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gratefuldeb67

Reinhard, you need to have your own television program :D Your voice is really great and you are the best and a genius! What's not to love? 14 mins of anything is what I've tried to do for a while.. I'm sadly failing often this year, but this has given me an extra kick in the butt! Thanks! Have a ni...

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Thank you very much Too Solid Flesh!

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I've already started to lose a bit more recently as a result of eliminating corn syrup completely from my diet recently.. Thanks for posting this! :D A friend of my dad's was a big soda drinker a couple of years back. He quit the pop, changed nothing else in his diet, and lost 25 pounds in 5-6 mont...

gratefuldeb67

Hey!!! Guess what? I'm down another 2 lbs this week!!!! That makes my loss in the last 2 weeks, 3 lbs!!!! I've cut out all sources of high fructose corn syrup. Before this I was using hot chocolate mix as a sweetener for my daily 4 to 5 cups of coffee, and I switched to chocolate flavoured sweetened...

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Yeah I meant high fructose corn syrup...
I'm sure its hidden as well Wosnes, but I'm reading labels on *everything* now and if it says HFCS, I don't buy it anymore.

gratefuldeb67

I've already started to lose a bit more recently as a result of eliminating corn syrup completely from my diet recently..
Thanks for posting this!

gratefuldeb67

Sadly the quality of fruits and vegetables at schools is usually pretty awful.. my son loves fruit and veggies, but he says that the stuff they have at school is not good and apples are mealy and old etc. :( I haven't seen the show Marc mentioned but I do like Jilian McKeith's "You are what you eat"...

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Good for you Noel!

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WTG RJ!

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Reinhard! You look great, but hahah I really don't recognise you without your beard

Maybe Karen will let you grow it back if the kids keep saying "where's Daddy??"

Anyway, you look amazing!

Debs

gratefuldeb67

Josh, I'm also on an 8-pounder. I've been wondering if I should upgrade too. I'm curious, how long and how regularly did you workout with the 8? How much progress did you make with the 8 compared to before you started shugging? 8 pounds is a bit wimpy... :D If that's what you think, then you're doi...

gratefuldeb67

Welcome and congratulations on your success so far!! Very inspirational!!

Debs

gratefuldeb67

It's different for everyone Oolala :) Our first few years on NoS, we really made S days a major event and went a bit nuts.. But it was just part of the process.. At least we had something to look forward to each week, while trying to stick to NoS during the N days.. Now several years into it, the al...

gratefuldeb67

I agree with Wosnes.. Tell those voices to shut up.. in fact, how about making a name for that voice of someone you may not like, like some awful political figure, take your pic.. my friend call's his negative voice "Blair" :P In all seriousness, we all have negative talk mechanisms that are in plac...

gratefuldeb67

I'd count it as green.. its what you originally plated for yourself, and you didn't add more food to it, so it's really "virtual plating" but in a thermos

No biggie!
Keep sight of the big traps of just snacking all day long etc..
Good luck!

Debs

gratefuldeb67

Well, being in front of food all day, you really do have to say "no" in order to get thru the day without snacking.. but think about a nice meal you will have at home when you finish work and then relish it! In the meantime, you can train yourself to not eat what's there but it will take multiple at...

gratefuldeb67

I suggest making a separate Habit Cal for this habit. I myself have had a night time eating habit since my teens.. I had many failures when I tried to vaguely fight this with various methods.. The only thing that worked for me, and it took about a year of persevering through many failures, was setti...

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I don't think she is considering giving up on NoS, but rather, adding more exercise *especially* for the wedding, and kind of calling that a "mod"...

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I say, find something you will enjoy sticking with after the event too and use it to your advantage in both ways.. Just let the Wedding be the spark to light your fire to begin exercising, but mentally gear up to keep exercising for the rest of your life. If you are considering "extreme" exercise, t...

gratefuldeb67

Ok, I'm finally back on track.. Yesterday was my first "triple green" day (nos, exercise, no eating at night)
Thank goodness!!!!
I'm going for straight green this week!!

Have a nice week all

Debs

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Too solid flesh wrote:One reviewer says, "I did it for a week and didn't lose any weight and it was hard."

I can't remember who it was, but that was someone who was here for like two posts and then left.. I remember that post..
LOL

gratefuldeb67

Hi Katie, don't leave NoS :) Why not just add a small fourth meal when you know you will need that? A small sandwich and banana are fine. The rule about "no snacking" is really about trying to control *random* impulse snacking.. If you plan a small meal, it might mean a few more calories for the day...

