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Congratulations and welcome back. It sounds like you are off to a good start.

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There was also no need for sugar, snacks or seconds today. Went with 3 meals and 2 snacks again. Positive feels good.

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Good to hear from you again. We all missed you and your interesting meals. You eat like I would like to and dream about. I plan suppers and they are fun and exciting but my breakfasts and lunches are truly uninspired. I fuss for others but not when it is just for me. Hmmmm. Have to think about that ...

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How are you doing? I feel your pain in your struggle. I too have been struggling recently. In that book I talked about on my thread, (You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought), they suggest that rather than working halfway on 50 things in your life, you make a list of 10 that are the most i...

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You have really come a long way, Determined. Your name fits you. There were a lot of times in the last 2 weeks that you had temptations and resisted them totally. That is huge progress. Please be insanely proud of that. You are heading where you have always wanted to be. By the way, you sometimes ta...

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Once again, I am with determined on this one. You are doing incredible.

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Yesterday I needed no sugar, snacks or seconds. By choice, I went with 3 meals and 2 snacks.

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Wow! My husband and I are reading a book together called "You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought". Absolutely awesome book for anyone but especially for anyone facing life challenging situations. A rather long section resonated so much with what I am trying to do, I will add it here becau...

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Hi Tobismom, I have been reading here but haven't left a post for a while. Sorry you have been struggling. I am also sorry to hear your son has a dairy allergy. Maybe it will be a help for you as well as him to be skipping the dairy. Allergies can cause a lot of symptoms including increased appetite...

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Congratulations on staying with your plan in spite of setbacks. That is real determination. You must be so proud of yourself. Have you considered that maybe you have a stress fracture on your shin. They have had several of those on Biggest Loser and it usually comes from some sort of exercise like r...

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Thanks for cheering for me, Snapdragon. I love the support. I wonder all the time if I should stay on this forum because I haven't been doing No S for a couple of months now but it is still helping me figure out things I should have figured out a long, long time ago. I am taking time off from all di...

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I too am struggling with eating due to recent life events and I agree with Who me that you need to be kinder to yourself. By the way, as Reinhard says, he never said how many meals a day you should eat. He just said don't eat in between those meals. So 6 is OK if you and your doctor think that is be...

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Sounds like you are doing really well. 7 out of 8 days were successes. Why dd you report only the failure? As determined said earlier, we all here tend to focus too much on the failures. I am also happy you followed her advise and brushed off the crumbs and moved on. Congratulations on your progress...

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Nine course meal turned out awesome. We stretched it out over 5 hours and the portions of wine and food were very small. I don't think we ate anymore than we would have a traditional dinner. Great time. I am getting closer to coming back here, I think. I am not putting any pressure on myself to diet...

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I've been browsing here off and on for a while and I think that is your best post to date. Congratulations with taking it slow and trusting yourself to do the right thing. You seemed for a long time to be looking for some massive process that would govern you somehow from the outside. That plan woul...

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Welcome. Enjoy the ride.

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Welcome. This is a good place and it sounds like you already got rid of diets and scales so you are all set to start here. Best of luck.

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Welcome back. I know what you mean about spending too much time here. I do too but it is so supportive to have a forum to work through these issues.
I never knew replacement bars had those kinds of calories and fat grams. Wow! I can remember I time I just used some of those as a snack. Yikes!

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Welcome Barb, Congratulations on training for a half marathon. That is amazing. Best of luck with No S. I think you will like it.

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Welcome back. This is a good place to be and it will help, I'm sure.

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Reading about your meals makes my mouth water. They all sound so good. Also congrats on taking a few off days in stride and trusting that you will return to normal eating. That is a big step for those of us with diet head. You are any awesome inspiration.

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Worked hard today on a party we are having tomorrow. We have a group of 6 who get together for wine tastings. It has been great fun. We choose a wine and we each bring a bottle of that wine. Then we taste them and pick a winner. Whoever hosts the tasting furnishes the meal. We are the hosts tomorrow...

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Thank you Nosnacker for the support. I need it. I made the right decision to take a break here and get my head in order before adding to the stressors in my life. I read once that stress is like a glass of water, the trick is to keep the water from running over the top of the glass and making a mess...

