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Jammin' Jan

Freakwitch, you are absolutely right on. I know we are talking about food here, but this applies to every aspect of life. No-S is a good discipline for life, I think, because of what you are saying.

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Deb, I'm really looking forward to seeing your picture. Congratulations on your success.

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How are Hindu squats different from "regular squats"? When I do them, my knees do not go past my toes, which means back is at a 45 degree forward slant, backside pushed back.

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I can do 20 push-ups in a row if I do them on my knees. Does that count? Especially for middle-age? If I did them each day, and added one per day, I wonder how far I could go?

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Good for you, Snazzybabe!!

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You people are so funny.

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WELCOME HOME...WE MISSED YOU!!!

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I find if I balance my plate with 1/2 veggies/fruit/salad, 1/4 starch, and 1/4 protein, that I am able to make it from one meal to the next. This has become really important to me recently, since daughter got a job and dinner is often delayed until she gets home. If I really am ready to "lick the pa...

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Weird Al Yankovic is my favorite, hands down, but I've also been a Neil Diamond fan since the sixties.

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Saturday and Sunday, August 20-21, 2005: HAPPY S-DAYS! Backstreet Boys concert in the Twin Cities was wonderful. Dinner at the Hardrock was a baconburger and a couple of onion rings. Exercise on Saturday was 11,500 steps, plus chi kung/tai chi in the morning. Today is a rest day. I'm really pooped f...

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Friday, August 19. 2000: SEMI-S-DAY No-S: :) Exercise: :!: Yesterday was the annual "Take the Teens to Valley Fair" day. There were 40 of us on the bus, plus our grown son and his wife joined us. I decided to avoid the park food as much as possible, since it is over-priced, under-sized, and not very...

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Caribou Coffee is like a Starbucks...good coffee, lots of varieties. I think it tastes as good as Starbucks. When we go to a mall, my husband usually gets a "Depth Charge"; which is like the Surge of coffees. I usually go for decaf, but they have all the wonderful expressos and cappuchinos, syrups, ...

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Day 7...must be heaven!

You're on a roll now (just don't make it a cinnamon roll!) so keep going!

You know, I'm so dense sometimes. Your screen name is Grateful Deb, and you are a Grateful Dead fan. Only took me three and a half months to put that together.

ding! The light goes on...!

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Hi Richard, I'm so glad you have joined us here, and even more glad that you have begun doing No-S. I have often thought that if I could have done this when I was younger, it would have saved me a lot of trouble through the years. So even if this is hard sometimes, stick with it. It will be worth it...

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No, not at Church. But I have been toying with offering a class through Community Education, in the next town over. Maybe down the road. My next big adventure will come next summer when daughter graduates from homeschool and I have to go into the Outside World to get a Real Job. They are building a ...

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Thursday, August 18, 2005 No S: :) Exercise: :D Dinner was going to be two hours late, and seven hours between lunch and dinner was just more than I could handle, especially at high speeds on the highway, so I had a glass of orange juice this afternoon. It really did the trick, and cleared up my hun...

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People are going to read these books no matter what, but if you donate them to library, then they can read for free, thus (1) not wasting their on money on this junk, and (2) not contribute to the book profits or encouraging another printing. Why not print off some No-S business cards on sticker lab...

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I never use spenda; I would rather have the real thing, in small amounts and on S-days. My "no-sugar jam" is Polaner All Fruit, or sometimes, Smuckers 100% Simply Fruit.

Congratulations on your success last night! May it be the first in a long string of successful days!

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Hey Sammy, I added Paddling the Canoe to my Shovelglove workout yesterday afternoon. I liked it! Don't have a ball, so I just did it standing. I could feel it in my triceps as will as shoulders. Next time, I will do it in a squat or lunge position; that oughta fire up those thigh muscles! I've added...

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As long as we're talking about food service jobs...I worked at Long John Silver's in Spokane (hubby cut fish and I mixed slaw when we opened in the mornings); at the now-defunct Zantigo taco in Milwaukee, and at Lee's Famous Fried Chicken in Blacksburg, VA. Fun jobs, all of them! I saved eating thei...

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Never a gain, never again.

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Wednesday evening, Aug. 17, 2005 No-S: :D Exercise: :D :!: Well, Deb, since you mentioned it, I just had to have a glass of ice tea in your honor! Dinner: sloppy joes; corn Exercise: Shovelglove, 14 minutes, with an ankle weight attached. I am ready to increase the weight a little. When I get to two...

