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Doing my monthly check-in - 6 months on NoS. My weight has remained stable at about 115 pounds. In the Jewish religion, the days between New Year's and the Day of Atonement, which fell in September this year, are used for solemn reflection and the seeking and giving of forgiveness. For me, one aspec...

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Days on NoS - over 5 months! It's been a month since my last post and I just wanted to check in. My weight has been very stable at between 115 and 116 pounds. The blow-out that happened at the beginning of August really scared me, and I ate no sweets at all for a month. Then I had a single bite of c...

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Days on NoS = 4 mos. + 9 days After a year on Remeron without gaining too much, I started to get a little complacent and feel I didn't need to watch what I eat so carefully. Then, a little over a week ago, I had the biggest challenge yet to chocolate NoS. I had a really bad relapse and was really si...

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I've lost count of the days - have been on NoS since April 1. I haven't posted for almost 3 weeks - between doing all the cooking, and law school, and my little job, and the law school publication, I've been up to my eyeballs. I also got a nasty inner ear infection, so I was sick with that for a few...

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Today is day 94 of No S. Yesterday was an S day. My weight seems to be very stable at about 115 pounds, give or take a 1/2 pound or so either way. So far NoS has been a huge success for me. My minor variation of it, Chocolate NoS has worked very well, but I stress that it is only a minor variation o...

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I've been doing well in general as far as my No-S diet, although I worried I was getting lax in the seconds department. It's tough, because, to avoid eating seconds, I think I took too much dinner tonight. Maybe I am better off taking less and allowing for seconds that amount to half a plate or less...

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Thank you for your kind words. A zillion years ago I was on Weight Watchers (actually it was about 30 years ago). I struggled to stay on the plan because I was hungry all the time. I would talk to people who were successful and had been on it for a while and every one of them would get kind of embar...

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My favorite workout video is Jillian Michaels "No More Trouble Zones." They call it a 40-minute circuit, but with the warmup and cooldown exercises, the video actually takes 57 minutes and I think it's just a wonderful total-body resistance workout using light dumbbells and body weight exercises. If...

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I just do the 3 S meals, no S days. One part of chocolate no S that I forgot to mention is what I call the "bite of least resistance." If I am at a social event and a luscious looking dessert is served, I will have a very small taste. If it's not an S meal, that works for me. Although I would not ha...

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Dear Julia Loves Vanilla, I don't know if this will help you, but I was having some of the same trouble in that I didn't get much dessert at all when I first started doing vanilla NoS. I had such a hard time getting my body to adjust to 3 meals a day that I never snack, and after eating dinner there...

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I call my variation chocolate NoS. It is vanilla NoS with a little bit of extra sweetness to it. It begins, of course, with basic NoS â€“no snacks, no sweets, no seconds. This plan of eating makes a lot of sense because that is how we used to eat before the snack food revolution, and good science ba...

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Today is day 78 of NoS. Yesterday was an S day for me, I guess. With my version of No S, Wednesday lunch is an S meal. So far, "chocolate" NoS has been working great. If I still feel that way on Monday, making 6 straight weeks of chocolate NoS, I'll post on the modification site. Yesterday was a rea...

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Days on No S 71 Yesterday I had my S lunch, otherwise followed regular NoS. So far, chocolate No S has been working great. I actually got almost too thin - have lost quite a lot and dipped down to 114.4., but yesterday was my S lunch and I am back up to 115 lbs. today. Instead of my Wednesday desser...

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Today is day 63 of No S for me! I didn't post here before, because I tend to think in terms of months and I posted at the end of the first month to the personal Mt. Olympus to claim my silver medal, but this seems to be where the action is! As promised, the second month of NoS was in general infinit...

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Today is day 58 of NoS. Sorry to not be posting very much. I was surprised to see it's been 5 days. I have continued to follow chocolate NoS without deviating. Wednesday for my dessert lunch I had homemade waffles with Breyer's butter pecan ice cream and homemade strawberry and hot fudge sauce. Very...

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Just a couple more thoughts for the day. Don't know what to do about those Wednesday meeting lunches that are out of my control. Could always just bring my own lunch, I suppose, but that seems ungracious. Could make them the S lunch of the week, and that's what I suppose I might do, but I hate to gi...

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I haven't posted for a while, because I have been up over my eyeballs trying to catch up in school, keep up with my part-time job, manage things at home and get out the next issue of the Advocate. However, today is day 52 of consecutive No S and I weighed 117.2 pounds this morning, which is OK if no...

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I'm so happy I just have to take a minute to post even though I really should be studying. Yesterday was a SUCCESS . I wasn't sure how to rate it, since Sunday breakfast, depending on how you count the week, is either my first or my third of the 3 S meals on chocolate NoS. However, I didn't opt for ...