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Hope your legs feel better soon. And I hope people are nice to you. Haha. I take a lot of inspiration from you and some of the others here who, in my opinion, use common sense in dealing with their food plan. Yes, we should all have rules and regulations regarding food or the relationship will quick...

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Waa Hoo you!

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I love making soup and bread. We used to pay top dollar for gourmet organic breads. Then I started making our own. I recently figured out it costs us about $1.27 a loaf. Can't beat that. Soup is another bargain. Like Noel said, one chicken 4 meals. Same can be done with a beef roast. We eat it as ro...

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Jamie's stuff is usually healthy too. I love the SNL skit. Crazy stuff. I have 2 unusual but delicious recipes for dark chocolate. They are both easy, decadent and easy to throw together quickly for company. One is from Eating Well magazine. Melt dark chocolate, stir in 1 cup of blueberries and spoo...

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You have it in you. So do I. We just need to find our groove again. This isn't hard. Our desire and determination just have to be on the same page.

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Worst waste of time is regret. Nothing to do but move on. Best of luck.

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Thank you all for the feedback and the compliments. I enjoy everything each of you writes here. It is so wonderful when people take the time to help others sort through their lives. Kindness adds such a glow to the day for the giver and the receiver. I am however at a loss about what to do to get my...

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I don't usually talk about religion much because I think faith in a God unites all people of the earth but religion can do as much to separate people as bring them together. I believe God and I are one and when I sin (gluttony for example) it is because I have moved away from God. Further, I think t...

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Welcome. My first time reading your thread. I love your definitions for discipline and self discipline. I too never realized the difference. I am going to print them out and put them on my frig too.

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I totally understand the accountability thing. I too am not ready to solo. As they say on Biggest Loser, I am not ready to leave the ranch and go home to do it on my own. Best of luck. Hopefully we can inspire you as you inspire us.

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Welcome back. We missed you. I used to love watching Ellie Krieger's show on the Food Channel. Her stuff always sounded so good. Let me know if you like any one of the books particularly. I am also trying to improve the quality of what I am eating instead of just grabbing whatever is to hand. I have...

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Hi and welcome. You will continue to love it here, I think. You are right. It is liberating. Best of luck.

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I am very glad that my jaunt into crazy last night inspired and amused. Today was better. Still some sugar after supper but it was a frustrating day with the wonderful world of electronics and computers. 'Bout drove me over the edge. DH was cranky too. I could tell because he was talking very slowly...

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Thanks for the input, guys. I really appreciate you reading my ramblings and sharing your thoughts with me. I am sitting here tonight with another day way off plan trying to think what to do next. Most of my life I have been the type of person who sets goals and works toward them. I don't expect per...

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There were 2 snacking setbacks today. One was right before we left to go to supper with friends. Then I didn't eat enough at supper and had graham crackers, (too many) when I came home. Didn't meditate. Not good. Mood: good. Had fun with the friends. But feeling down tonight. Exercise: Dizziness was...

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They just want to prove something to themselves and others. That is huge motivation. You are at least entered which is way ahead of whoever isn't.

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Come back and adjust the plan to your needs. It is all about making new habits and that involves success and failure. Read your old and new blog and make a mental list of successes and setbacks. It wasn't all setbacks, was it? If there was even only one success it would still be progress. Giving up ...

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Sounds like you are doing great. Congratulations to you. You should pat yourself on the back for always bouncing back after set backs. You are very good at it and inspire us all.

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We are all guilty of that. Don't give ourselves credit but give ourselves plenty of flack when we fail. Argghhh. We will rise above that with practice. Hang in there and welcome.

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Hi Herbgirl, First time browsing here. You seem very determined and this is good. You are also in a big hurry to make this happen and get results. I think all of us are right there with you on that type of thinking. It is diet head telling us that we should see instant results, get our eating under ...

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Great accomplishment. Congratulations. This journey is not something we totally do or totally screw up. It is steps and stages. The forward steps just have to exceed the backward ones. It is ultimate forward motion. Woo hoo for you.

