Everyday Systems

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I thought our habiCal was supposed to be private unless we selected to make it public. After watching an episode of Law and Order dealing with internet tracking of chatroom postings, I googled my username "paulawylma" because I use it for just about all my internet activities. Not only was I surpris...

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I've tended to stop [/b] reading nutrition books precisely because they do disagree so much and started paying attention to what healthy people eat. Worldwide, there's a lot of variation, but the one thing that is common to all is the absence of the junk we find in our groceries. I can't say the ab...

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Reading about nutrition which is contained in many diet books can be very good--especially since they disagree so much. The main thing I have learned from other diets is they only work short term. No S is a long term for life diet that becomes really easy to stay on.

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I'll reading Jillian Michaels "Master Your Metabolism" and the section on diet sodas might be of interest to those who don't consider diet soda a "sweet." According to Jillian, there's now a theory that when we are young our bodies learn that things that taste sweet have lots of calories. So when we...

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If you can't schedule meals at all then why not start with one S at a time? Try giving up just sweets for 2 to 3 weeks with no other changes. Use the time to figure out what your "noshing" schedule is. Your meal times can be flexible if you rotate shifts. Can you have meals for breakfast and dinner?...

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I noticed that I always weigh more on Monday but never considered it a mystery. Since there are no rules on S days, I eat more on weekends than during the week. Since it takes time for the food eaten to be broken down, processes and expelled, there is naturally more physical material in the digestiv...

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Thanks for the link BrightAngel. I just watched the clip and I laughed when he claimed that Americans have been following the food pyramid. He makes a good point that different people have different needs and actually the last time I visited the usda website I couldn't just print out a list of requi...

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I have the plates we ate off of as a child--purchased in the mid-60s. At first glace they look like 11 inch plates, but they have an 1 1/2 in rim! When I measured the actual eating surface from inner rim to inner rim I come up with 7 1/2 inches! No wonder I was a thin child. :D Anyone else old enoug...

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Well Why not tell your husband that you agree with him and so you are going to take self defence or martail arts lessons instead. After you learn to defend yourself then you husband can't complain and you will develope greater confidence . Btw, self defense can be more useful than a formal martial a...

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I'm 52 and my mom had relatives that lived in the country, such as my grandparent, that we visited every summer. One year, when I was about 8 or 9, I started asking questions about stuff I didn't understand--one of the questions was about milk. At first my grandmother thought I was just being silly ...

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I just got finished reading "The healthy Skeptic: Cutting through the HYPE about Your Health" by Robert J. Davis. the third chapter is about diet books. He mentions a study by Jama where 160 people were put on 4 diets for a year (Adkins, the Zone, Ornish and Weight Watchers) and after a year all the...

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I saw a news broadcast this morning and the anchor seemed offended that the FDA allows the calorie count to be 20% off. I'm not, I think that it is very reasonable. Think about it, if a food is supposed to have 300 calories, then it can have anywhere from 240 to 360 calories. I can see where these 1...

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In your posts, you mentioned making healthy choices. In No S, there are no restricted foods, only sweets are restricted and those only on N days. No S handles healthy food choices by using intelligent dietary defaults. These are meals that you preplan and use when you need a last minute meal that yo...

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Thanks for you thoughtful responses, guys. I really do have problem with S days. I stuff myself silly just because I can and, you know, "OMG it's Sunday already and I won't be able to eat pizza/ice cream for the next 5 days! PIZZA! LOTS! NOW!". I get the ice cream part, but not the pizza part. You ...

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Reinhard has a section on this in the book until the Holday section (Thanksgiving through New Years Day). I'm actually impressed that you have this problem this time of year--I mean you must have a lot more friends than I do or must work at a wonderful place that believes in feeding their employees....

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I think you are suffering from diet mentality. One of the great things about no S is that it can help people recover from diet mentality. In case you haven't heard the term before, "diet mentality" is a warped way of thinking that is common among dieters but is uncommon, even considered bizarre by n...

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Reinhard mentions in his podcast that No S is different from other diets because it requires neither counting nor avoiding one particular food. I've wondered if Reinhard and the forum members are familiar with behavior modification diets. I think No S falls into this category only its much simplier ...

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I have a touch as well. It would be great to have a habitcal on it.

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Hi guys, I was just wondering. . is No S the only everyday system that you use? I am supposed to be doing Urban Ranger (foot injury) and weekend luddite. I'm only keeping habitcal for No S and Urban Ranger though. Is anyone doing Urban Ranger? Shovelglove? Chain of Command? Weekend Luddite? Just cur...

