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Mavilu

Ah, thank you, Anndelise!, I finally finished my first bar (the very one that inspired this thread) and I realized that not only had I gotten used to it, but that I wanted another one. Now, it's like I'm tasting really intensely flavored chocolate, I crave it. And I'm able to chomp down an entire sq...

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Great article!. I love the Slow Food Movement, whenever I think about it, I remember how when I first came ot the U.S. my husband expected gourmet meals from me in merely five minutes or less, waiting for fifteen minures was agonizing to him, so used he was to fast food and frozen meals. Now if a me...

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Deb, I have increased the weight of my dumbells a bit, but, whatever improvement I've got it wouldn't be four pounds of extra muscle mass, not in a month, at least. I have no idea why the weight gain, but... meh, who cares! :P Bright Angel, yeah, that's what I'm refering to, extremely unflattering, ...

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I love long skirts, I would live in nothing else but long skirts and my motivation is to be able to fit on my 20+ long skirts that no longer fit. The biggest one of them all, a rigid poplin one, made me look like an overstuffed sausage a few months ago, you know: it buttons up but, do not sit down w...

Mavilu

Good to hear that you are going to stick with it.
I'm one of those that gained weight initially; it seems to be a fairly common happenstance, but is also common that people starts losing after their initial weight gain -I did-.
Hope to hear more from you soon!.

Mavilu

I'm having a proud moment right now. Today I made the fist soup of the season and I love soup and this one was a little black bean and chicken number that I adore. Last year I would have had two leaping bowls of it and would have felt over-stuffed, tonight I just had one bowl and some cherries for d...

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Awsome! and vanity pounds nonetheless!, those are always soo hard to lose!.
Thank you for the update!.

Mavilu

Hungry Girl, was it you who was looking for a buddy when you first got here?. Well, even if you weren't, allow me to be your buddy for a minute here: Yes!, go at it in stages, it's going to make all the difference, you'll see, I have faith in you!. GO GO HUNGRY GIRL! Jessdr, I'm glad I could help!. :D

Mavilu

Eh. So you had a bad week, so what.
We had visits this week and we ate out for three nights straight and ate all kinds of goodies and I didn't exercise at all!, but, you know what: we can dust ourselves off and keep on going.
A good week is just on the horizon!.

Mavilu

Happy Birthday, KCCC!.
I never had flourless cake, but it sounds too good to pass up, therefore, I'm amazed at your good attitude towards it.
Atta, girl!.

Mavilu

... Fiber One is considered a diet food?. Huh. NoS diet is not about not eating diet food as much as it isn't about eating diet foods. NoS is about the freedom to eat anything you want, and yes, that includes diet food if that is what you want to eat and some people do continue eating diet foods fr ...

Mavilu

Hmm, but you can eat after 7:30?, what do you traditionally do after 7:30 in this period?, eat one, two meals?. I would just do whatever is that you've been doing, minus snacking and sweets after 7:30 and if it is allowed, give yourself a bit more leniency on the weekends, after 7:30. I'm sorry if I...

Mavilu

Thank you, everyone!.

Mavilu

A kilo, that's 2.2 lbs in a day; I seriously doubt that if you have indeed gained a kilo, it was because of yesterday's meals, since you would had to have consumed 7700 extra calories in one day. And I find hard to believe that you did so. For what it's worth, though, yes I did gain weight when I fi...

Mavilu

As we say in my country: "A stumble is not a fall", so you had cake, pshaw!.
The good thing is that you are still NoSing.

Please, say thank you to your hubby from us as well, and thank you to your son, Blithe Morning!.

God bless our troops.

Mavilu

Whoah!, I don't dare to do nothing but gripping the handlebars on treadmills, because I'm always wobbly, I'm impressed at your mad coordination skills!. What I do, though, is to play videogames while using the stationary bike; I'm an avid videogamer and a not so avid exerciser, so, this way, I curb ...

Mavilu

I bring back an old thread of mine because I want to say some things, yeah. The most important thing is that I'm still here and still a No S gal, I haven't been posting because there were a lot of viruses infecting our computer on daily basis and we had to do a bit of detective work, avoiding some p...

Mavilu

No, my habitcal is working fine.
Maybe Reinhard can help you with this.
Oh and welcome and good luck!.

Mavilu

I wish you the best of lucks, but this is only a formality, because I know you can do it.
GO DEB!

Mavilu

I do.
I think traditionally 3 meals is the way to go most of the time and 4 for kids and maybe teens; I grew up with 4 meals a day and then switched to 3 as an adult.
Good luck on your No S journey!