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Good for you. That is the only way to handle a set back. I am glad to see you are complimentary to yourself for your green days. So many of us here just pass over them and then spend in inordinate amount of time grousing about the red days. You are doing awesome. I especially enjoyed your descriptio...

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As usual, I am getting bored with recording everything I eat so I am going to stop that now. I figured out yesterday that I eat one of about 7 breakfasts every day so as long as I stick with that I am good for breakfast. Lunch has never been a problem. Actually, most of the time I could easily forge...

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Very busy weekend. Not horrible food wise but more than I usually have. Glad to be back to Monday. Breakfast: Bagel, peanut butter and jam and coffee Lunch: Kind of weird throw together lunch. Tiny tomatoes and hummus and leftover blueberry coffeecake from brunch yesterday Dinner: Chicken Parmesan, ...

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I am so glad Ethel is not feeling deprived by your new lifestyle. We know how cranky cats can get when their owners don't fulfill their needs.

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Congratulations on the weight loss and the successful N days. Actually also successful S days. Keep at it. You are doing great.

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Day 4 Breakfast: 2 eggs, 1 strip of bacon, 1 piece of toast and jam Lunch: Yummy invented mix. Corn, black beans, spicy black bean burger, avocado, sour cream, the salsa I made today and a handful of pita chips. Also a peach. Best lunch I've had in a long time. Dinner: Pork Tenderloin wellington wit...

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Great attitude. A downward trend is what we are all striving for. And be ever so thankful if you are getting rid of diet head. I think that is where I am going too. I am getting more relaxed about eating. And with that relaxation, I think, slowly comes a lessening of the compulsion to eat. It seems ...

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I want that tape, Strawberry. I think I have been looking for that tape all my life. Hahaha. Best of luck to you and see you back here when you get here. It sounds like you have things under control and that is where we all want to be.

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I tried for a while eating just a small dessert every night but then I felt guilty because it wasn't vanilla No S. I must say it did work well for me. I wasn't feeling so deprived all week and using the weekend to satisfy ever craving I fought off all week long. Best of luck to both of us with this ...

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Thanks, Strawberry. I am doing the best I can to make my health as good as possible. It is an empowering feeling. Day3 Breakfast: Oatmeal, flax muffin and coffee Lunch:Subway BLT We are going to a pot luck tonight and I tasted the casserole I am bringing for seasoning and I won't count that as eatin...

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Give yourself full and happy permission to take a sick day off and then see if you still want to. Sometimes, taking the forbidden away makes it less appealing. Watch some favorite movies, have popcorn for lunch. Think how good it feels to have it over with. In other words, take some "Me" time and do...

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You certainly are moving in the right direction. You are using experience and intuition to find what will work for you. That, in my opinion, is the secret of this plan. It is yours to shape and create. It allows for individual differences in schedule and preference. You are doing wonderfully well. C...

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Hi Judy and welcome to No S. I enjoyed reading your posts. They reminded me what I like so much about this eating style. Best of luck.

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Congratulations on the successful surgery. It sounds like you are getting right back on track. Take it easy and relax. I am very happy for you and your family.

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Hi 307 and welcome to No S. It sounds like you are doing really great so far and enjoying it too. You are really off to a great start. I think this diet will be good for your diabetes too. I may steal your idea of a bite of sweet every day 7 days a week. Not strictly No S but will probably help with...

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Day 2 Breakfast: 2 eggs, 1 strip of bacon and 1 slice of toast, coffee Lunch: stir fried potatoes, zucchini and eggplant. 4 oz hamburger fried and tomatoes Handful of peanuts.(one of my trigger foods) Dinner: Pizza and Klondike bar another handful of peanuts Exercise: walking and shopping Meditation...

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We almost never do anything special on Sundays but we do go out or have people over most Fridays and Saturdays. On vanilla No S, I really dreaded Fridays. End of the work week. Looking for some fun and letting your hair down and you can't snack or have a dessert. Fridays were often failures for me. ...

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Thank you for those kind words, Snapdragon. It does really help to get your head somewhere else and think about others. I love the mentoring so far. These young guys are so eager to learn and so in love with this country. It makes me sad for whining about the government. But then, that is why it is ...

