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lol . . .that's too funny about the cornbread! I must admit that if I had made it myself, the sugar would have been minimal, but I store bought it, and I could really taste the sugar more than I expected too. It wasn't a corn cupcake or anything, but it was sweetish to me. Probably no worse than cer...

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DAY 26: SUCCESS? Ok, yesterday felt like a success to me, but I think I may have been borderline on a few things. Nothing serious though. At lunch, I was out and had to use virtual plating. Well, I ordered mussels. Now, for a single plate do you count the shells or not? I voted NOT. Mussels are sort...

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DAY 25: S Day Everything went okay - - I did have some baked goodies that I made and didn't eat on Friday. This morning when I weighed in, I noticed something. Every Monday, my weight is at a peak (high), but each subsequent Monday, the peak is a little bit lower than the Monday before. My lowest we...

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I bet they run off and hide with contraband foods, stuff them in as fast as they can, wipe the crumbs off their mouths, and pretend to the world that it never happened. Ok, I didn't even work at WW, and I did this plenty . . .sigh. I'm definitely a testament to the DIETS DON'T WORK theory. I've gai...

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DAY 24: S Day Yesterday was interesting. I certainly wasn't especially "good" because I had snacks and sweets - - albeit in serious moderation compared to past times of restriction/binges (read "diets"). But what was interesting was how much more in tune I felt with the concept of "hunger". I ate my...

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I think you make an important point, Anne, in that it sometimes is easier to replace a bad habit with a good one as opposed to simply quitting the habit. It's good that you treat yourself to something!

And congrats on another great successful day on No S!!!!

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DAY 23: SUCCESS Thanks, Anne, for the words of wisdom. You were right, and your encouragement helped. I stayed on track last night, and it was much easier than I expected. No one really cared what I was eating. I just waited until the main meal and then put any nibbles I wanted on the plate with my ...

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DAY 23: SUCCESS Thanks, Anne, for the words of wisdom. You were right, and your encouragement helped. I stayed on track last night, and it was much easier than I expected. No one really cared what I was eating. I just waited until the main meal and then put any nibbles I wanted on the plate with my ...

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So sorry I missed your question about the rice cooker. My rice cooker has fuzzy logic - - so there is a porridge setting. I use a half cup of the steel cut oats, and then there is a measuring line on my pot that I use - - so I'm not sure how much liquid that is. I can attempt to measure it, but not ...

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This is a great post and so encouraging to those of us (ME! ME!) who have done the diet thing over and over only to gain back the weight. I'm so sick and tired of dieting. No S is different I think because it actually has a pleasure component that is totally lacking in other diet plans. Meals really...

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DAY 22: SUCCESS Of course just to show me who's boss, the scale was way down today. I have a good quality scale so I'm fairly confident about the measurements -- it's more my body that is erratic! I'm sure it will be back up some tomorrow, lol. Wait until you see the graph of my weigh ins - - it is ...

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Anne - - You are doing GREAT!! It's just one day at a time, and I can see that's exactly what you are doing . . . you should be so proud of yourself. It's so interesting about the coffee. I know that diet pills essentially use caffeine or caffeine like substances to dull appetite. I think the sort o...

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p.s. TexArk - - also, the book makes it crystal clear that this isn't the fast solution. So I really can't feel sorry for myself because I KNEW what I was getting into at the start. I actually find it rather fascinating in general to see how much the scale fluctuates . . .which certainly makes it ch...

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TexArk, I can't thank you enough for your note. Frankly, I'm totally buying into exactly what you are saying on an intellectual level. It's just my emotional self that is annoying me! I know that it is the S days that keeping me from losing weight - - and frankly, I should be darn glad that I'm no l...

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DAY 22: Success Ok, for some reason, today, it has been the first day I've worried that maybe I'm not going to lose weight doing this. It's wierd because all along I've had this mental mindset of (a) habit first (b)worry about weight loss later. And as a result, I've had little problem following the...

