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Just stopping by to say hello to one of my favorite people.

Wishing Sweetpea well now that you have a diagnosis.

Bless you and yours.

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Hi pinkhippie and all - good to see some long time posting friends on this thread and always happy to make new friends as well. I was talking to my husband this morning about this forum (he is concentrating hard on losing ten pounds and I was explaining plateaus, etc., luckily he understands and sai...

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You are doing great, Kathleen. You have maintained the ten pound weight loss.... Congrats, now your body can perhaps reset a set point at this weight and you can work on the next ten.

Stay the course....

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Hi - just read your entire thread and wanted to welcome you and your hubby to the boards. I see you haven't posted for a while and I do hope you are just busy and not ill

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Hi, this old timer just wanted to stop by and say that I read every single word of your thread and just love your personality. So much of what you (and others) have said rings true and brings back memories of my early NO S days. ESPECIALLY, the part about looking forward to N days and the sanity the...

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Hi again and thanks so much for saying hi ! I love reading your thoughts and always learn something along the way. I think that NO S works quite well with My Fitness Pal or whatever system one would choose because one becomes conscious that if they have to log in a snack or a sweet or a second, perh...

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Hello oolala, as always I have greatly enjoyed reading your thread. I, too, wish you could experience the joy of exercising - I truly get anxious and excited when it is time to hit the home gym or head outside - I guess the endorphins they talk about. Have you tried biking (my preferred choice, be i...

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From another "old timer", good to see you. Wishing you and yours a wonderful New Year.

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Hi to you automatedeating - so good to "see" you as well

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Thank you very much, Iflytoohigh. Nice to meet you as well.

Wishing you a happy, healthy New Year !

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Thank you so much ladybird. Everything is going well, hope the same for you and yours.

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Hope this finds all my old time buddies doing well - and hello to those I haven't met

Happy New Year !

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Glad to see you stopped by and all is well, oolala. I totally get what you are saying and feeling. Every now and then for a few days I just eat like I am a person who just eats. Does that make sense? If I want to eat something, I do. I don't give it too much thought. Usually within a few days, I am ...

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Hi, so good to see you always. You are doing so well, love your stats as we all know that losing is easy, maintaining is hard. Congrats to you. And yes, I love IF - I actually have eaten that way most of my life - try to make my window from at least 6 p.m. to 10 a.m. the next day (noon lots of times...

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Well, my week long "no scale" experiment ended this morning. I took the week very seriously and ate as cleanly as possible sticking to my 8 hour window of eating on my IF plan - no additional sugars, not one single snack, no diet soda at all, plenty of water and green tea, lots and lots and lots of ...

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Wow, just read the entire thread and what a wonderful journey it was.

How differently you must feel from 200 to 155. Congrats on your healthier lifestyle !

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Thank you so much for sharing your journey and your beautiful family with us.

I am certain that your boys will benefit from what you have learned and have put into practice. The whole family is a winner due to your hard work.

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Just read through your thread. Wow,you are doing great on all levels! Your testimonial is truly a testament to hard work and the desire to be the best that you can for yourself and those who love you. You seem like such a wonderful, caring, family. God Bless you and your husband for putting forth th...

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automatedeating wrote:Hi Berry! Wonderful to see you on the boards!!

Thanks, always good to see you as well. Hope everything in your life is great !

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Hi Kathleen, just wanted to stop by and wish you well. It looks to me like you might be resetting your set point toward the lower 200 end. Yay you!

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Yeah, where are ya, oolala?

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Welcome back, and good luck !

I do believe that I also joined in 2008 and had to re-register in 2010.

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Hello all, thought I would stop by and say hi ! Although I don't do NO S in particular any longer having lovingly embraced intermittent fasting, I have continued to read and follow this forum. As I have said for years, the most supportive group of posters I have ever "met". Still doing well, eating ...

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You go get 'em, girl !

Love that song as well.

