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Me and the kids are off to NYC today to visit my sister, we'll be there until Thursday. Looking forward to getting out of this awful heat for a little while, and in a big city again! Even if it's 92 in NYC that's 10 degrees cooler than what it's been here. I have cabin fever! For me that leads to to...

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I wouldn't call giving in to freshly baked chocolate chip cookies from your own oven a weakness, I'd call it normal

Moderation, good for you!

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I like this idea and have been doing it lately without writing it down. The green and red were also too black and white for me, felt like too much of a failure if I did one thing wrong outside Vanilla S, which easily led to the WTH binge. I guess that's why I haven't updated my daily check in, becau...

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Better day yesterday. Technically not "green" because I had some strawberry jello dessert that someone at work brought, but that's all I had as far as sweets, for the entire day, so to me that's a success! I didn't give in to the WTH thinking. I thought A LOT last night about having ice cream. I fou...

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I'm having the same kind of days you are. I'm sick of my insanity with eating. I've been like this since I was a teenager. Have lost weight after each of my kids and then end up back to the mid-130's, which I think I've been at most of my life. It felt good being skinny. It was nice to have more sel...

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Ugh, I'm just frustrated! I swear the more I've focused on losing weight, the more I have gained. Since February I've put on about 4 pounds and that's when I was "getting serious" about losing weight. I put on my skinny jeans this morning that were loose on me last summer and now they're form fittin...

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Glad you're back and you're internet is fixed. I felt like you last night after your waffle. I came to the conclusion that Sunday evenings I eat just because I can. I wasn't really craving sweets, and I definitely wasn't hungry, but I ate them anyway because time was running out to eat whatever I wa...

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I know you said you hate tracking anything, but I find I still have to do it, even with just 3 meals per day. I think it's possible for me even with this plan to overeat in 3 meals. If I split up my calorie goal for the day by 3 I feel like I have more control over my eating and I can roughly calcul...

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If I make it until midnight I'll have an entire GREEN week. Yay! I haven't had one of those since the end of April. I started No S April 6 and had good N Days initially. I don't know what happened after that initial 21 day streak, but I don't want to go back. My only goal for the weekend is not to w...

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Yay Liz! Glad you've had some good days and are feeling the wonderful effects. Yep, it really helps to remember how waking up in the morning feels like on those days, as opposed to those awful "hangover" mornings. I'm hoping my weekend will be moderate, so that I don't have the Monday morning hangov...

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We had our second potluck of the week at work today. I didn't eat at either and today's wasn't hard to pass up for me because it was barbeque. But there are always desserts galore! I even brought one myself just because I wanted to contribute even if I wasn't going to parttake. In addition to the le...

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Thanks for stopping by my thread. I can't wait to read the McGonigle book. Sounds like you are doing great! I'm looking forward to having a "green" S day, but not going to put too much pressure on myself. It'll happen.

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I'm just about finished listening to the audiobook, "Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength" by Baumeister and Tierney. Overall it's been very interesting, lots of research studies on various situations that affect willpower. I finally got to the "dieting" chapter last night, the one I...

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I listened to the podcast on Negative Qualification and the WTH effect. Good stuff! Since I had been feeling OCD about eating, dieting, etc, lately anyway I'm going to start posting only when there's a red. I'm hoping doing so will help break my WTH thinking habit. Reinhard (or McGonigle, don't reme...

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I've been thinking about OA, how it works, and if it would be helpful for me. I'm very familiar with another 12 step program. What is the name of the book you wrote? I'd love to read your whole story.

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Read your post earlier this morning and have been thinking so much about you. I hope you're feeling better. I could totally feel your pain and relate to what you are feeling. Been there too many times myself. My first thought was that maybe you got too hungry? I know if I don't eat on a regularly ti...

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I guess my thought was "spontaneous eating". That's kind of like compulsion right? I can't do spontaneous eating, because I can't do it moderately. The whole setting boundaries is a problem for me in so many areas of my life. Yesterday I read another article on the benefits of "mini-meals" throughou...

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My longer runs are always done on Saturday or Sunday morning, and those are S day's so it's not an issue

For a half marathon I don't think your weekday runs will be so long that you'd have to worry about breaking No S rules.