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I am certainly not an expert since I am really struggling with snacking (healthy but often). Something that worked for me on getting weekends under control was inviting the snack or treat to a conference. Get the ice cream, chips, cake whatever but before you eat it, stare it down for a while. Think...

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Still struggling getting started back on No S. I don't think I have had a vanilla day yet. I did lose a pound in the last couple of weeks. I think I am eating healthy and I am not overeating but I have temporarily relaxed the when I am eating part. I thought I was over the shock of the last couple o...

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Hi Oolala, Haven't posted for while but I was browsing today and read your last couple of pages. It is wonderful when someone finds their perfect occupation in life and pursues it for all it is worth. Most of us don't unfortunately. I took a stable paycheck instead of job satisfaction all of my adul...

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I too am struggling this month and I am feeling the No S love from all of you. What a positive dialog you had with yourself after your son's meltdown. That is the battle we strugglers are all really facing here, you know. It is not about the food. It is about how we all deal with life's bumps and br...

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You have had a stressful month and have a little more stress ahead to remove the bump. I think you are doing wonderfully well. Since my whole too-many-doctors-month, I have never really gotten back on track. I still managed to lose a pound during that time but I have not had a successful green day i...

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Actually, we had it on scrambled eggs this morning. Very good. DH is a salsa lover and I am sure it will disappear quickly. I like it mostly on Mexican food but he could eat it on anything.

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Way to go, Snapdragon. Everybody's got stuff to deal with sometimes. You are going through a rough time and putting it in perspective. That is all we can do when things get rough. There really is no choice but to move forward one day, one minute, sometimes one second at a time. Mark Twain was a grea...

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Thanks, Snapdragon. We all have stuff to deal with. Sometimes more than other times. It can't hurt to pray for each other. I got a lot of comfort out of a song I found on You tube. It was telling me that God had heard my prayers and would be there with me through thick and thin. It went through my h...

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Best of luck with your doctor's visit. My prayers are with you. Keep us updated.

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Breakfast: bagel and peanut butter, coffee Lunch: Corn and cauliflower soup from Rocco De Spirito's cookbook "Now eat this" Very tasty and creamy texture. Mid afternoon: Flax muffin with a day's dose of flax. Quite good. I will make them again. Snack before supper: should have skipped. Nervous ate s...

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For those of us struggling here, I thought I would start a topic about foods that we could actually eat dangerous amounts of. By this I mean trigger foods that could destroy our best intentions and our lives. We read over and over again about these foods on the daily boards: Can't have them in the h...

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I love your postscript about when nothing goes right... Wonderful. I think you are doing really well. In this country we have not only vacations but "stay"cations. Vacations are S days on this diet. If you only see your in-laws once a year, that, to me would sound like a vacation (staycation) day or...

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I love all of your responses. I feel good that I think I am already heading in the directions you are suggesting. I am 66 and a slow learner evidently because it took me so long to get here but I can't get here earlier than today so today is the first day of not dieting. Some words and ideas I am go...

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Welcome. You deserve incredible praise for what you have already accomplished. Best of luck here. I hope it takes you even further on your journey of discovery and growth.

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Many of us return to try again. I love that you are listing what you are doing rather than focusing on what you ate. I might steal that idea from you. I am working on living more and obsessing less. Great idea. Best of luck. I think we all need to stay focused. No matter how successfully a drug addi...

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Hi Sweetness. Welcome to the daily check in. I think you will like it here. As to the answer to the question, yes, I for one eat healthy and when I splurge on an S day, I feel weighed down and yucky. I used to do it all the time on weekends and had Monday morning regret. But the good news is, I am d...

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Smaller sized pants!! That is every woman's dream! Congratulations and keep up the good work. You have stuck to your "determined" plan through some rough days and hard temptations. You are a force to be reckoned with, girl.

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Congratulations on starting over. Sometimes a new broom sweeps clean. I concur with going to the WW meetings. Fun and informative. They don't have to know you aren't following their plan. No S really isn't a diet, you know. It is teaching yourself to eat sensibly and to stop obsessing about food and...

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Thanks for the warm thoughts. Nice to meet you. Wow, getting back in the saddle is harder than I thought it was going to be. Haven't really stuck to much of the plan so far. When my daughter was little and I told her to do something she didn't want to do, she knew better than to say no so she would ...