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I cook, and I totally agree . . . my family is all normal weight even though I think we all have a genetic predisposition toward weight gain. I think that's because we mostly eat at home . . .and not pre-packaged food items. I'm still heavier than I'd like to be . . .but I know I'd be 10x worse if I...

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I will admit that I rely on coffee to get me to dinner, and I really don't even enjoy it at all. But the caffeine really dulls my appetite a LOT so it has been a bit of a godsend. Today I tried to lighten up my meals just a teensy tad -- more veggies, but still a full plate. And I don't know if it i...

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DAY 21: SUCCESS Another easy day for me. I do think this is becoming a habit. I had a very long run in the morning, and usually that makes me starving. I was hungry at 4 pm, but I had some coffee, and that totally did the trick. I'm finding it much easier to just stick with the three meals now. This...

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I LOVE steel cut oats . . .I use a rice maker to make mine. How do you prepare them?

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That's the way, Anne!!!

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DAY 20: Success Yesterday was pretty easy. I actually think I was still full from SuperBowl Sunday. The only time I struggled at all was after dinner - - even though I had a pretty full plate, I must say! It's interesting because 4 pm is usually my worst time of day, and that went so easily yesterda...

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It is the erratic behavior that causes problems. You can say that again. I am THRILLED that you are happy with what you've done. You should be! Everything you describe about your feelings is positive, and that is just going to reinforce all the new habits you are acquiring. I'm excited because I fe...

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Anne, Oh sweetie, you had a really rough week last week. But it's over. TexArk and I are coming from the same place as you are on the binging. It's just NOT a good feeling at all, and I think it is so hard for people to understand the out of controlness of it. I think making your S days on Saturday ...

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DAY 19: S Day Well, it sure was an S Day with the SuperBowl. Lots of snacking I'm afraid. More snacking and not a meal. Definitely not good for the scale, but I know that I'm just retaining water from all that sugar and sodium. So far, the no S diet isn't blowing me away from a weight loss perspecti...

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lol, John - - I'm sorry. "Vanilla No S" means following the No S plan exactly as Reinhard has spelled it out in the book without modification. I can't say I coined the term! I've seen it used a lot on these boards. BEST WISHES, John. I'm confident things will move in the right direction for you soon...

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Day 18: S Day

Well, there was an awful lot of eating going on because we had a neighborhood progressive dinner party. But it didn't really feel like binging to me. I felt like I ate a good amount, but not ridiculous.

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CONCLUSION: I think I lost what I gained over the holiday month. I have not binged once. My mental health is so much better. Do I want to lose the extra pounds? Yes BUT if I was gaining 10# a year trying to lose my way, even if I lose 5# a year slowly on NoS (or even stay the same) I am ahead of th...

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CONCLUSION: I think I lost what I gained over the holiday month. I have not binged once. My mental health is so much better. Do I want to lose the extra pounds? Yes BUT if I was gaining 10# a year trying to lose my way, even if I lose 5# a year slowly on NoS (or even stay the same) I am ahead of th...

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John! So nice of you to report back on what you have tried. I'm pretty sure I remember your original post (don't like to eat eggs, right?!) Good for you for making changes to get the hunger under control. I wouldn't worry too much about 5 lbs because at your size that could really be water retention...

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Congratulations on your loss! How motivating is that! I hope I can follow in your footsteps soon once I've really got my habits squared away. N days are going great, but S days - - well, let's just say the habits aren't quite carrying over yet.

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p.s. I'm not sure if this is a good idea or a bad one, but I still weigh daily. I am afraid that if I waited three weeks, got on the scale, and found out I'd gained weight that I would just stop trying to form these new habits. However, what I do is record the weight in Excel where you can make a gr...

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Anne, Hang tough, friend! You've had a hard week, and I can feel the mental agonizing through the computer. We sound like two peas in a pod. I don't have much weight to lose (just over normal BMI) either so of course the temptation is just to be HARD on ourselves and really restrict calories just to...