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The library by my house had the book so I picked it up last night. See how OCD I am? I LOVED the definition of hell and living in hell described by Levine. That is so me! "...compulsive eating is basically a refusal to be fully alive. No matter what we weigh, those of us who are compulsive eaters ha...

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Thank you, Oolala, that is a really great way of looking at it. You're a wealth of knowledge! I'd like to print out so many of your posts and put them into one book. It'd be a bestseller! I will certainly try to keep your suggestions in mind when I find myself struggling. Lately though I just haven'...

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I've decided to just relax the rest of the week. No more "green" or "red" days this week, cause they'd all be red :D But I'm just giving myself a break from all the thinking and stressing. The same thing happens to me, the harder I try, the worse of an outcome I have with eating. I'm also trying to ...

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It's probably the perfectionist in you that gets you stressed out over preparing for events. It goes along with that "all or nothing" thinking, for me anyway. You're right, stay in the present. I can get myself extremely stressed out in no time if I start thinking too much about the future or the pa...

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Never thought about my food obsession being similar to OCD, but wow, that's exactly how my mind works. If I could hook up some kind of thought monitoring device I'd be curious how much of my waking time is spent thinking about food. To me it seems like a lot! My thoughts about sweets at times can be...

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Liz, I was having the same exact thoughts this morning! I also think that way, "nothing" or "make the most of it and have it all". Last night after dinner I consciously made the choice to have dessert. I wanted it! So I had it and I didn't go overboard. It also had me wondering if I'm better off hav...

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I ended last week well and it carried over into Saturday. I "allowed" myself 1 dessert Saturday night, but we also had pizza for dinner and I was ravenous because I hadn't had much of a lunch at work. I didn't overeat on the pizza but I was definitely uncomfortable after dessert. Sunday I got the "I...

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looking forward to a healthy mind and body week! Me too! My week didn't start so great but it doesn't mean it has to end that way. I'm just like you, all or nothing. I hate it. I can't do anything in moderation it seems. I also have questioned No S, but like you said, it's better now with No S than...

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Sounds like me and you had the same kind of day, and attitude, yesterday. I also got the "I don't cares" at 11am after giving in to a craving for chocolate, followed by the "might as well make the most of it and keep indulging". Like Liz and Oolala have said, it is a new day and I'm back on track so...

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Good for you for stopping at 2 brownies! I would have searched for more chocolate/sweets, and if there weren't any would go out and get some. I only buy my kids treats that I know won't appeal to me. They're happy with plain chocolate ice cream. If I'm going to eat ice cream I'm going to go for some...

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Have fun in Hershey on the bike ride! I've been to Hershey, most recently in 2001 when we were living in Allentown, PA. I went to the Hershey factory when I was a kid, but going as an adult didn't seem nearly as spectacular. Oolala is right, you can get it anywhere. The only Hershey chocolate I have...

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Woohoo Oolala! Keep the cake in the freezer. Way in the back if it were me

Way to go on cutting yourself a slice yesterday at lunch and not eating it. That's true thin person behavior!

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That wrap sounds good! I try to cook all I can on the weekend to have stuff ready during the week so I don't have to cook when I get home from work. Somehow it seems like everything is gone by Tuesday or Wednesday. Great job on 4 days! I feel confident I'll have 3 by Saturday, but then I have to try...

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Yay for 7 pounds lost, princesstina! That is SO awesome! I started a new 21 days yesterday and am hoping it will be better than the one, which wasn't so good. My daughter is about to turn 14 and start high school, my son is 10. I have told them about No S, which is kind of funny because they'll say ...

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The Kashi cereals seem to be lower in sugar. I try to keep mine to less than 9g of sugar per serving, 4g of sugar = 1 teaspoon. I've been eating Go Lean mixed with Honey Bunches of Oats and I use unsweetened vanilla almond milk. I love cereal! I've tried Uncle Sam's which has almost no sugar in it, ...

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Day 1 of "21 day No S", and also my 6 week Beck plan, was successful!Actually stayed within a (weight loss) calorie range for a change. I hate that I still count calories, even just mentally, but I'm afraid I'd get out of control if I didn't. I know if I kept my meals "healthy" I probably wouldn't w...