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You are doing so great. As "deternined" said, focus on your successes and let the rest slide for the time being. As this style becomes a habit, it will get easier.

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You are where I want to be and where I hope to go. Thanks for the inspiring ideas and especially the colorful descriptions. How we describe our foods in our heads helps determine how appealing they are to us. If the foods we are eating less of are foods we tell ourselves we are being "deprived" of, ...

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Sorry for the bees too. Considering the huge problem with pollination we face if we lose bees, it should be illegal to do what someone did to your bees. Glad to hear I am not the only one involved in the problems inherent in our agribusiness in this country. I have to read and watch the news about t...

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Thanks so much for your kind thoughts and prayers. I have been reading Eat, Pray, Love and I am getting really inspired by it. Anyone read it? I weighed myself this morning and I have neither lost nor gained during the last month. I weigh about 203 pounds and I would like to lose about about 25 poun...

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Thanks for the Story People link. I didn't know they were on line. A couple of years ago, we bought a box of their cards with wonderful drawings and stories written on them. They are so haunting and beautiful. I loved reading more of them on the website last night.

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Hi all, Well, it has been a life changing month. Good and bad news. I will start with the bad news. I have chronic lymphocitic lymphoma. The better news is that it is early stage and I won't need chemo. I also need to see the oncologist only every 6 months. I also don't have active cancer anywhere e...

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Still occasionally browsing. Having health issues I don't as yet have answers for. Whether or not they are dire is still in the air.

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Thanks for the HP rundown. Maybe I will go see it. My husband didn't like the first book so never read the rest and he tolerates the movies but doesn't see the hoopla. My daughter gave up after several movies but read all the books so I don't know who I'd go with. I agree with Harry being matched wi...

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Thanks so much for posting the pictures. Your son is adorable and so are you. Good plan too to let the drama, if there is any, be on their side alone. No one can make you feel anything if you don't let them. You are getting to know and accept your own worth and that is an incredible feat. Enjoy your...

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Just catching up, Grammy. You are to be congratulated for your personal insights, rewarding yourself with a special haircut and special day out and for all your planning. Mixed in all that success was one day that was a setback. I think you are doing awesome. Keep up the great work.

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Hoping your day today is better. So sorry you are going through rough times. It is a very good observation you made though that both good and bad things eventually end. That is the perfect reason to hang in there and wait for the better things that are surely coming your way.

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Not doing so well the last couple of days. I am feeling blue and anxious but the old comfort foods are just making me feel worse. They aren't working anymore but I have nothing to replace them with yet that feels familiar. I am constantly bouncing back and forth all day long between feeling sorry fo...

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Atta girl!! Your first one. Welcome. Hope we can help make it easier.

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How was HP7? I loved the books and most of the movies but didn't like the final book much and really didn't like HP6. It felt to me like the cast was phoning it in. Maybe it was just the mood I was in not liking the book. I am debating seeing the final movie (although I probably will just so I've se...

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Welcome back. I have been here several times before as well. We will make it a day at a time. As someone here said to me: fall down 7 times, get up 8 times. There is only getting back up or giving up. Giving up would be the saddest thing of all so let's keep getting up.

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So that really happens that someone walks out on their wedding. Amazing. Sounds like a movie plot but good for her. Better to have one moment of craziness instead of years or a lifetime of misery married to the wrong person. You did terrific considering the circumstances. Congratulations.

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Sorry to hear about your father too. Hopefully, he will make a speedy recovery. They can do so much more now than they could at one time. I understand your concern regarding family history of cancer and dealing with a lot of it in a relatively short period of time. My husband and I had the same expe...

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Good plan. Let the S days go and get a consistent pattern going for the N days first. Comfort eating is, as you said, a real problem for most of us. Many times when we don't live up to our own standards, or speak out when we should, or put our needs up there with everyone elses, etc, so we stuff dow...

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Congratulations on the weight loss and the incredible exercise record. Have fun at that family reunion and as KCCC said to me "bask in your own virtue" the whole time. You deserve it.

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Obsession foods and their power

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