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).You did great this week! Fridays can be tough for me, too. I pick up the kids from school, and everyone's already in "weekend mode", which of course, should mean sweets and no rules, right?milliem wrote: There's no reason (except habit) to be eating sweets and snacks on a Friday, time to break that habit!!
I even tried a mod once where my S days started at 5:00 on Friday night and went to 5:00 on Sunday. Turned out not being the greatest idea, as I was very obsessed with the clock (stuffing down chocolate at 4:55 on Sunday......not a pretty sight!) It's about half a stone less than I was when I started NoS, and keeps me out of the 'obese' BMI range so I'm happy for now I think I've been this weight for a while now, but maintaining is good.Keep it up! Its so exciting to see some results over time!milliem wrote:Ooh and I weighed at the doctors today - first time in ages. 79.2kg (around 12 stone 6) which is pretty good considering all my latest failures!
I've never really tried to lose weight before, so slow and steady progress is better than slow and steady weight gain!! And I'm really happy with the NoS habits, even if they aren't 100%, I am 100% that I want to keep at them.Thanks for stopping by....and the encouragement...I'm beginning to not care to attend social events where food is...the wedding yesterday wasn't too bad except for the desserts...yik..milliem wrote:Just remember that these times are limited, and the longer you do NoS the more limited they will be, so your good work on N days is not going to be entirely undone by your S days
Congrats!!! When I was growing up I wanted to be a psychologist or a writer and ended up being neither.milliem wrote:I'm in training as a psychologist, so the submission was for my qualification as a Chartered Psychologist. Been working towards it for about 3 years so it's a big thing to submit all the work finally!!
.Oh certainly not, in fact I've convinced my mum and sister who I am on holiday with to no s for our last week so we try and get back into normal eating habits (and our clothes - we have a wedding to go to 2 weeks after we get back!) Typically I start it on a day of travel delays and changed plans, where we are given access to the airport lounge including lots of tasty free food! Resisted temptation but getting increasingly hungry as we wait for transport to our hotel.... oh well the free wifi helpssnapdragon wrote:Glad you haven't given up on us
Oh well it's an S day so nothing to mark as red, but still, the slide from 'decent meals' to 'sugar overload' throughout the day was interesting! I feel like I should have a bit more of a plan to getting back to N days tomorrow but I don't really - will just aim for three squares and see how it goes! I've got out of the habit of having a third mini-meal in the afternoons, not sure whether that was why I was so hungry and overate on pizza...
We also had chinese for tea - I had one plate of this but I'd imagine it was very calorific!Good job resisting!milliem wrote:There were cookies, chocolates, caramel slices, crispy chocolate cakes.... oof it all looked very delicious, but I managed to decline everything.
it's funny how I can resist temptation in some situations but not others! 
) and it did all fit on one so no fails there ) Going to be doing a weights workout and some wiifit at home, so no excuse! 
Hehe, frogs in the bog sounds amazing!! Will have to try that sometimesnapdragon wrote:I think it's key not to beat ourselves up when we make those silly mistakes like the chocolate waffles, when I do that I sometimes say oh well and keep on eating bad things.
Reading your post about toad in the hole made me chuckle, I make a toad in the hole with meatballs instead of sausage sometimes and my kids named it frogs in the bog.
Toad is on the menu for tonight actually, the DB keeps requesting it (although this time I am forcing him to eat 2 types of veggies with it and not a huge pile of mashed potato as previously, I think the batter is enough carbs!)
Totally could have said no to that, birthday meal or not!! Funnily enough, although I ate quite rich, calorie dense food, most of those days involved little snacking or sweets and generally a 2/3 meal per day structure. I also did a lot of walking which hopefully helped to counterbalance the indulgent meals and cocktails!!
I think getting back into the habit of having an afternoon mini-meal and a later dinner helped stave off the evening hunger/cravings, plus I threw away the last bakewell tart from the weekend before I ate it!! Have rediscovered the importance of not having sweet things in the house during the week at all. Had a small lunch today of leftover pizza from last night, won't eat again til this evening when we have a buffet of tasty food (and I know for sure one plateful won't be enough!) I'm thinking of cutting out drinking for a month or two to save money and my waistline!! What do you think of WiiFit? We have a Wii, so I had thought about getting that a while ago, but then I read a few reviews on-line..... some people didn't like it because they said you had to pause alot and it became annoying.milliem wrote: - use the Wii at least twice a week (for WiiFit or Just Dance)
Oh well, it's all about trends not individual days Not that confident about today, it's been a loooong week and I'm craving sweets! I've been thinking over the past couple of days about adding a mod to allow one sweet OR snack on a Friday if I only have 2 meals rather than 3.... hmm we'll see. I think I'll aim for vanilla for today, surely I can wait one measly day for a treat?!Maybe instead of losing weight, you're just gaining muscle, what with all that exercise you've been so diligent about.milliem wrote:Weighed in briefly on the Wii, after almost a whole week of green days and exercise i've lost half a pound
I think it's awesome how you're sticking to your exercise! 
Especially the Friday one, that was a huge success!
If you could lose a half pound every week all year, that would be 26 pounds down by this time next year. I don't know what your goal is but a half pound is a huge success. 
