Everyday Systems

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How exciting it must be to live in a climate where growing all those fruits in your backyard is possible. It sounds like a dream to someone like me from the cold north where we get 3 months of growing if we are lucky. Speaking of figs, I found a recipe for a fig tuna wrap and something possessed me ...

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Good insights, Grammy. I couldn't agree more. I also fight against planning even though I have forced myself for many years to do it for our dinners and actually for our breakfasts, I have avoided it totally for lunches since I retired a year ago. I think that has allowed me to finish off what appea...

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Thanks, Rjean. I like your very relaxed attitude. I alternate between relaxed and uptight but then, that is sort of the way my whole life works. Haha. Yesterday was good with hinkiness on the small dessert. Got too large so the day was still a setback not a success. I am struggling lately but have b...

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It all sounds great. I just finished posting on your thread that I want to change my goal to be under 200 by September to an INTENTION to be there by September. I'm retired. I don't like orders, even from myself. LOL. So I intend to get there. I will let the outcome manage itself and will do all in ...

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Very interesting thought. I set my first goal since returning to No S this morning and I have been kind of nervous about it ever since. I have never liked setting goals because if I don't reach them, I tend to tail spin and feel like a failure. I think I will change it to an intention and try to let...

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You are my ideal and where I want to be. I am amazed at you passing up food when everyone else was eating. It is not the need to eat but to conform that would get to me. I would automatically assume since everyone was eating, I would have to even if I hated all the food. Way to go Strawberry! Really...

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Glad to hear I am not the only one working on S days until the are a little more under my control. Also glad for the support and feedback regarding DD. As a parent that thin line between helping/enabling and interfering gets so blurry that where we are on the line is sometimes not apparent until a m...

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I was debating making yesterday an S day because the DH and I were going to be out and about and stopping for lunch. Some free samples at a fun place we visited decided it for me. All in all it was a controlled S day. I seem to be having a "few" more of those lately. When I am thinking about eating ...

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Great job on the exercise. Especially exercising in 90 degree temps. You are dedicated to walk in that weather. Good self talk too. Sounds like you are becoming your own life coach and I guess that is what we are all shooting for.

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Good job and good observations. I think you will like it here. Best of luck.

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Thanks for all the support people. I love it. Had to postpone the dinner with my daughter at her request. She has about 6 payments left on her current car. It is not running however and she presumed it was the transmission and that the car was not worth fixing. A friend stopped by her house on Tuesd...

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Welcome and best of luck. Sounds like you are already making some really good decisions about staying on plan. You are also right that this diet certainly takes the focus off food and what you can and can't eat. There are only 3 rules and yet it is sometimes hard not to break one of them. All health...

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Best of luck and you are right to brush it off and move on. That decision deserves congratulations and a pat on the back too. I read something wonderful yesterday and I am going to put it on my thread as a reminder for me but I thought you might enjoy it too. You learn wisdom from failure much more ...

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So glad your visits with family were all you hoped for and that you managed to stay on plan as well. What a wonderful success story. Hope you enjoyed your soup and your walk.

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Tuesday was a success. My daughter has invited us to supper tonight so I don't have to cook. Yay! She is a good cook. I am looking forward to it. I am so proud of her. She is dealing with so much stuff in her life right now but she is handling it like a champ. She is staying on her healthy diet and ...

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I agree with Joy. If we can't talk here, where can we? Good thought. You are struggling and I think T's mom was right when she said those of us who are struggling need to find out why we sabotage ourselves over and over again. Of course food is good and if you have a sweet tooth, it calls loud and o...

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Welcome and enjoy the ride. It is a very freeing experience and spoils you for all other diets.

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Welcome and well done! You are doing great and reading your introspective posts is very interesting. I tend to skip over the meal stuff and look for the meat of the matter, ie what is changing in the person's habits. That helps me the most. You are an inspiration. By the way, you are correct, 21 day...

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You are doing so well. Congratulations. You make being the mother of seven sound like a breeze. LOL. I am sure it is not but it looks like with planning you pull it off with relative ease. Keep up the good work.

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I love your post about giving in to the cravings because the food is cheap or will go to waste and letting that overwhelm the plan to eat healthy. I do that all the time. I bought the makings for Smores for the 4th of July and then ate them Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday because I didn't want t...

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Does sound really good. I am glad to hear you feel more confident and back on track. Little by little, we will get there if we just stay focused. Keep up the good work.