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Well, I've been humbled and Vanilla feels good. I'm not saying there won't be mishaps, and I'll be realistic about it. But, I'm hoping to stay at "oops", not crashes. Me too! I have to stop my thinking of "I've already made it a red day so I might as well gorge myself while I can". I always end up ...

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Thank you for the post on my check in! I almost blew off my trip to the gym after work because I was tired (from the sugar crash) and discouraged. Your post motivated me to stick to my plan of exercising. Felt much better!

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Good points. Maybe I had so many red days this past month because of my "all or nothing" thinking. Once I'm not perfect I throw in the towel. And I just joined the June Challenge thread. Maybe I need to unjoin? Learn to just take it one day at a time. Or some days one hour at a time!

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I'll start tomorrow, May 30 to June 19. Most of May is gone and was pitiful for me. I need to do 21 days straight, no S Days. I don't do well if I give myself a choice and I think in order to form the habit I can't break it on the weekends. We'll see how it goes. Probably can't be any worse than thi...

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Thanks Oolala. Unfortunately Sunday and Monday were a bust. And today hasn't been stellar either. I had a little more ice cream on Sunday and yesterday I just went plain overboard. Waking up yet another morning feeling disgusted with myself and frustrated for continually repeating these behaviors. I...

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I am loving the Beck book! I just have to really work at writting down and remembering all the great things I've learned in it. My reading comprehension skills are pretty bad

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HCG post must have been intended for someone else. I have no interest in using them.

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Great post!

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Thanks for posting the name of the book on my check-in page. I hadn't checked in for a few days so I just saw it. I spend way too much time on SparkPeople. I have forced myself to slack off on the nutrition log, but I still seem to keep a mental note of my calories. I have a huge appetite, seems eve...

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Finally had a good S day yesterday! Stuck to 3 meals and had 1 sweet last evening (a bowl of ice cream), and didn't feel at all guilty about it. For once I didn't have that "better eat as much as I can cause it's an S day" thinking. Could be cause I had 2 failures last week, who knows. I went to the...

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I started reading Beck recently and trying to implement the daily tasks. I also just read day 20 and thought that pyramid was a great visual for how bad the WTH thinking is, and I do it so much! I have to stop thinking that just because a day is a failure at 2pm that I should make the most of it and...

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oolala53 wrote:Can you think of a time in your life when you felt you were eating rather reasonably but without a lot of effort?

Every time I start dating a new guy! That's only been twice in the past 3 years, thankfully

Too bad the weight didn't stay off either time.

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What is the name of the book on willpower? Tried to find it in back posts but didn't have any luck.

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Haven't checked in since last Wednesday, at which point I was doing well with my N days. But Thursday night I gave in and ate some Reese Pieces (should NOT have bought those to begin with). I think because I ruined my "perfect" week I went nuts Friday afternoon. Bought mint M&Ms and a Dove dark choc...

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Love reading your posts. You have learned so much about your behavior with regards to eating. I'm still trying to figure it out and reading your posts sheds a lot of light for me with my own behaviors. I'm struggling with weekends. Actually, seems like I struggle in general come Thursday. I just don...

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Oh my was I starving today! I thought I was going to have to break down and eat my lunch at 11am. I stuck it out until 11:45, but I devoured my lunch and had Chex mix that wasn't planned. It all fit on one plate so it's all good so far. I was truly hungry, like shaking hungry. I don't like that. I t...

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Obviously I don't know what day of the week it is. Just realized last night it was only Tuesday, so I have 2 N-Days, today will be 3, I hope! After dinner is definitely the hardest part of the day. I drink calorie free drinks in the evening, (decaf) tea or Crystal Light lemonade or diet soda, to kee...

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Day 3 and all green!

Started Insanity this week so I'm super sore. I can't see myself doing those kinds of workouts daily, it'd be too boring, but I wanted something different to do for when I don't run or bike outside. Insanity is quite different, and pretty insane!

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So glad to see others have joined the quest for 21 days! I'm doing ok so far, three days of no sweets and I'm not struggling too bad. The weekend is what worries me. That's where I struggle and un-do all the good I've done all week. I have to work this Saturday so maybe it won't seem like a weekend ...