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Day 16: SUCCESS Day 17: SUCCESS I always find Thursdays to be fairly easy and Fridays seem like the worst. But I made it through!! This weekend is scaring me a bit because of the number of eating opportunities, but I'm just not going to worry about it . . . I'm sick of expending mental energy on food.

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TexArk - Thank you so much for your kind words! I really have bought into what Reinhard is selling. It makes so much sense to me. I have the exercise habit DOWN COLD, and it's just not a big deal to me. It's part of my life. I don't agonize about it; I just do it. It occurs to me, "why can't that ap...

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My plan is definitely to wait at least three months before making any changes from vanilla no S and also to wait until my S days look a whole lot more like N Days (which I am assuming will happen naturally). Then, I'll see where I am on the weight loss front. So thanks for the encouragement to reall...

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Hi Anne! I'm so sorry to hear about your weigh in and then the whole cake incident. I do think this just points to how hard it is to change our habits. I know where you are coming from with your desire to start restricting food so you'll start to see results, but I just wonder if that's the best ide...

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You are doing so well! One thing I see is that your meals sound a lot smaller than mine. I hope that comes for me soon. One of my struggles is that I'm a very rigorous exerciser (50 minutes of cardio 5 days per week plus 1 day of 100 minutes plus strength training and abs work at least 3x per week)....

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Your ideas for changing seem very sensible to me. Please keep us posted on how they go . . .I am very small in stature so I know that I can easily consume more calories than I need in my three meals per day - - so ultimately, I will need to go down the same path. But for now, I'm just working on cem...

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Your ideas for changing seem very sensible to me. Please keep us posted on how they go . . .I am very small in stature so I know that I can easily consume more calories than I need in my three meals per day - - so ultimately, I will need to go down the same path. But for now, I'm just working on cem...

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I'm not sure giving blood is the time to stint as you may feel dizzy or lightheaded and need something. On the flip side, I guess you could plan ahead and bring some orange juice which is technically permissible and should do the trick! My inclination would be to plan for an S day, and if you don't ...

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DAY 15: Success This day went surprisingly easily given we were totally snowed in (which makes it more tempting to eat). I am starting to feel less hungry now in between meals - - which is nice! I'm still eating quite a bit at meals so maybe I can begin lessening my portions soon. I'm trying to wait...

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MerryKat, I'm in the exact same boat as belser - - the same amount along, the same fears, the same everything really. So THANK YOU for posting your weights. It really does bring a sense of reality to the whole thing. That weight will come off, but it is going to take time. And that building the habi...

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I haven't checked in for a few days so let's catch up here. DAY 12: S day Ok, I'm not kidding myself here. This day was a far cry from an ideal S day. I was eating hard. But I really felt blech after doing it. I'm hoping that feeling will carry forward for me and make future weekends a bit less pigg...

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DAY 11: S Day Ok, I know it is an S day so I can't officially stumble, but if felt like a stumble. Yesterday, after lunch, I decided to have a little bowl of ice cream. Well that little bowl ended up being more like a pint . . .sigh. What's worse is I was going to a very fine dining restaurant for d...

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Congratulations!!! That's awesome :). And thank you so much for sharing your story so the rest of us newbies can benefit from the motivation. I'm about 10 days in now. I can't wait to be able to say I've finished the first 21 days. I actually found Week #1 a little easier than this week - - just in ...

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DAY 10: SUCCESS This day was a pretty easy one actually because I was busy - - took my kids skiing and did snowshoeing so there wasn't lots of time sitting in my house thinking about food. I felt the most hungry after dinner, but I'm actually pretty good at just "sucking it up" after dinner and movi...

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TexArk - - It is sort of astonishing isn't it? I always felt like when I was dieting that I just couldn't wait until the weight was gone until I could eat normally again. lol. How deluded was that!!??? DAY 9: Success Felt very hungry while working out in the late morning . . .but managed to hang on ...

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DAY 8: Success I'm declaring yesterday a success, but I must say that I did have a stumbling block. I was great on no snacks and no sweets, but we went to dinner at a restaurant I had never been to before. For the first time, I had to use "virtual plating". That was actually harder than I thought it...

