Everyday Systems

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I see I'm not the only one who is going back to paper - and I have fountain pens in a rainbow of colors

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I am so sorry to hear your test results.

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I've been catching up on your thread - congratulations on the house! We bought our current house in 2020. Moved in - then almost immediately locked down. But I well remember the feeling of overwhelm - at time I could barely breathe. I'm kinda with you on the afternoon snack thing. I feel like I almo...

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I knew dogs were good company, and great for helping get people out of the house. I had no idea they were so helpful at snack avoidance

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Thank you so much for the comments. I can't tell you how much they have meant to me. I have read some other's threads, and it seems like a lot of us are struggling in one way or another. I had a tiny slip up earlier this week, and by the end of the week, I was totally off track. Again. It's so hard ...

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I am so sorry to hear that - but glad you're not letting it derail you. That's what I keep telling myself today after someone was a jerk to me at work. Not gonna let him cause me to derail myself.

Fingers crossed on the house!

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We did some yard work, and between that and the quiche making, I didn't have energy left for the pie I'd planed, but I never make key lime anyway, so it worked out.

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Good going!

I have yet to get back on track from end-of-year shenanigans, and it's mid-March!

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I like your description of 'jangling like a charm bracelet'. I mean - I don't 'like' it, but it is very descriptive.
Hoping for calmer days for you.

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I am so sorry to hear what a time time you are all going through. I can't even imagine.
I hope Vanilla provides some calm when nothing else is.

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Sammybunny711 wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 13, 2026 11:28 am
That is so fun! Pie is something we rarely have, but maybe we need to plan something!!

Maybe you said in your thread, but I'm not caught up yet. Did you make a pie?

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Amy3010 wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 13, 2026 6:59 am
You've got a nice streak of green going!

What pie will you make?

Thank you for your reply

I made a quiche - not technically a pie, but close enough. We also had Key Lime pie, but I confess, it was purchased

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A week of NoSes, a weekend of Ses. The NoSes last week went okay. No real challenges so no slip-ups. The weekend was a bit surprising. Saturday I was aware that things were 'allowed' and so I had a bit of something here, a pastry for afternoon tea, and of course, Pi Day pie for dessert. What was sur...

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Another successful day. Well, sort of. My dinner was a bit large, but I stuck to three plates, so for me that’s a win. My main goal right now is to stop the mindless eating. Normally, when it’s my break time, I automatically pick up something to eat. Tough call at work, eat something. Another 140 or...

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It's the unplanned snacking that creeps in. Still working on that. :wink: That is pretty much all I’m working on right now. Yes, my plates may be a bit over-full right now, but I think the mindless eating outside of meals is easier to overdo without realizing. That’s what I’ve found for me this wee...

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Amy3010 wrote: ↑
Thu Mar 12, 2026 8:12 am
Two days - well done! Just keep taking each day as it comes, you got this

Thank you, Amy!

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I'm now 37 and I am FINALLY figuring out what my exact problems are. I am in solid recovery now and am doing SO much better, losing weight, and feeling more like a human being again. I have a similar history - starting when I was in high school. And in the intervening 50 years, If there is a food i...

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I'm always surprised when I feel hungry in the morning. I had a plan for breakfast yesterday, but then when morning came, I couldn't face it. I haven't decided about logging food. I kinda like the idea, but kinda not. I have a loose plan of meals, but change it if necessary. And I'm terrible at keep...

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If you sign up, let me know and I'll send you my account name

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Today is my third day. I've made it through two days - I know that's nothing - but it's also not nothing.It's two days more than before.

What are your mods?

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I hadn't heard of Skool. I will have a look as well. I am pretty much over the common social media platforms. The only ones I use these days are part of the Fediverse: https://jointhefediverse.net/learn/?lang=en-us They have a replacement for most everything - including a FB-like space called Frendi...

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Your trip sounds lovely!

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Yikes! You do have a lot going on! That makes everything so much more difficult.
Lunch dates and walks in the sunshine are good antidotes.
Good luck on the house hunting!

