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Niceto meet both of you. I wouldn't go so far as to say I am *back* more like back on track. I never really left, just veered a little. It was very very easy to get back into not snacking and not eating sweets, although I had started eating at night again. Right now I'm being totally lazy and lettin...

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Well, after a long unexplainable absense from the bard I'm back and haven't really been too off track. I managed to get down to 220 before I gave up in frustration over the holidays but only gained three or four pounds in that time which lasted from thanksgiving to new years, what with parties and a...

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Hi Doulachick. I know that I am regular people and everyone who knows me knows that too, but sometimes partnes of blind children are afraid that their children won't turn out right, and I speak from experience when I say that not all blind people are "regular people." just hang out at any blind conv...

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Well, the national news often picks things up from local 2-bit stations. One example: Rachael Ray. Well, here's the deal, you should see all the other so-called news. I don't think you'd have a problem. People are thursty and hungry for information about weight loss. All you have to do is "sell" yo...

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Hi Everyone. Thanks for your suggestions and comments and observations. You all had wonderful points to make, whether I agreed with them or not. I'm sorry I've been so bearish about all this. It's very hard to hear this when you have thought your child was normal. It's would be like thinking that yo...

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Hi, thanks for the reflections and observation. I just like it because if I don't have that little reminder every day of how I'm doing, especially on days liketoday, I don't always make the right food choices. For example, I always have this weird pattern where I lose toward the end of the week but ...

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8) Here's an idea for you. All the news casts and doctors are always what people should and should not eat and there are so many different plans. Why don't you book some spots with the midia like fox and cnn and talk about no s. The common sense way to lose weight? *So simple, even a blind person ca...

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I said I don't weigh her every day or even close. She gets it just whenever she sees me with the scale, because she likes to hear it talk. It's funny how I feel about weighing. Most people I would feel do not need to weigh every day. But I am the exception. I'm very happy when I lose, but when I gai...

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Just think of it as both of you on the same healthy journey. Deb and her son Richie are helping each other. My daughter and I are too. The two of you are in the health game together. Leave weight out of it. I agree with you it could get her too worried about weight if you make it about the how much...

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Hi everyone. I agree with everything that was said, no courage needed. Doula chick, you hit the nail on the head and pointed out exactly what's driving me batty about this whole issue. It's like Melissa is 3-11 and 64 pounds. To me that is fine, not overweight at all. To the doctor, she's only allow...

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In Defense of the argument that Melissa was overweight and my reaction to it, I suppose what really was bothering me is that we are not perfect. Melissa eats vegetables but not broccoli. I just don't cook it as a rule because I myself don't like it. We don't eat a lot of coliflauer or stuff like tha...

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Dear fellow list members. I'm really steamed today. We had a doctor appointment today for Melissa, and it just so happened that she had her wellness check-up today. But she was also going in for her exima problem. They said she had soap exima and basically told her that she can't ever use soap to ba...

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Hey I know that's not really a lot to sing about, but i's two tenths of a pound less than what I was, and considering that I actually ate at purple cow yesterday and had a blt, french fries and a caramel cashew sundae, well I guess that's pretty good. I figure that to lose, even if it's only two ten...

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One of the beautiful things about No-S is that you can turn "not right now" into a positive: when you are hungry before mealtime and want to snack, say to yourself "not right now, I have a meal coming up in a few hours" or whatever. Hi everyone. I've watched that show before, and I think it's a tot...

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yeah, i think mostly low carb dieters use them, they measure the amount of keytones in the urine or something...not sure if they would work for any other weight loss plan...worth a try though i guess. :D :) Ohg no, Wally's not on a high proteen plan and they work just fine. They are next to the dia...

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Hey all I am one day old to NoSDiet and can see quite good success stories here. Abt me, i am 23/F and have put on almost 10 kg in last 3 years when i was too much concentrating on studies and job...before that i was in a perfect shape. Along with that extra 10 kgs came following devils...lack of c...

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Hi everyone. There is something cool that I didn't know about. Wally bought these at walmart. They are fat burning strips. Apparently it's like a pregnancy test. You pee on the strip and if it doesn't change color you aren't burning any fat. If it changes color, depending on what color it changes to...

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Hubby is enjoying school. I love my job. We miss our kids back in MN. Other than that, we're okay. I'm really not a big city girl. Hope all is going well with you. Hi there Jan. I too had issues with no s for a while, mainly being that I just didn't want to do it after I lost my grandfather, and I ...

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Shell Congrats on getting back to what you know works. It is not always easy to face our fears, but half of the fear is in our heads anyway. How are you doing? Have you signed up for the water aerobics class? Yes, I sure did. I signed up and had my first class yesterday and as I said in another pos...

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Congratulations! Keep up the good work, and enjoy the water aerobics. :cry: I have a terrible cold so I allowed myself an S day, and ate two poptarts this morning. However, I'm not really hungry and that's probably going to be the extent of my S food. I must confess also that last week I ate cornpo...