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"Your body has no interest in overeating ever. Only your mind overeats when it is afraid of future deprivation or when it wants to escape uneasy feelings." Thanks for sharing this quote! Wow - - is that me. If I'm afraid of future deprivation, it is not a pretty sight . . . Great job on Tuesday, An...

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So happy you found a new coach! Good for you for asserting yourself

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Hey there! I am a former WWer too, and I am new to this plan too!!. I just was reading through your update thread . . . I have pretty little to lose (15 lbs), and I am definitely losing on this plan (3 lbs in 9 days). I do exercise quite a bit, but I always have and was still overweight - - so I'm p...

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DAY 7: SUCCESS I felt like I ate a LOT yesterday simply because I ate leftovers for breakfast, and it really looked like a serious meal. And then I took my friend out for a birthday lunch, and while the plate was normal size, the food was piled pretty high, and I demolished it. Dinner was reasonable...

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I have definitely heard of the concept of trading a good habit for a bad one being more effective than simply trying to STOP doing something. I hate to admit this, but I think I heard it on Dr. Phil?

At any rate, I'm a bit of a sneaky eater too . . .the tea is a great idea!

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lol . . .I haven't seen this book, but I'm thinking that when my physical size becomes such that No S is no longer working for me (which I think is inevitable since ultimately it is about caloric intake over time)), I'm not going to change a thing except to downsize my plates!! I'm pretty sure I'm w...

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Congratulations!!! That's an awesome loss so you are definitely doing something right here :). I just started around the same time as you did, and I was so happy to drop 2 lbs as well. That's not a huge amount, but I only have 15 lbs to lose (I'm very petite in height) so I was delighted with that -...

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I've just started so have only had two S days so far! Which makes me unworthy to comment - - just mostly wanted to wish you luck with what you are doing. I will say my strategy for the S day was basically to follow the N day plan when I was at home, and eat what I felt like eating out - - plus one s...

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Ok, you look GREAT, and your family does too. What gorgeous girls - - all three of them!!

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DAY 7: Success Was relieved to see that the first N day after the S days wasn't as bad as I thought it might be. I had no struggles with eating or with being hungry. I am a little worried about today just because I was very active yesterday (skiing, running, weights), and I hope that doesn't turn in...

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OMG, TexArk - - I just read your story, and I feel like I could have written it. The only difference really is I never got very heavy because I actually have always enjoyed exercise and have been a runner since I was 13. However, all the mental anguish, the dieting, the BINGING, the counting and the...

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DAY 6: Another S day under my belt. Yeah! I still didn't have any snacks, but my meals were getting a tad on the largish size - - still within a plate, but more of a heaped up plate. And I had a small bowl of ice cream for dessert. All in all, I feel really good about how this weekend went. Now migh...

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DAY 5: My First S Day I don't think you can really fail or succeed at an "S" day, can you? I was surprised, but I think it actually went fairly well. I actually didn't deviate from an N day strategy until dinner. I ate a big breakfast which easily carried me to lunch. I was hungry at lunchtime, and ...

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That's the one my sister has too! It seemed to work well

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CONGRATULATIONS!! I hope to be where you are in 17 days or so

. An awesome achievement.

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Just had to say that I love this comment: it is amazing how much easier "not until the weekend" is than "no" is. I just started, but that quote sooo captures how I'm feeling. Somehow delaying gratification to a point where I know I'll ultimately have it is much, much easier than just feeling like "I...

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Can't wait to hear how it goes, John! I hope you can find what works for you

. You've really been wonderfully successful so far so I have little doubt you'll find a way.

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My sister has an ice cream maker, and we made some together during a recent visit -- it did taste very awesome! Which brand did you get?

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I think wosnes is suggesting a great strategy - - eating breakfast in the 9:30 time slot (why didn't I think of that???). Also, I do agree that real, whole foods are more satiating. So if you can ditch the Lean Cuisines and the Fiber One bar in favor of more real foods, I do think that will help. Es...

