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Ooo mod collections. My mod phrased less verbosely is 3 single plate meals, 1 small optional sweet/'unhealthy snack', and 1 (generally) fruit. I don't eat the optional sweet/snack when I've had a lot that day, but I am the judge of a lot. I still relax it on the weekends but I'm no longer bingeing b...

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After falling off the horse a couple of times, and falling off the forum for longer... I gained 7 pounds to 160 in my first year in my real job. Most of it in the winter. I have lost 10 pounds and maybe a little more slowly but surely. But NOT using strictly NO-S. I had a terrible time on the weeken...

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Ok So I read "Mindless Eating"... Since I wasn't really losing weight even trying the S and no-S days, I would get tempted and indulge, just like the other diets. It kept starting as "just one of this " or that. And then got worse. At first it was carrots, then it was chips again. I am not strict en...

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I worry when you say you're so hungry nursing a baby. Eat bigger meals! Breast milk is a perfect food because it takes the "perfect" things from YOUR body, leaving you with the scraps. Being no doctor or dietician myself, I have a recommend - Eat something when the baby eats. Yes its not no-s. But b...

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I'm not sure what sort of chatter you're encountering. Is it the kind where the first thought you have when you wake up in the morning is about what you're going to eat and how you're going to manage to not eat S things on an N day and how long it might take you to lose X amount of pounds so THEN y...

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"" Impulsive, not thinking things through = young Rigid, not willing to consider new ideas = old Experience, with flexibility = "about my age" "" Strange I think the same things about people..... and I'm 24. I didn't assume much about age at all coming here, as being online it's really hard to tell.

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Agreed. My late night eating is always something like chips or popcorn. I don't like to eat dinner before 7, and I'm always a little hungry at bedtime when I hop back on the No-S horse anyway. Eat gigantic dinners for a few days and don't nighttime snack on the weekends and your insulin production w...

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I am on the horse again but have been struggling and too embarassed to post.

The most important bit is NOT GIVING UP.

Good luck

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Not so hot whilst Vista was shipping, I must admit.
I'll try again but holidays are up.

Power went out in Seattle for a few days, that was interesting and pretty much all N-days since we had to eat at places with power.

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Today might just be a success. Tuesday I missed lunch due to scheduling (my own fault) and had beer and cookies after dinner... not together though :) Almost counts! I think even w/o working out the past couple weeks and having mostly IFFY days I'm down another pound. If it's still down 2 more days ...

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Not bad this week not great. Some days total failure....

*sigh*

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Too much seafood over the weekend.

But all F/S/Sn were no-s days, mostly because the meals were big and we were touring my grandparents around town.

Weekdays not so lucky. Keepin trying.

Haven't gained anything, still at "1 pound down" from my most recent serious attempts.

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Not doing too badly lately. 90% success. That is, I don't tend to snack more than 3 days a week and i snack once each day that I snack. I also am trying to stick to fruit not chips for the snakcs. But these are N days I'm hitting. Oatmeal is getting old fast, but that is not a good reason to be stuf...

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278 to 264 in less than 2 months is pretty amazing whatever you're doing. No-S takes a lot of time to really really get stuck on. I slip all the time. I would completely give up any day I had a big fight with an ex. The only helpful thing if you're cheating really often -which happens to us all! I h...

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True Dat. Today it was someone's 8th anniversary at the company, and per tradition, he brought in 8 pounds of m&ms. I had far less than I wanted, infinitely more than I should have (should have had 0). Bad scores on no-S and being good about cholesterol. Have had lightly sweetened (sucralose) oatmea...

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I suppose it can always be worse... Friday was pretty naughty - 4 meals more or less... there was a party... Thursday had an extra tangelo and a little handful of soy nuts at dinnertime. Night time is my weakest time. Time for some oatmeal, methinks. Boring boring boring. I think fatty foods and i m...

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4-5 wasabi soy nuts here and there, but overall pretty good the last couple days. Dinner with a friend tonight so we'll see how that goes. Chol watching - bought some oatmeal, haven't had turkey bacon, beef, or butter. Been eating my fish pills, chose the salmon over stuffed shells one day.... Could...

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So I bought some omega 3 fish oil pills and have resolved to go to the gym every day that doesn't begin with an S The new No-S... I did ok for no-s today, but being a little depressed about high numbers influenced me a bit. I'm going to drop the cholesterol 60 points and by then I'll be in the habit...

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Bad news - I have high cholesterol. :( So now I can't eat some of the things I like. I'm going to switch to non-trans fat margarine (I love butter but don't use much), cut out the egg yolks, avoid cheddar like the plague, restrict to chicken and fish, and eat more avocados and beans (good for dippin...

