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I continue to struggle with unidentified food allergies. My throat and ears are closed up, and my tongue burns ALL THE TIME. So I'm going to experiment with eliminating foods, to see if I can improve my level of comfort. I'm cutting out dairy to see what happens. Tuesday Breakfast = espresso, plums ...

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On Saturday, I ate what I wanted to eat, and was aware (but not negatively) that I wasnt having sweets or seconds. On Sunday I had seconds at dinner because I barely ate lunch, and was ravenous. And I had a small bowl of icecream because it was Sunday night and I wasn't going to see dessert for a we...

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Just how much are you eating at one time?

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Monday

Breakfast = latte, two plums
Lunch = leftover mac and cheese, coffee, ciabatta roll, a mango
Dinner = a cheese and avocado sandwich, a green salad

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A nice weekend. Our plum tree is coming ripe, so we ate quite a few plums, fresh from the tree. What could possibly be nicer? Friday For some strange reason, I ate breakfast food three time on Friday. I took my intern our for a last-day-of-the-internship meal, and we went to a place known for servin...

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http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3327/4569238330_974bba2249.jpg Thankfully, I've never ever gone down the road of eating "diet" food. I try to eat simple hearty food, prepared at home as much as possible. Developing massive food allergies last year certainly added to the "not eating out" part of my l...

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Most of my food is home made, from scratch. Much of that comes from my garden. We keep bees, and are working on our backyard orchard.

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Thursday Breakfast = latte, bread and butter, with fresh honey from our bees, a plum from the garden Elevenses = coffee, a ciabatta roll, a plum Lunch = leftover mac-and-cheese (home made and so so tasty), asparagus, another plum Dinner = a white pizza, with home made crust (amazing!), leeks from o...

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I can't answer the question about if I eat enough "real food" because I don't know what that question is really asking It has been my observation that meat eaters rarely think that vegetarians "eat enough real food." Because I've been having some really freaky health issues, I've had a huge number o...

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Yup, I'm still struggling with this gnawing hunger at bedtime.

This is the hardest time for me.

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Wednesday Breakfast = latte, home baked bread, with butter and honey from our beehives, two plums from the backyard tree Elevenses = coffee, two ciabatta rolls Lunch = about as random a selection of food as one could imagine: raw snap peas, a mango, a kefir yogurt drink and a mandarin orange Dinner...

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Sounds like you know what you have to do.

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Our group has been knitting together for something like three years. They're a great bunch.

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Tuesday Breakfast = a plum from our tree, eaten in the back yard!!!! Latte and a small bowl of cereal Elevenses = coffee Lunch = Thai noodle salad Dinner = veggie and dumpling soup, juice, another plum Went out to my knitting night. Loads of treats for sale. I had a home made cucumber soda. Cucumbe...

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Oh thank you!

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A nice weekend . I worked hard, scraping 85 year old paint on Saturday, and doing major garden work on Sunday. I ate lovely food, in reasonable quantities. Two pieces of French toast, made from home made bread... Lovely mixed salads. I think I had about half a dozen tiny cookies this weekend. Other...

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Welcome! We'll be cheering for you.

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Did you notice her reference to her former life as a garden slug?

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I'm a huge fan of the blogger, Crazy Aunt Purl, and she just wrote a really great essay on walking. Sounds dumb, right? Not at all. She's funny and wise, and crazy-wry. As they say, "You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll experience many emotions." http://www.crazyauntpurl.com/archives/2011/06/apparently_...

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I'm an avid knitter, which is what made me take a serious look at my weight. I was spending to much energy on finding clothes that hid my poochy belly, and I was pretty sure I wasn't going to fit into the sweater I was knitting. So, either I'd have to reengineer the sweater, or lose some weight.

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Incandescents won't be banned. But there will be minimum standards for energy use. The NY Times had an article about that, a few weeks back. Anyone paying for access?

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I agree with Millie. Fasting, in a dieting context seems too extreme. Phrases like "starving yourself" and "crash diet" come to mind, and that's antithetical to the philosophy of the No S system.

Fasting for religious reasons fall outside of the realm of my experience.