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Thanks for sharing this! It's great information. I've really cut back on using processed foods for meals - - I make pretty much all my meals from scratch. But I was eating all the snacks in between - - and often those were processed. And the sweets I'd eat for dessert too. I think I'm definitely goi...

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DAY 4: SUCCESS Felt like yesterday was really great. Easy to get from meal to meal without the snacks.. The period before dinner was the hardest so I had some black coffee which totally did the trick. It's like willpower in a cup for me. It was my first day on the plan where I didn't exercise, but o...

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Thanks for the good wishes, KCCC and for pointing out how the S days work for you. I know it is only my first week so of course I'm enthused and motivated at this stage, so it is gratifying to hear people speak of their success and how they feel. I love food so there's plenty of foods that fit into ...

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Ooh, first, congrats on your weight loss so far. That's very awesome!!! You've lost quite a bit very quickly (I'm not surprised because that confirms to me that your calories are definitely on the low side - - particularly if you are in a sedentary job and are only working out modestly). Your body m...

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Well, I really appreciated that you posted a note of support for ME if you don't normally post. I'm excited for you - - you are halfway to your goal, and we sound like we are in about the same place now. I do exercise a lot (you aren't mis-reading) - - and you know you've made me think about how tha...

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I love your sense of humor, John!! I'm not sure how tall you are, how much you weigh,, or what you do for your work, but I have some initial reactions without knowing these things . . . I also wasn't sure if you were hoping to eliminate the 9:30 mini meal or not . . .I'm just going to assume that yo...

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Vicki, Thank you SO much for the encouragement. First, it's awesome to hear you've lost 20 lbs doing this. That's really good news. Second, I really appreciate the encouragement on the "S" days. Tomorrow is my first S day, and I'm not sure what to think about it. I've been so pleased with how the N ...

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DAY 3: SUCCESS I did everything right yesterday, but I had tacos last night, and the sodium is making me feel as though I somehow broke with the plan . . .in other words, not a "skinny feeling" day. I did have coffee in the evening because my hubbie came home later than usual, and I really was feeli...

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Hey Paul, So sorry about the rotator cuff. How horrible! But it sounds like you are back to exercising, and I'm just thinking that if you modify the No S plan too much, you may just end up feeling deprived or like you are on a diet - - so my vote would be to take the exercise route. More exercise is...

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Thanks, BrightAngel! My goal is 115 lbs - - and I honestly would not care if it took me two years to achieve it. I'm just very sick and tired of slowly creeping upward despite exercising as much as I do. My pattern has definitely been one of very tight restriction/binging. Obviously the binging is o...

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Just want to say thank you for making this book available on the Kindle! Bought the book on my Kindle after seeing it in Barnes & Noble. LOVED the book. Such a simple, straightforward concept . . .I seriously hope it works for me. I think it will as I am a big time snacker who loves sweets. But I lo...

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Hi there! I just wanted to introduce myself to you, because I'm also very petite - - 5 feet even, and started off with No S just a couple of days ago. My starting weight was 131 - - which is overweight by BMI standards. The very sad thing is I exercise a LOT. At least 6 hours per week of intense car...

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I feel your pain - - I just started the No S plan, but I've been dieting my whole adult life so I know the frustration with being hungry and how hard it is to stave off those hunger pangs. Here's a few things that really seem to help me avoid hunger when I was determined not to eat. These aren't lon...

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DAY 2: Success Yesterday was my first day. And I can safely say at 9:30 pm that today is going to be a success as well. It was a little trickier at dinner because I was out and ordered a cup of soup - - but I was laughing because they brought out the small sandwich I ordered on this teensy tiny plat...

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Day 1: SUCCESS

My first No S day. Hopefully my first day toward normalized eating and away from the all day eating I've been doing . . .

I was excited because my three meals felt a lot more satisfying since I wasn't restricting the type of food.

Ran 90 minutes too!

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