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Oh, what fun! Enjoy every second ðŸ˜„

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Thanks so much for your thoughtful reply, oolala. I agree with the others that this is the most supportive group of people I have ever met ðŸ˜Š

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oolala53 wrote:Is it being a "fast" month a pun?

Have a delightful date night!

ðŸ˜€ Thanks, I guess it was a fasting pun even without knowing it . We had a wonderful Valentine's Day - so grateful to have such love in my life, especially as I age. He makes me feel like a teenager ðŸ˜‰

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Hi ! Just checking in. I am doing fine - maintaining at or a bit below goal weight. Fasting 23 hrs a day, three days a week with one 500 calorie or less meal in that one hour time frame. Drink lots of green tea and water every day and keeping up the planks and other exercise.

Wishing all wellðŸ˜‰

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Oolala, very interesting reading. Are you truly saying that food has been more emotionally satisfying than say, a love relationship?

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Sorry to hear about your injury, glad you seem to be on
the mend.

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Hello all, Happy February ! What a fast and busy month around here. Three days a week of fasting, lots of water and green tea, exercise (loving my planks - I still cannot believe when I smooth my top or something and my stomach is flat :shock: ) Today's weight is 143.8, below my goal weight which is...

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Thanks to you both.

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Kathleen, I am so sorry for your loss.

May you, and all who loved him, be comforted by your memories and may God grant you serenity in the days ahead.

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Hello all, today is a non fasting day but I am going to try and keep within a controlled eating guideline. Went out with friends for lunch yesterday, yes I had a Frostee (a Frostee root beer float, even). Just had small chili for lunch, no triple burger anything, no fries. Just chili. It was fine. H...

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Looks good to me

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Stopping by to say hi and let you know that I always learn so much from reading your posts. You are an excellent teacher. Regarding goals, I have no problem setting goals (and adjusting them if needed) :roll: Read this elsewhere today - Not setting goals Yeah, yeah the beauty's in the journey, but i...

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Good Morning All, off work today and it is bitter cold outside with sleet falling so I will just enjoy the day with my good looking cowboy. INDOORS ! Ate steel cut oatmeal with flaxseed and raisins (no sugar) and toast for breakfast. Quite filling so won't eat again until dinner which will be a big ...

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Thanks, oolala - I am off work today but just read the office emails and see that the clients have a counter offer so maybe we are nearing the end - or not :roll: Had a great day today - out with friends for shopping and lunch. We get together once a week either for volunteer work/eating/shopping, e...

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Good Morning all, another pretty day here. Third fast day in a row (an hour window of eating, 500 calories or less). Could not feel more energetic. The other four days this week will be non-fasting but clean eating. Did my morning plank with my legs on the seat of a kitchen chair. I really felt it b...

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Good Morning No s ers ! :lol: Hope everybody is feeling as happy and energized as I am ! Added a new plank to my repertoire - the elevated plank. Arms on floor, feet elevated on a weight bench or wooden chair seat or even stair step - depending on how elevated one wants to be. Feel great, just remem...

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Thanks, jen. I look forward to posting with you this year. Enjoy the planks, they can become addictive, can't they? Today I added the plank where the feet are put on a step or something to raise the lower body bit. We have two stone steps leading down into our den so I used the bottom one there and ...

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Thanks oolala, yes 145 is about my "right" weight where I feel and look exactly as I want. Any thinner and it ages my face and neck too much. I can go 140-147 and feel fine with it as I know weight fluctuates daily - so I set 145 as goal. At this weight I can wear size six or eight skirts/slacks/jea...

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Good Morning all. Happy Sunday - won't be able to go to church today as there is freezing rain falling from the sky. :cry: However, it should warm up later and turn to normal rain so we will just cozy up by the fireplace. Had a great day yesterday, feel so energized when I am eating clean. Uh, so, d...

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Hey now, nobody is taking my pizza

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Happy New Year ! Sounds like you are very motivated and nothing breeds success like success so keep on keeping on ! I saw this on another board by a poster who has also decided to eliminate alcohol for the new year, makes so much sense - Hereâ€™s what I learned over the holiday period: 1. Iâ€™ve pre...