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Welcome! I found No S on Sparkpeople as well and jumped on it immediately.

I know how stressful going to grad school is with kids. I'd never do it again and would have a hard time recommending it. You'll get back to better habits now that your life is more manageable.

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The weekend was a bust, but I pretty much resigned myself to the fact that it would be. I decided to start over today, 21 days of No S, weekends too. I'm such a sugar addict. I'm really better off with none, it decreases the craving. I may still do a snack on the weekend especially if I do a long ru...

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I'm in!!! I made the same decision this weekend after having so many failures lately. I am thinking of doing 21 continuous N Days. I have not done well on weekends and think it may be easier to stay away from sweets altogether. Unfortunately I don't think I can ban treats entirely from my house, but...

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The past two days have sucked. Both were failures. Hoping today will break the bad cycle. But then there's the weekend...

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I just read your blog post about the chocolate bars. I can so relate! I don't do anything in moderation either, unfortunately. I even had to quit drinking entirely 2 years ago because it was starting to get out of hand, and because alcoholism runs in my family. There are some days I can do sugar in ...

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Was so close to eating ice cream last night after dinner. I knew I'd regret it and kept telling myself how much better I'd feel this morning if I didn't. And it was true. I find it crazy how my brain will fixate on a food, usually dessert, and not let it go. I told myself that's not how skinny peopl...

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I just realized what these daily check in messages are all about. I thought I'd give it a try to see if it helps keep me motivated. Seems like I made it through 21+ days and then I fell to pieces. I started No S on April 6 and was doing great until last Monday (April 30). My weekend eating wasn't gr...

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If you don't LOVE crepes then I wouldn't have one just to be social. Not eating one will probably be a bigger deal to you than anyone around you. I get put in those situations at work a lot. I found the less I focus on it the less everyone else does too. Maybe if you don't make it a big deal you'll ...

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I don't know. I have mixed feelings about it. I just know I haven't done well this far with my weekends and I feel lousy on Monday morning. Like I have a food/sugar hangover. I've listened to the Podcast on S Day modification of 1 snack, but it's the sweets that I have a big problem with. Maybe I'll...

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I was just reading the No S website about the "sometimes" that Reinhard left out of the book but was in the original web plan. It has a link with a thread of posts about "sometimesians" and "alwaysians" that I thought was pretty funny, and helpful. http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=2784 ...

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I try to run first thing in the morning, because as you said, the chances of blowing it off increase as the day goes on. Sometimes I can get out and run at lunch, but now the weather is getting hot and humid here so that's not an appealing option. Sometimes I take a 15-20 min walk indoors (if too ho...

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I actually wear scrubs to work, just about everyday. Now it's because I don't like how my khaki's or jeans fit and it's getting uncomfortably hot and humid here already. I don't particularly like wearing scrubs because I feel like I've come to work in my pajamas, but they are comfortable and I don't...

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1. No "red" days 2. 1 "sweet" (or none) on S Days, no snacks or seconds. 3. Lose about 4 pounds (1 per week) by the end of the month by sticking to goals 1 and 2. May 1 - :mrgreen: 2 - :mrgreen: 3 - :oops: 4 - :oops: 5 - :) An OK S Day 6 - :? Ate too many desserts, three to be exact. 7 - :mrgreen: W...

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Thanks for the post, Liz! I've had a similar experience the past 3 days (weekend spilled over into yesterday), but I'm more optimistic today, and so far having a good N day. I also did WW back in like 1989 when I was 17. I did lose some weight and then blew it on my birthday. It was like once the "d...

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I wrote a long reply to your post Christine, and somehow zapped it. Gone! You sound so much like me! I'm new too, started April 6, and was doing great until yesterday (had my first "red" day thanks to hormones). But I'm not giving up. This is the best plan I've found and I know it's manageable and m...

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I'm embarrassed by how many fitness DVD's I own and how little I use them. The one I've probably used the most is Beginners Pilates by Gaiam (I think that's how you spell the company). The instructors name is Anna Coban. It's a great core workout and takes 30 min tops. We used to do it at work durin...

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