Thanks, Jean. And I'm glad you're hanging in -- at least somewhat. Not giving up is the critical thing.
Julie
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- Wed Aug 01, 2012 3:48 am
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- Sun Jul 29, 2012 6:39 pm
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- Fri Jul 27, 2012 2:38 pm
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Hi everyone (or anyone, who happens to be reading)! I just wanted to check in quickly and say that I'm doing well on the calorie counting route. Will I do this for my whole life? I doubt it. But I think it's what I need for weight loss. I'm still going slow, and not being drastic because I think ...
- Sat May 05, 2012 3:29 pm
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- Mon Apr 30, 2012 12:41 am
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- Sun Apr 29, 2012 2:03 am
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I ended up taking what I guess I'm calling my second S Day on Thursday. I'm pretty annoyed with myself because it was impulsive and included nonsense. And I'd said I'd keep it to one weekday and one weekend, but I guess I'm better off accepting the flexibility. It does also feel like a much bigger ...
- Thu Apr 26, 2012 1:57 am
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- Thu Apr 26, 2012 1:09 am
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Isn't that the most frustrating -- getting carried away eating something you're not even excited about?! I'm somehow remarkably good at doing that. Luckily much less frequently than I used to, though. Clearly, it's not too frequent for you these days either and that's what the release of S days is ...
- Wed Apr 25, 2012 3:37 pm
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Yesterday, Tuesday, ended up being my weekday S day. It was again over the top, but at least I thought about it a little more while I was doing it. It's funny how changing the system up has pushed me back to that issue. I really don't feel worried about it, though. I still think 2 over the top days ...
- Tue Apr 24, 2012 3:31 am
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Monday, SUCCESS.
B - cereal with milk and banana
L (work event) - dressed green salad, chicken salad with grapes and walnuts, few slices french bread, pineapple (I did not have any of the chocolate cake!)
D (hodgepodge, timing didn't end up working well for getting around to a real meal) - chunk of ...
B - cereal with milk and banana
L (work event) - dressed green salad, chicken salad with grapes and walnuts, few slices french bread, pineapple (I did not have any of the chocolate cake!)
D (hodgepodge, timing didn't end up working well for getting around to a real meal) - chunk of ...
- Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:47 am
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- Sun Apr 22, 2012 3:28 am
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- Sun Apr 22, 2012 1:01 am
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Friday, I caved and had an ice cream cone after dinner with a friend. It was really good and I gave in to her suggestion. So I'm calling yesterday my second S day of the week and keeping both weekend days N days. I'd really like dessert right now -- like really -- but I'm going to stay strong, focus ...
- Fri Apr 20, 2012 2:13 am
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- Thu Apr 19, 2012 1:16 am
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Hi, Jean. I'm requiring one of my S days to be a weekend to help with that possible problem of using them both early in the week and then giving up over the weekend. It's the same rule I've been using successfully for exercise the last few months so hoped it might work with the eating part of things ...
- Wed Apr 18, 2012 5:19 pm
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Yesterday, Tuesday, ended up being my weekday S Day because a co-worker brought me a belated birthday cupcake that she had made. I ended up being out of control with afternoon chocolate, though. I am noticing now that I have the S days split, they've gotten way out of control all of a sudden again ...
- Tue Apr 17, 2012 1:32 am
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- Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:42 pm
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- Mon Apr 16, 2012 3:56 pm
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- Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:40 pm
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- Sat Apr 14, 2012 3:47 am
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Friday, SUCCESS. I kept both emotional eating and not really full enough from my not really great lunch or dinner hunger at bay. It's really been a struggle not to give in today and I'm proud of myself for that.
B - yogurt with nuts, banana, honey (one more day and I can go back to my cereal)
L - 2 ...
B - yogurt with nuts, banana, honey (one more day and I can go back to my cereal)
L - 2 ...
- Fri Apr 13, 2012 6:12 pm
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- Thu Apr 12, 2012 12:42 am
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- Wed Apr 11, 2012 4:12 pm
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- Tue Apr 10, 2012 8:02 pm
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Yesterday, Monday, fell apart food-wise. I got some more bad and scary news about my mom's health and let emotions and PMS take over. Ate a bunch of chocolate and too many macaroons and not quite meals. I also didn't do my exercise. So, I guess that was my weekday S day on both fronts.
I did do 20 ...
I did do 20 ...
- Mon Apr 09, 2012 1:54 am
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- Mon Apr 09, 2012 1:50 am
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- Sun Apr 08, 2012 1:34 am
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- Sat Apr 07, 2012 2:04 am
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- Sat Apr 07, 2012 12:31 am
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It's true I guess. Although it was really just a busy day of running around the office. I didn't take any sort of walk at all other than a few minute one to get a diet coke and the few minutes I had to walk to and from an offsite meeting. Today I actually did take a dedicated walk and am concerned ...