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IMHO, since you asked, the word "addiction" is overused in our sorciety. An addiction isn't just a craving or a feeling that you have to have something;it's the result of a chemical feedback process in our brains. If you have an addiction then there will be physical symptoms if you don't get your fi...

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Butterfly, Have you read the Urban ranger posts? It sounds like you are headed that way. Reinhard didn't just use No S to lose weight that was the diet or gluttony solution. For Sloth or exercise, he used both shovelglove (strength training) and urban ranger (walking program). In Urban ranger, you w...

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Thanks for the response. I had no problems with habitcal today. It was very quick and prompt. Reinhard, maybe you are right about it just being slow yesterday--patience is not my strong suit. Is there an everyday system for impatience?

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Is habitcal down? My calendar isn't visible today.

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Sorry, I accidentally duplicated my post when I edited it from my ipod Touch instead of the computer.

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Hi pepper, I just posted on your other thread. Some additional thoughts, you can eat rice on a plate, I always do. You can vary with a medium potato or sweet potato instead of rice. You can add olive oil and vinegar to your salad (olive oil is healty w/omega 3s) or you can swap out the greens with s...

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No s may not be the best for a body builder. But if you are talking about the standard bodybuilders diet as in Body-for-life, etc ( there are many sources) then No S will work as long as you eat 5 or 6 small meals a day instead of 3 regular plate meals. No S doesn't actually dictate how many meals- ...

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You can drink any nonsweet beverage. A couple of teaspoons os sugar that you put in yourself is OK. Fruit juice is not considered a sweet. In addition to coffee and tea and 100% juice you can drink unflavored milk including whole milk. Watch out for soy milk, I accidentally had an S day when I didn'...

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Yesterday while I was packing my lunch (salad and tuna fish) I was thinking that crackers would be nice--but I only had saltines and they were old! The reason: when I stopped snacking I stopped buying snack foods. So, I gave up snack foods like snack crackers ( Ritz, Wheat Thins, etc), Luna Bars and...

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Since rhi is new, IMHO it's not a good idea to bring up extra rules like calorie counting--thought it is apparently helpful to some. I still do plain vanilla No S and that's probably what new people should do. I haven't had a lot of experience with lattes so it's probably the sweet rule that counts....

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I love salt but I'm been trying to cut back and using Mrs. Dash. I don't have any medical issues with salt, but we have way too much in our diet. Processed foods are full of it so we are all getting way too much. Fact of the day: the word "salary" comes from "salt." In Roman times it was so rare tha...

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I almost forgot to weigh on Wednessday --my challenge is to weigh only once a week on Wednessday due to the fact that with my weight flucuates. So, it was difficult for me to see the modest losses since re-starting No S until I looked back 6 weeks (lost 3 lbs, posted on another thread). I put a sign...

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Suz: You are not a failure, you are a living breathing person who has gained weight and maybe followed a program that doesn't work for you. Others have posted what might have gone wrong. If you were snacking and eating sweets before No S, then logically you should have eaten less on No S. Unless you...

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IMHO the ideal weight is the one you can maintain. Does it really make sense to lose, say 50 lbs if you can't keep it off? As other posts have indicated weight depends on bone size and muscle mass as well as fat. I second the notion of starting small developing good habits that you can maintain and ...

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I never like diet sodas but I no longer drink any soda. I used to drink several full sugar sodas and day--up to over a litter on S days. But a funny thing happend. As I had stopped drinking pop on weekends and avoiding all sweets on N Days, I discovered that I automatically drank less pop on S days....

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Actually I like Jillian but I can't explain why. I watched only a few minutes of the show and decided I'd rather read or watch reruns of Criminal Minds. I'm guessing that, like on the ranch, the health of the participants are monitored off camera. Otherwise, no producer would touch the show--they ha...

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MY challenge for June. Plain Vanilla NO S as documented in the book. No Snacks, No Sweets, No Seconds except on days that begin with S. The Sometimes is not listed in the book, but obvious since no one is required to eat snacks, sweets or seconds on any S day--that doesn't change the fact that they ...

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Thanks for the advice everyone. Reinhardt, when I mentioned natural eating I was thinking about the program started by Bob . . darn can't remember his name. . anyway it's where Paul McKenna and the lady that wrote that book in the 80s got there plans from. Anyway, new information, originally our gro...

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Hey Butterfly1000, Are you still checking posts? I hope so. I haven't been reading other people's post,but today I'm trying to put off a road trip that I should already be on. :-) Isn't procrastination wonderful? Too bad I don't procrastinate eating. . .:-) Anyway, the point. . .I noticed that you p...