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Oy vey!!!!! :shock: This week has been completely failure fraught.. My Son's been home sick since last weekend. I could have fudged the HabitCal and deemed some of those days S days for myself, but *I* wasn't the one who was sick, just very very stressed out.. I don't see that as a good reaction to ...

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Exercise:

Thursday failure
Friday success

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Michael Pollan just sent me an email! He wrote that he'd taken the S rules to be a "meme at large" floating around the net and hadn't realized that they were a consciously devised, published system. He would have happily credited me if he had -- and is going to look into doing so in the next printi...

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Yesterday I'm counting as a NoS failure .. It wasn't anything terrible, just that I bought a bottle of garlic pickles and couldn't stop snacking on them throughout the afternoon and evening.. I haven't eaten between meals at all these days, and so even tho they're not very caloric, it still didn't f...

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Exercise so far this week..
Monday failure
Tues and Wed success

gratefuldeb67

Wow, I just read the article.. it almost sounds like she's giving Michael Pollan credit for NoS... No no no!!! That won't do at all.. I'm gonna write her too. That's not cool. Reinhard you will not be anonymously famous for long. We'll all see that you get *FULL* credit. It's your diet concept and y...

gratefuldeb67

TunaFishKid wrote: Reinhard, you're too damn nice for your own good.

He is!!!

Debs x

gratefuldeb67

Okay, I've decided to consolidate the rest of my posts on this thread, and ditch the separate exercise log.. I will update both NoS and daily 14 mins exercise here as well as my HabitCal... I'm happy to say I don't think I'll need to worry about night time eating much, as it's been really under cont...

gratefuldeb67

Friday failure, Sat & Sunday exempt
Glad January is over!

gratefuldeb67

Thank you, Deb, you're right that I do meet the weight criteria, but I am unfortunately still too fat, insufficiently glamorous, and too old to meet the requirements of such a magazine, I believe. Well Reinhard said nothing about being glamourous or young, or even pix.. I'm *very* impressed with yo...

gratefuldeb67

Hi Kathleen :) I'm also sure Reinhard will be fine with this. He has always been an advocate of basically the *whatever works for you* philosophy and has mentioned in the past in various places that it's ok for people to combine NoS with other ways of eating. I'm sure that there's a lot of overlap w...

gratefuldeb67

I try not to eat seconds even on S days, because I hate feeling overstuffed..
I suppose I like a little snacking, or more accurately, I like being less structured with my meals, and also usually like one good sweet per weekend.

Debs

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Hi again :) Well, I just had a quick look on a few places and even tho the Starbucks one says it's 18 grams of sugar, which is a little more than a tablespoon, it's got about 500 calories. I don't normally count calories, but when I see somethings got that much and it's somewhat desertish, I just sa...

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They've got lots of sugar... Definitely a sweet

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I was just thinking I'd check to see what my past year's HabitCal looked like for my "No nighttime eating" habit. I've been having some very good months recently, with two to three failures at most, and all very minor stuff.. But when I looked back over the year, I saw what I was like before, and it...

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Well, Thursday was full of everyday activity like going back and forth to the car and stair climbing, and a little home furniture rearranging, but I didn't formally do any exercise... I'm counting it a failure , because for me, the idea of *intentional* exercise, not just incidental, is what I'm try...

gratefuldeb67

I'm pretty sure Silverfish and Too Solid Flesh, fall into that category Reinhard.. Maybe one of them will chime in

Good luck!
I do hope that the book gets the major recognition it deserves!!!

I myself, am hoping to be able to fall into that category within the next two years

Debs

gratefuldeb67

So I lost another pound since I last posted!!!!!

Go me!!!

Debs x

gratefuldeb67

Hi and welcome.. from reading the posts here, I am wondering if you've read one of my fave books.. Zen in the Art of Archery, by Eugen Herrigel...
I'm guessing you probably did

Have fun with SG and good luck being Mr. Mom ..

Debs

gratefuldeb67

Monday and Tuesday: Success Wed: Failure
Tuesday I swam at my gym pool for about forty mins

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Sat and Sunday Exempt

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I weighed this morning at my Moms, after a fairly good week on NoS (but not for exercise) and I have lost a little of the weight I put on in the previous weeks.. I think I lost about 1.5 lbs.. Since this is my week of pms, I am pretty happy about that, because I usually go up two to three pounds dur...