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One thing that I have discovered in the last three months is that snacks and sweets are really over-rated in the satisfaction department. Anticipating is really more fun than consuming, and the regret afterwards just ruins the whole thing. Stick with this and you'll come to the same conclusion.

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So we have to behave ourselves while he's gone?

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Welcome Toenails! Best wishes during the game tonight! Diet soda or ice tea may help get you through it.

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"Permasnacking"

I love that. It was me before No-S.

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Wednesday morning, early This Daily Check-in is useful for more than accountability and support. I needed to make my week's menu and grocery list this morning, but am tired from yesterday's activities and also waiting up past my bedtime for teen daughter to get home from her day with friends, so I j...

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Tuesday, August 16, 2005 No-S: :) Exercise: :) Breakfast and lunch were fine. Dinner was eggplant parmesan at the Macaroni Grill. I ate only half and boxed the rest to bring home, which was okay, but, you know, they put that little loaf of hot-out-of-the-oven bread and the little saucer of olive oil...

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On No-S days, I limit my jelly and jam use to just a little on my morning toast (because I wouldn't be Jammin' without it!), but what to put on a peanut butter sandwich? I've tried sliced bananas, applesauce, and mashed fresh strawberries, all yummy and no added sugar. This morning, a couple in the ...

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Hello Denise! Welcome, glad you've joined us! I gave up snacks for Lent one year. It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be, and actually was kind of liberating. But then I went back to my old habits after Easter. But it was a good preparation for No-S. If you can give up sugar for Lent, you can do...

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Two solutions for Minnesota winters, which are similar to Maine winters: treadmill and Leslie Sansone in-home walking dvd's. This is easier than wearing everything you own, trudging through snow, and slipping on the ice.

Welcome Lisa Marie!

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I LOVE IT!!!

I'm a big Lord of the Rings/Hobbit/Silmarillion fan, and I always have my step counter clipped to my waistband. Maybe I'll get out my map of Middle Earth and track my daily walk. I could start by walking from Bag End to Rivendell; wonder how long that would take me?

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Monday evening, Aug. 15th No-S: :D Exercise: :D Dinner: crockpot bbq chicken; corn; baked potato with lite veg spread Exercise: Urban Rangering, 10,000 steps Strangely enough, I enjoy my food more on No-S days than I do on S-days. It is more satisfying somehow. I wish I had known about this program ...

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Bottle?

Paris?

Vert?

celadon?

Spring?

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Well, Jammin' Jan didn't succeed at swapping Sunday for Friday, but I posted my thoughts about that on my daily check-in. It will all work out for Friday, I think. The moral of my story is:

LET NO-S DAYS BE NO-S DAYS AND LET S-DAYS BE S-DAYS.

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Peetie, I know what you're saying! There's just nothing interesting in the diet section anymore. So now I've shifted my interest to cookbooks. There's a lot more to look at there.

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Hi Planner Lady, Breakfast on No-S days: 8:00 Lunch: Noon Dinner: Variable. Dinner used to be at 5:00 sharp, but just at the time I started No-S, our daughter got a job at McDonald's in the afternoons and early evenings. We eat when she gets home, sometimes "on time" at 5, but sometimes as late as 7...

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Monday morning, and reflecting on yesterday's eating... I was feeling kinda frustrated with myself because, as I said in my post, I had planned to make yesterday a no-s day, but it didn't happen. But after mulling over this for a while, I have decided there is a positive side to all this. And it is ...

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Sunday, August 14, 2005: S-DAY Eatin': :( Movin': :) I was planning to make this a no-s day, to swap with next Friday, but it didn't turn out that way. A couple of snacks jumped into my mouth and got swallowed. Oh well. Exercise: Mostly a rest day, but I did get about 7,000 steps and some tai chi pr...

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It been quite chilly here in MN this weekend. Maybe this cold front will make its way over to NC in a few days.

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Saturday, August 13, 2005: HAPPY S-DAY! Good Eats... :D Good Moves... :D S-Day treats: pre-breakfast snack of a bowl of oatmeal with raisins and brown sugar. Too sweet. Why'd I do that? Exercise: Urban Rangering, over 10,000 steps; two qigong sessions, one early morning, and another early evening. I...

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I'm all for anything that targets those abs!

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Hi Green, welcome to the best weight program in the known universe! I've been here about three and a half months, and have been very impressed with the people here. Very supportive, great sense of humor. I wouldn't say that your first two days were a flop, since you learned two important lessons fro...