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This past week was most interesting. I passed on Wednesday and maybe Friday.

Other days I failed :/ Not horribly on all of them.

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Friday... not so good. Saturday was exactly like an S day, unintentionally, so maybe that fixes it a little.

Sunday I was a bit unreasonable.

But Saturday a bunch of us went hiking for about 4 hours, and that is good.

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I have to get to the stopping first. I'm quitting slowly, and I'm sure weekends being S days I will let myself go on the weekend. But because of the difficulty of just stopping, I'm sure its habit forming. But I am waking up a little easier on less caffeine the day before. Maybe because the fizz hau...

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Yesterday (Tuesday) Pretty good. had turkey bacon (4) + banana for breakfast. Feettucini alfredo & a couple pieces of small bread for lunch.

Burger and fries for dinner, 2 big sips of my boyfriend's peanut butter malt....

A big high cal over all and that malt was a no-no...

Mostly Success

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I think the cancer causing, etc. may or may not be true, that is not my main motivation. But if sweet things make your body produce chemicals to deal with lots of sugar, and you've been throwing sweet things with no calories at your body, then I (completely unscientifically) hypothesize that: 1. You...

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Those sound like tiny meals to me! When I am feeling good enough in the morning to eat breakfast (sometimes I just feel worse for eating in the morning, and I know when those days are) I eat a lot! Lunch is at a company cafeteria so is almost always too big. Dinner... well I try to make half the wei...

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13...whoa! Now i think the numbers at the link <a href="http://www.co.hennepin.mn.us/vgn/portal/internet/hcdetailmaster/0,2300,1273_81956_107135096,00.html">here </a> are a little high, but still... Now i know this isn't about calories... but come on! Even a lightweight tiny person would burn over 5...

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Hmm... Try not having puddings as part of your meal and only enjoying them on the weekends for the first 21 days. If you can't live without them more frequently (2 days is a lot of pudding!) then anything with reasonably low sugar in small amounts might be ok for you. This is different person to per...

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Breakfast - nothing :/ + diet coke because I felt too yucky to eat. Mornings are hard. (I am cutting down on diet coke, see SSSoda in the general No-S discussion) Lunch - salmon salad at the Microsoft cafeteria - no diet coke Went for a walk for 25 minutes around Microsoft campus - don't have a clue...

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http://health.msn.com/dietfitness/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100144067>1=8605 Interesting article. I was totally into the "diet is better for your teeth" myth (turns out it is nearly as acidic as regular). Also says that diet soda may mess with your hunger signals. I'm going to cut to 1-2 diet...

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Ok no parties this weekend, unlike the week... Friday went ok. Mostly my S days were N days. I had popcorn that wasn't a meal Saturday. I wanted to go hiking but it rained :( Today (Sunday) I had giant breakfast at a pancake place... really the hash and eggs would have done it, but there were pancak...

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Wah such success!!! I'm jealous! You GO girl!

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Uhm.. .party today... free everything...
*cough*...

*sigh* But I played some soccer and badminton, as well as doing some jetskiing. Hopefully that will make up for it a little....

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Eating breakfast today... we'll see how it goes...

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Walking on a puzzle hunt is great fun, especially if you get lost easily... You could set up a treasure hunt with your friends, each of you does some clues each week, and then the rest of you work together to go around town and find the treasures. Of course the treasure master for the week would hav...

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Could have been worse. Today the lines for food were long at work and I hadn't had breakfast, so i ate a not great lunch.

I need to do the breakfast thing more. Yesterday I was so good.

Dinner was a little more than 1 plate since my planned meal (rice+veggies) was a little bigger than I thought...

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Today was good so far. dinner will be after 7. ate a couple of my guy's fries at lunch with my salad. Meh

Still sore from the mountain (5400 to 6800 feet !!) but doing all right. No gym today.

Yesterday was...well... could have been somewhat worse

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Saturday was a normal weekend day. Sunday went to "The Mountain" (Rainier) and hiked on really pre-made trails (just say no to Meadow Stompers) from 5400 to 6800 feet. Wanted to go down the other side of the trail for a loop, but there was dangerous ice (no ice on the side I went up though)... Anywa...

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Thursday, Friday... *cough cough* ... ... ... Failures. There was free company provided ice cream. I have to not become a fat Microsoftie! My 1 pound i mentioned earlier appears to be permanent though. <a href="http://www.bumbershoot.org/">Bumbershoot</a> is this weekend though! Hooray! And its a 3 ...

