Everyday Systems

I'm taking a hiatus from posting and from strict No S-ing for a few days. My grandmother passed away unexpectedly yesterday, and my brain can't handle anything extra right now. My interest in food is diminished, so excess isn't a big issue and I'm definitely not falling all the way back to permasnac...

Yesterday was day 21 for me (in absolute terms, not days-on-habit terms). I had one red day, one NWS day, and one idiot weekend in that time. But I do feel like the 3 meals habit is sinking in--my body now gets hungry at consistent times each day, and I'm used to the cycle of hungry-->meal-->full-->...

Wednesdays and Thursdays for me. Same as you, apple, I feel like I've "been good" for a few days in a row so I "deserve" a break.

Absolutely! Binging can definitely be a self-punishing behavior for me, especially the "I ate a little too much...now I must eat until I feel like throwing up" and the "I weigh too much...now I must eat until I feel as terrible about myself as humanly possible" binges. (But also the "I didn't do wel...

Hang in there, Jamie! I think getting frustrated about weight gain or not losing weight also sometimes pushes people toward self-sabatoge or giving up. It seems contradictory, but I know I do it and have seen others do it too with various plans/diets, and of course it becomes a bad cycle. The only a...

Yay, day 21! This weekend has been pretty decent. I had one "emotional eating" moment on Saturday, but all it amounted to was one fast-food ice cream thing, and I've done a heck of a lot worse than that before! Today I spent what would normally be my lunch and dinner time at a friend's house, watchi...

Day 19 was a SUCCESS.

20 and 21 are S DAYS, so the hard part of getting to day 21 is over! I've had one red day, one idiot weekend, and we'll see how this weekend goes but I think it will be okay. Next goal is 21 days on-habit, which will be 12-ish days from now.

Yesterday, day 18, was also a SUCCESS.

Day 17 SUCCESS . We had a day off from classes to study for a big exam tomorrow, and I was worried about how it would go because I'm used to snacking through these study days. It turned out well, though. The structure of having discrete meals, of getting hungry then eating then being full then getti...

Sounds like you're back into a good groove there. Keep it up!

Yep, no more quitting in anger! Yesterday, which was Day 15 was a SUCCESS . It was surprisingly easy to get "back on the wagon" after the weekend. Today I took a NWS day because it was Ben & Jerry's free cone day (silly, I know, but it's a tradition/brings back good memories and I'd been looking for...

S Day, again, of course. Although these have been a couple of "idiot S days" for sure. No one needs 7 cupcakes in 2 days :oops: But soon the idiocy will be out of my system and the weekends will probably get better. AND...on the plus side, in between the overeating failure on Thursday and my weekend...

This may not apply to you at all, but for me, I think pushing really hard to get to day 21 with a perfect record was worse than letting myself slip up in the first 21 days. I wasn't really thinking beyond day 21, and I wonder if once I got there, as soon as the "I did it!" glow wore off, I'd just le...

Day 12 was a SUCCESS.

And today is an S-DAY, so I think it's failure-proof.

Day 11

FAILURE

I tried playing around with the timing of my meals and it didn't work out, leading to snackage between lunch and dinner. *sigh* It's almost a relief to have that first red day, though, since I wasn't struck down by lightning or anything

Back on the wagon tomorrow.

As someone who's stopped and started exercising more times than I can count, I've come to the conclusion is that the most important thing is to just start. Don't worry about how much and what forms of exercise you "should" be doing, or used to do, or want to build up to doing someday, just DO someth...

Thanks for the suggestions, everyone. KCCC, I'll have to check out that podcast. I haven't listened to any of them yet, but it sounds useful. I hope eventually I can just ignore my cravings and triggers, but right now I find they need a little more active management. There really is a part of my bra...

I'm worried I'm going to start bothering people over in General Discussion soon, so figured I could use a thread of my own :wink: Today is Day 10 and we'll call it a SUCCESS , although only by the skin of my teeth and with some virtual plating. Part of me is bound and determined to make it straight ...

As we try to instill new habits, especially at the beginning, it can be hard to resist the pull of the old ones. I'm sure I'm not the only one who finds there's a certain time of day when their brain just screams for a snack or a sweet, or certain situations that seem very odd and maybe even uncomfo...

Another vote for "sweets" here. There was a period in my life when I was pretty rigid about not having any sweets ever, which I eventually overcame and developed the mindset that it's perfectly okay to have sweets if I want them, and I still think that is true in general. But I'd gotten to the point...

This is also my first S day after my first 5 of NoS, and it's been fine. I'm typically a big snacker, sometimes doing more grazing than meal-eating, so that's been the biggest thing for me today--being able to have a little something when I just want a little something, or to tide me over when it's ...

Hi all. I'm coming to the end of my first week of No-Sing, it's going pretty well so far, and looking at past posts in this forum have already helped answer a lot of my questions. Here's a worry I came up with (hypothetical situation, hasn't actually happened yet) that I haven't come across an answe...