one slice of kingsmill 50-50 bread) with margarine, chickpea salad (chickpeas, vegan mayonnaise ...

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I've had a stressful week, so I've decided to make another stats post to cheer myself up and motivate myself :)

Number of days following No S: 29

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Number of N-days: 17
Number of successful N-days: 16
Number of unsuccessful N-days: 1

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Number of S-days: 12
Number of weekend S-days: 8 ...

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so, I haven't had a lot of time to check in, but I'm still on the wagon! I don't really remember what I've eaten over the last few days, but luckily for me, on no-s analysing what I've eaten is not part of counting success/failure :D

09/02/11: success
10/02/11: success
11/02/11: S-day, for ...

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Maybe this is a ridiculous question, but things that you add to your plate of food -- ketchup, salt, etc -- do you abide by the 'no seconds' rule, i.e. make sure that you have everything you're going to eat on your plate before you begin? Or do you feel free to salt and sauce your food while eating ...

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Not as good for you as the healthy stuff like nuts and fruit, but when I was a kid, I used to put a tablespoon or so of strawberry jam and stir thoroughly to get evenly strawberry flavoured porridge (which I guess is what the USA calls oatmeal). Yum!

I wonder if that counts as a sweet?

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08/02/11: success. Breakfast was coconut and cherry cereal with soymilk. Lunch was pasta, tomato-based pasta sauce with cherry tomatoes and roasted veg in it,a tiny bit of vegan 'cream cheese' to make the sauce creamy, and some toasted pine nuts. Tea was curry -- jalfrezi sauce, onion, aubergine ...

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Haricot beans translates into 'merican as Boston beans or Navy beans. Got it. But what you describe are not Boston baked beans, which are cooked in molasses with bacon, onion, mustard and black pepper. Nary a tomato in sight. Thanks for the link. I can buy those on Amazon, but they are imported ...

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I'm already being more mindful about what is 'snack worthy', and when, on an S day. I was in town with DBF on Saturday, and we went past a vegetarian cafe, and I bought a slice of lemon and poppyseed cake with gorgeous smelling icing. Then we went to get some lunch in a cafe. After we'd finished ...

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I haven't read the book yet, but I totally agree.

I need to start exercising. But I'm not doing that yet, because I'm working on No S. In the future, I will introduce exercise -- but if I do it now, I might fail at both.
I am embarrassed by the amount that I rely on processed vegan 'fake meat ...

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The beans are British staple (especially STUDENT staple) Heinz baked beans . Over here, "beans on toast" or "jacket (baked) potato and beans" will always refer to these -- haricot beans in a sweetened, tomato based sauce. And they're traditional in an English breakfast too, of course!
I normally ...

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07/02/11: success. breakfast was a massive portion of beans on toast (three slices white bread, margarine, hefty portion of beans). lunch was baked sweet potato with chickpea salad (mashed chickpeas, vegan mayonnaise, lemon juice and salt) + plenty of sliced plum tomato and cucumber. tea was two ...

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Number of days following No S: 21 <-- whoopee!! :)

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Number of N-days: 12
Number of successful N-days: 11
Number of unsuccessful N-days: 1 <-- good score!

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Number of S-days: 9
Number of weekend S-days: 6
Number of Non-Weekend S-days: 3 <-- too many, will try to keep it under this from now ...

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So, I didn't manage to make my first 21 days failure-free, but I HAVE done 21 days of No-S. In pretty colours, this is what that looks like:

success -- 17th January
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s-day
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Many of us over here call that post-work meal supper. On a regular day I wonder "what's for supper?" On Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter we eat "dinner", usually in mid-afternoon. You get out the china and silver for dinner (or at least the nicest dinnerware you have).

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'Tea' is kind of a ...

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05/02/11: S-day, Saturday. For breakfast I had white toast with peanut butter, me and DBF had a late lunch in town, I had a hummus and sundried tomato bagel with a little bit of salad and a fair amount of chips (fries) and ketchup -- all of which I definitely didn't plate together! Because we'd ...

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I think it might be a regional thing (I'm from the North) but 'tea' is just what the rest of the English-speaking world refers to as 'dinner' -- my last meal of the day. And no, it's not a fourth for me, although some people might eat 'high tea' or 'afternoon tea' between lunch and 'supper' (the ...