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I stated to post this on the Vanilla-May post and decided it should have it's own link, since so many people are concered about not losing weight. I was getting uneasy about what I though was a plateau until I took a closer look at my calendar. I re-started No S 6 weeks ago and I have lost 3 lbs! Ok...

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Hi reneew, Thanks for the post. I do freeze stuff. I posted on another link one day about my "treasure trove" (I love alliteration). the treasure trove is a plastic storage container I keep in the freezer, in it is candy, sometimes cookies--anything that I can't eat on N days that freeze well. And y...

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In the book, Reinhard says that regular milk, even whole milk is not a snack, it is a beverage. He says that flavored milk is a sweet and allowed on exempt days. Your own taste buds are supposed to be the judge. I once brought a single serving of Silk Very Vanilla soy milk so I could have milk betwe...

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I figure that these two days are going to be the hardest for me. First, my birthday was yesterday, exempt, but all I ate non-S was one cookie and one cinnomon bun (in lieu of cake). Second, my company is having their yearly "we love our employees" day--OK they don't call it that, they call it the fi...

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I can't believe I blew up after so long of good habits. Ok, I can.. Thursday was my day off (I work alternate Saturdays) which wasn't the problem. I missed breakfast because I was fighting with the bank. I ate lunch late because of other errands I meant to run earlier but couldn't because I was on t...

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I'm probably out of line here, but . . .aren't Zone bars a sweet? I can't think of any enery or nutrition bar that isn't coated in chocolate or some other sweet coating. It's up to every individual's taste buds, but I personally consider all those things as sweets and stopped eating them when I star...

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Ok, here's the story: I'm doing Vanilla No-S but I created some high fiber intelligent defaults in an attempt to increase the fiber in my diet to the 30 gram a day range. This weekend I didn't use many of my defaults, and I woke up about 2am with cramps which I guess was from the change from high fi...

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I thnk that clarity is important to me. Saturday and Sunday "S" days are clear. I considered changing my S days because I work 2 Saturdays a month and have the Thursdays before off. The deciding factor for me is that I don't have overeating problems on my days off and work Saturdays are the hardest ...

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Hi and welcome to No S. I have the book and a lot of people seem to miss the part at the beginning where it says that everything you need to know is on the cover. No snacks, no sweets, no seconds except on days that begin with S. The rest of the book is meant to clarify the rules for those who insis...

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Well, I guess guess a ranger by any other name. . .

Are you doing the urban ranger program as well as No S?

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The hardest time for me is at night except last night I didn't get enough sleep and so I had trouble staying alert. What I do is use non-sweet beverages to get me through. This afternoon I had an orange juice (100%) which gave me a little glycemic pickup as well as additional calories. Remember milk...

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The major problem with nutrition science is that science breaks things down into component parts--but food is more than it's parts. Nutrition today is about protein, cars, fats, fiber, antioxidants, etc, but eating is about food. Michael Pollan said it best: "Eat food. . ."

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I'm in for May. I'm doing vanilla No-S with high fiber intelligent defaults. I'm going to mark my exempt days in advance: this month is birthdays! Birthdays is a minor holiday unique to my family and pretty much takes up all the time from my birthday on the 26 to my nephew's birthday on the 30th (Me...

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IMHO, you are dwelling too much on how much you are eating. As far as the lemonade goes, it depends on if it tasted as sweet as a dessert --since you said it was pop, it may have been a failure. Instead of beating yourself up, rehearsh what you are going to do the next time--like drink water. It doe...

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I think that the important thing is clarity. I'm not sure why but reading your post gave me the idea that at the time you ate the cake you considered it a cheat. If it's a red day in your mind then call it a red day but don't beat yourself up over it. So it's a red day, treasure the memory of the ca...

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Here's another piece to the puzzle. I don't remember were I read it, but some reaearchers now believe that whatever the diet or exercise plan you are on that you won't see real or permanent results until you have stayed with the same plan for 3 to 6 months. The idea is that we have so confused our b...

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Wow, I just went through a lot of the same things you did. I discovered No S last year and was doing great on No S but losing weight slowly and wanted to speed it up. So, I tried cutting back on portions and tried natural eating and discovered that it's really hard to relearn it--I was a thin child ...

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My main problem is eating at night, but occassionally the smells of the caferteria are tempting. Here are my three main tips: 1. Find a non-sweet beverage that you like. Remember, in No S Beverages are not considered food, so they are legal as long as they are not sweet. Milk and 100% fruit juices (...