- Fri Apr 06, 2012 3:36 am
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I took today as my "floating weekday" S Day. It actually worked perfectly to help solve the problem of giving in to sweets when I shouldn't but am tired and cranky and don't care. I think I can totally do today and one weekend day and be set rather than the old system of today being a failure and ...
- Thu Apr 05, 2012 4:11 pm
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- Thu Apr 05, 2012 2:50 am
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- Wed Apr 04, 2012 10:09 pm
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- Wed Apr 04, 2012 5:34 pm
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- Tue Apr 03, 2012 12:39 am
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- Mon Apr 02, 2012 1:03 am
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- Sun Apr 01, 2012 3:48 am
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- Sat Mar 31, 2012 2:01 am
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- Fri Mar 30, 2012 4:18 am
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- Fri Mar 30, 2012 12:29 am
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- Thu Mar 29, 2012 2:11 am
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- Wed Mar 28, 2012 9:13 pm
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A thought to consider: require one of your S Days to be in the format of 3 eating instances -- or even 4 if you want. Let yourself have whatever you want at those "meals." Maybe that'd help you get structure under control? And if you only did it for 1 of the 2 days each week, maybe you'd also still ...
- Wed Mar 28, 2012 3:17 pm
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- Tue Mar 27, 2012 3:23 pm
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- Sat Mar 24, 2012 4:30 pm
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That's definitely the question, Jean, and I'm just not sure. I really can't decide if this is the way to make it work or just an excuse to get out of doing something really hard. I think I'll try the 1 weekday 1 weekend option for the next couple weeks and try to really honestly assess whether it's ...
- Fri Mar 23, 2012 2:36 pm
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It occurs to me right now that I could possibly try to do the exact same that I do with exercise -- take one S day during the week and 1 on the weekend, but not determine which day that is until close to the moment. I'd been thinking that 2 not determined in advance S days would be a mess, but it's ...
- Fri Mar 23, 2012 2:34 pm
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- Thu Mar 22, 2012 7:17 pm
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Well, things have slightly fallen apart in the last couple days and both have included sweets and, yesterday, no real lunch just more sweets. It's led me to think a lot as I keep having these few failures a month. I think I'm going to try switching the system to 5 S's a week rather than focusing on ...
- Wed Mar 21, 2012 1:36 am
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- Tue Mar 20, 2012 1:53 am
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- Mon Mar 19, 2012 12:57 am
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- Sat Mar 17, 2012 7:23 pm
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Thursday was a Failure day. It's the second Thursday in a row, I realized. I'm not sure if that's a bad coincidence or a trend I need to think further on. The failure was candy mid-afternoon. It was totally emotional eating at my most vulnerable time, but it was contained to the one incident and ...
- Thu Mar 15, 2012 1:27 am
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- Wed Mar 14, 2012 1:42 am
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- Tue Mar 13, 2012 12:57 am
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- Mon Mar 12, 2012 2:07 am
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- Sun Mar 11, 2012 3:44 am
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Saturday, S-DAY. Kind of a hodgepodge of food at meals, but at least in a 3 meal structure.
B - largish hunk of coffee cake (saved from tuesday when we had it at work, baked by my boss), potato samosa (from the farmers market), banana
L - last of the leftover chicken and biscuits, small serving of ...
B - largish hunk of coffee cake (saved from tuesday when we had it at work, baked by my boss), potato samosa (from the farmers market), banana
L - last of the leftover chicken and biscuits, small serving of ...
- Sat Mar 10, 2012 3:06 am
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Yeah, it seems like I did just need more. I've been pushing exercise a little more. I've also been tracking the last week in fitbit and I have it set to a calorie level to lose 1/2-3/4 lb each week. With the exercise I did yesterday, it shows me being right in the middle of the appropriate calorie ...
- Fri Mar 09, 2012 10:23 pm
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- Fri Mar 09, 2012 6:14 pm
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Thursday, FAILURE. I was insanely hungry -- to the point of not feeling well -- and ate a snickers bar. Here's where my real mistake was: since it would count as a fail anyway, I might as well have the snickers bar over the fresh, fruit filled trail mix. Actual fat/calorie count would also not be ...
- Thu Mar 08, 2012 4:30 am
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- Thu Mar 08, 2012 4:25 am
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- Wed Mar 07, 2012 5:29 am
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- Tue Mar 06, 2012 4:18 pm
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- Topic: Determined's Check-In
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- Tue Mar 06, 2012 2:11 am
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- Mon Mar 05, 2012 10:32 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: In need of a pep talk!