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Eventually ate breakfast yesterday. 6 slices turkey bacon. Not exciting but hey. Not today though :( Last night - ate waaaaay too much. And had 2 beers with an extra 2oz. on each pint (part of a Tuesday deal). So i was REALLY REALLY full. And slightly tipsy. That was fine until the last bite of chic...

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Anyone here use flexcar? How is it? Between 2 people my guy and I have 1 car, and if we move downtown next year parking costs an extra $150/month in a high rise (or on-street parking in Capitol Hill or Belltown. Ew). So maybe I could get rid of my car and we could sign up for flexcar. I've seen a fe...

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A friend is visiting my boy and I (as you may see in my nearly daily posts on No-S) Anyway he is of course a tourist and I live in the Seattle area.... So last night after work (this is his vacation, not ours. We are cheaper than a hotel) We BUSED downtown and walked to the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ fro...

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Tonight will involve beer since my friend is in town, that will be a challenge. Last night was sushi (yay!) and I managed not to have a Kirin. Still not really eating breakfast. I never did from middle through high school either though. *sigh* I just feel sick looking at food in my first hour of bei...

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Better to pretend than not do it at all. If I can't get out to the mountains I don't do much.

Ah well at least there's the gym.. bleh

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Today - no breakfast (Bad me, but after the weekend I wasn't hungry) Lunch - 2 slices veggie pizza. Washington pizza really sucks but it *might* be lower sodium than a burger and fries. Friday was fine, but I ate out for a friend's birthday at the Dahlia Lounge and had a little dessert. This was pro...

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Anit obsessive is what you need! I love counting but its my nature, I do it with everything, not just food. No S is nice - you are allowed to completely 100% ignore the calories. For example it is high cal to eat a plate piled with bacon eggs & sausage... but its all on one plate! On no S you can ha...

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No breakfast today (weird morning eating issues, always), I'll have lunch as breakfast, dinner as lunch, and then something small later at night for my 3... I'm not hungry yet, which may or may not be good, but is pleasanter than being hungry for hours waiting for lunch. Free health screening early ...

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Success for today!

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Well i had pizza and yogurt parfait instead of a burger and tots :) Other than that, pretty good. A bite of something at a sample table at a store (naughty). No workout though. This morning breakfast is really iffy.. more than iffy... but quite petite :) Lunch - who knows? Dinner - pesto pasta proba...

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Yeah I have to work on the cheating. But on N days I'm allowed the SPK. Today breakfast - apple + turkey bacon (because I woke up later than usual so didn't have to feel icky for eating :) ) Lunch will be something from the MS cafeteria, I'm somewhat Jonesing for a burger with tots but we'll see. I ...

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I live in Redmond, WA. I hope to move somewhere either in downtown Seattle next year so i can really urban-ranger it up, or closer to work in Redmond (1.5 miles with no highway in between would be nice, then walking to/from work will cover me for the day, no problem!) Out here in the west, there are...

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its all good. A lot of the time i just can't eat breakfast. Anyway - end of last week not great. Saturday was just like an N day and I didn't even notice because I played CIV IV all day. Sunday was a 2 meal day plus some snacking... Today not great- sour patch kids with dinner (but not after, so hey...

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O_O

Wow!

If you've lost 50 I can lose my 15... truly an inspiration!!!

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Glad that you like the honesty... that's what we're all here for :) I'm a slacker, but that big move out to WA threw me off more than a little :) Monday - not great. Lunch ok, dinner in 2 phases... Tuesday - no breakfast, lunch was fine (i eat at the company cafe, so its almost always 1 plate, or so...

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too much restaurant eating.

The 'rents are going back tomorrow though so i probably won't be in the mood for lots of eats for a while.

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Parents in town from thursday night till monday noonish.

Haven't seen them since May.

Friday succeeded as as big meal N day even with them here though.

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Today lunch - cheese burger and tots. Can't stand crappy spongy american-style bread, skipped on most of the top bun. Today Dinner - burrito from chipotle's. probably 1100 calories. ah well :) tasted good. Too much heavy stuff today, but i was really hungry for lunch and dinner (never hungry before ...

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Yesterday lunch - calzone at work
Dinner - salad (giant) and canteloupe and blueberries

Today breakfast - turkey bacon and oj.

Exercise: 30 minutes elliptical, medium easy difficulty

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Breakfast - turkey bacon (4) and OJ. I don't much like eating breakfast, this is the most i can manage w/o being sick... and i love turkey bacon.

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Sour patch kids... but only on the weekends, they're an S in a big way.

Other than that
Turkey bacon. Every morning. Mmmmmm

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Hi Deb! I'm back... and in Washington (not Walla Walla though) Good to see someone else who tripped on the path got back up... gives me some hope for myself. Glad to see you doing so well with this...!!! Going veg is not too bad, but keeping up the protein for feeling full can be hard. I am recently...