Mavilu

I dug up this thread, because today I decided that my treat would be something that I haven't had in a loooong time: Nature Valley Sweet and Crunchy Cashew Bars; whenever I would buy a box of these, I would just eat them all in one day, so, long before NoS I decided they were a no-no. Well, I just h...

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There has been people that has quit and has posted about it here, yes.
Some to say goodbye and others to say that they had come back.
There has even been people that has quit and come back and only has posted about it much after the fact.

Mavilu

BonnieUK: Wow, an entire bar?, I did wonder what all that caffeine would do to ya!. Oliviamanda, yeah, the calories and sugar are really nothing; one square which is all I can manage a day has something like 50 calories or so... I actually had a square this last saturday...from the same bar I bought...

Mavilu

There's a calculation to determine "ideal" weight. For every inch of height over 5', allow 5 pounds, then add 100 to that figure. So a 5'3" woman, like me, would have an ideal weight of 115 pounds. Though it wasn't mentioned on yesterday's show, I've read the same kind of formula for men, only it's...

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I *adore* the last person's comment. I'm starting to feel very intolerant of the mountain of excuses I see around me, everyone seems to have one that allows them to eat whatever and whenever they want, sweet jebus, people, pull yourselves together and stop being mindless glutons!. For every good rev...

Mavilu

Jod job!. I can't but feel slighty envious because compared to your results, mine are oh! ever so slow, but, reading your blog and comparing our meal choices, I realize that our weight loss speeds are nothing but our own choices. And that's a wonderful lesson to learn and it's all thanks to Blueskig...

Mavilu

Well, what I'll say has been said several times already, but here goes again: - One should do what works best as long as one isn't puting oneself under unhealthful pressure and leading oneself to unhealthful behaviours. After all, there are so many things that could lead to unhealthy behaviours!, bu...

Mavilu

Hahaha, I'm reading a book on Alexander the Great and just last night I read what the traditional soldier-on-the-march meal was: bread and onion/apple and wine and I swear I thought "huh, no animal protein", now, this was people that albeit most of them under the age of thirty was used to rigorously...

Mavilu

I've recently gotten into "cook-a-thons", I decide on something before hand that I had never made before and that it's not something you would normally cook. Since they are projects that involve several hours in the kitchen, by the time I'm done cooking and cleaning up, I'm too tired to overeat, but...

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If that meal at 2:00 AM is your third meal, then, it isn't a snack. I'm a night owl, therefore, my last meal, "dinner" is usually after 3:00 AM, eat your meals never mind what time is; waking up in the middle of the night with a growling stomach and having to get up to eat and then brush your teeth,...

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Stationary bike + free weights. When my legs get too tired I pedal with my arms on my mini-bike, when I'm bored, I use my Wii, sometimes I do yoga, not too often because it aggravates my sciatic nerve. I used to walk in my back yard at night, I used to love it and I miss it, but, since we have had t...

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I just said "no" to my very large restaurant hamburger. It was hard because I was used to eat an entire one of those (my favorite, on a french roll, with mozzzarella and home-made chilli) just like nothing, but, this time around, even though I hadn't eaten in several hours, I simply couldn't eat the...

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Well, this week was tough, don't know why, I just hope it's not my own pressure to keep the challenge. As a result, yesterday was a "whoah, Nellie!" S day; three glazed donuts and two frozen bananas and belly ache by the end of the day. We'll see how I do this week, if the anxiety of my challenge ge...

Mavilu

Oh, that's so sad.

My condolences.

Mavilu

Yes, as KCCC states, some of us have trouble initially with the portions and or what we eat and gain some weight at first.
I did, I gained about two pounds in a month... but then I lost three in the following one and have kept losing ever since.
Don't worry too much about it, just keep going!

Mavilu

CatholicCajun wrote:
Mavilu wrote:Awsome!, what a way to start the month!.

I agree with Mavilu! Also, Mavilu, I love the picture of the cat, makes me smile every time I see it.

Thank you!.
I'm glad you like it.

Mavilu

Well, some people are just lurkers by nature; I tend to lurk a lot beforehand, too; in some places I have never ever posted. But, let's talk about your success!, it is particularly impressive to me, because I'm your height and I started out at 150, thinking it's going to take forever for me to be sl...

Mavilu

I only suffer from jetlag when I go back to my country, all the way down to the bottom of the southern hemisphere. I don't have any problems foodwise, but my sleeping habits do suffer horribly. Anyway, I drink a lot during both flights, I keep one of the glasses they give you in the beginning of the...

Mavilu

Welcome to the boards!

Mavilu

Okay, I'm in!.
I've been flirting with those food that are tough to decide and are your call, and I'm getting sneaky about it, heh.
So, the challenge will be plain, obvious green day food and desserts on green days only, see if I can stick to it all month long.

