NSVs/Positive Changes
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Carbi girl - a friend of mine has a mantra 'If the problem's not hunger, the solution isn't food'. Stick to it. You'll be lovely and slim and they'll still be idiots. Wanted to use another word for idiots, but don't like to shock folk, so substitute your own word here. Have a hug over the atlantic from here instead... x0
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Thanks so much snaps, flumi, lulu!!! Love that mantra. I'll definitely have to write that down on my phone. I keep a notepad app with all my positive sayings/affirmations to repeat when I'm feeling down or to keep it fresh. Thanks
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WOW! @thecarbmonster - Yesterday was a banner day in your healing! I am so excited for you! For those of us who are food challenged it really boils down to realizing how we are using food. Milkshakes are tasty but do nothing for the frustrations we have inside. True freedom comes when we realize that food is a poor god. You did an amazing thing when you truly took care of yourself! You are growing in your perspective on food. So exciting!
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I realized another NSV today. I don't feel nearly as guilty as I used to when I was on just a standard reduced calorie diet. Seems like it was way to easy to blow it on the old diet. With 5:2, if I blow it, I know getting back on track is just two fasts away. I know I can handle that. No guilt needed.0
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I have been lurking on this thread, just enjoying reading all the positive messages. Thank you all.
What I find incredible is all the similarities we have. Reading other people say things like 'bury myself in food' or 'drown myself in milkshake' (for me wine, not milkshake but hey ho!) is so useful.
As I've said a couple of times already on other threads, 5:2 for me has been a huge release from guilt and obsession and eating for habit.
My mantra will, from now on, always be "If hunger isn't the problem, food isn't the solution"
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When I put sugar in my tea on fast days I have a 4g. limit. Before 5:2 I used to put in 10g
. Now if I even try to put 5g. on non-fast days I tastes too sweet! So NSV, I don't need as much sugar. Still have a sweet teeth but it wont be in my tea! 
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I have been lurking on this thread, just enjoying reading all the positive messages. Thank you all.
What I find incredible is all the similarities we have. Reading other people say things like 'bury myself in food' or 'drown myself in milkshake' (for me wine, not milkshake but hey ho!) is so useful.
As I've said a couple of times already on other threads, 5:2 for me has been a huge release from guilt and obsession and eating for habit.
My mantra will, from now on, always be "If hunger isn't the problem, food isn't the solution"
Thank you.
@JJA14! That is so awesome! I feel exactly the same- it totally feels like relief! My biggest realization through this journey and finally feeling like my head is above water is that I wasn't using food as comfort- I was using it to self-harm. I would eat more and more to feel stuffed and disgusting and sick and get bigger. I really feel, with the help of this group and this way of eating, I have created a more positive relationship with food I never knew was possible. I have definitely eaten a lot more than I should over the past month, but I was shocked I was able to maintain around 295 and didn't hit above 300. I still can't believe that I am 6 months into this thing! I never EVER would have dreamed to make it 6 WEEKS on a diet.0 -
jknight001 wrote: »I realized another NSV today. I don't feel nearly as guilty as I used to when I was on just a standard reduced calorie diet. Seems like it was way to easy to blow it on the old diet. With 5:2, if I blow it, I know getting back on track is just two fasts away. I know I can handle that. No guilt needed.
I'm still in disbelief at how this diet works and that it actually works! And so true, there is no guilt, there is no blowing it, there are just fasts
I think the best part of this diet is that it's like you're learning how to eat at maintenance the whole time by eating TDEE on your non-fast days. I feel like that's how I was able to maintain during the holidays. I just threw in fast days (even though I was eating WAY more than TDEE) and it evened out somehow. No 100% commitment but feels like 100% results haha.
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When I put sugar in my tea on fast days I have a 4g. limit. Before 5:2 I used to put in 10g . Now if I even try to put 5g. on non-fast days I tastes too sweet! So NSV, I don't need as much sugar. Still have a sweet teeth but it wont be in my tea!
That's awesome!!! I love that approach of still enjoying the things you love, but starting to just cut back a little. I feel like it's almost like reducing dependence on food. On my fast days, I can make it through without stuffing myself silly and can still feel satisfied and like I have enough energy. TDEE days are still a mental hurdle because when I can eat anything I want to eat everything lol. I'm hoping that planning them out better and making them more automatic while maintaining the "free/non-strict" part of it by reserving X amount of calories for going out and then back-filling the rest of the day. Time for some experiments haha.0 -
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thecarbmonster wrote: »No 100% commitment but feels like 100% results haha.
I so agree. Maybe we can get @orlcam to add that as one of our slogans.
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One word...Freedom!!!0
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Hi all...Thought I should put these thought in the NSVs.
I have discovered a correlation between the foods I crave and memories. As some of you may know I moved to London from Seattle when I was 23 to settle with my husband. It was an abrupt move and difficult (but necessary) to leave my friends and family. It has now been nearly 12 years since I relocate and I have not been back to the states since. But what I have realised is that almost all of the food I crave are ones that bring back memories from the first 23 years of my life (the tastes bring my memories right back). Maybe my need to remember is so strong that I need the food to bring be back there. Oh my gosh, I'm like almost crying here...I guess I'm on the right track. Talk about emotional eating. Hopefully my discovery will help be build a better relationship with food.0 -
They say the sense of smell is directly linked to your memories and emotions. Possibly one of the reasons your cravings are linked to foods from your childhood as a huge part of the taste of food is actually it's odor. I do think, you are on to something!0
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Flumi is right. Sense, smell and sound are very close to executive part of the brain. Because in order to recognize danger and handle it swiftly and correctly we need to be able to react fast. (while visual memory takes longer time, recognizing faces are like 3-4 synapses away).