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Today was day 46 of No S. Yesterday was an N day and a SUCCESS , and so were the 3 days before when I did not post. So I am trying my modification which I call "chocolate No S." It is regular NoS, except that instead of 5 N days and 2 S days, I have 3 S meals spread out over the week, and all the re...

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Well - rereading my posts - I have decided to call this variation "chocolate No S". Hoping that founder's zeal will carry me over the rough spots.

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Today is day 42 of No S. Yesterday was a SUCCESS . Today I decided to try an experiment, my first NWS day. I'm down a bit from my high weight over the weekend, at 118.8, but that's still up a couple of pounds from my usual weight, and about 4 pounds heavier than I'd like to be. Still, at 5'7 with a ...

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Yesterday was a success and day 40 of No S. I weighed 119.8 pounds this morning, so I am still up considerably from last week as a result of the weekend's overindulgence - a good 3 to 4 pounds. I am still stunned about what happened, and still trying to process it. It is as if I felt compelled to re...

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Well, I felt so triumphant on Saturday morning despite the weight gain of three pounds. I had faced what I have come to call The Beast --that insatiable ravenous uncontrollable hunger that comes over me sometimes since I started taking Remeron--and faced it down more or less successfully. And the we...

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Yesterday was an N day up to dinner, and then an S. It was the closest I've come to disaster and indeed I am up to 119.8 pounds, but I don't feel guilty or ashamed because I never actually ate too much. I know it's weird, but that's drugs. I have had terrible fibromyalgia pain all winter this year. ...

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Today is day 35. And so far it has been a SUCCESS. I haven't strayed from No S since I last reported, but I did gain a couple of pounds. The oatmeal I made - the Bob's Red Mill Steel Cut toasted in a bit of butter and cooked in water, milk and buttermilk, and then I added chopped almonds, blueberrie...

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Today is day 32 of No S. I weighed 116.6 lbs this am, so I am up a bit after my 2 S dinners, but expect to drop overnight or by later in the week anyway. I decided to make one last ditch effort to eat oatmeal that would live up to the promise I keep reading about how filling it is. I cooked my Bob's...

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I am here to collect my SILVER medal for the month of April. I had one slip-up, which was very minor - I took seconds on a clear soup - and there was one time I had not eaten enough and was very hungry and ate a very tiny snack. This was not a slip-up because I did it on purpose but it was a deviati...

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Well, I don't know what to call yesterday. On the HabitCal, I rated it a success, because I didn't think that one little slip-up should make it a red failure. But I did accidentally have seconds on soup yesterday. So I guess I'd call it a qualified success. My weight was up slightly again, but I'm n...

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I can't believe it - so close to the end of the month and I had a minor slip-up. With Jess and Becky gone for 8 days, I have eaten every meal alone, so I carefully plated everything out in advance and was very mindful. But Jess was here for lunch. Because I feel so crummy, I made yet another version...

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Well, it's only 11 A.M. and I'm definitely getting hungry. So eating less breakfast is just not going to happen tomorrow. Maybe the old pills really were not up to what they should have been. That's a mixed piece of information, because it holds the promise that these may help me to recover better, ...

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Still feeling bad. But yesterday was a SUCCESS , even though my weight went up again ( :x ). So even though I never felt overfull - in fact even though I thought I underate slightly at lunch and dinner, I have still gone up a pound in the last 2 days. But then this seems to happen sometimes. The mai...

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Today is day 26. Yesterday was a SUCCESS . That leaves today, tomorrow, Thursday and Friday up to dinner before I will have climbed my personal Mt. Olympus and can collect my mug. (Because Friday dinner is the start of my S weekend, I don't worry about counting it.) I already wrote how yesterday mor...

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Today is day 25. Yesterday was a SUCCESS . This morning I weighed 114.6 pounds, which is the least I have weighed for the past couple of months. Seems like the mysterious 2 pounds which suddenly appeared on Friday suddenly left. Never know whether the mystery involves my body or the scale. I suspect...

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Yesterday was an S day. Today is an S day until lunch, after which it becomes an N day. I decided I can make a fence around the law just by declaring lunch Sunday to be the last S meal, leaving the entire afternoon subject to N rules, in the same way that dinner on Friday is the first S meal, with F...

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I am really sick again, and so discouraged. I had such a long remission - from the end of July until middle of March, but I cannot seem to recover. I don't know whether the magic of Remeron wore off - it has happened before that I had a successful remission from a medication but once it was gone I c...

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Today is day 23 of No S - 22 days completed. Yesterday was a SUCCESS . Today is hard. I seemed to have mysteriously gained 1 1/2 pounds overnight even though I am sure I ate fewer than 1500 calories, I shovelgloved in the morning and I walked a good 4 miles in the afternoon at a good pace. It happen...