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This was an interesting discussion! What's up with me this coming week is that on Friday, we take the teens from the church to Valley Fair, which is the local MN version of Six Flags. We leave very early, because it's a long trip, then we are there until 9 pm closing, and then the trip home. Food is...

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Happy Birthday, Dru! And congratulations on sticking to program rules!

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Congratulations on your weight loss!

I experienced that initial frantic "fill-up-the-plate" too, but after a couple of weeks, that really calmed down.

I think No-S is a wonderful structure.

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What are dilly beans? Do you eat them hot for dinner, or as a relish on the side?

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I'm glad you asked about this, Deb, because I'm planning to do this next week. I need for next Friday to be an S-Day, so I am planning ahead...will make this Sunday a No-S instead. I'm eager to read Reinhard's response to your question.

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Today's the last day of Bible School...whew! It's been a good week, but I'm really bushed. I survived the week without snacking, which wasn't really difficult at all. No-S is really a habit, I think! Today, though, will be a little harder. Just when we dismiss everyone, and it is noon and I am starv...

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Thursday, August 11, 2005

No-S...

Exercise...

Dinner: homade chili con carne; 1 grilled hamburger bun

Exercise: Urban Rangering, nearly 12,000 steps (about 6 miles); qigong morning and evening

Nope......didn't touch the sinfully delicious Bible School snacks!!!

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Ha Ha!!!

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I will not eat Bible School snacks...I will not eat Bible School snacks...I will not eat Bible School snacks...I will not eat Bible School snacks...I will not eat Bible School snacks... I think I can, I think I can, I think I can, I think I can, I think I can, I think I can, I think I can, I think I...

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The thing about living in places with seasonal temperature changes, is that in the summer, you cook with the extra insulation, but there's a limit to the amount of clothing you can remove. In the winter when it is cold, you can just put on some more clothes. Better longjohns than a layer of fat for ...

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Wednesday, August 10, 2005 No-S... :D Exercise... :D Dinner: chicken, cooked whole in the crockpot in a little chicken broth; rice cooked in the broth from the crock; green peas Exercise: Urban Rangering, 10,000 steps; chi kung practice, once in the morning and again in the afternoon. Another day of...

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Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2005 No S: :D Exercise: :D Dinner: crockpot meatloaf; broccoli; baking powder biscuit. I started making meatloaf in the crock just to keep the kitchen cooler in the summer, but I don't think I'm ever going to go back to baking them in the oven ever again. They are just that good. Ex...

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Seems to me that I used to see ads for different diets, but I never really paid much attention to them until this morning. Now I will have to watch everyone's Daily Check-in and see what comes up!

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Do you get money for your website if we click on the ads which appear across the top of each page? Some sites do, and so I was wondering about this.

Funny thing, this morning when I clicked on my Daily Check-in page, all the adds were for tai chi! Are they customizing now?

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Monday, August 8th No S... :D Exercise... :D Dinner: chicken, corn, nuked spud with lite veg spread. This was a terrific chicken recipe for a hot day (97 F here in MN today!). You put chicken legs in a single layer in a crockpot, season with lemon pepper, garlic salt, and paprika, then cover and coo...

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Even the most loving of families and friends have little fits now and again.

Pax.

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Wow, Creme Brulee, that's quite an accomplishment. You get a gold star for that!

Congrats on your string of successful days, too!

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HAPPY S-DAYS! :D I haven't been able to get into the board for the past couple of days, but I am glad that all is well now. I didn't do Shovelglove on Friday and think that I will not be picking it up any time soon. The days have been very busy lately, and now I am getting ready for our Annual Madn...

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Thanks!

Hi, Deb!

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"Arguing on the Internet is like running in the special olympics. You might win, but you're still a retard."

Retard? The developmentally disabled who compete in the Special Olympics deserve more respect than this.

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Shovelglove Habit, Day 17: SUCCESS No S: :( (Weird day) Shovelglove: :D Lunch and dinner were in pieces, but I think I consumed an average amount of food, although it was short in the vegetable department. Exercise: Shovelglove, 14 min.; 8,000 steps; tai chi/qigong, 50 min. ***I'm editing this early...

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Shovelglove Habit, Day 16: SUCCESS No S: :D Shovelglove: :D Dinner: We were hosting the annual bbq and awards for our church's little kids' softball team (did I ever mention that I live inside a church?), but it didn't start until 6 pm and I had to go out of our town to pick up daughter at work and ...