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Friday

Breakfast = ran out of time for anything but a latte
Lunch = a vegetarian bento box
Dinner = home made asparagus and mushroom pizza, some mango

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Keep us up to date on your cycling! We'll be cheering for you.

My partner suffered a spinal cord injury a few years back, and is paraplegic. Just two weeks ago, he clocked four thousand miles on his recumbent trike.

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Thursday

Took a sick day. Ate reasonably well.

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Are you a competitive athlete, or a ballet dancer? It seems as if your activity levels and food intake are out of balance. I'm not sure that you're going to be able to successfully juggle everything you've got going on at the moment. Can you pause on the sparkpeople meal tracking? Can you allow your...

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Wednesday Breakfast = latte, bread and marmalade Elevenses = plain bagel and cream cheese, nectarine, coffee, sparkling water Lunch = I ordered a salad, and somehow ended up with a grilled cheese sandwich, a couple of barely sweet lemon sodas On the drive home, I started feeling really sick. Like st...

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I'm not sure I agree with having permission to go hog-wild on weekends.

But that's just my opinion.

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It occurs to me that you could imagine the contents of the bowl, frozen solid, and upended on a plate...

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Nice to "meet" you!

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Can I take the opportunity to say how impressed I am with everyone's raw honesty and candor? This forum is an awe-inspiring place. People are being very brave here, by being so blunt and honest about things that most people might choose never to talk about. I know I'm sounding sappy and sentimental,...

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I love reading your posts. The narrative of your journey is so impressive!

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Tuesday Breakfast = latte, bread and marmalade, raw carrots (weird, I know...) Elevenses = coffee Lunch = salad and raw carrots Dinner = salad I went out with my knitting group for the first time in ages. We're looking for a new place to knit, and all the baked treats at the cafe looked wonderful. I...

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Nicely done!!!

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Thinking good thoughts for you and your family.

My partner is paraplegic, and uses adaptive hand controls to drive. Is your mother's husband someone who might benefit from something like that? It might be something to consider in the future.

Please forgive me if that's too personal a question.

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Just speaking for myself, there is no way on earth that fasting would work for me. I would be miserable, fuzzy headed and crabby. I'd be thinking about food non stop, and then I'd eat way too much after the fast. For me, this would not a healthy or viable way of life. What I like about No S is that ...

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Thank you! I just could not picture that word, even though I've read it countless times.

Cheesy Dillahs.

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Monday I was up at 4:15 am, dealing with a household emergency. As a result, I was really exhausted at dinnertime and ate strangely. I'm still struggling with allergies. Breakfast = latte, bread and a bowl of cereal Elevenses = two small ciabatta rolls, a nectarine Lunch = leftover stirfry and dump...

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I don't see the connection between coming home to household chores and sensible eating. I, also, read all of your postings and I thought "this woman could talk her way out if any situation, but she's using that ability to sabotage herself."

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Thanks for this.

(I've been durian-curious for a while, now.)

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I am, thankfully, not ensnared in a complicated relationship with food. I had admittedly gotten a bit sloppy in my snacking habits, but overall I think I've got a healthy approach to eating. I actually don't have much of a sweet tooth, and over the last few years, I've gotten away from eating most p...

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I think you're right about my First Failure. I think, though, that I'm not going to count eating because I'm so hungry that I have the shakes as a failure. To not listen to my own health would be absurd. Of course I have to be wise about what I choose to do in those situations. I know my body well e...

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Sunday Worked in the garden and restarted work on a sweater I was knitting. This sweater and its potential bad fit is what inspired me to take a critical look at my eating habits. Breakfast = latte, bread and marmalade Lunch = home made cream of mushroom soup, grilled cheese sandwich, cucumber sala...

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Nice to "meet" you.

Now I'm going to look up Harmon Andrews.

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Leaving home was one of the best things I ever did. Walked away from the crazy and never looked back.

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Saturday A lovely day. We went to see a phenomenal exhibition, of the work of Belgian artist, Isabelle de Borchgrave, who makes full-sized garments our of paper and paint. Mind-boggling. http://www.isabelledeborchgrave.com/images/image/creations/rob_pap_09.jpg http://www.isabelledeborchgrave.com/im...