Mavilu

Congrats, Reineres, it sounds like you've gained knowledge about yourself, as well, which is always good to hear.

Mavilu

Someone here calls it "No S Thingy", that's my favorite, so I call it a thingy to and so does my husband: "Wow Mavilu, you've lost some weight, what are you doing?" *husband intercepts* "Oh, nothing, really, she is just following this S rules thingy...".

Mavilu

So, there you have it. Anyone else "observing & correcting"? Yup. I have to. Otherwise I'll just slip back into the old habits. f Exactly, I've slipped a million times since I gained weight. Now I know that I have to be vigilant, not obssesively, but, I try to at least eventually figure out when so...

Mavilu

Awsome!, what a way to start the month!.

Mavilu

anovelgirl wrote: All of this, and I just nearly declared yesterday as a late minute "S" day...
Yet, seeing the difference in how my clothes fit, I stuck to my guns and finished up the day a little sloppy, but not bad.

Awsome, good job!

Mavilu

I used to buy women's fitness magazines, Shape, Self and Fitness and I still have a pile of them sitting in our bedroom, recently I have been re-reading them and I'm surprised to see how liberally they use the word "binge", since I was still learning my basic english at the time I bought the bulk of...

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Thanks you two. I guess I am hesitant to allow myself the coffee at any time of day because it may feel too much like a snack and tempt me to keep eating. Unless someone else's answer really convinces me otherwise, I think I'll keep my coffee with breakfast. If it feels like a snack to you and it m...

Mavilu

Well, I must say that I'm surprised on some of the points in your opinions! The sugar content in a really dark bar such as 85% is (almost) akin to what the aztecs used to consume; I mean, each square is about 2.5'x2.5', the bar has three portions, each portion is three squares, and those three squar...

Mavilu

Recently, I've become acquainted with this concept of extra-dark chocolate and I'm curious and a bit confused. We bought a bar of Lindt 85% Dark Chocolate, it is very dark, very strong, bitter, a kick in the buds, one might say; it is made of five ingredients, three of them are cocoa, the fourth one...

Mavilu

You say that what you are eating, even though it sounds like a lot it's half of what you used to have before, so, that's good, you are making progress, but, just in case Another way to go at it is to define your S-day menu beforehand, make it like an N-day but with a very good treat planned in the a...

Mavilu

If doing all the Ss at once overwhelms you, adopt a "slow and steady wins the race" attitude and concentrate on getting one habit at a time, only add a second and a third once you feel safe enough to do so. Ditch the "all or nothing" mentality and allow yourself some failures, once you fail, shrug a...

Mavilu

So... the difference between over-eating and binging is a psychological component and/or shame of it after an episode?.

Mavilu

Why, yes, just like you, I have a few things that are there, that shouldn't be there: there has been lemon sorbet in the freezer for three weeks, there was a frozen cake dessert that we bought two saturdays ago and just finished tonight, there has been a box of graham crakers in the pantry for about...

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Mavilu, up north in Italy? I am not so good with the geography? what is up there? it is lovely you have family there, hopefully the rates will improve while we are all still in good shape to travel! :D Blueskighs Venice! I wish I'd had family there, but they actually come from Friuli-Venezia Giulia...

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Thank you, gals, yeah, I feel like you, keeping the forum on your updates can actually be a constructive thing. Thank you again for your support!. Mavilu, THAT IS GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so what is lemon curd???????? is it something italian? Blueskighs I hate linking to Wikipedia, but, this one is actua...

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Mavilu, why would it be illegal to sell avocados here in the U.S? No, I meant selling food without a permit, you do need one, you know. Blueskighs, Rome, how nice!, so much history there, my family is waay up north, on the border with Switzerland, I always imagine that it must be lovely, if very co...

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I just wanted to let you know, gals and guys that I had lost 3 more pounds, since I made this thread a month ago. And that with eating lemon curd on my toast (100 cals per tablespoon) on my toast once a day almost daily. At this rate, I figure, I'll be 18 pounds lighter than today by the end of the ...

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Oops, I forgot to check on this thread!. CatCrazyLady, homemade grape jelly, my oh my, I would love to experience that, my mouth is watering just to think about it. Mavilu, your yard sounds lovely and FUN! Figgies!!!!!!! Yum yum yum. I did not eat figs until we went to Italy and we went to this HUMO...

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Make sure you are not skimping on liquids; the thing with fiber is that it works wonders if you are properly hydrated, but, it'll plug you up if you are dehydrated.