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For those of us who have not mastered metric, here's an online conversion:

http://www.worldwidemetric.com/metcal.htm

Kathleen, you're doing really well! I loved reading your story.

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Shovelglove Habit, Day 15: SUCCESS No-S: :D Shovelglove: :D Dinner: baked beans with ground turkey; green beans; baking powder biscuit/lite veg spread Exercise: Shovelglove, 14 min.; 8,000 steps; chi kung practice (Temple Exercises) If you want to see the routine I was doing today, click here: http:...

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I have been wondering for some time now, if I mixed prune juice with club soda (selzer water), would it make a no-sugar Dr. Pepper taste-alike?

Does anybody else ever wonder about weird stuff like this?

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Shovelglove Habit, Day 14: SUCCESS No Sweets, No Snacks, No Seconds: :D Shovelglove: :D Dinner tonight was spaghetti with marinara and chicken; cauliflower; zucchini Exercise: nearly 6,000 steps; Shovelglove, 14 minutes; chi kung and tai chi in morning and evening. The heat wave is back so I didn't ...

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I agree with you, Ariel. "Funny stuff" is really proof that No-S has become your normal way of eating. Good job!

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I'm not snacking on breakfast cereal anymore, so there's some savings there. That stuff is expensive!

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Shovelglove Habit, Day 13: ANOTHER S-DAY! Good Eats: :D Rest Day: :D Made an interesting dinner on Sunday evening: Chili Dog Roll-ups. Spoon some chili onto a tortilla, top with a hot dog, and roll up. Make a bunch of these and lay, seam side down, in a casserole dish. Top with more chili and grated...

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Thanks. What are you doing around here on a Sunday? I thought you were a weekend Luddite?

You will definitely get my Amazon business from now on.

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Shovelglove Habit, Day 12: HAPPY S-DAY! Good Eats... :D Good Moves... :D Exercise today, over 10,000 steps, plus some chi kung/tai chi. Went to the eye doctor yesterday and found my eye pressure had dropped a couple of points. It has been sitting at high-normal for years. Also ordered new lenses in ...

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Having resisted the urge on a difficult day makes your habit that much stronger. Sounds like you are doing well week by week.

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Welcome! No-S is a wonderful thing, even without the weight loss (I'm mostly maintenance). Have you discovered the Daily Check-in board yet?

Best wishes in your new no-s adventure!

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The only thing I can say in Jorge's favor is that I do like structuring my No-S and S-Day plates around his general pattern: 1/2 veggies/fruits/salad, 1/4 starch, and 1/4 protein. It's not hard and fast with me, but it's a good general guideline for a balanced meal. If you do this with your three me...

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Prodigal: I like the idea of the 90 degree turns. I did shorin-ryu karate, which is similar in many many respects to shotokan. I wonder what those turns will do to my knees if I am also moving a weight around? We used to do weapons kata with bo, jo, and tonfa, but those didn't weigh much and were ev...

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Shovelglove Habit, Day 12: SUCCESS No Sweets, No Snacks, No Seconds: :D Good Portions: :D Shovelglove: :D Lunch was at Applebee's, a bacon burger and steamed veggies. Ate half of everything and brought the other half home for dinner. Shovelglove, 14 minutes; Urban Rangering, all over creation it see...

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Bottom link doesn't work for me since I am not an amazon associate.

Top link: where do I click on this page?

I buy with 1-click shopping, no shopping cart, so the time will be fine.

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Shovelglove Notes: Just for the record, this is the routine I did this morning: Shovelling, 50 left, 50 right Churning Butter, in deep squat wall-sitting position, 25 right, 25 left Stoke the Engine, in semi-lunge, 25 right, 25 left Flip the Lever, 25 right, 25 left Drive Fence Posts, full overhead ...

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I buy a LOT of stuff from Amazon. They used to send me little presents at Christmas, they were so grateful for my business. How exactly do I make my purchases so they benefit you? I would be most happy to do this, my way of giving back a little for the benefit I am deriving from No-S and Shovelglove...

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Don't forget the Chocolate Factory episode. I bet Lucy and Ethel had a string of S-Days after that one!

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I love that idea of Shovelglove Kata! I may play with that today, first empty-handed to find the flow, and then with the sledge. Something new to look forward to!

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No sweatbox for me, but I wouldn't mind a hot tub right about now...almost a whole week of daily shovelgloving! I feel good-sore and no injury flare-ups. Lucy can keep her weird diet; I'll just stick with No-S!

