Advent Calendars - thoughts, mods, vanilla, & tricks?
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Advent Calendars - thoughts, mods, vanilla, & tricks?
Hi All,
As the holiday season begins and it's the 1st of December soon I was hoping you could all weigh in about advent calendars. I am a huge Christmas season fan (being Austrian I'm all into mulled wine, Christmas markets, roasted chestnuts, and advent calendars).
Many thanks in advance,
Tess
As the holiday season begins and it's the 1st of December soon I was hoping you could all weigh in about advent calendars. I am a huge Christmas season fan (being Austrian I'm all into mulled wine, Christmas markets, roasted chestnuts, and advent calendars).
Many thanks in advance,
Tess
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This is from my daily check-in:
I finally figures out my advent calendar mod. It's not a mod at all. I'll save them for the weekend.
After all, I'm alreay having this feeling that if I allow myself one per day it just leads to more overall calories or the munchies on N days. I find it much harder to stop myself once I eat sweets then to only eat it some days, which I guess is the genius of NoS.
So after considering it a lot this is my solution. That said, I'm not counting on an all-green December either
I'm still interested in any mods you could provide.
I finally figures out my advent calendar mod. It's not a mod at all. I'll save them for the weekend.
After all, I'm alreay having this feeling that if I allow myself one per day it just leads to more overall calories or the munchies on N days. I find it much harder to stop myself once I eat sweets then to only eat it some days, which I guess is the genius of NoS.
So after considering it a lot this is my solution. That said, I'm not counting on an all-green December either
I'm still interested in any mods you could provide.
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Good decision!
Although (and this is not to anyway to try and dissuade you) as I have been living longer with No S, I have started thinking more about seasonality.
Back before a stable and consistent supply of food, people ate more seasonally. Without doing much serious study, I imagine there were seasons when food was more plentiful than others. When there was food, you ate more. And when there wasn't, you ate less. I wonder if this isn't behind some of our traditions.
Of course, today we have lots of food available all year round. So having extra treats in December as part of advent is not compensated for in March and April when food supplies started to run low before the new growth.
Random winter night thoughts.
Although (and this is not to anyway to try and dissuade you) as I have been living longer with No S, I have started thinking more about seasonality.
Back before a stable and consistent supply of food, people ate more seasonally. Without doing much serious study, I imagine there were seasons when food was more plentiful than others. When there was food, you ate more. And when there wasn't, you ate less. I wonder if this isn't behind some of our traditions.
Of course, today we have lots of food available all year round. So having extra treats in December as part of advent is not compensated for in March and April when food supplies started to run low before the new growth.
Random winter night thoughts.
Interesting thoughts Blithe Morning. Yeah, I guess in cold climates it makes sense to eat produce and animals before they spoil / get thin over winter, and to lay down some fat before the starving months in early Spring. But these days it hardly makes sense when we fly things in from all over the world.
Makes even less sense in Australia, where Christmas falls in the height of Summer. What are we doing? Laying in a buffer of mangoes before all the good stone fruit arrives?
Makes even less sense in Australia, where Christmas falls in the height of Summer. What are we doing? Laying in a buffer of mangoes before all the good stone fruit arrives?
How about just not buying one with chocolate in it?? As a child we only ever had ones with cute little pictures behind the doors and I loved them, the excitement of opening the little door and seeing what was behind it stays with me even now. You can still get them if you look past the branded chocolate ones!! In fact I have two regular advent calendars waiting upstairs for me and my OH to start opening tomorrow
I like that you decided just to save up the little chocolate pieces for the weekend. That was going to be my suggestion.
If this is your first year and you are thinking you are going to feel too deprived, consider allowing yourself one or two more NWS days besides the normal two you can take (Christmas Eve and Christmas Day?). However, don't assume you will need them. If you go ahead and eat hearty meals, you may not even feel that much like having snacks or sweets until the weekends. Just keep thinking of how delicious the food will be if you have it at meals, and how much better you'll feel. If you attend a party mid-week, perhaps you could ask the host/hostess if you could take a dessert home because the food was just too good and you are too full. Most people are delighted to get rid of leftover sweets, I've noticed.
Now, you may not lose during this season, but holding steady to the habits and feeling you can keep promises to yourself about limits is more important.
If this is your first year and you are thinking you are going to feel too deprived, consider allowing yourself one or two more NWS days besides the normal two you can take (Christmas Eve and Christmas Day?). However, don't assume you will need them. If you go ahead and eat hearty meals, you may not even feel that much like having snacks or sweets until the weekends. Just keep thinking of how delicious the food will be if you have it at meals, and how much better you'll feel. If you attend a party mid-week, perhaps you could ask the host/hostess if you could take a dessert home because the food was just too good and you are too full. Most people are delighted to get rid of leftover sweets, I've noticed.
Now, you may not lose during this season, but holding steady to the habits and feeling you can keep promises to yourself about limits is more important.
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BMI Jan/10-30.8
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9/17 22.8 (flux) 3/18 22.2
2 yrs flux 6/20 22
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There is no S better than Vanilla No S (mods now as a senior citizen)
Thank you so much for all of your posts! I found them extremely helpful.
I thought more about Blithe Morning's post and think that in a Catholic country (I'm originally Austrian) it probably makes sense: 3 days of feasts for Christmas - 1 1/2 constrained months (traditionally January and February are low-key when it comes to food) - 3 days of feasts for carnival - 40 days fasting for lent - followed by 3 days of feasts (Easter).
However, I'm not necessarily following that so I probably don't have an excuse to go all out for Christmas
Oolala, I like your suggestion of taking 2 extra NWS days. It's indeed my first year so all suggestions most welcome!
Thanks to all of you. If there was a "bouquet of flowers" smiley I'd put it here.
I thought more about Blithe Morning's post and think that in a Catholic country (I'm originally Austrian) it probably makes sense: 3 days of feasts for Christmas - 1 1/2 constrained months (traditionally January and February are low-key when it comes to food) - 3 days of feasts for carnival - 40 days fasting for lent - followed by 3 days of feasts (Easter).
However, I'm not necessarily following that so I probably don't have an excuse to go all out for Christmas
Oolala, I like your suggestion of taking 2 extra NWS days. It's indeed my first year so all suggestions most welcome!
Thanks to all of you. If there was a "bouquet of flowers" smiley I'd put it here.
eschano - Vanilla rocks!
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