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Miyabi

Apologies if this has already been posted: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-weil-md/fasting-health_b_1557043.html Dr. Weil could have lifted his entire article from the front page of the NoS website. About halfway down he says: "Frankly, today in America, simply eating three meals with no snacks...

Miyabi

another school night. Problem is with these things is that I don't want to eat in a rush before going, but then don't feel like a whole dinner when I get back, and have the snacky winey urge instead. So tonight we'll have something sort of snacky that needs no further cooking, and see if that helps.

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another school night. I managed to get something in the slow cooker and to throw some of last night's dinner in a lunch bag. But this plus walking the dog left no time for breakfast.....

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In the bag for tonight (marinating bag). And dodged the cookie bullet at the reception last night, yeah!

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Have a minimalist plan for tonight involving packaged things. There's a school event starting at 6:30, and two more of those this week. I get home at 6 pm at the earliest, so I'm looking at "cooking" at 8 pm at the earliest.

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Time to get back on track. I have been planning pretty well lately but not checking it in. Yesterday was a success with planning and a green day....this morning I had to get up at 4 PM to take my daughter to the airport, so planned leftovers for tonight!

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I wish he'd explained that point more too, but it looks like he wants us to use the simulator to learn the lesson. Maybe some of the more data-minded on this board can spend some time with it and get back to us. I spent a few minutes with the simulator, only to learn the shocking news that I can't e...

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success for today, but failed yesterday and wound up not posting anything and eating junk in the evening. Had perfectly nice leftovers in the fridge that my son and husband ate but I did not. Have to admit that if I can't/won't take a minute to plan, it means I am planning - I'm planning to have one...

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Success for this morning. I cut up and marinated meat for a stir fry. I can cut up vegetables when I get home, or if that seems like a lot I think I have a frozen stir fry mix lurking in the back of the freezer.

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Back to another pre-track meet day, so another pasta night. Last week I didn't post my plans at all. I see I had functions or worked late every night. I probably need to ratchet my definition of dinner down even further (though it's pretty low already) , at least for the next two months.....

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Success in planning for tonight. Son has track meets 2 days in a row so I'm doing his pasta carb loading option. I think he is taking advice from the 2-meal Mike guy they are discussing today - he eats 3 meals, but his options are extremely limited. Whatever, next year he's on the college meal plan.

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the good thing about a week as messed up as this one is that one days' plan lasts all week. Tonight maybe I will get to cook my super-marinated chicken. ..

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Last week fell apart with posting about plans, actual plans, sticking to a plan, and in every other way. Have to get back on track here. Tonight we're going out but the rest of the week should be ordinary.

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Easy one tonight because I can make what I had planned for last night. Son actually called me at work yesterday and offered to make dinner for all of us! He's trying to curry favor for going to the costly college of his choice, so we need to take advantage of this for as long as possible.

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success, easy one for tonight. Over the weekend I had - pretty much an N day while running around Boston, in spite of all the opportunities there, but a wild S day at home around the food. I lost a little weight over the weekend, so something to think about is to stay out of the house doing somethin...

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started to post this am and was interrupted. I did make a plan for tonight. Have yet another admitted student open house in Boston tomorrow - these tend to be N- friendly days as they run you around on a schedule with free buffet lunch in the middle. Gluttony, or the ice cream sundae bar, could be v...

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Had to eat out for the last two days so no meal planning required, but I should have posted that here anyway to get in the habit. While travelling yesterday I had an easier time with No S than I do at home. The snack cues are missing when I travel....I do have a plan for tonight

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Success for today, but had a failure Friday which I forgot to post. Double failure?

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It helps French parents that they have the calm courage of their convictions, unlike American parents who are often insecure about feeding kids. We have two French families living in our area, and I've asked them how they get their kids to eat the variety of high-quality foods, especially fish and v...

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chicken revsisited, since no one was around to eat last night, with baked potato S can start before I get home. I have to remember to pay attention whether having this in the bag makes the afternoon easier.

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back to grilled chicken tonight. At last night's potluck, I was fine with one plate of non-sweet food. I noticed that hanging around afterwards talking to people was harder, because there were boxes of cookies still sitting out, which I didn't have, but they called out to me.

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Our town's library sale is coming up. I think I'm going to take that advice about pasting a little No S bookplate in the front when I donate my diet books. At least I know people will have fun reading the main page. Maybe it would be easier to get rid of the WW binder if you remember it really just ...