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Good Morning All - nice to meet you FreeandEasy. Happy New Year and I wish you a healthy, happy year! Feeling great today, cold but sunny so might get in an outdoor walk around the farm. 2018 Starting weight 150.2, CW 150.4, GW 145.0 My weight was actually 153.8 on12/29 so I am feeling good that it ...

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Thanks for your replies, all. gingerpie, your reunion fare sounds about like the "Homecomings" held at the Baptist churches around here. Current members and their families and extended families that aren't members - plus all who ever attended the church, knew somebody who attended the church, stoppe...

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Hello all, Had a rather enlightening day, as far as food. Went out with friends for shopping and lunch. One was a birthday girl and the birthday girl always gets to choose where we eat. She chose this new place called Las Vegas Buffet (of course, we live in the Missouri Ozarks). It was as advertised...

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Kathleen, so funny - I was reading on another site I frequent and saw this post (I am not using the poster's name so I am sure she won't mind) The more Iâ€™m on this fasting Iâ€™m finding my taste is changing and also my eating habits, on non fasting days I tend to go for a healthy meal now, Iâ€™m n...

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I agree that the more we eat healthy food, the more our mind and body resists the junk. I know that I really didn't even enjoy most of the Christmas excess - threw out the end of the chocolates this morning and had already given the birds all the cookies. Keep on doing what feels right for you and r...

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Kathleen, (truly not wanting to sound harsh, I have always been one of your biggest cheerleaders) I have read back through your posts and must comment that the theory that one can eat whatever they want on the window of time that they are not fasting and still maintain their weight and health ------...

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Happy New Year ! What fun to read your encouraging posts. You've got the enthusiasm which makes this a challenge not a chore. As far as certain foods, I don't believe I have eaten a donut in thirty years - probably more. Just don't eat them. Same with lattes or all the other flavored coffee thingies...

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Read this on another forum, made me laugh.

Sorted my bookcase and blew thick layer of dust off â€˜How Clean is Your Houseâ€™. Not very, clearly. ðŸ˜¬ That is going to charity.

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Good Morning all ! oolala, true words. I have always been a bit outside of NO S as I never really ate three platefuls of food a day. I did embrace the no snacks and no sweets of this plan wholly and it has made an amazing difference in my life. I was shocked, truly, at how many times a day I would g...

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Let me agree with the posts above me, I have been amazed watching your progress.

Happy New Year to you and yours.

And Congrats on being such a good loser

(and I share your fasting enthusiasm).

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oolala, on the three fast days I consume about 500 nutritious calories or so usually just as my evening break the fast meal (don't really measure but I have been studying food so long I can figure it out pretty easily) - eat to my TDEE on the others (or a little less). Yes, I do M, Tu and Wed each w...

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Hi - just wanted to stop by and wish you well on your journey to a happy, healthy 2018 !

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Hi Kathleen - Happy New Year to you and yours. I, too, want to wish you well. I have embraced the IF lifestyle the last couple of years and it has served me well. My window of fasting is usually 7 p.m. to 1 p.m. the next day - 18-6. I try to keep calories around 500 or so during the "eating hours". ...

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True, oolala, just the spacing of "no snacks" in a daily diet would extend the window of eating past what so many (me) have gotten used to. I try to fast from 7 p.m. until 1 p.m. three days a week, usually B2B. It seems to give my body a chance to get a little break from constantly eating, digesting...

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oolala53 wrote:

Gawd I love to hear myself write.

I, too, love to hear you write

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Hi gingerpie (your name always makes me smile). Just wanted to stop by and say Hi ! I was reading back on your posts and want to encourage you - I posts on another forum https://thefastdiet.co.uk/forums/ If interested, just click on the Recent Posts tab and the January 2018 challenge will pop up. I ...

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Thanks gingerpie, so good to see you. My best to you and yours as well. Yes, there are so many beautiful, colorful vegetables - I had a big ole baked sweet potato for dinner last night. It was so yummy that I didn't add a single thing, no butter - no sugar. I had just rubbed it with olive oil before...