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Completary diet books: French Women Don't Get Fat and A French Woman for All Seasons. French Women. . .have three stages and No S fits in nicely with the first stage. After that you get into courses and eating sweets during the week, which is not no s. Both books talk about seasonally. Which brings ...

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I love some stevia and hate others. When I first tried stevia about 10 years ago, it was one of the health store brands that tasted bitter. then I tried a different brand that tasted great. As far as Truvia is concerned I think it is too sweet and though I like Stevia in the Raw, I am concerned with...

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Feel free to ignore this post. I'm just making it because of the cultural traditions (some people would say superstitions) I inheirted from my mother. I had a nightmare about No S last night and I don't want it to come true (not likely, but hey, it's my cultural traditon) so I have to tell it AFTER ...

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I had a long detailed post with proper attributions really to post when my computer suddenly restarted without warning for updates that I didn't know anything about. :( So except to say that the eariler studies of Levine is covered in the book The Fidget Factor by Frank and Victor Katch. They includ...

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I actually wanted to edit my post before anyone read it because I think I was a bit harsh. I'm not saying that people should buy water-- or not for that matter. It's just that I'm hearing this environmental argument against bottled water everywhere these days-- and, well I'm just saying that a plast...

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Sorry, but the environmental argument against bottled water really irritates me. Why? Because they are the same bottles that pop comes in and I don't hear anyone telling people only to buy pop in aluminum cans! Think about it, even if the drinker doesn't recycle the homeless guy who dumpster dives f...

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Your post reminded me of a piece of advice I read in an exercise book back in the seventies. " Walk the dog, even if you don't have a dog."
Too bad I didn't take the advice back then.[/list]

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Your 15 minute segments are fine. The research for the last several years show that aerobic exercise can be broken up into 10 minute or longer minutes and still get the same results as the longer sessions. You are still supposed to get the 20 to 30 minute total but you can divide it into 2 or 3 ten ...

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The Sharing of food is traditional in many cultures, it's supposed to be leftover from days when travelers were offered hospitality. Having full meals at meetings is very unusual unless it's a dinner time meeting. These days many people have food issues so I don't think anyone would object if you ju...

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I used to drink heavy when I was in the Air Force and learned one very valuable trick--has to do with avoiding a hangover, not reducing how much you drink. Here it is: for every drink of alcohol you drink, also drink one glass of water (not coke, water). Hangovers are caused by dehydration, by match...

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It doesn't sound to me like your schedule is weird, the only thing that is strange is that you're eating 6 times a day, yet you sound as though you are always hungry! You probably aren't eating enough at meals. You sound like you are currently eating about every 3 hours--this is normal only if you a...

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[quote="becauseIcan"]I'm trying to decide if I want to buy a scale so I can start weighing in to track my progress. I was thinking of getting a simple scale, digital but no bells and whistles...and weighing twice a week. Monday would be my official weight and Thursday would be just to check my progr...

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I was born in 1958. yep I'm 50 almost 51. Anyway, I was a child in the 60s and a teenager in the 70s (13 in 1971) and the eating patterns varied from family to family. I had a traditional family with a housewife mother (who never worked except during WWII) and we ate three meals a day with snacks un...

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When I read the headlines that Kristie said, 'i want Michelle O'bama's arms," I thought, Well, that's just sick. Of course, I've been reading too many murder mysteries and was imagining something totally different from what was intended. . . :lol: But, I still think it's really sick for that kind of...

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I'm a morning person, so of course I eat breakfast. I used to eat cereal w/milk and toast most weekdays, but I've found that it's easier to stay alert with a high protein breakfast. So, I sometimes make myself a breakfast sandwich (varying the types of bread and the breakfast meat--canadian bacon, r...

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Last summer, I was introduced to milk from a small family dairy from pastured cows that was minimally pasturized. In other words, it was as close to real, from the cow milk that you could get. I never really liked milk, even whole milk, but I loved this stuff. Unfortuately, it is not available where...

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HI All, I'm back. I have to get ready for breakfast and work, so this has to be short. I jsut restarted the NO-S after a silly bout of thinking I could lose weight faster on a regular diet. Hah! All the weight I lost was on No-S--and I'm kept it off (7 to 10 lbs, I fluncutate). the point is, One rea...

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It looks like the difference between the MOVE/VA healthy plate and the Prevention plate is that in the VA version you have to choose between a healthy startch (rice, whole grains, potatoes, etc) and fruit, but in the Prevention version you can have both (since it shares space with the vegetables). H...