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PixelFed is similar to Instagram as it used to be. Simple, straightforward. No ads or algorithms.

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There may be mods in my future - but I’m trying to implement one thing at a time. I tend to try to do everything all at once all the time and the wheels fall off. Right now just the ‘no snacks’ part is quite illuminating. I am realizing how much of my eating was habit/ boredom? /Stress? Something to...

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Thanks, Sammy. I don’t feel like I’m being all that excessive, but I’m up even more today.
Focusing on NoSes for today and not dwelling on other things.

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Since my last post, my weight seems totally uncontrollable. It has been steadily increasing. Slowly, but definitely. It’s very discouraging. Of course, stress plays a huge part, I’m sure. But also health issues are starting to play an ever increasing part. I’m hoping vanilla basics will help set me ...

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If that happens, an alternative would be nice. Keep in mind WhatsApp is also Meta. I switched to Signal a few years ago.

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I certainly picked the right name for myself. You start thinking I’m gone, and I just pop up again. I’ve been kinda NoSing unofficially for a while, so thought it would be good to check in. Maybe make it a bit less unofficial. For some reason it’s easier these days than it used to be. ( I hope I did...

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Nice to meet you as well! Love your sunset photo!

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I guess it's my yearly attempt at sanity. At least with eating/weight/self.This past year has not been kind to me. It's been a parade of illness, injury and death. Literally.

I long for simplicity.

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And, she's back, but for how long? I read through a selection of my previous posts. I've been coming here off and on for a long time. So much history. I did have a good laugh at a post from 2018 when I talked about maybe retiring in five years. Um. That's not going to happen. I started a new job nea...

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I love the sound of your rainy hike - and warming up at home afterward. We've always been a hiking family - less over the years as my youngest's school work took over our family - (He did IB in high school, so had so.much.homework - and now he's at an engineering college and works two jobs) It's jus...

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I feel for you - my last blood-works showed the same thing. I'm getting retested this week.

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Hi again! Just my usual random check-in. I am doing okay. Hanging in - which is what I suspect most of us are doing at this point. My husband is on leaf clean-up today and I'm catching up on things I never find time - or energy - to do during the week - baking, projects - and the never-ending unpack...

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I'm behind, of course, but I just saw your comment above about nose-to-tail. I learned about them from Sapien - can't recall the podcast right now. But I like his podcast because it's not all 'my way or nothin' . I was very into Weston A Price for many years - which is something he mentions very oft...

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It's incredible when I say it out loud - or even allow myself to think it. Fifty years! Lately I've been thinking how I have delayed having a family portrait done because I was 'too fat'. Well, now my kid is a Junior in college and I STILL don't have that family portrait - and I"m still fat. Dumb, h...

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Bindweed - Ugh! I got a blister one year after a particularly dedicated few hours attacking weeks, and within hours I was in the ER with a rapidly spreading infection!

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I loved your story about your silvers! I chose to stop coloring my hair about three years ago and I am so happy I did. I only colored for about 10 years, but I wish I had never started. I would have had a cool silver lock in my long dark hair - that would have been striking. It's still there, but th...

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Thank you to all who stick with me during my sporadic visits here! I swing back and forth - between getting all hardcore - thinking I have to do 'all the things' now, just lose 20 lbs (Out of about 40 or 50) and get it over with. Stop having 5 or 6 sizes of clothing in my closet. Not shock myself wh...

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Hi Linda, I've been away a while, but when I come back for a visit, I seem to always start with checking to see how you are doing. I only read back the last few posts - there's too much to catch up on for now. But you sound like you are in a place I have visited so very many times. I guess most of u...

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This past week was rather mixed. I had a couple of good days, I couple of 'out there' days, and one day that I didn't feel like eating for some reason. It was an extremely challenging week at work, which is probably part of it. I've decided to focus on one thing for now: Keeping my eating to meal ti...