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Hypoglycemia... Hmmmmm........my crazy (no really) hypochondriac mother used "I'm having aan attack of hypoglycemia" as a way to make us stop doing any fun activity that she didn't want to participate in. We'd have to drop everything and rush with her to the car, and watch her eat. Then we'd drive h...

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To answer the question, both my sister and I have crazy-fast metabolisms. If we let ourselves get really hungry, it isn't pretty. I've always been someone whose body and brain literally shut down when I don't eat. I've read about shipwrecked sailors who didn't eat for months and months, and I comple...

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Wow, Sienna. That's excellent.

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Thanks for all of your thoughtful replies. I think that I'll muse on all of this over the next few days. The general system seems very sensible to me, but I guess I'm chafing under some of the inflexibility that I've sensed on the forum. I think that I *am* uncomfortable with the idea that there's o...

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I actually do have a planned fourth meal on work days.

We break at 11 and everyone has some fruit or crackers or coffee.

I've always had Hummingbird Metabolism. Zipzipzip. Gogogo.

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I've been grappling with this for a couple of days, and I can't shake the sense that I should walk away from No S. Here's the story: About five years ago, my partner suffered a spinal cord injury. He was partially paralyzed, and our lives were ripped inside out. He could not and cannot sit for more ...

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I will admit that I'm having trouble with a system that says you can't eat even if you're so hungry that you're shaking, but you haven't cooked yet. This does not seem healthy or logical.

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Wednesday My first failure. Breakfast = latte bread and marmalade Elevenses = some leftover dinner from the night before, a few prunes and a banana Lunch = a cold Japanese tofu something or other, prunes and cherries I was so hungry when I got home that I thought I was going to faint, so I had thre...

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You forgot the part where one's brains are removed through one's nostrils.

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I was telling a very specific story about being trapped at a buffet while my mother spent hours eating. I was not generalizing about all obese people. Not disrespecting mothers, other than my own. Not disrespecting obese people. Not disrespecting people who eat at those kinds of establishments. Tell...

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Those all-you-can-eat places have always horrified me. My obese mother adores them, and ate at them constantly. I'll never forget going to one of these places for brunch, and watching her eat plate after plate after plate of food. I had my breakfast, and then sat at the table for what seemed like ho...

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Nicely done!

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I think of weekends as regular eating days, with a *few* treats.

On this system, my weekends are not an orgy of bad eating, but rather, good meals, with a few delicious extras.

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Tuesday

Breakfast = latte, home baked bread with butter and home made marmalade
Elevenses = a banana, a few prunes, a few crackers
Lunch = black bean and rice salad, a few prunes
Dinner = home made Mac-and-Cheese, greenbeans with leeks

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By "punishment" I meant not eating. I think that would be insane and unhealthy.

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I don't think punishing one's self for not having time for a decent breakfast makes sense. Once in a while, life gets hectic, and meals get skipped. But does that mean that the eater should be punished for having a hectic life? I'm not so sure. As long as one is being reasonable, and not undermining...

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I didn't think weight requirements for employment was legal. May I ask what you do? Fashion model? Crash test dummy? Ladder tester?

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Thanks!

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Weird, but fun weekend. Friday Breakfast = I forget -- maybe just a latte. Elevenses = A piece of French bread and a coffee. Lunch = I had to set up for an event in my studio, and since this wasn't work-related, the set-up happened over my lunch and into the afternoon. No food for me. Gaaah! Dinner ...

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Buttered or unbuttered popcorn?

(Want some lemons?)

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I'd like to lose 15 pounds, but mostly I'm just working on returning to better eating habits.

I've been sick a lot lately, so I've been pretty sedentary. Are you getting exercise, moving around? I think that has to be part of the equation.

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I've read that Spam has many health benefits, as well.

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I'll point out that none of the ingredients require refrigeration.

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http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2008 ... sushi.html

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Spam Sushi!!!!

Who's from Hawaii?? (I'm not.)