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:o Hi everyone, I just wanted to let you know, since this is my official weight tracking day that I am down two pounds, bringing my weight down to 224.2. Today I'm supposed to go sign up for the water aerobics class which costs four times as much in cab fare as it does a month to go there. But it ma...

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Here's the relevant part of the No-S homepage for me: I wouldn't worry too much about borderline foods like yoghurt and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. If these are a problem for you, i.e., you eat them every day and lay it on thick, then make them esses. If not, don't. Just by targeting the re...

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Here's the relevant part of the No-S homepage for me: I wouldn't worry too much about borderline foods like yoghurt and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. If these are a problem for you, i.e., you eat them every day and lay it on thick, then make them esses. If not, don't. Just by targeting the re...

mommashell

Hi everyone, we ordered chinese food last night and I ate sesame chicken without thinking about it. Would the rest of you have made that an S, since there is a lot of sugar in it? Not that I'm *extremely worried* about it, since I consider my goals this week accomplished, the main one being that I h...

mommashell

Hi everyone, well I've been sort of teetering on the edge of total disaster where diet was concerned for a long time now, maybe a month. I haven't totally lost control but I was breaking lots of the no s rules. So now I'm attempting to get the control back. I started Tuesday and I am pleased to say ...

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Well the snacking at midnight does get me frustrated. It's the one thing that doesn't seem to be letting go. It's the fault of my own imagination I guess. I have bad dreams every night. Last night it was a black man in a really beat up hat who was trying to take my kids and cutting the phone line so...

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Hi, I know I haven't written in a while. I went to visit my sister and I ate tons of stuff and it was tasty and it took me about a week to really get back on track. But I guess I didn't do too bad since my weight is 226.2 today. I'm determined not to get discouraged at not losing a lot of weight yet...

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Hi there phill. I *never sweat the small stuff. Never ever. Even when I was doing weight watchers. I don't even call it cheating, not unless I totally binge on something. Or like slip up several days in a row. But a few kisses here and there, I figure aren't going to hurt anybody. For me it's not so...

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I lost down to 225 even. I am very proud of that, but sure that my stomach is catching the same thing as Kaeli's I did have a snack attack but the funny thing is that when I snuck in the bedroom where Wally is keeping his oreos, he was awake and he caught me. I went back to bed, but couldn't sleep s...

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Durning lunch, I accidentally grabbed one of those "flavored" waters instead of you know, "plain" water. (They were next to each other and looked similar. I normally always double check.) How unpleasant. And, I'm stuck drinking it because I'm thirsty and only have a quarter of the bottle left. The ...

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Hey what happened to the view your posts link? I found that one most convenient. Well, anyway, I don't think I'll have to worry about my wedding rings falling off because I've been a size four since I was a kid. It only took me getting down to 221 or so to have that back. I'm really worried about my...

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:D Here here about all the posts and agree with everything. I still have to distinguish between n days and s days, so on n days I get really excited about pizza, chineese food (all kinds, don't have to wait for birthday to have mongolian beef) enough butter on my bagel not just enough to make me mad...

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I understand the part about being able to judge how much is too much, but thats not it. I mean what if I have one plate, but its filled with something like pasta with cream or pizza or something like that? is that o.k? Well hi there Ginger. I'm blind so my typos and spelling errors are sometimes wo...

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Hooray. I'm a loser this week and the cool thing about that is that I am a loser on a Monday which means that I lost even though it was a weekend. Which means that even though I had two S days, I still lost weight. Weird. But cool! And I wasn't particularly good. I mean I had a few oreos here and th...

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I hope you are feeling better today, and I love reading your posts. Hi Mary. I am feeling somewhat better today. I've been in sickness hell for the past few days. The cold plus the cough syrup they gave me with the hydrocodone has made me really tired. And every time I'm even just a little bit acti...

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Thanks Doulachick. I was afraid I turned everyone off yesterday. Glad to see someone is still reading my posts. I still feel pretty crappy physically. I did end up eating an ice cream sandwich yesterday but since I was sick I gave myself permission. I'm still not really sure if I ate it because I wa...

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Well, mentally I'm not so sad. I did skip my trumpet lesson though, because I physically just feel tired and run-down. But I was built backward. When I'm well I tend to get lazy and not do as much. When I'm sick I tend to feel I need to do more. So what am I doing now? Wally's laundry. I never do hi...

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:( I guess this really should be in the check in section. But whatever. I'm holding at 226 even, although the scale did say 224.8 when I stepped on it this morning. But since Lissa was right behind me I might have been a little off balance, so I stepped on again and it said 226. Oh well. I don't kno...

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Thanks Reinhard! So sorry Shell. That's sad... My deepest condolences and I hope he finds peace and rest. Love, 8) Deb Hi everyone. Thaknks for the prayers. Just to clarify, my grandfather died on Thursday June 29th shortly after noon. Cooincidently he died on my original due date. What are the odd...