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Hello to all my old (and hopefully new) friends. Happy New Year - I so love the new year. A new calendar, a new day planner, a new thread on the forum :D Hope everybody is doing well. I have been a part of this forum for about eight years or so - - seems like I started when I weighed close to 160. T...

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Hi Kathleen, thanks so much for the family update. Seems like everybody is doing well, busier than ever.

I continue to wish you well.

Linda

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Kathleen, Hi - another longtime poster here. I think I first came about the same time as you, 2008, but had to re-register once due to some glitch (although more of a reader now as I have decided that I am really a "faster" at heart, my lifestyle loves that way of eating and my weight has been below...

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Hi, just wanted to stop by your thread and say HI ! and wish you well. See some of my "old" (in terms of longevity, not age of course) friends on here giving you wonderful support and advice. I have been here for close to a decade (had to reregister once when I got a new computer but think I joined ...

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Hi oolala and all, Haven't been around much, have been practicing 5:2 fasting and have been logging into a daily challenge on their board - but this board will always be home ! oolala, as I just posted I have joined the fasting crowd as that is really how I have eaten most of my life. No breakfast, ...

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Thank you very much, oolala

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Happy Friday Friends - This week's weigh in - 145. Went to the plastic surgeon again yesterday and had my mole removed, eight shots to deaden the spot :x Haven't seen the "wound" yet but will shortly when I take off my bandage to cleanse it and change the bandage, stitches out next Thursday. No big ...

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Just noticed I said weight class above, I meant age class. Thought I would correct it here rather than edit.

Wonder if there are weight classes for Cross Fit?

Anybody know? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?
Anybody too young to get that reference, well, you're too young

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Thanks, oolala, the whole CrossFit thing is a mystery to me. She will - now and then - print out the standings in her age group (she will be 50 this year) and show me her rankings. I don't even know what she does but she looks AMAZING when she changes from her fancy lawyer suits with the four inch h...

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Hi - Yes, after Sunday dinner - I don't eat until Mon at 7, Tuesday at 7, Wednesday at 7, don't eat breakfast on Thursdays as I go out that day with friends and we usually eat an early lunch, if I am going out on Fridays (usually with the hubby), neither of us eat breakfast. I really am not a breakf...

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Hello All ! This week's weigh in - 147. Not having any trouble with the weight even though I have eaten whatever I want, whenever I want - seems like there have been a LOT of celebrations lately :shock: However, I think what offsets it is the fact that I do Intermittent Fasting on M, Tu and Wed - ju...

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Happy Happy Birthday ! May your year be filled with dreams that all come true

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Thank you ladies. I only mentioned a brief part of my life story in response to oolala's "golden" comment. Each of us has a lifetime of stories that shape our journey along the way. And, as Thoreau said better than I ever could, The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Friday weigh in 148, I...

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You're really a golden one, aren't you? Couldn't happen to a better person, I'm sure. Aww thanks. :) My life hasn't exactly been "golden" as I have lost a husband and two children along the way -- as well as the serious medical issues my current husband has battled the last couple of years , I call...

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Sounds like you are doing great, Strawberry! Just wondering how you manage cooking for your hubby... it seems like you make him something special every evening, but it doesn't sound repetitive... do you manage to buy small portions of raw meats to make individual portions, or do you make up a bunch...

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And got weighed in the middle of the day, likely. I always weigh a little more at the doctor's office, but don't tell anyone I know how much I weigh as I'm always telling people not to use the scale as a measure of much. Top 1%! Did you tell him about No S? [/b] Not specifically as I don't really d...

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Hello all, just checking in before I head out to church. Everything is going great, weekly weight is 146 so I feel confident that I have made my March 2 birthday goal ! Went to the doctor Thursday - I never go to doctors but my husband went to him last Fall and was so impressed he thought I should e...

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Thanks ! Weekly weigh in - 147 - which is great considering yesterday was a big bash at the local pizza buffet for Volunteer Appreciation Day and today was a girls get together at Wendy's. And we won't talk about that coconut cream pie that I made the hubby for Valentine's Day :roll: To your health ...