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Hi reneew, sorry I don't know how to make the squiggly thing in front of your name. I admire anyone who can do weekly menu planning. I've never been able to do it! Maybe if I practice this for a while I can get to 2 days... Success for tonight because I'm going to a sports "banquet" which is really ...

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Success for tonight. I feel pretty silly sometimes that this is so hard for me, since I don't really mind cooking, I just mind having to make decisions about cooking. I had a talk with a friend the other day whose husband retired a while ago, and he has taken over cooking. She says she used to stres...

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I've been reading the Willpower Instinct also. One of the chapters that made me both laugh and wince was about how resolving to go on a diet makes us feel better when we're unhappy about overeating. Then we make a lame effort at dieting, fail, feel bad, and feel better by making another resolution. ...

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Forgot to post yesterday, but it was a planning success. And another today. Lots of other No S failures, and exercise on one day only. My dog has just reminded me that the weekend and his long walks are coming, and I have some good podcasts saved, so looking forward to some nice S days.....

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Stir fry tonight. It's a good thing I'm only tracking plans and not completion, or last night would be a fail!

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OK, made a truly simple plan for tonight. Last night turned out to be not so simple. The chicken was too big for the clay pot - it fit inside, but when it's too big it makes a lot of juice that bubbles over into the bottom of the oven and burns...and I forgot that with H's broken collarbone he can't...

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Success on planning for today, good old clay pot chicken, the easiest thing in the world, will produce leftovers too.

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Well, failed yesterday on dinner planning. Son survived on leftovers, which is fine. I'm not doing this tracking to do a better job feeding my son and husband, but to give myself a break from having to think about dinner in the afternoon and evening. I'm not going to track weekends for planning. But...

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There's a plan for tonight. Really, really simple, and son can start it before I get home. Just trying to get these simple plans accomplished is highlighting some problem spots. It should be in my power to do something about them, sometime....

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ok, chicken is marinating away. Time to dust off the grill. I even managed to have a green day yesterday, not too many of those lately.

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Well, I did plan what we'll eat before I left the house - not a great plan, involves frozen entrees, but not random anyway. Last night DH hurt himself running - insists on running at night- and we were at the ER and the all-night pharmacy till 1 AM. He'll be OK but needs attention, and I'm short on ...

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All set for today. There should be some leftovers that people will actually eat, too!

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Thanks for the encouragement, NoSRocks. I'm still having snacking issues, but I think the dinner planning will help me in the long run.

For tonight, I'm making one of my childhood foods, Spanish rice, as comfort food for me and my husband. Maybe that will help keep the snack monster away.

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easy planning today - we'll have last night's dinner, since son didn't get in and didn't eat. I just had a can of soup and H went to another function.

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Planning success. Making one of son's favorites - he will be hearing whether he got into his top choice college tonight, so this will most likely be an attempt at comfort food (since the school has pretty much a negative acceptance rate). Silly because he is not someone who looks to food for comfort...

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Success with planning this morning. But I had a red day yesterday due to a failure at the end of the day - my husband wound up eating a business dinner out, and son was otherwise involved, so I wound up snacking my way through the evening. This was after my morning failure at dinner planning. I need...

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Well, a failure on planning this morning. On the bright side I did realize that I'd failed two blocks after leaving the house, so there's a bell ringing in there somewhere. Mondays are probably the hardest to remember, so should consider checking in on weekends too. I do have a plan now. The weekend...

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Success this morning, have a plan. It does involve having to stop at the store after work for fish, though, which doesn't always work out. It helps that graduate school daughter is home for the weekend. She was a very fussy eater as a kid, then was a vegetarian, and now has left it all behind to bec...

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I've wandered in and out of No S for a couple of years. I had some initial success with it for about six weeks - followed it perfectly and lost 12 pounds. Then I fell off the wagon, but I've managed to keep off the 12 - it seems my sweets habit has been permanently reduced, anyway. To help me get ba...

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I used to find I could do the crazy diets for two weeks. With age it's down to just three days. Maybe I can get it down to where just reading about the diet on the internet will satisfy the urge. Sort of like reading recipe sites satisfies any urge to cook, or watching Martha Stewart satisfies any u...