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WOW! You switched hospitals in the middle of labor! I was in the room with my sister when she delivered my niece, I was then, and am still, in awe of the power of women. I'm not a mom, but I play one at school to over 300! My kids arrive at 14 or 15 and I see them leave 4 years later. :-( Every sin...

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Hi everyone. Thanks to deb for the answer on blogs. I just was confused because many blogs are about news and such. So anyway, I lost three pounds this morning. I'm so excited I can hardly stand it. The scales are finally budging. I had a coke yesterday, but it was the result of poor planning and to...

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:) Hi everyone. In case you aren't keeping up with the off topic forum, I will post a question that is off topic but that I am curious about then I will tell what has been going on in my life lately. What is the difference between a blog and a message board like this? I would really like to know, be...

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Hey mommashell, if you're having trouble finding ways to exercise with your bad knee, you could try something a little different from what you may usually do. I used to be very into running, but when I started having problems with my ACL my daily runs came to a hault. The physical therapist I saw r...

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Hi Deb, thanks for replying. Obviously I'm finding ways to procrastinate. My grandfather died a week ago today at 12:10 PM. He died very peacefully with my mom and aunt at his side. The funeral was beautiful. It was a graveside service and so it was nice to have it outside. Mom was presented with th...

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I appreciate that some may not agree with a belief in God so I have to start by saying that I hope not to offend anyone here. But I am asking for prayers and/or positive thoughts for my grandfather. He is very sick. mom told me this morning that they think this is it for him. She's on a plane as we ...

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Ok, this could also be filed under stupid questions if there was such a forum on Reinhearts list. But here goes. What is the difference between a blog and something like this which is a message board? Are they really one and the same? Is a blog just a message board renamed? I understand that a blog ...

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I can't add too much to what everyone else said except that the beautiful idiot otherwise known as reinhardt (his email is beautifulidiot) also notes that peanut butter and jelly is also ok as long as you don't make it a staple in your diet. Also consider that there are a lot of fruits out there. I ...

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:) Ok, thanks to everyone for the replies etc. Let me explain something. First and foremost, I don't plan to completely ditch the S days. This is very short term, for only three weeks. Second I also allowed myself a small loophole, that if I just really wanted something on an S day and I had it mayb...

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I've been a total idiot on S days thus far, so I have come to a decision. I have to earn my S days. Therefore it's my goal to do 21 straight no s days. This means that even Saturdays and Sundays will be no S days for 21 days. If I make it for 21 days without any snacks or sweets, then maybe there wi...

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On the topic of music (at least vaguely), it seems that playing a wind or brass instrument (anything you play by blowing into it) can also help you lose weight. It encourages correct breathing, meaning that more oxygen hares its merry way around your cells and makes more of your activity aerobic, t...

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Ok, piffy lines that are starting to earn me a reputation. Is it piffy or pithy. You know like witty funny. Anyway, here's the story since Monday. Tuesday I kind of blew it. End of day, leg hurting, so we went to applebees and I did pretty good with dinner, although I did have some appetizers, but t...

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Dear Deb, Yeah, I think I will get my hated old brace and put it on. I don't like it and it's uncomfortable as anything you could ever imagine but maybe it will help. If this doesn't go away in a few more days I'm going to see Dr. Stewert, who I go to and complain to sometimes, and he is supposed to...

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' :roll: Hi all it's me and I know the day is not even half over but wanted to let you know that I have not snacked and still don't have any desire. This is my first day back. I say that because some of the non-s days turned into S days so this week I'm going to work hard on going for five no s days...

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I just read this post and realized there were typos in it. I'm very sorry for that. Anyway, I guess this should be in the check in part of the list but I have enough trouble dealing with one forum let alone a bunch of them. So I'm just writing to say I just had lunch and I haven't snacked. Yay me!! ...

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: Ok, this is definitely a no s day but I'm really ticked off because the other day I was having one of my famous movement minutes. Making salsa and dancing around while cutting up vegetables. I couldn't help it, John Lennon was on singing revolution and well... I just couldn't help it. Anyway, some...

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:shock: Ok, this one was an imalgomation. Uh, a mixture of all kinds of things I saw on food network. Basically it's chicken and rice soup with a twist. I have the shocked thingy because I couldn't believe I thought of something that actually tasted so good. Here's what you need. 5 cooked chicken br...

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w :? Sorry person with funny name, I can't remember your name. I feel crappy and it's only gotten worse as the day has progressed. But I do remember your post and I wanted to respond to it. I guess the "plating is something I don't really do. I.E. trying to actually fit everything on a plate. I mean...

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Hi Pngelsu and greatful deb. Thanks for the encouragement, and I'm glad that I could make you laugh or giggle or smile. As to Grateful deb's question, well, you see, I am psychic. I can sense the energy of the monitor and the pulses that make the letters and words and pictures and colors. I didn't w...

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Hi, my name is Michelle and I am blind, so... I had a little trouble getting on for one reason or another, but I am here now and excited about this diet. Well honestly I am not doing so hot on it lately. I have days where I do great, and days where I don't so I really haven't lost any weight and in ...

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