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Hey all Nossers :)
How is January treating you all so far? :)
I wanted to write a couple of ideas and experiences thus far for
me...
First, Thank you Reinhard for your cheer of encouragement on
Shovelglove... You are the gang leader of the "Pact of Blood" LOL
:)
That's going great, so no whining today! :) Also, it's great to read
that "SCIENCE" has validated the common, and obvious intrinsic plus
of "Stick-to-it-ism" that NoS is based upon!
People love when they hear clinical stuff to validate what they are
doing... May I suggest that you include a footnote or link to the
article or post on your main page, so as to attract scientific
cerebral types :) You know in the section which begins "Is there any
scientific proof that this diet works..." you now have enough
personal success stories from people who have stuck with NoS for
over a year (the time frame that the article mentioned as a
measuring stick) Just my humble suggestion though :)
As for eating and the rules, I have to be honest that yesterday,
once the cold and drizzly weather set in, I sought some comfort in
ways that aren't NoS approved (still they weren't really horrible,
just a little setback) at dinner I had seconds on
chicken...Technically the food might have fit on one plate, if I
stacked them like lego blocks! But, there you go, one S marginally
violated, at one of my meals...then again the weather prompted this
one, I *think*, at 9:00 I had 1 and a half cups of hot
chocolate...Mine and half of Richards...I kept saying "hey Richard,
look over there! and then sneaking a sip" ha ha just kidding... he
just left half and I assumed the "hot chocolate depository" role and
knocked it off... Oh well, the worst setback, and I am sure this has
to do with me being very out of whack due to the final two days of
pms...which is always the boiling point for me, I woke up at around
3 am and had *another* piece of chicken! Ahhhhh! I was pretty
disappointed at myself but the power of "autopilot" was on me, and
in the wee wee hours, it almost felt like I was an innocent
bystander, watching the carnage on the sidelines in a "dream" in
which I was powerless to stop myself... I know this isn't true, but
that's how I felt...Then I paid the price with a nightmare about my
first relationship with the guy who seems to be hanging onto my mind
like a barnacle on my brain.. You know that guy, the one who looked
and acted like David Koresh #2....Hey it's probably time for some
therapy folks! I can't even sandblast this guy away! LOL... So the
chicken *definitely* wasn't worth it! LOL Actually, the next time I
am faced with a nocturnal eating "anomaly" (and for newbies this
used to not be an anomaly but quite often for me, and these days
it's around 80% less than before!) which will undo my potential "NoS
Slash", I will try very hard to remind myself that it most likely
will result in a nightmare... Scare tactics might work :)
So, I am giving myself 3/4 of a slash for yesterday and just
forgiving my bad habit of night eating because this month I am
counting pms days as "S lenient" occurrences... If I beat myself
silly I will crush my own momentum, and whether it's officially a
verbatim 21 days "to perfection" isn't as important to me as knowing
that my mind is gearing up to succeed and if it's only 80 or 90
percent, it's better than a week of "autopilot" and bad habits gone
wild....I almost went out and got the m&ms from my trunk out in my
car before bedtime (chocolate and pms, a classic combo) but
I DIDN'T!!!!!!!! (that was a desperate moment which ended in triumph)
(Sounds of trumpets blaring in background...)
All in all, I really notice how yucky I feel when I backslide into
overeating, and my will and habits are much stronger than they have
been for 37 years...Will can diminish with age, I'm sure some of you
will agree...but the Spirit lasts forever....They are two forces we
need to succeed...When will isn't strong enough, and fails
temporarilly, or is just having a plain old hard time showing itself
at all, there is always the Spirit there to say...Keep it up! You
can do it! So stay positive, and try to laugh at the bad times, you
can learn alot from them... It's a constant motivation for change...
Oh yes! On a happy note, I have gone "medieval" on my self (inspired
by the Iron Moderator! LOL) and reduced my usual 3 to 4 teaspoons of
turbinado sugar in my coffee to only 2....my tastebuds will adjust,
and it's time to nip a very bad habit in the bud.... Just a
background thing, I used to drink very strong fresh coffee back in
high school and college (as the creepo boyfriend was also a snob for
fresh mocha java and french roast, and he "indoctrinated" me too
LOL, seriously he did lot's of indoctrination back then, and I
rarely made any decisions for myself...sorry guys this is cheaper
than calling a shrink, okay back to sugar...) and I was fine with
two rounded teaspoons of sugar then...after I started using fake
sweetener, nutrasweet to be exact, my tastebuds got acclimated to a
much higher level of sweetness, and when, 2 years ago, I finally
eliminated that toxic chemical from my life, I found my sweet tooth
couldn't be satisfied with 2 spoons anymore, and it wound up being
FOUR! So I am hereby going postal on my sugarfied coffee, and going
back to my two spoons... that should be fine and my tastebuds will
adjust accordingly...Tough love for a tough "everyday" habit... But
Reinhard, I can't go completely spartan as you do with Black
Coffee :) So forget that option..... That's too hardcore for me :)
Have great triumphs today, all!
Accenchuate Da positive :)
Love,
Deb
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