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The acid reflux came back. And the 3 am hunger that was waking and keeping me up until I ate, and for sometime after I ate as well. This time it wasn't meds. After a talk with my doctor, it would seem I'm better off eating smaller meals and including healthy snacks. I've been doing this for the past ...

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Red day yesterday. I know what happened - lesson learned. I take full responsibility.

I refuse to let it get me down. I think this is part of the circuitous route taken anytime I learn something new. I had almost 3 weeks of green days, and that was recent. I'm getting it, marking it and moving on ...

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Thanks, MaggieMae, for posting the link. And thank you, MysterLover for bumping it yesterday. I must have missed it the first time it was posted, and I found it just what I needed to read yesterday.

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And I love what you said about not needing calorie counting, but instead neediing not to pile the plate so high! I have to admit I always wonder why people are willing to limit themselves when they have a calorie count but aren't willing to learn what reasonable portions are of the foods on their ...

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Hi Tortie,
It is tough when you're stuck at home. You're right, eating that cookie does feel good - for a minute. :? Hopefully next week will be a bit easier on you and you'll be able to get out more. Sometimes when I get wrapped up in eating I search for vegetable recipes and make those instead of ...

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Insomnia became extreme once again the past few days. Yesterday I had to do do a full day having been awake since 3 am - the stress hormones took forever to wash out last night.

Anyway, so my sleep deprived addled brain got sucked into the lure of calorie counting once again. Bloody hell *shakes ...

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oolala53 wrote:... if I can't get x,y, or z, at least I'm not a prisoner of my food whims.

So true.

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This week was so off, I had only one green day. I'm just fed up with a difficult situation- my asthma has been very challenged this season. I'm getting increasingly depressed being stuck indoors and for my exercise to be so limited. I'm getting cabin fever, and it's really affecting my mental health ...

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Excellent non-scale victory, gingerpie! Wow, that's really great, thanks for sharing

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Red afternoon. Ah well, lesson learned. Proper supper tonight ...back on track.

Held back some cheesecake from the weekend, instead of throwing out the remainder as planned. "Ah no, this is too nice nice/too expensive to throw out. And I'm sure Mr.Tortie will be happy to finish it..." Mr. Tortie ...

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Had a few nice treats over the long weekend; wine, a slice of cheesecake, a few cookies, and fish and chips for lunch yesterday. I enjoyed all of it.

Happy to be back to N days though. I'll check in again on Saturday.

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Green day yesterday.

This is a long weekend for us, so I won't be checking in until Tuesday.

Oolala, no, I'm fortunate that retrieving sweets from the garbage has never been a temptation. My sympathies if that's something you've struggled with. I'm lucky, once something is in the bin it stays ...

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Oh gosh, still not sleeping. Our air conditioner broke last night, and we are still having some stinking hot summer weather that will carry on for the next week. Getting the a/c fixed today *fingers crossed* So the stress of it all contributed to my insomnia and I slept even less last night - didn't ...

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Hi, Bluebell and thank you. I read the book quite awhile ago, but I have been skimming through the past few weeks here and there to refresh my memory. I also find it helpful.

Eating between meals is not the temptation this week, but restricting to a silly extreme is. I had been having fears that No ...

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Green day yesterday, but gosh, the emotional and mental angst I put myself through.

I'm still exhausted. A longer than usual run of exceptionally bad insomnia has my mind invaded with some very nutty thoughts. I'm not a great sleeper, but I've not slept more than 3 or 4 hours a night since the ...

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Thanks, Bluebell

Sick day yesterday, but still ended up being a green day.

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Congratualtions, Victoria

Glad it's working out for you.

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Nothing exciting to report about the weekend. I had a small bowl of chips on Saturday. I'm not really a chip person, and I wasn't really wowed.

Baked some cookies late Sunday afternoon. Enjoyed too many and had to skip dinner. Mr. Tortie had his fill, held a few back for his lunch today, and I ...

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Hi Jen and welcome.

Working a similar schedule many years ago, I would have just a glass of milk before leaving the house, and breakfast at lunch break. If you did that, you could push your lunch and dinner later. Could that work for you?

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Great photos of the eclipse, Merry. You do have a lovely style of writing. Thank you for sharing.

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Green day yesterday :)

I considered including calorie counting, in addition to staying within the No S framework, for a good long time yesterday. And I did count the calories of everything I ate yesterday. But I've let that go - too crazy-making and too difficult.

I can't quite shut off being ...

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Thanks for stopping by my thread, Merry. And I completely agree with you.

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Okay, I know I'm all over the shop with this sugar in tea thing, but again I'm changing my decision on this. Sugar really affects my sleep and mood- had sugar in my tea yesterday, fruit juice with lunch and seitan for dinner (from a Vietnamese vegetarian restaurant) - lots of protein, but I think ...