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I am in Redmond WA I am a Microsoftee (any other female Microsoft programmers/used to be microsoft progrmmers now are managers/anything of that sort out there???) These past couple of months have been far too hectic. I got to Washington, the fake nails came off, and immediately I started biting agai...

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Hooray for end of old job, make way for new! I have all of the next 2 weeks "off" when the movers are coming and I'm flying to Redmond, etc. My No S went to Heck from wednesday (going away party) onward (Thursday congratulations dinner with parents at a china buffet place.... ooops. Friday didn't ha...

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Not in Seattle yet..... sooooon

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Yeah planning on the treats was something good I've tried... Of course sometimes it's a pound of my favorite candy that is a treat. I tend to rebel against rules anyway, and weekend rules on this diet are a no-no... Sometimes I end up with complete junk food weekends because I amm so frustrated with...

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bad me again for not posting.

I do "mostly ok" on weekdays, probably 90-95% success.

Now to work on my weekend binge-fests, I won't get past 6 pounds with those going full swing!

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Thanks ceu, and bad me for not posting. Easter weekend was horrible, and I was sick yesterday so I let it all go to shiznit. Sick days are s days too but I don't feel better about it because of that. Last week before easter wasn't great either. Well, today will be great, it is almost over with the e...

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This Friday will be 2 months!!! Since February was short... thats like... uhm (checks calendar) 8.5... weeks? I guess 6 pounds isn't too bad then! I keep thinking it's been longer. Especially Thursday nights (fridays are great I just daydream about the weekend, but Thursdays kill me!). Hu-ziggity-zz...

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Stuff happens

You'll do better every week, less fudged days, etc.

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Weekend was pretty naughty. Hooray for garbage plates! I have no idea why I still have stomach capacity for them, but not much sugar. They are all meat and potatoes and mac salad, so i guess that's a different stomach than the sugar stomach, which has shrunk beyond recognition ^_^ Today is off to a ...

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OMFG I made it.
That is all for now....

BTW
at the Dr's i weighed in at -6 lbs. at 4pm with heavy shoes!!!!!! That means im beyond my 5 pound deadly limit! (probably at 7 or 8 without shoes!)

Hooray!

Life is good!

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Today not bad yet... just a pita for breakfast since I weighed in almost 5.5 pounds of progress (progress makes me eat LESS because i feel better). Still waiting to hear back on my interview... if they say no I am going to pig out I'm sure. Ah well. At least I can try and pig out on salad first. Yes...

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Never work in IT!!

Happy note: having KFC for dinner

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Err but I think I'm eating popcorn for dinner. I have yoga tonight and I'll be tired and hungry. BTW Interview went ok, not sure how I did... maybe good maybe bad :) And this job I'm in now will drive me completely insane. I had a mini-breakdown today... I might end up buying some after-eights and c...

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Thurs I didn't eat enough at all, and a lot was snacks because I was too tired to drive and there was a vending machine... Friday was not too bad, had breakfast which was a waffle with fruit (yay hotel breakfast) and some cottage cheese with fruit too, and a coffee. Lunch was on MSoft campus and was...

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Hey, I was lucky I knew what they were :) Today- at the tiny airport by home Already doing badly, i hate eating before a morning flight so im having coffee and i had a diet coke. Im going to be wide awake. But I'm sure i'll make up for this badness by eating too much later. Ah well. today will be a ...

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If I make the pictures smaller jpg compressing, the little capys get eaten by the big pixels. (And would I cut to a smaller picture? Nah then you can't have the fun of spotting them!... And I'm lazy) Anyway they are really hard to spot in mud!!! There are 2 right near the middle of the 2nd picture, ...

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ate a bigger lunch than usual by 1 banana. i'll probably have dinner pretty late (like 8, usually eat 6-7).

But that means less time for late snacks before bed!

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As a recent college grad... Now maybe... MAYBE you are diligently studying 60 hours a week, and going to class for 15-18, every week, all the time. Maybe your day goes: get to class, study between classes, get to other class, study some more, get to last class (Because hey, they never put them close...

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OOoooo happy birthday!

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OMG i just saw your capybara picture. The babies are so cute!!!

But so good at hiding in the mud along the riverbanks.

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Crunches? That might *build* ab muscles tho! Make sure you counter with back exercises. I recommend running or DDR along with the crunches, both will tone your abs (and legs of course) and give you a lot of cardio. At least medium impact, because then your abs are working to stabilize you... For spa...