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Shovelglove Habit, Day 11: SUCCESS No Sweets, No Snacks, No Seconds: :D Portion Control: :) (lunch was a little bigger than usual because I was a regular starvin' Marvin for some reason) Exercise: :D Dinner: sloppy joes (which my daughter calls "slopless joes" because we eat them with a knife and fo...

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The first season for I love Lucy was the year I was born, so I've literally been watching it my whole life! Now I'm collecting the DVDs so I can watch them while I exercise. What a hoot she was! I remember that episode...neither the Ricardos nor the Mertz's had a dog, but they brought one in just fo...

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Shovelglove Habit, Day 10: SUCCESS No Sweets, No Snacks, No Seconds: :D Good Portions: :D Shovelglove: :D Dinner: casserole of ground turkey, cabbage, and tomato soup; green beans from a friend's garden; corn bread Exercise: 10,000 steps; Shovelglove, 14 min.; chi kung Deb, Yes, I understand Chi the...

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Jorge seems to be very $$$$$-oriented. The 3-hour schedule really makes things complicated. I was trying to figure out one day (I was bored!) how to make that work in my life in the Real World. Up at 5 a.m., breakfast at 8 a.m. So far, so good. Three hours later, would make lunch at 11. Nope, becaus...

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I've done the 8 Minutes in the Morning exercises for about three years. It's a good program, mostly. My main objection to it is that it works each body part only once a week, which doesn't seem sufficient to me. But it only requires dumbbells and a chair, a mat if you have one or a towel, and there ...

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Actually, Reinhard and Deb...you're both right! I am still using my "baby sledge" and will stick with it for a few more months, I think. Then I will move up to a six-pounder, if I can find one. I believe in doing small things slowly, and then increasing gradually. This has worked for me in the past....

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Shovelglove Habit, Day 9: SUCCESS

No Sweets, No Snacks, No Seconds:

Portion Control:

Exercise:

Dinner: meatloaf, green peas, baked potato with lite veg spread

Exercise: 8,000 steps; Shovelglove, 14 min., tai chi/chi kung practice

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Shovelglove Habit, Day 8: SUCCESS No Sweets, No Snacks, No Seconds... :D (this is second nature by now!) Good Portions: :D Shovelglove: :D Finally got the family all together; work schedules make this very difficult! We went to a place called Granite City, and I ordered a garlic butter steak with ga...

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Shovelglove Habit, Day 7: BEAUTIFUL S-DAY! Good Eats... :D Shovelglove... Rest Day... :D Portion Control @ Dinner... :D Dinner: teriyaki steak with rice and vegetables Exercise: 7,000 steps My S-Day treats today were syrup on my pancakes this morning and a regular (not diet) Coke this afternoon.

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Shovelglove Habit, Day 6: HAPPY S-DAY! Good Eatin'.... :D Portion Control... :D Shovelglove...Rest Day :D Yes, Deb, you have me pegged...I did indeed have toast with jam and then pancakes with syrup. Born to be wild, that's me! Dinner: Red Beans & Rice; green beans Exercise: 14,215 steps today (abou...

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Shovelglove Habit, Day 5: SUCCESS No Sweets, No Snacks, No Seconds.... :D Portion Control @ Dinner.... :D Shovelglove.... :D (Hey! I did it 5 days in a row!) Dinner: pasta salad with tuna and chickpeas, in olive oil and lemon juice dressing; sauteed zucchini Shovelglove: 14 minutes; 10,000 steps Ohb...

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Most days I will have egg, toast, and orange juice. Sometimes, just for variety's sake, I will mix it up, and have orange juice, egg, and toast. This morning it was Cheerios with vanilla soymilk. On the weekends, it's often an omelet, but I also like French toast or pancakes. Ever had a baked potato...

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Shovelglove Habit, Day 4: SUCCESS

No Sweets, No Snacks, No Seconds:

Portion Control at Dinner:

Shovelglove:

Dinner: Salmon patties; boiled potatoes; spinach

Exercise: Shovelglove, 14 minutes; 8,612 steps

Jammin' Jan

Well, I know what you mean about the heat index. We are really having a hot summer here, too.

Maybe you could broaden your idea of Urban Rangering? 45 minutes cruising around on a bicycle sounds good to me! Urban Ranger on wheels!

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Guess the others have answered your questions, but I'll throw my two cents in anyway. You won't get shoulders like a man because you have female hormones running around in your body and not male hormones. You would have to do some really serious weightlifting to bulk up. Shovelglove will, however, k...

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