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Hi Lizzy, Your Carb 'adjusting' is what I do, too. Kinda. I don't want to get into all that song and dance about having to use 'keto' versions of things - or make 'bread' with cream cheese or pizza with cauliflower. I'd rather just double up my sandwich fillings on half as much bread, or reduce the ...

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It's been a month now since my last post. I think I can count on my fingers the number of days that were what I consider 'sane'. That sets the bar pretty low for the month ahead, though 'Tis the season and all that, so maybe that's about right. All those months of job searching finally paid off, and...

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Yeah. Me again. Your serial starter, restarting. Not exactly NoS ....more like 'OneS' - as in Sanity. I kinda like that. Sanity of course, is personal to each person. My sanity is different from someone else's, because it's a reaction to my own personal version of insanity. And yes, I'll be making t...

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Your plan sounds pretty good to me. I especially like the chocolate milk mod

. I don't sleep well if I go to bed hungry, and a glass of milk takes care of that for me, too.

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Welcome back! I keep wandering in and out myself. Maybe this is it for both of us.

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I was really hoping to be able to report significant progress at this point, but it seems like every time I get a few days in, something comes up that totally derails me. I never seem to get to the point where habits are well established enough to survive a bit of disruption. And this week has had q...

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I’ve been thinking of trying Berberine. I’ll be interested to hear what you think.

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So here I am again. I keep disappearing, though I don’t mean to Still hanging in there. Still applying for jobs, though my time off ends in a matter of days. Aside from endless job applications, I’ve spent my time gardening and organizing around the house so hopefully things will go more smoothly wh...

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I think I had three green days last week. Hoping for better next week. It's going to be a tough week in general, but after that I'm off for six weeks. I'm so looking forward to it.

I've also got two jobs to apply for this weekend. Hopefully something will come of one of them.

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automatedeating wrote: ↑
Sun May 12, 2019 5:02 pm

And when you wrote your lunch, I was thinking yum.yum.yum. And then you said it was one of your favorites. Awesome meal.

I thought the same thing!

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Well, thank you :) I just wish I felt 'dandy'. between my three kids and the kids I taught each year for the last however many years, I always noticed that kids usually put the weight on before a growth spurt. Right now my teenager seems thin - but I also have to look up a bit more to look in his ey...

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Your kind words bring tears to my eyes - and some really good things to think about, too! Thank you! I ate myself silly this weekend. We went to the new 'Fictional Narrative' this weekend, complete with popcorn. Today we had a big Mother's Day late lunch. No dinner though - no one has room! Restrict...

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Hi Auto - some restriction, but also feeling blah sometimes meant lack of shopping & not wanting to cook, so - not always enough at meal times. Also, a slight weight gain & a few bouts of overeating was triggering a certain amount of anxiety about the whole thing, which is highly counter productive...

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Well, being back at work is a shock to the system. Plus who decided parents' evenings in the first week back was a good idea?! I'm posting now in the hope that it'll keep me green. I did snack on some fruit at like 5pm, but it wasn't cake. There was cake there so I'm happy to have chosen fruit. Hoo...

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Kathleen: I know empty nest syndrome will hit me hard. My girls are my world right now. I'm butting in again - but this hit home for me. I don't even know how to put into words how hard this has been for me. I start to type something - and delete it. After 39 years I do not have a child at home. I ...

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Can I stick my oar in on the HS weight thing? Oh, wait. I already have. I gained roughly 10 pounds right after high school. It was common then to call that the 'Freshman 10" . What they don't say is that women are not necessarily at their full adult body size/weight until they reach that age, so tha...

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I don't know why I can't seem to get my act together these days. It feels like just one thing after another - which I know is normal and just 'life'. But for some reason it seems more so this year. Weddings, funerals, kid moving out, kid moving in, kid moving out again. Work full-time. Nope. You're ...

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Thanks everyone. I totally lost track of everything last week. As some suggested, I 'went with the flow' - and it certainly flowed in unexpected ways. It seems like that's the new normal though. We've had a lot going on in my little corner of the world, and with the end of school near, things at wor...