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I didn't post this morning because I am trying not to lose so much time doing it, although it is very helpful. The GUILT is returning that I am not getting enough studying done, so I know I'm feeling better. That part is a relief. I just feel so guilty and ashamed at how much mental energy goes into...

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One more little note - about weighing. I know people say it is better to get away from the scale. But I find it helpful. Yes, there are times when it is frustrating because I think I am undereating or just maintaining and I'm actually gaining or I'm in a plateau, and in the past those have been excu...

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This is day 20. Yesterday was a SUCCESS . My experiment with how little I could eat and still be satisfied went really well. I already posted about the oatcake. For lunch, I only had one fish taco and the grilled veggies and about half of a glass of milk. I went on a longer walk than usual, maybe 4 ...

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I highly recommend "Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat" by Michelle May. It is really directed at what she calls the "eat, repent, repeat" cycle. (Not a book for those who suddenly realize they have gradually put on a few more pounds and then turn to No S and it easily comes off, like many men, in...

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Today is day 19 of No S. Yesterday, as I posted, I went back to N after breakfast. I ate a big breakfast and I think I ate too much at lunch, the old fear of one plate not being enough, and was uncomfortable and gassy all afternoon. So I didn't eat much dinner and, again, to my surprise, I was fine ...

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I made one more oat discovery. Some time ago, maybe a couple of months, Jess bought some oat bran, but it is actually labelled Bob's Red Mill oat bran hot cereal - So it is even higher in fiber than the porridge oats. You can cook it, but apparently you don't need to. So that's one more thing to try...

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Yesterday was an S day, completing 17 days so far on No S. After my 2 whey powder/oat disasters, I gave it one more try last night and made these things called "ABC Protein Bars" that are actually more like oat cakes, from peanut butter, egg whites, the chocolate whey powder, a little milk and the B...

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Well - only made it to 1:15. But I was reading about Bob's Red Mill Muesli and how energizing and filling it was so I bought some and thought I'd try that with whey protein powder and fruit for lunch. Another near disaster - this time I mixed the powder up cold and added the muesli and some apple an...

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I'm not quite sure whether yesterday counts as an S or an N - was an N up to dinner, which starts my S days. Either way it went well, making for 16 days on No S. Today I decided to try Reinhard's intelligent default lunch for breakfast - Scottish porridge oatmeal + flax seeds and peanut butter + whe...

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Made it through day 15, which was a SUCCESS . Weight today was 116.6, so I'm up a bit from yesterday, but yesterday's weight was suspect. I'm very pleased. Still playing the game of seeing how little I can eat that will hold me to the next meal. I was worried about making it through class last night...

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Days on NoS - today is day 15. Today I weighed 116.0 pounds. So that just confirms what Reinhard says about how unreliable the scale is. According to this scale, I have lost about 2 pounds of muscle in 2 days of not exercising, and I don't buy that. Had I relied on the scale, I would have been gnash...

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I decided to rethink the Sensa. My understanding of No S, which was basically the way I always used to eat before I decided to substitute milk for breakfast long ago, is that first you find what you will do for maintenance, and then maybe if necessary you cut back to lose. Reinhard doesn't sound lik...

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Wanted to add a few things I forgot this am. Yesterday was a SUCCESS . I know I mentioned it but it feels so good to type it. I got my BIA ceramic retro TV dinner trays yesterday and I love them. They are as I described before - just like cafeteria trays except made out of a white glazed ceramic and...

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Decided to change my name again. Haven't been able to run all month, and seeing that name "grey-haired runner" just rubs it in. Since what I am trying to do in reality is to find that place of ease that is neither too restrictive nor too indulgent, that groove, I decided to choose a name that remind...

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Yesterday was an S-day. Between the 2 S-days one day apart and 2 days in sequence off of Sensa, I have gained back almost 2 1/2 pounds. That's not terrible, because I weigh 117.4 and that's OK at my height, but I don't like the trend. Today for breakfast I went back to whey protein shake with strawb...

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Yesterday was an N day for me and a SUCCESS . It was also my first day off Sensa since I started it almost a month ago. Definitely noticed a difference. I didn't plate out anything particularly differently, I don't think, but it was the first time nothing went back into the fridge. A little scary, s...

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In a way it's sad that I took for myself the nickname greyhairedrunner because I do so love to run, but I haven't been up to running for 2 weeks now. I hope I get better enough to do it again. This has been a long relapse, although I've only missed a couple of days of exercise - have been shovelglov...

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Whoa -- had a big duh! moment tonight. Maybe the reason I haven't been getting enough calories in 3 meals is the Sensa --isn't that what it's supposed to do - to make you feel full faster so you stop eating? About 10% less food? And isn't that probably exactly how much more I need to be eating? So I...