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04/02/11: success. I slept in and had to rush to a meeting, and therefore didn't get a chance to eat until 12.10 -- I bought a banana and called that breakfast. At about 13.30 I had a really nice lunch, of two pieces of fried smoked sesame seed tofu, a 'salad' (of raw onion, fried onion, raw tomato ...

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Well, in the scheme of things it wasn't a FAILURE that is going to do a lot of weight damage. I guess the key thing to ask is what would you do differently the next time?
Thanks for the support. I know I didn't eat a LOT outside of my meal, so I don't feel too bad about it, I'm just disappointed I ...

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03/02/11: FAILURE. It's pretty disappointing that I had a failure so close to the 21 day mark, but it felt worth it at the time -- in retrospect, I'm not so sure. I was doing fine until we went out to eat in the evening, but then when we arrived at the Indian restaurant, they'd put out pickle trays ...

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congratulations on your first 5 successful days! That's great! I've newly started, too.

DAY 5 : only a couple of hours to go until I say, SUCCESS .

I don't know WHAT to call tomorrow, I'll be preparing for a colonoscopy. I won't be eating 3 meals but drinking throughout the day. They recommended ...

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02/02/11: success. I had beans on toast for breakfast -- small tin of baked beans, two slices of white toast with margarine. And of course a pot of coffee. I managed to stick with healthy eating for lunch, with a MASSIVE massive salad -- raw cherry tomatoes, raw cucumber, raw onion, all sliced up ...

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I'm loving the new vertical layout. Congratulations Reinhard on your amazing maintenance!

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01/02/11: success. Breakfast was as I noted above (slice of thick white toast, peanut butter, a banana, and a large strawberry). Lunch was spaghetti with roasted veg sauce (from a jar), some fried courgette, and some toasted pine nuts, and another banana. Tea was smoked tofu with sesame seeds ...

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31/01/11: success. A bit difficult today though. I started off with 2 biscuits of weetabix, soy milk, topped with several large chopped up strawberries. And of course, a ton of coffee. But I think, seeing the healthy food, I fell into a trap of not wanting to 'ruin' my healthy eating streak and eat ...

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30/01/11: S-day (Sunday). I'm not happy with yesterday's eating. I didn't have any set mealtimes, just grazed all day, wrapping things up in fajita wraps as I felt like it, some strawberry and banana and soy yoghurt as I felt like it, some toast and margarine as I felt like it. I realise now that I ...

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29/01/11: S-day (Saturday). My best friend's birthday. I ate in a fairly structured way even though it was an S day -- breakfast (margarine on white toast), lunch (fajitas, filled with onion, mushroom, pepper & courgette in a sauce from a jar) but I had seconds of lunch, and a snack of a couple of ...

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28/01/11: success. I mean, technically. I'm not sure I totally kept to the spirit of the rules yesterday, but I kept to the letter.
When I got up, I was running later than I'd planned for a meeting at Uni. I was KNACKERED due to being up late the evening before, working on project stuff. I can't ...

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27/01/11: success. I've been really stressed out today (technically yesterday, it's early in the morning of the 28th, which is why I am posting for the 27th) and it was soo tempting to have a snack, but so far I've resisted ... hopefully I can go to bed soon and not ruin the 28th as a day of ...

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Welcome! I relate to both your username (I love coffee) and your stats! I am about 5'2 or so, and weigh in the range of 117-120. At our weight, there are challenges but if the focus is about habits it makes things much easier. I think your long term goals are very smart. Good luck :D
thanks ...

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Hanks NoelFigart for your reply.

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I'm coffee. My intro thread is here .

Start Weight: ~125lbs.
Aims (long term): I'm a little heavier and with a little more stomach than I'm used to, and I'm not happy with my permasnacking habits. My lack of exercise is contributing to my depression. Therefore, in the long term, I want to be a ...

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Best of luck. Sounds like you're off to a good start. You don't have much to lose at all so it will likely go slower for you. Don't get discouraged!

Thanks! Yeah, I read that you lose weight less quickly if you're female/close-to-healthy-weight/older/smaller/less-active -- and of all of those ...

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Hi everyone, I thought I'd just quickly introduce myself while procrastinating doing other, important things!

I'm a just-turned-22 female student in the UK. I've been reading about no-s and shovelglove etc on-and-off for a couple of years now, but this is the first time I've really attempted any of ...

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Hi everyone! (new member, technically 10th day no-s)