Everyday Systems

Let's see

Thursday: No snacks: ok; no seconds: okay, no sweets: not okay
Friday: Just the same

At the beginning, no seconds seemed to be the difficult one. Now it's no sweets (if I snack something sweet will I get two bad marks or only one?).

Had a weigh-in yesterday, seems like I have lost about ...

Hi there,
I guess a nice cup of tea is good in any case because it is like a small treat.
I love your positive way of looking at everything - and No S seems to be just your ideal life style/eating style.

My kudos to you, great attitude, the half marathon will be no problem for you.
My first one will be on All Fools' Day... I will tell you if I can recommend it.

I was away at the seaside with a friend & her children, lovely mini holiday. The funny/interesting thing: she and her children ate much less than me and my children. I did not do any no s-ing because I was on holiday (well, four children under five and holiday might be some kind of contradiction ...

r.jean and losingforgood: you are right
I would have never thought of that but it seems highly likely - also because I never feel that hungry when we are having dinner after my running.

Very interesting mechanism a body is. Sometimes it feels like my body tries very hard to kept its (my) weight ...

oh my goodness, simply could not stop eating at lunch time. Ate, and ate, and ate. If it had been instant food it would have fitted on a plate. But it actually rather was three plates. All kinds of stuff.
Why the heck did I need to do this?

How good that you are back. You will suceed, everything you wrote sounded very common-sense

And you will succeed!

Yesterday

no seconds: yes
no snacks: yes
no sweets: no. Emptiied tin with some leftover homemade twisted lads (? Krumme Jungs). Why is it always all or nothing? And not: one or two pieces/chunks/slices?

I only seem to be able to hit two out of three, haven't had one single three out of three days ...

So back again.

Yesterday
no sweets: okay
no seconds: okay (? I just did not have enough time for seconds)
no snacks: had some of the children's pretzels and blueberries

There's still much room for improvement

Still ill but much better. I think I will have my 2 S-days even though I did some s-ing. Hm :? And of course, I could not run :evil:
Good that I did not step on the scales when I started this.

So now I seem to be singing the good old I-will-start-on-Monday-tune. Just hope that it will be a ...

I have been ill the last couple of days - nothing serious but still enough that I decided no to stick or not to stick too much to the no s's. But now I am not sure how to mark this in my Habitcal. As s-days?
For the first time since I have started this I have managed to keep the no seconds rule, no ...

You really have tons of willpower and I like your optimistic attitude - no wonder you'rs successful!

Today was really busy, I did everything in a rush, the next thing always waiting for me... So when I was doing the weekend shopping I was really tempted to buy a chocolate bar to gulp it down before the next appointment because I had not had (is this English?) time to have lunch - but I didn't. And ...

A complete and utter failure
The reasons involve a 50th birthday (not mine), a sick rabbit (not mine), a cheap end table (no longer mine), and lack of willpower sadly jumping at the first opportunity (mine)
I was tempted to rebaptise this day and call it a special day, but this would be cheating
But ...

no snacks and wonder oh wonder, no seconds (for the first time since I have started) but, alas, sweets. I had some birthday cake when I visited a friend.
Maybe I am only able to fulfill two out of three requirements at any given time?

Yesterday nosweetsnosnacksnoproblem
no seconds: let's put it that way: if you just overeat enough it is no problem to stick to the rules for the rest of the day. But I wonder whether it was meant to be that way. Probably part of my problem would be solved by adding the category "no reading while ...

I certainly do!
Welcome.
And be patient with yourself

@r.jean, Celcius, I have not idea how much that would be in Fahrenheit but I suppose I would not have survived if it had been -16 degrees Fahrenheit
I am not afraid of falling but probably only since this has not happened so far. But i just love to be the first on to leave footprints on the snow ...

I started to run around eight this morning, it looked quite cold but the sun was shining so I went out. After some kilometers I noticed that my legs hurt because of the cold especially where my pocket with my mobile phone was, simply because it was frozen. When I came back I had a look at the ...

nosweetsnosnacks: success
nosecondsnothirds: failure
I will try to earn at least one green day for no seconds, does not sound like a superhuman task... we'll see
S-days are great, moderatly & consciously permasnacking and actually looking forward to the next n-day.
@r.jean well, fortyish albeit with ...

Just had a quick look at your thread.
You're such a brave dedicated person!

Yes, r.jean, I also think that it will get easier,

The thing is that I do not punish/have not punished myself if I was not able to eat better but the fact that I eat lots of junk was/is the punishment. Difficult to explain. Even though I would love to lose some of those pounds I do not necessarily ...

Yesterday

no sweets: okay (eaheaheasy)
no snacks: okay (difficult, because a friend came over for a glass of wine and I just wanted to offer some cheese, crackers, grapes etc. But I just skipped supper and had some of these nice but no-s things instead)
no seconds: failure. Lunch is the problem ...

Oh, I must have skipped the 21-day bit, but there's still so much to read (and not all of can be read slowly and loudly :lol:
But then again, maybe I just ignore that bit it could be sort of a complimentary ticket (I fear this is not really English)

lfg, you are absolutely right about the warm ...

Let me see, yesterday

no sweets: okay
no snacks: okay
no seconds: well, if piling up food on a plate as if to win a food piling competition counts, then okay. Kind of reddish green, maybe

I love the habitcal thingy, and I can think of a lot of other categories to add, but one step after another ...

I am sporting completely silly eating habits while considering myself a reasonably reasonable person. There somehow is a contradiction in this - and I'd rather change the first bit of the sentence than the second.
I thought for myself that I first should could down on the tons of sweets I eat on a ...