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Thanks !

Things are going great - this week's weigh in is 146

Doing a lot of strength training and it feels really good.

To your health all,

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Happy Friday and thanks for stopping by ! This week's weight is 149 and yes, that is near my desired weight. My best summer weight is about 145 - that is the weight where I can wear lightweight tops and not have to do any tugging or pulling or adjusting or anything. At that weight there is no muffin...

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I agree, have read many, many times that an occasional high calorie day after being very diligent does indeed shock your system as it realizes that there is no need to go into starvation mode and hold onto any of that dreaded fat. Speaking of my dreaded fat, of course, not yours. :D So, the weight l...

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Good to see you and SO happy with your surgery results !

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Thanks, fellow dinner place sized rainbow colored salad lovers

Everything is on track, this week's weigh in - 149 pounds ! So, technically I weigh 140 something, right?

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Thanks, yes the pineapple was yummy. Have been giving it some thought and realize that nobody really wants to hear about my latest salad - that is almost as annoying as me posting a photo each day of my dinner plate on Facebook (don't do FB, by the way). I will check in weekly to say hi and weigh in...

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Thanks, I do feel much better. I do think I have seen coconut oil capsules at he pharmacy department at Wal Mart. You might do a bit of research on them. My DIL doesn't like the smell or taste of coconut either. Slept great, took a 10mg melatonin - advanced formula. Sometimes melatonin gives me craz...

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Hi ! Welcome to the boards. Although this sounds simplistic, if eating the dessert makes you feel bad - could you just not it eat and see if you feel better that way? You won't be giving up something that your body truly needs to survive and perhaps you need the control of saying - Even on an S day,...

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Ick-hope you feel better! Aww, thanks - I feel fine once I am up and about. Just first think in the morning my throat, mouth and nose are so dry I can barely breathe. When I am outside, I can breathe perfectly so I know it is just the indoor winter air. We keep the heat warmer than most due to my h...

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My little boy has this issue right now with his sinuses. He is miserable at night. I rub him down with Vick's. It helps a little but he says, "I don't like my shirt stuck." I have tried the coconut oil in my coffee and I just can't get with it. I now just use it for general cooking, for my skin, an...

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yeah - yum

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Happy Friday All. Do I look sleepy? I was literally awake all night :shock: . I have, for really the first time in my life, had sinus issues this year - hard to breathe at night even with a humidifier. Finally got out of bed about 3 and wandered into the den and turned the tv on (low volume). Watche...

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Me, too. Sounds yummy. Is it a drink?

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Hi - the omelet was delicious, topped with cheese and salsa ! Regarding the coconut oil, just a tablespoon in the bottom of the first cup of coffee of the day - pour in the hot coffee to dissolve it and you have started your day with coconut oil. Lots of great health benefits to coconut oil, there a...

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As cliché as it sounds, you really do have to love yourself and treat yourself better. As was wisely said, would you speak about a friend the way you speak about yourself? You need to become vain, you need to realize that you could indeed look like the stylish French woman you envision - but not if ...

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Thanks, I did enjoy the day once I adjusted to being home early. :D I love my job and my home - I am just such a creature of habit that I get thrown off easily, I guess. Being home all day is fun, rushing to get things done to leave the office early was a bit frantic - but the sleet was falling abou...

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Happy Tuesday All, Came home from work at 1 p.m. by executive order (my boss :D ) Ice storm !! It is weird to be home during the day on a work day - I make sure everything is done before I leave in the morning so I really didn't have a lot to do. Hubby took a nap, I tried but just cant do it. I am n...

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Heck yeah, you can do four more days ! You are doing great, so proud of you.

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Happy Monday All ! The temperature this morning was MINUS ONE DEGREE, actual temperature ! :shock: But, it was temporary and the temps are going to be more seasonable now. Busy day at work, Mondays always are as I don't work Thursday or Friday and the woman who does only answers the phones and takes...

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