Maybe you're right Snaps. Maybe you somehow long for or miss your friends and family and eating is a way to feel closer to those cherished memories. I don't know. I do know that overeating is predominantly a FLIGHT response in amygdala. So maybe you got some unfinished business there? It's good of you to start connecting the dots within yourself and your patterns. It's the only way, in my opinion, to true healing. Not just fix symptoms. Take care of yourself, it can be vulnerable opening up to those hidden things.0 -
I can believe that...I wrote a post in the old group that eluded to the human association of comfort with food through the millennia. I think most of have memories where good times, family events, and feeling protected went side by side with our favorite foods.
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My nsv? Really dumb but here it is
I went into the shop to buy a scrubbing brush and walked out with only a scrubbing brush!!!! Nothing else! No chocolate, no iced coffee, no doughnuts, no nothing!!!!! Yayyyyyy!!!!!!0 -
That IS a good one...congrats. 7+ months and I haven't pulled that off yet, but I'm not a big sweets guy...I walk out with things like boudin, rib-eyes and bbq ribs.karen_fitzgibbon wrote: »My nsv? Really dumb but here it is
I went into the shop to buy a scrubbing brush and walked out with only a scrubbing brush!!!! Nothing else! No chocolate, no iced coffee, no doughnuts, no nothing!!!!! Yayyyyyy!!!!!!
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Thanks mate! I'm a reformed chocoholic, there was no possible way I could walk past chocolate without eating it. I even had to hide the Easter eggs at the neighbours house so I wouldn't eat them
That IS a good one...congrats. 7+ months and I haven't pulled that off yet, but I'm not a big sweets guy...I walk out with things like boudin, rib-eyes and bbq ribs.karen_fitzgibbon wrote: »My nsv? Really dumb but here it is
I went into the shop to buy a scrubbing brush and walked out with only a scrubbing brush!!!! Nothing else! No chocolate, no iced coffee, no doughnuts, no nothing!!!!! Yayyyyyy!!!!!!
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That's awesome Karen! I know that feeling, when I go shopping and stick to my list...doesn't always happen.
I'm not quite recovered from my chocolic career. One of my 'problems' is, I live in Switzerland....the land of great chocolate
I do ok if I stick to dark chocolate...milk chocolate disappears....0 -
lovely nsv yesterday. ran into marks as they were having a sale and grabbed some size UK14 things to try on. Had to go back to the rack and get 12s! I have put some weight on the scales after my skiing holiday but it hasn't seemed to have expanded my girth. My hips don't lie. Fasting today in small skirt.0
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What a great thread!
I am using back pain and stress as my motivation for exercising, my nsv is beginning to appreciate my body for what it CAN do, and not just beating myself up for what it can't do.
I am gonna use "if hunger is not the problem then food is not the solution"
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Hi all...Thought I should put these thought in the NSVs.
I have discovered a correlation between the foods I crave and memories. As some of you may know I moved to London from Seattle when I was 23 to settle with my husband. It was an abrupt move and difficult (but necessary) to leave my friends and family. It has now been nearly 12 years since I relocate and I have not been back to the states since. But what I have realised is that almost all of the food I crave are ones that bring back memories from the first 23 years of my life (the tastes bring my memories right back). Maybe my need to remember is so strong that I need the food to bring be back there. Oh my gosh, I'm like almost crying here...I guess I'm on the right track. Talk about emotional eating. Hopefully my discovery will help be build a better relationship with food.
Thank you so much for posting this. I am sure many, like myself, can relate. Food is comforting and our earliest memories can be tied to favorite meals at home. I think for me, the trick is to begin to replace the emotions the food evokes with the reality. Food can never provide us what a real human emotional connection can.
I wish you well on this journey. It will be exciting!
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I love this thread too. It's saved me from many a packet of cheezits.
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Anyone else have Mardi Gras in their area?
NSV: got no fatter on fat tuesday0 -
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Today's NSV
Had a fast run (1hr / 8.3k / 165m incline up and down). Even after running the downhill part, I had no knee or hip pain. This has been setting in after about 6k during the last few months. The run is one of my longest and fastest in a long while. I have the Jillian Michael's 6 Week 6 Pack video to thank for that. There is quite a bit of leg strength work in there and it has made my legs stronger again in just two weeks. I noticed the same effect last year, while working on her 30 day shred.
Yay for cross training! It's definitely worth the effort. Oh and my waist was 2 cm smaller this morning even though the scale doesn't show lower numbers in comparison to the last few weeks. I think, that is also due to my work with Jillian. The burns might not be as high as when doing cardio work, but the effects on the body are so worth the work 0 -
that's certainly a NSV! well done you x0
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@flumi_f - Yes, I agree that women need to work their muscles in addition to cardio. Without muscle training we get weaker and weaker. As we get older we eventually can't even get out of a chair without help. And of course the inability to move leads to more weight gain and we all know where this story goes.
Congrats to you. Treating your body well and it is loving you for it!0
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