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The sour patch kids my mom has lying around have been bad for me yesterday, Monday and today. I keep eating like 5-10 a day, because I'm so hungry for something sugary and I have no self control. Other than that no funny stuff... yet... I did post before that it will just get worse and worse - but p...

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Friday was fine. Saturday (today) has been pretty awful. Bad me. I know I can have my S's but it's like I allow myself all the bad stuff at once. I feel bloated and icky... Side note: Bob Evan's Roast Beef Hash for breakfast is delicious but you feel like a pool of cholesterol afterwards. It was my ...

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Don't worry I wasn't taking it as pressure! I definitely dont use any sweetener in my coffee or tea unless its waaaay too strong, and then i use 1 sugar, no matter the size of the coffee so hopefully I'm ok there. Today and yesterday - mostly success, a little funny stuff with a reese's mini pb cup ...

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One step at a time for me, Deb O_o I'm not superhuman like you folks that have been doing this longer (yet?)... although I've had those seltzers before and I don't _like_ them but I don't really _dislike_ them either. Hopefully moving slowly towards them. Yesterday was the S to kick all S butts, but...

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I say your sig other will understand the diet, and in exchange for the understanding, you can have unreasonable dinner with dessert on one of your N days, making it a kind of halfway S day.

Have fun!

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Monday ok, I snuck a chocolate, which isn't really sneaking because I'm writing it here. I stayed home "sick" from work (I stayed home "i'm going frickin insane" ...) and managed not to eat all day in a house full of candy. Tuesday was pretty much ok. I can't think of any funny stuff, and nachos for...

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Welcome.

S-days rock. Except I ate a bit too much yesterday. I need to remember that I can't eat so much at once anymore....

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"too much" is what happens when your stomach gets those long rest periods! Good job thus far, and Saturday and Sunday SOOOO count as starting the habit, I've found gearing up for the week up deprivation is still in my habits... although I'm getting better about weekends. Yogurt inside USA Yoghurt ou...

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and is as good as or...

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Popcorn can be a nice unhealthy dinner once in a while when you're feeling down

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Note: I don't know that trying to stop with the nails was a good idea at the same time as the food when I'm still looking for a permanent job....

Take on the world at once!!! I'm all or nothing... either using self control to the max or sitting around eating chocolate I guess.

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I think I'm doing ok. I had a cadbury egg yesterday. That was no good. Other than that, pretty angelic. Popcorn dinners, but very good breakfast and lunch, so not too bad. I'm hungering for a plate of refried beans on some chips though, so that might end up as a dinner tomorrow. I was down 3 pounds ...

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In like a lion? It's supposed to be 70 here this weekend. We'll see (WEATHERMEN LIE!!) *cough* Pretty good today The weekend was pretty darn bad though. I think I gained back the 3rd pound I was thinking I'd lost. Too soon to tell, maybe if I weight in only monthly or something I'll get a better cur...

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Nonskanse is an old name I made up because it sounded cool, and now because no one else has it :) Fries are great with vinegar too, so long as there's some ketchup!! Today was pretty good, had a big dinner at Friendly's (but not the whole thing) with a little salad beforehand. I did have a sour patc...

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Pretty good job today, ate kinda big lunch, a whole sub loaded with feta.

dinner was healthy choice+some soup.

breakfast was pretty normal, pita with pb and a soy milk

not bad.

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Dinner popcorn + 1/2 orange (other half to dad). Still haven't mastered my popcorn craving, but it is an allowable dinner for me, and right now the main habit is 3-a-day. I keep becoming tempted to do 4, but that would be eating 4 medium meals not small ones, which would be too much food. Irrelevant...

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Bfast Pita with hummos. Apple + banana Lunch Leftover outback rice + a bit over half of a full chicken breast with some green peppers for fresher flavor. I am terribly tempted to eat some sour patch kids, but I will try not to think about it, drink tea, and maybe some hot broth with a tiny bit of th...

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Good luck Deb, you are great in supporting all of us n00bs, and I feel for your job hunt! We nearly all go through a lot of ick but it will end. Promise. You will get there. Let those bill collectors know you are actively job hunting, and keep it up you will make it!!! Sugar soda = bleh, ever since ...

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3 big slices from a pizza pie go over the edges a little, but they fit! O_o Don't worry about the portions yet! Reinhard has advised me thus as well. Portions will come to you. I'm in my 3rd week and already my tummy can only take about half of what it could because it spends so much time resting! (...

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So I cheated and made my own modified diet. And it works.

Blah!!!

Like me...

on the horse?

hooray

SSSSoda

Flexcar or other car sharing

OMG Urban Rangering too??!!

Ranger Ranger

Gotta watch these S days

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