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Congratulations, Amy! What an incredible story! You have really done an amazing job of pulling yourself together, and your story is very inspiring to me. Thank you also for sharing the price of purging, as painful as that must have been to disclose. I always wondered what the downsides were- now I k...

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Congratulations, Shannah! This is terrific! I find your posts very encouraging. I have just finished my first week of No S and lost pretty much all the weight I wanted to lose, but the challenge for me every time is not losing weight but being able to maintain the loss without the rollercoaster of b...

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I am also a veterinarian, although I no longer practice due to a chronic illness. Currently am in law school, hoping to find a way to make that more compatible with my physical limitations. Being a vet inevitably for me meant long hours. What state are you in? I live in California, went to UC Davis....

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Today I weighed 116 pounds, a good weight for me. More importantly, after all the shovelgloving last week - my stomach was flat! :D I am not sure how to rate yesterday, because I am very type A, but I have to say that given my history it was probably a huge SUCCESS , although I deviated from vanilla...

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Today has been very challenging. The pattern I have fallen into is that I am very good at sticking to the rules of any diet, but once I get too hungry, it is only a matter of time until I lose it, i.e. I have become a restrictive eater in a cycle of over-restriction, then a few hours of uncontrolled...

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"I also went through several years of "decriminalizing" food, allowing myself to keep every favorite food in the house. If I finished stuff, I bought more. I binged on them all the time. I actually very rarely tried to keep them out of the house, but it was only a few periods of my adult life when I...

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Yesterday was another SUCCESS :D so that completes my first full week of No S. I have lost 8 pounds, 7 of which I had put in the last 3 days before I started the program. It's not unusual for me to go back to my pre-binge weight within a week, but this was very different. It really has been more or ...

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I couldn't find the original quote to cut and paste about eating your fiber first because it fills you up - I've also read to eat clear soup first or salad first or an apple or a grapefruit an hour beforehand. My experience is that (1) I really like No S so far, although I am a newbie and have only ...

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One difference is that the stevia I use is the liquid extract from the whole leaf, which I love, although I know others do not like the taste of it. The commercial products are made from extracts of part of the leaf which the company claims is sweeter. I also don't trust the big chemical companies l...

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Thanks a lot, Mary Grace! Yeah - I did the 30 day shred for a while followed by a Denise Austin Pilates/Yoga C/d which really helped me to stretch out so I wasn't sore. I love that it got me in great shape and between the 2 I developed a pretty good six-pack for a 59-year old lady. I got up to level...

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Congratulations on such terrific weight loss! Sometime you can lose a lot of water weight when you first start eating fewer calories - but I'm sure you already know this. There may be what looks like a plateau coming when your body begins to rebalance, but hey - enjoy it and as long as you're not st...

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Do you like Stevia extract? I have tried all the artificial sweeteners and think they may give me joint pain, so I try to stay away from them. However, I really like Stevia, which is a natural leaf. I tried multiple versions and found I really like the Now liquid Stevia extract as a sweetener in jus...

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I am a veterinarian, and have known for years about both exogenous steroids, meaning steroid-containing drugs you are given, and endogenous steroids, meaning excess steroids produced by a dysfunction in the body, causing an increase in the appetite of both animals and people. Still I had never exper...

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This is day 6 on program, so I've done 5 days so far. Yesterday was only my 3rd N day and it was a SUCCESS :D ! I found a dessert I love to have with dinner, a small piece of fruit and a few nuts, last night it was a tangerine and 9 almonds, which, of course, go on the plate before I start eating. B...

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Dear ShannonR, Congratulations on such a successful day yesterday My last Tuesday and Wednesday were a lot like your Saturday. I did all the damage in a few hours in the afternoon each day. Tuesday was bad enough, but then I did it again on Wednesday, and made myself miserably sick. I started with t...

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Thanks a lot, Shannah! I really appreciate the support. It means a lot to me. (':)') Yesterday was an S day, so technically it should be an exception and not a success, but I'm giving it a SUCCESS because I stuck with the rules except that I had a small dessert which I had planned and plated out in ...

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I did indeed see this quote before on this site, from someone named Navin. I did paraphrase it slightly. His/her version is "Before you criticize someone, try walking a mile in their shoes..." So very similar. Hope you do not mind, and if it's original with you, I will be glad to cite you. I do beli...

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Dear Funky2Funky, I am glad to see another new person, just starting. This is my fourth day. I am excited about this, and also relieved to know it gets easier after the third week. I too have struggled with hunger and deprivation, and that is why I am happy to find a plan that allows me freedom from...

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Days on No S - this is day 4. So far, 2 Ns and this is second S and no failures. Weight this am = 117.8 pounds (':D') I think I stole the paraphrased quote at the bottom from an entry somewhere on No S. I apologize to the writer and will gladly provide an attribution if you give me one. I have been ...

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