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There's no particular reason you can't do both, at least for a while. You could join WW and count points to keep yourself focused on calories/portions and probably get somewhat faster loss. But you can do that within the No-S framework so you can also build up habit. Then, at some point when you ...
- Mon Mar 05, 2012 1:24 am
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- Sat Mar 03, 2012 3:07 pm
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- Fri Mar 02, 2012 2:19 am
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- Thu Mar 01, 2012 3:59 pm
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Unfortunately, I fell apart a little yesterday. As basically always, the real issue was mental. I'm pretty sure it stemmed from weighing and seeing I'd gained a pound in the month. I was really disappointed about that. I did have one minor fail day and another (plus the two S days following it) that ...
- Wed Feb 29, 2012 2:54 am
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Tuesday, SUCCESS! I am hungry tonight, but that's just part of the deal sometimes. Actually, I was really hungry this afternoon to the point of being perpetually distracted so I went and got a creamy coffee, which definitely helped. I'm reminding myself that I did eat a good 1400+ healthy calories ...
- Tue Feb 28, 2012 3:32 pm
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I just did the WATP Walk and Jog. It's definitely a little harder of a cardio workout than the other one I usually do and has left my legs tired. It's 2.5 miles in 30 minutes. There's less room for added upper body. Some, for sure, but you're moving a lot more and generally faster so it's harder to ...
- Tue Feb 28, 2012 6:02 am
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I have the one called WATP Express. It includes the stretchy band and 1, 2, 3, and 4 mile versions. It includes arm movements and the stretchy band, but no actual weights. I add a bunch of extra arm movements with 3# weights, plus use those weights for everything she just has them using the arms for ...
- Mon Feb 27, 2012 4:11 pm
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- Mon Feb 27, 2012 4:08 pm
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- Sun Feb 26, 2012 5:13 pm
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- Sun Feb 26, 2012 1:48 am
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- Sat Feb 25, 2012 2:55 pm
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- Sat Feb 25, 2012 1:07 am
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- Fri Feb 24, 2012 7:30 pm
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- Fri Feb 24, 2012 2:27 am
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- Thu Feb 23, 2012 6:08 pm
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- Wed Feb 22, 2012 5:08 am
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- Tue Feb 21, 2012 6:30 am
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- Mon Feb 20, 2012 6:08 pm
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Friday-Sunday devolved into eating way too much crap, much of the processed variety, and not nearly enough actual meals. The lack of the meals and an erratic schedule, plus being in an environment where snacking is the norm, were pretty much the culprits I'd say. Not that it really matters, but it ...
- Fri Feb 17, 2012 3:30 pm
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- Thu Feb 16, 2012 3:15 pm
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- Wed Feb 15, 2012 2:36 am
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- Tue Feb 14, 2012 3:25 pm
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I'm a huge fan of WATP. I think it's a much better workout than just walking outside (for me at least, especially because I add a bunch of work with upper body weights/arm movements as I go). Plus it doesn't require the weather or time of day to cooperate and can easily be done in a not even very ...
- Tue Feb 14, 2012 2:09 am
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Monday, SUCCESS! I did technically have 2 bites of cheesecake, but I kept it to just those two that were needed to approve at a tasting today (one with chocolate, one with raspberry, which is why I needed 2). Given the circumstance, the stopping, and the small quantity I'm still calling it a success ...
- Mon Feb 13, 2012 2:26 am
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- Sun Feb 12, 2012 6:04 am
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Thanks, Grace! I did power through. Although it was an S Day and I included a chocolate shake in my day, it feels like a success because I refused to give into the desire to snack for no good reason this afternoon.
B - greek yogurt with honey and walnuts
L - very full plate of: homemade hummus with ...
B - greek yogurt with honey and walnuts
L - very full plate of: homemade hummus with ...
- Sat Feb 11, 2012 10:43 pm
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I'm struggling really hard against snacking. Yes, its a Saturday, but my dinner is going to be fatty and caloric (we're going for burgers and shakes) and I want to let that be the treat of the day. I do not need more than that. I do not need to eat anything now. But it's hard to resist while sitting ...
- Sat Feb 11, 2012 7:53 pm
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- Sat Feb 11, 2012 1:24 am
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- Fri Feb 10, 2012 5:44 pm
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- Topic: Me too! Me too!
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- Fri Feb 10, 2012 5:43 pm
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- Fri Feb 10, 2012 4:04 pm
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- Thu Feb 09, 2012 10:28 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: I Just Keep Messing Up
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