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I need to keep my focus on accepting and loving myself for where I am now. I do know this, but only on a very superficial level. People will tell me this, or I'll read it and think : yeah makes sense - then go on listening to the committee inside my head.

Reading through a lot of posts today, and ...

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Hoping your heal recovers quickly, Bluebell. Nice to read of your son taking an interest in cooking - lovely to have company while preparing meals.

I've been reading through your thread today, and I have found so much of it helpful. Your contentment with slow weight loss and your ability to regroup ...

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Green day yesterday :)

In my early 30s, after years of maintaining a healthy weight, I gained 70lbs in six months due to medication. Once I stopped taking the med, the first 20 lbs fell of without any other changes. The rest of the weight, however...Well it was 3 months of strict calorie counting ...

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I must confess that yesterday I spend about 2 hours seriously considering giving slimming world another try. Why on earth...?! So, No S seems to be a bit more challenging the past 2 days, so let's switch to something even more difficult and proven to be unsustainable?. I think it's the old "I hate ...

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Thank you for the support, Bluebell

Yesterday was a red day. I was still hungry 2 hours after dinner and had a few spoonfuls of sweetened yogurt - gave the rest of it to Mr. Tortie to finish. I should have had a glass of milk or cup tea instead. Back on track today.

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And now it's getting difficult. Yesterday was a technically a green day, but not one that would lead to losing weight.

I put sugar in my tea, and I heaped my plate at dinner. But all day long I fought the urge to bake cookies, and eat the lot. I was just feeling down and really wrestled with the ...

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I did find something to try as an S day special treat - it was gross and made me feel sick. I think I was just feeling lonely, and no sweet appealed because what I really craved was the occasion and the company that comes with special day food.

I think I need to remember the sometimes part of days ...

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Not much excitement in the treat department this weekend :( I ate one of Mr. Tortie's cookies yesterday, and it was awful. I tried to find something nice for myself at the grocery store today, but came away empty handed - nothing appealed.

I did have a coffee though, something I only allow myself ...

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Another green week! I was so down yesterday, I thought for sure I'd cave, but instead I ended up skipping lunch. I was hungry but no appetite, so I had a glass of milk and moved on. I did not give into the temptation of takeaway and cooked a proper supper. I was worried I'd gorge at dinner, but I ...

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Still down, but remarkably, still green. I just kept saying to myself, there's nothing in the kitchen cupboards worth it (my husband's favourites only), and it wouldn't make me feel better anyway. At least I went to sleep last night, after some tossing and turning, knowing I had not let myself down.

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Dealing with a couple of down days, ( I have bipolar depression) and a lot of heavy sadness over the death of loved ones - my dad just last fall.

Had to remind myself at least 20 times in the past 36 hours that a binge will not make it feel better - in fact it will make it worse. Just allowed my ...

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Still green so far this week. I still find having my tea without sugar to be helpful.
I struggled a bit last evening after dinner. Mr. Tortie likes a bit of dessert - he's slim and can easily afford it. I had a few seconds of poor me, but that was it. I treated myself to a nice cold soda water and ...

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I didn't feel the need or call to snack over the weekend. On Saturday I had a spoonful of a dessert; I didn't find it enjoyable, so my husband ate the rest. Sunday evening I had one bite of a cookie and didn't think it tasted very nice at all, so my husband ate the rest of that too.

The scale says ...

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I had my very first full week of green this week.

2 reasons for my success:

1. I looked in a full length mirror and realized this (60lb overweight body) is not because of an absence of strict dieting and obsessive exercising. It's because of unrestrained overeating and being sedentary. A simple ...

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I have been able to eat fruit with my breakfast and lunch, it really wasn't that hard. Making my lunch more rounded has curbed my urge to snack between lunch and dinner. I'm now content with a glass of water or soda water, or a cup of tea at that time of day.

Truthfully, my snacks between lunch ...

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The reason why I've abandoned No S so many times, without ever really getting off the ground with it, is it's simplicity.

With a complicated evil food/good food diet or an accounting diet, it's so easy after a few days, or a week to say "this is ludicrous" and give up, and blame the diet. With No ...

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I had an apple between breakfast and lunch. I was hungry and I'm missing fruit.

Fruit is kind of like a cup of tea..it just stands alone.

This might need to be my first mod. Fruit is getting wasted, because I don't like to eat fruit with my meals. I've been drinking tea with milk and sugar in ...

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Thanks for sharing this...good on ya, for sorting something out that worked for you.

I can relate to going to be hungry as a child; something for me to think about. Never related it to some of my struggles with No S, before, but maybe...

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Thanks for stopping by my check-in. Well done on your recent successes

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Thank you, Rawcookie.

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Yesterday ended up being a green day. I had a bit of wine with dinner, but no sweets or snack. It was a nice evening.

Had to miss my exercise routine this morning due to pain. I just ignored it yesterday and carried on with my routine, and did a bunch of extra stuff yesterday. Now I'm in quite a ...