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Well I felt okay today, but I had an interview this morning and I was stressed out all day and depressed afterwards, so I really didn't do any structured exercise.. I did walk back and forth from the car garage and took the stairs twice, so I wasn't completely sedentary.. Still, no being depressed e...

gratefuldeb67

I love having a big greek salad or tuna on salad. Having a salad really satisfies me both physically and on an appetite level because I get to crunch and chew... I love noodle dishes and stuff too, but sometimes I don't get the same satisfaction as if I am crunching on stuff, so salad does the trick...

gratefuldeb67

Getting better, but still extremely exhausted.. I actually tried to do a little walking around outside this evening to fulfill my 14 mins, but I really felt even too winded to do that.
Exempt

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I weigh myself once a week on Fridays at my moms house.. I don't have a scale in the apartment here and I like not having it here. Over weighing myself never helped my weight loss and when there was a scale around, it really just became an obsessive behavior, and seeing that 2 lbs difference up or d...

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Keep up the good work!

Debs

gratefuldeb67

Hi :) Muscle is three times as dense as fat. So, depending on how much exercise you are doing, you may just be gaining enough muscle, to mask your fat loss on the scale... But,,,If you are exercising regularly, and your size is going down, just focus on that and be happy. Isn't that what you want?? ...

gratefuldeb67

Today I'm taking an S day for being sick.. Had to take it easy.
Exempt

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Thanks Rein :) I'll say hi to Richie for you. He's doing fantastically this year! Been very good during the week and *much* more picky about whether to have or not have a snack or treat.. He's passing on a lot of junk these days. Over the last six months he's gone down almost three inches from his w...

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Success!!! Just beat the living "beep" out of a carpet which I brought over from my Mom's place to our apartment. It was very dusty and I didn't want to bring it in till it was less dirty.. So between carrying the carpet out to the car from her house, and up the stairs to our place, plus 15 mins of...

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Okay, I failed today!

Tomorrow is a new day

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Thanks mrsj and girl next door

I've just been hiding too much behind a *very* red HabitCal, so I figured I'd need a little goose to get myself serious and accountable again.

Have a great day!

Debs

gratefuldeb67

Ok, update:
I think three and a half hours of non stop cleaning counts as daily exercise today.. LOL

Success!

gratefuldeb67

Hi Reinhard :) I hope your "tasks" tracking is going smoothly, and hope you and the Family are well. If it's possible, can you change my "Debs Daily Check-in" thread to "Debs Check-in"... I'm not using it daily, but don't want to start a new one, since I've had that one for a few years now, and want...

gratefuldeb67

Well I'm starting a little late into January, but I'm going to be using this thread to help keep me focused on getting in my daily exercise. I am counting any form of exercise, which I deliberately do, daily, for at least 14 minutes. I'm not counting the stairs I climb or the light walking I do to a...

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Hi guys, I know we all have our own daily check in threads, and habit cals, but I've been completely awol from daily exercise for several months now and feel like I want to make a more public disclosure of success and failure so I can get back into the swing of it until it's become habit. I am happy...

gratefuldeb67

Welcome! Good luck and I'm sure you will enjoy NoS and succeed at meeting your goal, and this time sticking with the plan long term. I didn't have snacks or sweets as a young kid either and was very thin then. Only once I hit my teens and started having less structured meals with my family, did all ...

gratefuldeb67

Hi Nathan :) I too have gained back a lot of my weight when I went away from NoS for a few years and stopped all exercise. I restarted last Spring and I'm down about 11 lbs again. For me the only thing that works, is to combine them together. If I do NoS, fairly strictly, but don't exercise at all, ...

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That's great Olivia! I just switched to Vegetarian with fish and eggs, and after a month I have experienced some other great side benefits..Unless you get your meat from an organic source, you can be sure it's packed with hormones and other nasties... I can feel the difference in my health already. ...

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Congratulations!!!

Keep up the good work!!

Debs

gratefuldeb67

So today it's the beginning of my third week of eating a mostly vegetarian diet.. (still include fish, cage free organic eggs, and cheese) I'm really proud of myself today because actually I've had a very emotional week, and three times in the past few days, I found myself pondering getting some cho...

gratefuldeb67

Awwww I'm sorry Reinhard!!! I didn't realise you weren't well.
Hope you all better very soon!!!

Debs

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That is awesome Phayze!!!!
Great pic of you too!!

Debs

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Congratulations Lori!!!

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Very good

Thanks Wosnes.
Debs x

gratefuldeb67

No probs!!! But now I want French Toast!!

gratefuldeb67

Hi Laura, i think you may have posted the french toast comment on the wrong thread?? I haven't made any of those lately

But they do sound good!

Debs

gratefuldeb67

Oooh they look nice!! I may have to treat myself to a gift this year!!

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Go Rene!!!!

Debs x

gratefuldeb67

Wow!!!! That's great Kevin!!!! Congratulations!!!!