Mavilu

I was a vegetarian for three years, until I went for a two-month visit to my country. Mine is the land of meat and barbeques and people can't conceive not eating meat two times a day, every day. So, when I called telling everyone that I was a vegetarian, everyone started saying: "but, but... you'll ...

Mavilu

Really?.
I stopped reading the Amelia Peabody Mysteries when Ramses was, er, getting married or enlisting to fight in WWI or something like that.
I've been contemplating coming back to the series, I just don't want to see Amelia and Emerson grow old!.

Sorry to butt in, by the way.

Mavilu

Very interesting article, Pismo, thanks!, you gotta love the drawing on the first page; it says so much with nary a word!. On CR: My godmother was orthorexic (never diagnosed, because there was no diagnostic criteria at the time) for many many years and it was a sad picture to see her so fragile, so...

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MissyMoo wrote: My brother-in-law likes to say, "After a certain age, you have to choose between your face and your ass." (excuse the potty mouth).

That is a great quote.

Mavilu

The best way to prevent stiffness is to regularly stretch. I'm not 40 yet, but I can tell I'm getting stiff if I spend a week or so without stretching, especially when I go down to the floor and sit cross-legged in the odd yoga routine I do now and then. When I get into the habit of doing stretches ...

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Mavilu, I don't know how populated the area you live in is, but the farmer's market closest to us has grown immensely over past 7 years. For a few years I drove to one closer to down town cause it was larger, but with gas it is just too far of a drive. Maybe yours will grow! Blueskighs Oh, I don't ...

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Do you notice that with produce from your market? I don't know what CSA is but even if they have same stuff at grocery would rather get at Farmer's market cause it has so much more flavor. Blueskighs Yes, especially tomatoes, the supermarket ones just plain suck. I also appreciate the fact that far...

Mavilu

Last weekend, you say?, well, it does take sometime for your extra calories to show on your body, you just don't gain weight the day after you consumed extra calories. Your extra weight comes from somewhere, chances are it's what you consumed last weekend or that you moved less or both things combin...

Mavilu

Welcome, girl!. There really isn't much to add about the forum that the other ladies hadn't commented on, already so, I'll just say that NoS is the way to go when you feel that you lost the handle on your eating and your weight. I speak from experience. Hang around the forum and read threads here an...

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Where I come from we have "picadas" that are always eaten with tall glasses of beer, which is our own version of tapas, what people do in those occasions is treat the table like a buffet line, you pick what you are going to eat and leave the rest, you stop when satisfied, if you are in a situation i...

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Oh, sure, Mavilu, spoil it for the rest of us!! :P Seriously, though, thanks for sharing this information with us, both Mavilu and Bright Angel. 1600 calories for one dessert???!!! OMG, no wonder this country is getting more obese every year! Whoopsie, hehe!. When the teacher told us that, he said ...

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blueskighs wrote:
But we do have a farmer's market fairly near, though
Mavilu,

do you ever go?

Blueskighs

Why, yes!, it is out of the way, but it's not too far away.
Unfortunately, though, it's a very small store, so there isn't scores and scores of stuff, but I do enjoy buying whatever they've got.

Mavilu

It must be, sometimes I think this is all people paid to promote snacks by writing these responses, but that's far too paranoid of me!.

Mavilu

I suppose then that it is fortunate for me that I no longer ENJOY restaurant desserts. MOST OF THEM ARE FROZEN ... thus they are not fresh! And of course .. they ARE HUGE!!!!!!!! We have a local donut shop that makes fresh donuts every morning, the REALLY lovely thing about them is that they are no...

Mavilu

What I wonder whenever I read forum threads about no snacking is why is people so incredibly adamant about this: "No snacking?? PREPOSTEROUS!, UNHEARD OF!, WHAT ABOUT THE INSULIN!, WILL SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE INSULIN!!!". It's there some fear that makes people react this way?, I mean is it fear...

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I've been wanting to get a CSA membership for the longest while, but the only one that ships near enough our home (Rancho San Miguel) is still prohibitely expensive for just two people and we have to drive to the pick up place every week, which is a trip in itself. I wish there would be more options...

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Jenabees, you've got good advice here, I just wanted to add that it seems that some people gain some weight upon starting NoS, but then they start losing, sounds bad, but there is a reason for it. I'm one of those that gained weight in the beginning, I started eating things that I wasn't eating befo...

Mavilu

I have to be careful when I'm sitting with my husband and he goes for the snacks; if it's cashews or potato chips, I have to be very conscious of my manners and actively control myself or I'm bust, even if we just finished dinner, I still will go for those two things, ugh. I've learned to leave them...