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This is spam.

Can it be removed?

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Thursday Still sick. Waiting to hear from the ENT people. Breakfast = latte. (the meds upset my stomach) Elevenses = slice of bread, banana, a few prunes Lunch = avocado and cheese sandwich, banana Dinner = a few thin slices of cheese on rye crackers, rice and mustard greens which were too bitter t...

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Nice to "meet" you.

KCCC -- Please consider adopting a shelter dog. You could save a life!

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My slender father ate dessert every night of my life. He never ever ate snacks, and was reasonably active -- chopped firewood, played tennis, loved skiing. I think he would have rather died than use a gym. Too boring for his taste. And his desserts were usually tiny. But he loved them. It was kind o...

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I was actually more entertained by the related article "Is Central Heating Making You Fat?" As someone who lives in an uninsulated (until next week!!!) 1925 cottage, I can tell you that having a cold, cold house encourages sedentary behavior. That particular article proposes the idea that Americans ...

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Wednesday Stayed home from work today, sick. I also took a sick day on No-S. Breakfast = latte, bread and butter and home made marmalade Lunch = grilled cheese sandwich, cornichon pickles, two boiled eggs Snack = crackers and peanut butter, home made vegetable soup Dinner = spaghetti and swiss chard

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Tuesday Still sick, and I think the antibiotics are messing with my digestion. I spoke with my doctor today, I'm trying some steroidal nasal spray to help my inflamed sinuses, and I've got a referral to an ear-nose-throat doctor. For whatever it is worth, I'm told this two-and-a-half-week cold is r...

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Hang in there!!!! We all have bad days. You're doing really well, overall.

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Welcome! This is a great place. The people here are honest, kind, supportive and often very funny. They're here to cheer your successes and to help you dust off when you slip and fall. Reading back through old postings is quite interesting. Don't try for perfection. Many people seem to find writing ...

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Monday

Long day at work. Still sick, on antibiotics. Now, I've got an earache.

Breakfast = latte, banana bread
Elevenses = coffee, banana
Lunch = gigantic cheese and avocado sandwich, orange
Dinner = a few crackers with cheese, black beans and corn with spinach and cheese over rice, orange

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The Daddy of the Damned?

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Nice to meet you! I hope you'll stick around and benefit from this system. There's a wonderful, supportive community here.

Do share the tough parts, as well as your successes!

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Have great week!

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Why minimize fruit?

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We'll be cheering for you!

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Sunday Okay, I'm better now. I really had been feeling horrible for weeks and weeks, and was being such a good little no-esser. So when my treat was messed up, I had a tantrum. I have a friend who says that some weeks end in a Happy Hour, and some need a full-on Tantrum Hour. I got so fixated on my...

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So, I've been sick forever. I'm so exhausted and demoralized. And we decide to have a bit of ice cream with the tiny slice of cake that we saved from last week. We decide to "temper" the ice cream, but this goes horribly wrong, and I end up having a total melt down because the so-called ice cream is...

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Wow, you are my hero!

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Saturday Really frustrated about how long I've been sick. I don't know if its the antibiotics, but on top of everything else, I'm mildly nauseous. Bleh and double bleh. Breakfast = latte, home baked bread, home made marmalade Lunch = frittata with all sorts of veggies and cheese, strawberries, mang...

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What is nicer than fresh berries?

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Don't let one little slip turn into self destruction. Acknowledge the stop, but don't let it overpower your day.

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You're doing really well!

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I'm glad I'm doing no-s and not living with those monks.

I'd hate to have to disembowel or hang myself if I had a failure.

The discussion forum would be pretty lonely if everyone who had a forbidden cookie committed suicide.

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You're tougher than me. I could not keep so much cake in the house.

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Hey at least your failure was reasonably health food.

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That's fantastic! Good for you!!!

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Friday Still sick, but on antibiotics. I took my first non weekend special day today, for the company picnic. Showed up for a couple of hours, but skipped the sports. Breakfast = latte, bread with butter and lemon marmalade Picnic = we made mini muffins with the marmalade. I ate strangely, due to al...

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