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Are these the same people you walk with? Ladybird, your social connections are AMAZING. You inspire me in so many ways to not give up on the time investment needed to foster friendships. When my kids move out, I don't want to have nobody to hang with..... Just jumping in to say - my kid moved out t...

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Chanda, that sounds like a great idea! I'm fighting off the urge as we speak! Auto - That oasis image is perfect. I don't get it nearly enough. This past week we had a sudden death in our extended family, so I am headed out tomorrow to attend the service. It's a long drive, so we're spending the nig...

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So, the start of my 100 days got postponed a bit. A number of things happened - some good, like spring break travels - others not so good. Nothing major - I just feel 'down' a lot lately. Hopefully some sunshine and warm weather will help, but if not I may discuss it with my doctor this summer. Anyw...

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I just saw this reply. It seems rather timely. That kid I mentioned is a month away now from finishing his first year of college These days I have my tea alone. I'm glad I had those other teas.

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Thank you :) I started something yesterday I'm thinking of as 'The Next 100 Days'. I have a set of goals in mind that I'm going to try to achieve for the next 100 days. The reason I picked 100 days is that it puts me at around the time I'm due for my annual physical. I'm hoping this will result in a...

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The dust is finally starting to settle around here, which is nice, because it's all been turmoil for nearly three months. Things just seem to happen so fast - so much has changed already this year. One of my kids got married - another one got his first apartment. I still don't know if I'm going to h...

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I think I baked something that weekend. I'm not sure. My life has been such a mess lately. I keep reminding myself that there are so many worse things than what I am going through, but it's been a truly awful time. I've talked about it so much, and worried about it so much - I don't feel up to going...

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I have been realizing how much I don't say as well. This past Thanksgiving really highlighted that for me.

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One red , one green Wednesday was red. I had dessert. I wasn't hungry or anything - ate it anyway because I didn't want to say no to that person. I chose to not make a thing about it - and would do it again in the same situation. Green today without much problem. Starting to think about this weekend...

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Green Day

It was a bit hairy at times. I very nealy gave in when I got home - doing that 'negotiating' thing. Then a strong internal voice said 'I"m not going to eat'. And I knew I wasn't going to.

I like that voice. I hope to hear from it often in the coming days.

Thanks for the support!

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One green day

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That makes very good sense, Larkspur. I tend to try to do too much all at once and crash and burn. I'm feeling very uneasy about my weight right now, which is usually the start of a crash and burn cycle In my mind - and one of the reasons I'm now a pound over my previous highest weight - the rebound...

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Another month has gone by, and I haven't really made any progress toward my goals. October was such a tough month. Work got me down - and so did sickness and between the two, I totally lost track of anything I was hoping to achieve.

Here's hoping November is better - Silly Season or not.

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I'm glad you posted your story. I work in a school, and though I'm not a teacher now, I was for many years. After the day I had, I don't think I'll be getting much sleep tonight. Not a lot of eating, though, but not because I'm so great - Just that I couldn't. I could hardly breathe, let alone eat a...

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Ah, another random Dandelion. I can't really say I'm 'doing' NoS. I still think I'm just surviving, and I am so sick of just surviving. Is that really what life has become? I don't think it's just me, either. There have been a lot of changes in life recently, and it's been a bit overwhelming at time...

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I like your statement about it being 'not helpful toward your goals'. It's a good distinction.

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For me it was anything really-whatever is 'calling' me. I don't mean exactly a craving, but something just sounds good. When I do eat it, whatever it is tastes exceptionally good, while other things pale in comparison. Oddly enough, most of the time is is actually vegetables. Anyone else at dinner i...

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I remember that evening well. I don't recall what chain of events led to my stumbling onto the NoS website. But I do remember the feeling of 'This makes so much sense. This I can do!". I signed up that evening and started immediately. There was no 'I'll start tomorrow' - I began at that moment - 7.5...

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I have four meals a day, and always have. I do find it difficult to eat large meals - my plate is about as full as an average 4 year old. Not be design - just because I can't eat that much food at one time. Slightly uncomfortable maybe, but not why I have four. Every day in our family we have aftern...