Mavilu

Congrats!, I was thinking I ought to bookmark your blog into my daily folder, so I can read it as soon as you post; your pictures make me happy.

Mavilu

I find that the common belief that carbs will make you gain extra weight or gain weight faster or in special places or whatever is a very hard to erradicate myth. After seeing students argue to no end with their professors of Nutritional Sciences classes about it, I mean, seriously: arguing with the...

Mavilu

Well, I knew I would be struggling with so much change all at once, so I started by tackling one S at a time, well, you know, you've commented on my success thread. Even so, in the beggining of my first entirely NoS month, I hesitated and even failed a couple of times (gotta stay away from my husban...

Mavilu

Boy, that's a lot of bad news.
Hopefully, everyone will be fine, we'll just have to pray and be patient.
I'm glad to see that you are going on strong, though.

Mavilu

How about tea?, I know it's not the same as chocolate but, it's been working for me for years, I wouln't go to bed during winter without my big cup of tea and my hot water bottle!. If I'll be in bed for a while I just make a teapot and keep it by the bed. Plus that way, I don't have to get up and br...

Mavilu

Aw... lucky you!, I underestimated the Wii's popularity and figured that I wouldn't have to pre-order... and now I can't find a single Wii Fit. I'm a big time gamer and I like the idea of moving towards developing games that require more than just moving your fingers in order to play them and games ...

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Well, Reinhard, I've done it: I wrote a review for the book at Amazon.com. I promised it a long time ago, but I just needed to be inspired and tonight, after enjoying delicious indian fare without an ounce of remorse, inspiration hit. It's going to take a couple of days to be published but you can c...

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of course if they did stuff prison inmates with white flour , sugary things, and such they would probably much more lethargic and placid :) Blueskighs Hehe, for some reason I pictured a row of immates with big bellies, arms crossed over their bellies and sporting beatific smiles and sighs of conten...

Mavilu

Oh, I'm so sorry...
Why can't you eat?, well because you are much too distraught, honey.
Don't worry about it, just concentrate on your more immediate needs right now.
I send you a big big hug.

Mavilu

Hahaha!, your poor chihuahua!

I like the "NoS Thingy", because it takes the negativity of the word "Diet" off the whole concept.
And Happy Birthday!, enjoy your day!.

Mavilu

YES!.
Way to go!, I love it how freeing this is (and how choosy we are becoming!).

Mavilu

I only had two slices!, I eyed the third, but then I thought that I didn't want to lie to you or about food.
Thank you for encouraging me!.

Mavilu

I went to the store looking for sorbet -there wasn't any-, eyed the ice cream... nah!, I looked for Krispy Kreme donughts, -again, none left-, eyed the Entermann's donughts... nah. Looked at the cookies, cakes, pies, puddings... but none where what I was looking for, for first time in a long time I ...

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I'm making pizza tonight, I don't lie when I say that I will keep this thread in mind when it's time to choose how many slices will go into my plate!.

Mavilu

Thank you!, it's an irreverent little kitty that I found somewhere on the Internet.

Mavilu

Hahaha, ladies!, but it's true about it being about the long term commitment and not the diet itself. I found EDiets to be simply awsome, it was three meals plus one optional snack a day and it had lots of variety and customization... but not everyone could do it for ever; I couldn't; as varied as t...

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CatholicCajun wrote:What's also really great is that you know that you can have it, just not yet and that makes a whole world of difference.

Exactly! and it's even better when you know you are choosing when and how you eat those treats, I find.

Mavilu

Yes, Becky you can!.
I know you'll succeed any way you try, because you can, but maybe it is easier if you try one at a time.

Mavilu

Thank you, everyone! blueskighs , the feeling of not being able to control my body was indeed horrible and the feeling of being out of control with food was frightening. I'm glad your confidence is making a return, too. fkwan , I come from Argentina, whipped cream may not actually come from a can bu...

Mavilu

It seems that patience is a big key in the NoS lifestyle; I have to remember that.
Thanks for the insight and congrats!.

Mavilu

I'm a sucker for Quarter Pounders, don't ask me what it is, something about the ketchup and the onions... I don't know, but I could eat like twenty at a time. That and the Sausage Egg MacMuffin (I'm sure I didn't get the name right), I love that one too, but both give me acid stomach, though. Anythi...

Mavilu

Getting used to eat this way is easy... over time, you just can't expect your mind and your body not to complain and try to trip you over in retaliation, they will try to get you to eat the old ways. If you don't think you can't tell them what to do, then I suggest being sneaky and fooling them into...

Mavilu

Oh no, the flu!.
I hope it doesn't last long!.

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85% Cocoa Extra Dark Chocolate