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I'm not vegetarian, but I try to eat meat at dinner only, because I am studying to become a dietitian and am well aware that Americans eat way more meat than we actually need. I have several ideas already such as vegetable and hummus sandwich, vegetable based soup with crackers, peanut butter and j...

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I found this handout for a "healthy plate." the source is the MOVE program of the VA. Fill 1/2 or more of your plate with vegetables. Fill 1/4 of your plate with 2-3 oz of lean meat, poultry or fish. Fill 1/4 of your plate with healthy starches, beans or fruit. Drink low or no-calorie beverages. Sou...

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[quote="Thalia"]I think you got the wrong attribution on your quote there. :wink:[/quote] Sorry, I noticed it right away (I edited the quote incorrctly) and clicked the edit button to change it. I also added a bit because I have a verbal problem--I just can't shut up, not even in print. :) Again, I'...

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I was looking at some dippers for cookie dough at the King Arthur store online. They said that the "heaping teaspoon" is actually just about a measuring tablespoon. So I use a measuring tablespoon for cookies. Uh, sorry. I don't want to be rude, so I'm trying to find a polite way to say this. . .an...

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Are storm days special days? I'm talking about the big wind/snow/whatever storms that block roads or take out power and such. I haven't had one of these this year yet, but last year we had a 12 to 14 inch snowfall that pretty much blocked me in . I had to go outside evey couple of hours while the sn...

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[quote="stacers"]Hi again, I have been doing this for a month and a half now...not cheating during the week, not overdoing on the weekend, exercising 3/4 times a week for 30 minutes (kettlebell) and still not a single pound lost...I am getting very frustrated, and just don't know if I should keep do...

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This is my first week trying this and have done well but breakkfast is my issue. I do not like cereal ( especially oatmeal)or milk and eggs give me heart burn and I rarely eat bacon or sausage. This is one reason I normally eat small amouts in the mornings every 3 hrs. I also eat breakfast really e...

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Can anyone tell me why the quotes and the Bold in my previous post didn't work? The quote might have failed because I edited it, but the bold were placed by the buttons on the "post a rely" screen. The smileys worked, so why didn't the bold?

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[quote]How did author Alex Bogusky lose three inches from his waist? Bu taking three inches off his dish. But what does The 9-Inch Diet has to do with it? Here is the story. When Alex Bogusky moved into a 1940s house six years ago, he was dismayed to discover his new dishes did not fit in the cupboa...

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[quote="Phyllis"]Hello, I am a baby-boomer so I grew up as a member of the "clean plate club", so if there is food on my plate I eat it. [/quote] The clean plate club didn't start with the baby-boomers, I'm not even certain it stated with the great depression "waste not, want not" crowd. It goes bac...

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Hi all, As I posted elsewhere, the company I work at is having a company-wide 10 week weight loss challenge. It's a team challenge so I am concerned about doing my part-esp since I'm the captain! It's a 3 member team and the other two are doing weight watchers. I originally was going to do the Spark...

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As you probably noticed I used the url tag by mistake instead of the underline tag. Sigh!!!

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My defaults are taken from a cookbook series written in the 60s by Humorist Peg Braken (now unfortuately out of print, but often available on amazon and occasionally in used book stores). The first chapter in her second cookbook, [url]Appendix to the I Hate to Cook Book[/url] (paperback 1966) and re...

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[quote="Phineas"]10 weeks on No S and I am down a little over 30 pounds. [/quote] thanks, for the post. I am just starting No S and this is the sort of thing I need to hear--esp the 10 weeks part. My company is having a 10 week weight loss challenge and I am participating. Originally, I was going to...

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I would say that I'm restarting except that I never really started. Back in September, I read the book (found it in the bookstore) and then looked up the website. At the time, I thought a different diet would yield faster results--but of course I haven't lost a single pound. But now my company is sp...

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I haven't officially started no s because night time snacking is a problem for me. But I'm about to start a 20 week diet challenge and I'm thinking that no s might lose me more weight than one of the numerous diets I'm tried in the past. On to the point, I have the book and the book says that you ca...

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It's me again. Thanks for the replies. I meant to post to the over-100 group, but I glad I made the mistake. Your replies were very reassuring. I haven't finished the book yet, but what I read today clarified that the posts I read were putting extra rules and some fairly strict restrictions on thems...

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I just found the diet book at my local bookstore and was pretty excited about it until I started reading these posts. Several people have posted there menu plans and there seems to be a lot of diet foods like lean cuisine and fiberOne cereal. Why? From what I've read the no s diet allows anything ex...

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