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Soups that include beans, vegetables and a little meat are my favorites. They get you from lunch to dinner better than anything. I freeze batches of soup so I leave out any pasta or rice, as these get mushy - I just have bread or crackers with the soup instead. Italian sausage, white bean and vegeta...

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How about MP3 players for listening while walking and for the "strictness" podcast when temptation strikes? Amazon keeps sending me coupons for a new venture called MyHabit.com, would they pay you for a link to that? It turns out this is a clothing site, but the name sure works. Connecticut just pas...

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A while back there was a thread about how having several (at least 3) items in a lunch box helped one feel satisfied. This exact picture came into my mind, especially the little salt shaker with the boiled egg, and the delighted expression on the little boy's face as he contemplated his spread. It's...

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This blogger is trying a new diet each week for a year. His diet reviews are hilarious. He even made up his own - The Nuclear Winter Diet (all canned food). No S is one of the few he really liked.

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How about adding some walnuts or almonds to your oatmeal? This is one of Reinhard's dietary defaults (with dried fruit). I've experimented a lot with this since I eat lunch late, and I've found that a grain & nut combination seems to work the best. Bread with peanut butter is another good one. Some ...

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I drink black coffee, and if I go to DD I practically have to reach over the counter to stop them from adding sugar. Around here they use a tool like an old-fashioned flour scoop for it. People would probably be better off eating one of the doughnuts.

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They required the weekly liver treat mainly because of its iron content. They used to try to make sure all nutritional requirements were fulfilled with the 1200 or so calories allowed. You had to eat fish twice a week too. The recipe cards are great. I seem to recall trying to make chicken in a diet...

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Thank you! I will tape this to my bathroom mirror to read Saturday morning.

I also wondered what KCCC stood for. I'm glad you're not Kansas City cubic centimeter or carbon copy.

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I also enjoyed the Fat Fallacy book by Will Clower, though it didn't seem to help me eat any less. Clower is very funny and I wish he could do a joint podcast with Reinhard. The book that really has helped me was the End of Overeating by David Kessler. He spends a fair amount of the book indicting t...

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I also enjoyed the Fat Fallacy book by Will Clower, though it didn't seem to help me eat any less. Clower is very funny and I wish he could do a joint podcast with Reinhard. The book that really has helped me was the End of Overeating by David Kessler. He spends a fair amount of the book indicting t...

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I'm in. Less concerned about the holidays than the major stress from big changes at work this month. Will do plain vanilla with one additional goal - to know what I'm making/getting for dinner before I leave the house every day. Good luck to everyone! 12/2 - Success yesterday, and a plan for tonight...

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I second Wait, Wait and Car Talk. The Splendid Table is the mother of all food podcasts. Not just recipes or how to, but lots of cultural discussion, and funny. There's a big archive on the Splendidtable.org website. Radiolab is another. It's about science but done in a meandering, entertaining fash...

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The biggest thing is that they don't like feeling too full. Feeling comfortable is way more important to them than getting to eat something delicious. And for the most part, eating is not a moral decision. They say they watch what they eat, but really, they just eat to be comfortable. They'll order...

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It's true that the magazines use whatever mixed messages they have to to market themselves to us. The covers often feature an amazing new diet superimposed over a photo of a luscious dessert. The subliminal message is that if you buy this magazine, you can get thin by eating the dessert. The odd thi...

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Instead of grabbing a candy bar at the grocery checout the other day, I grabbed the new Woman's World magazine. If anyone wants to read it in line, it has a hot pink cover and a headline that says "Stuff Yourself." Stuffing Yourself turns out to be eating three meals a day that include a good protei...

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Thank you for that wonderful link. We really do need to learn to help our poor old multi-tasking brains. The chocolate cake-choosers in the story were asked to remember seven digits, the length of a local phone number. Our state's phone company recently started making us dial the are code for every ...

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Hello all, I'm in and doing my first post. I have been working on No S since August with some good success, especially on the sweets S, and some weight loss, and now I want to re-commit to the rest of the S's. I'll be aiming for plain vanilla with a special emphasis on plating. For me success on an...

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Hello all, I'm in and doing my first post. I have been working on No S since August with some good success, especially on the sweets S, and some weight loss, and now I want to re-commit to the rest of the S's. I'll be aiming for plain vanilla with a special emphasis on plating. For me success on an ...

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