Debs x

gratefuldeb67

Thanks Kevin and Rene!! I had a few failures since then, due to some really bad period symptoms, but I'm over it now.. I didn't mention before, maybe because I wasn't so sure how I'd do yet, but I also made a huge shift in my eating besides the organic stuff and cutting out high fructose corn syrup ...

gratefuldeb67

I light incense and breathe in the smell when I am feeling bad. Breathing in a good smell really calms me down. You can also do this with a candle. And even though it's odd, I sometimes crochet to calm myself down. As a person who worries myself sick, crocheting time is my sacred time... as the mot...

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That is wonderful Eva!!! 30 lbs in a year is a great success!!!! It's those fad diets that promise 30 lbs loss in a month, that perverts our own vision of what should be considered normal or healthy.. Good for you!!! I wish you much more success in continuing on your journey!! Very inspirational!! 8...

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I agree with KCCC... try to have less red days and do exercise as well..
But besides that, at this time of year, not gaining is a kind of success of it's own. Be happy for that!
Keep at it

Debs

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KCCC, I agree with you that having all weekends as S Days definitely helps with the holidays. Last night, I had pecan pie as my mother in law looked on disapprovingly, and this morning I had steel cut oatmeal. Today I'm making biscotti (again) but waiting until tomorrow to actually eat it. I also f...

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Yay!!! Good for you!!!!

Debs

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Good for you Starla!

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gratefuldeb67

You too Becky!! Hugs

Debs

gratefuldeb67

It's okay to start before Thanksgiving..

Better than after the holidays, once you've already realised you gained 10 lbs...
Thanksgiving is an S day, so enjoy it!
Good luck with NoS you'll love it!

Debs

gratefuldeb67

And I mention ten pounds as a kind of random amount, but just trying to say, it takes so long to lose and it's just so easy to gain.
That's my own experience.
Take care,

Debs

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Just think how proud you will be of yourself, if you,at least, give it a good try to stick to the actual holidays KCCC!!! Not sure about you, but I know that if it took me four or five months to lose ten pounds, I certainly don't want a few weeks to totally undo all my hard work in establishing habi...

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My New Years resolutions usually last about one day

Go for it and keep at it as Reinhard says...

Debs

gratefuldeb67

Hey you're doing great!!

Welcome and keep up the good work!

Debs

gratefuldeb67

Welcome! If you focus on doing the rules to the letter, and especially include a bit of exercise daily, whatever you enjoy, you'll lose weight. And you'll actually enjoy it!! How about making a HabitCal for NoS, and daily Exercise? That's the easiest way to keep accountable, and then you don't have ...

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Welcome Haley

WTG!!!

Debs

gratefuldeb67

Hi guys! Quick update here. I had gained about 3 or 4 lbs during my trip down to Florida for my Grandads funeral, and then, I got sick with a virus that I seemed to be trading back and forth with my Son for a few weeks as well, so my exercise was nil... But I'm pleased to say that even without the e...

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I just wanted to congratulate Starla on her weight loss here.
I looked for your own thread to do that, but wasn't able to find it Starla..
That is wonderful news!!
17 pounds in 2 months is amazing!!!
Good work!!

Debs

gratefuldeb67

I'm on facebook too, but I come here to chat... maybe suggest your facebook friends just join NoS and see what it's about, and they will definitely see an active and enthusiastic group

gratefuldeb67

Hi there! The "Vanilla" concept is really about N days not S days... I usually enjoy S days without restrictions.. That's really the only way to truly enjoy them.. They are the reward for being good during the week and something to look forward to and savour.. That doesn't inherently mean to over in...

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Welcome back Rene!
Forward march girl

Love,

Debs x

gratefuldeb67

Thanks Kevin!!

Debs

gratefuldeb67

Hey Kevs, just here for a few mins, but wanted to drop in and congratulate you on your great month so far! I read you lost about 8 lbs already!!
That's fantastic!!!
Have a great week!

Debs

gratefuldeb67

My goals are pretty much the same as Kwonset. Strict NoS, and upkeep of my HabitCal's, with occasional check in's here if needed. I gained about five pounds back of my 11 lost in the past few weeks, mostly over this weekend. I hope to lose it all back again and hopefully a few additional more. Have ...

gratefuldeb67

Awwww! Hugs Janie, I'm sorry for your very stressful month.
I'm sure November will be good for you!
You deserve a break!

Debs x

gratefuldeb67

Hi Friends! I am back for a quick check in now.. My Grandfather died last week, and me and Richie had to go down to Florida for a few days for his funeral. He was very ill for over a year with emphysema, and the last few months had been suffering terribly, and so I'm glad he is not suffering anymore...

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Remind me never to go on that forum! LOL

Welcome and good luck!

Debs

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Way to go!!!

Debs

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