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Thank you. It's nice to see so many familiar faces, too. After a couple of weekend S days, I got off to a shaky start on Monday. It was sortof a brown day. I don't have much control over my mealtimes on Monday, and people are always interrupting me at lunch and asking me to do things. So, my meals w...

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This past year hasn't been the easiest for me. Nothing big like a death or divorce - just a series of little straws that when taken together got awfully heavy - and so did I. I feel like I'm coming out on the other side, and part of that is taking better care of myself. I've taken some steps already...

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How wonderful to be able to wear your ring again. Of all the disappointments about gaining weight that there are - and there are many - not being able to wear my wedding ring is one of the greatest.

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Happy Belated Birthday!

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Looks like I gained a pound in February. Not exactly what I had in mind. There seem to be a lot of mind games going on in my head right now which may be at play. I don't know, but it's definitely been a February slump. Hoping. No, planning on a better March.

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This is tougher than I remember, and I don't even like snacking, (overly)sweet things and eating large amounts. I find I eat when I don't need anything - or sometimes when I don't even care about what it is I'm eating. But then, when I get that feeling that means I really do *need* to eat, I start s...

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Thanks, Noni. I was thinking of changing it for a new check-in thread, but decided there was really no way to improve on it

I don't seem to be living up to it this week, though. I may need to tweak my goals a bit so they suit me better.

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For me, it was more not wanting to spend my entire adult life dieting in one form or another. I get closer, but I'm not there yet. My husband's entire family is like that, and I've known several outside his family as well, so it doesn't seem that abnormal to me. Twenty years ago I was at what was ob...

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This is a very supportive and uplifting place, not to mention sane

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Just for the record, my chickens are at odds with the groundhog. Right after GHD, they kicked into gear and started laying eggs again.

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I was reading some old posts and you mentioned this: "There is talk on the web of plate size growing over the years, but I have my parents' china and the plates are as big as my modern ones' I have my husband's grandmothers old china - the dinner plates are as large as our dinner plates - and I alwa...

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That's an interesting way to look at it. Maybe I aspire to this so much because I live with a naturally thin person and I would so love to be like that. He enjoys food as much as the next person, but doesn't plan his day around it. He eats when he gets around to it, and if he doesn't, he doesn't. He...

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I think they are as close as possible. They eliminate nearly everything I dislike about weight loss. No rules, no counting, no calculating, no changing diet. Nothing to figure or think about. With IF, all I did was delay breakfast a couple of hours and I lost weight. With SLD, an hour before bed I d...

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This sounds very much like what I am thinking. I haven't gotten it all thought out clearly yet - but my thoughts are going in a similar direction.

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Last week wasn't entirely stellar. No dismal failures, but not success either. Except today, of course

I'm starting an emoji habitcal like I saw on Allison's thread cuz I like the idea and I'm going to remember to make myself not forget to pay attention next week.

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I have been skimming people's threads since I"m so far behind I couldn't possibly read each one in full - and I came upon your emoji habitcal. I love the idea so much I'm going to copy it

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Yes, I had the best success with Shangri La. I used cream for my flavorless calories since I couldn't cope with the oil. About a quarter cup an hour after dinner. I didn't change anything else. If I hadn't experienced it, I would never have believed the effect. I experimented with IF on a 14:10 sche...

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So, yeah. I'm back. Mostly. I just had this moment the other day - maybe more of a collection of moments over the last year or so. I'm just so tired of all of it. I'm tired of feeling like I'm 'less' because there's more of me. Of the stupid things that leads me to do. I don't even want to say what ...

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Dandelions. Just when you thought you saw the last of them, up one pops again.

I'm not even going to pretend this check-in is going to be a daily thing. It might be. For a while. But then probably not.

More later when my battery isn't about to die

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9/14/09. I remember it well. I had just read somewhere about NoS and was so convinced, I found this board and jumped in right away. I never did have great success with it, which made all the bright shiny promises of other plans all the brighter. They did work for a time, and even one of them resulte...

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