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So I kind of lost the plot last week, not being very well.

Yesterday I was feeling a lot better, and the day ended up being an accidental No S day! Wow...how did that happen? Maybe this is the way out of disordered thinking and overeating for me after all.

Time to follow the advice of those ...

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I'm trying to walk more, for stress relief, but also to do more fun things, maybe an art class, a little yoga, a little meditation. This is a big change, food used to be my stress release, it calmed my anxiety, helped me sleep and relax. With my stomach overful, it was like taking a sedative. No ...

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Hi Tortle, I saw your update. I hope you are ok. Hunger is difficult, but the reflux is a complicating factor for you. I'm sorry I can't offer much in the way of advice as I'm so new to this. Hopefully someone more knowledgable will be able to offer advice. 🤗

Thank you, Lozie. I think the ...

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Still trying to figure out the right amount of food and type of foods for dinner, without causing reflux or feeling too hungry. But the rest of the day is going well.

Exercise plan I started last fall is still going strong.

Thanks, Amy.

How's everyone else doing?

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I mainly use it as a mental pat on the back after a month, but I think I did tally up the year for my one-year check-in. That could be a fun idea though, to record it each month or to put it on the monthly check-in.

Thanks, Merry.

Wow, it's so great to see so many people joining this ...

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Thank you for the welcome, and the gentle reminders, Over43. A very helpful post.

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Thank you for carrying on with Spark, Oolala. I'm pretty sure it's through your posts on Spark that I discovered No S.

To anyone who is doing the monthly No S Olympics, are you just recording that within your check-in thread or independent of the message board. I found the thread Reinhard had ...

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I have saved money this week. I have been content to eat what's already in the house. Plus I didn't buy any "ideal diet" sort of food that just would have turned bad, or collected dust only to be tossed.

Also want to add my thanks to Reinhard.

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*double post

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Oolala, I can't imagine how difficult it would be to not feel hungry. Your post made me very grateful for my growling tummy yesterday.

I'm doing okay. Feeling the sadness, and sometimes it's difficult to just not stuff all that sadness down with a dumping of food.

I had a couple of white knuckle ...

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Yes, I'm not a fan of challenges at all. Competing with others or even against myself is not my go. So the Spark type of challenge you mentioned, Oolala would be counterproductive for me.

This challenge, is about committing to healing my destructive relationship with food. It's about learning what ...

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Personally, I'm not interested in starting or following several different threads. I just want the quick check in of the monthly challenge threads and posting in this one along with the other folks who have committed to MaggieMae's 2017 challenge.

If I change my mind I can start my own thread ...

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Thanks for starting the thread, kaalii. I'm in.

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Noni, thank you so much for sharing your experience with acid reflux.

Yesterday, I did eat less food at breakfast and lunch, and no acid reflux. However, within an hour after lunch I was very, very hungry. I had a cup of milky tea and I was still getting the hunger pangs. I kept myself distracted ...

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Thanks, Oolala. I'm going to continue on with the 3 meals only, just eat a bit less at each meal and see if that helps with the acid reflux.

I'm pretty sure I can carry on with No S vanilla, I just need to tweak what and how much I eat at those 3 meals.

I'll report how it goes.

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So, I've had 3 green days, and I have one issue.

I'm struggling with acid reflux after meals and it's triggering my asthma. I'm a grazer. I was grazing on a lot of junk, which is why I'm overweight, but I'm not used to a full plate of food at once.

I was going to focus on just the 3 meals and ...

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Okay, I think I've got this figured out,posting my red and green days that is. I'm better prepared for posting in January's challenge. I'm a bit late for December's ...

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I'm sorry that these aren't the exact quotes..

The first that bit me on the bum, was:

something like...You are 50 lbs overweight, you have no business worrying about antioxidants.

and another, I'm not sure that it was in the book, but I read in on the thread about French Women not getting fat ...

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Thank you MaggieMae and BabyBird, for the condolences and welcome.

I had my first green day yesterday. It was a challenging one, but I made it. I will start recording in the monthly challenge thread next month.

Committing to a full year challenge, is, for me, about letting go, and giving myself a ...

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So, to help you all understand why I NEED to commit to sticking to just one diet, I'll give you a glimpse into my "diet journals". I keep a little calendar in my bathroom and I use it to record weight, medication changes, menstrual cycles, etc.
2014 Calendar, starting weight 191:
April : No S
May ...

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Thank you, oolala. Our kitty is slowly but surely on the mend.

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Hi everyone. Thank you so much for all your replies. I'm sorry I'm so late in responding, we've had a major crisis over Christmas, and caring for our sick and very loved kitty, means sleeping and eating proper meals have been chaotic for the past few weeks.

Anyway, things are still not perfect and ...

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Thank you both very much for your replies. I will carry on as mentioned.

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Old topic, situation no longer applies. Please ignore. Thanks.

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