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Thanks guys. Today was sort of the last phase I am involved in for this project. I handle the budget and a number of things had to be charged. All the bills are in and I was figuring out how much we went over budget. Actually, it was more than I expected (shocking) but less than I was worried it wou...

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Looks like a craftman style house and a charming one at that. I love the dining room breakfront.

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Rewards don't get any "sweeter" than sliding on pants that used to be too tight. Bask in your success, Strawberry!

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I think I am finally too old for the hangover days but I remember them well enough to be very sympathetic. Sugar helps restore you after a hangover, maybe that is why the sweets cravings.

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I love your pictures. Makes me want plums and jam. I agree with Joyofsix. Home made jam is awesome in the dead of winter when we are really longing for the taste of fruit. It's like a bit of summer. Congratulations on your S days. Haven't arrived there yet but hope to. I think you are so busy, you w...

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Camp is good. Parent free time is better. LOL. Hope you have a great time. Your new schedule sounds doable. Ultimately, the plan needs to be our own and fit our needs. Good luck with it.

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What a great weekend. Good for you. Fun but on plan. What kind of pomegranate tea? Who makes it? I love pomegranate anything.

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Thanks, guys for all the support. The madhouse is finally calming down. Saturday and Sunday were big eating setback days though. I think I am just running out of steam and working too hard. Those 2 days are now in the past however and today will be an N day. That is the plan. This last week and half...

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Thanks for the support. I really need it right now. Busy, busy day yesterday. The house was in total chaos all day. My daughter and I went grocery shopping and my husband stayed at home with the floor installers. I had decided to make yesterday an S day so there wouldn't be a problem if meals were m...

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Happy 35th Anniversary! Quite an accomplishment. Hope you have a special celebration and enjoy your special day. It sounds like you are doing a great job of staying on track too. You go, girl!

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Thanks, T's Mom. I am glad I am not the only one who doesn't like the chaos change brings. I need a reality check on my plan. Lots of hinky stuff sneaking in. 3 plates of food (salad in a separate bowl is a second plate. It should fit on the plate. Slice of bread with the meal should fit on the plat...

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Glad you are having a great time with your company and grabbing rest and recuperation where you can. I like your idea of hanging up the phone on that little voice in your head that talks about sab0tage. Good image. I also stole a quote from someone here who quoted a person on Extreme Makeover who sa...

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I love that quote. That is going on my refrig. Thanks for that. I am the excuse queen.

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Best of luck to you on your journey. Hope your solo goes well.

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Many of us had a rough weekend; Holidays are not diet friendly days. Sorry to hear you are having a rough time again. I still think you need to find the part of you that has issue with dieting and ask yourself why you want to quit. For me it is usually my child throwing a fit because dieting is hard...

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I agree with R,hean. It seems to have been a wild weekend for many of us. I took Wednesday and Saturday as S days but Monday turned into one too. Maybe we are all eating because we are having mixed feelings about celebrating our county's birthday. Haha.

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Are you sure fasting isn't teling your body you are starving and so you metabolism is slowing down to help keep you alive? Also, are you over thinking a really basically simple plan. Eat 3 normal meals, restrict sugar and snacking to the weekends and then have moderate amounts on the weekend. Try to...

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Sometimes, holidays and fun days highjack our best intentions. I don't count days like your coleslaw hamb plate days as my fault. I figure I am being held prisoner and have to eat what is available. That is not my choice. The potlucks are another matter. I had to eventually give up going out with th...

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I think you have been doing great. Keep it up. We all have back sliding days and you have been stressed with the move. Be good to yourself and you will make good decisions as a result of that. We only make bad decisions when we are being hard on ourselves. You are a good person who is doing the best...

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Welcome. Wow, mom to 7! You must be a very busy lady. It is a wonderful idea to plan when you have all that going on. Best of luck and hope you do well here.

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OOOOO, after your story about your dad, now I really love your new name too. Dorothy got to OZ with the help of her friends and we are here for you too. Best of luck. Just like OZ, there is no real magic here except what you have in your heart.

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Whoppee! I finally can post again. We are redoing the floors in our bedroom and computer room. We had to dismantle everything including the computer. We are using the laptap (not my favorite thing because the screen is small). I had to get a new password because I couldn't remember my old one. Then ...

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I think you are doing just great. Practice is all it takes. There are no fails, only setbacks. Breaking long time habits is hard work. But the good news is there is no counting, no forbidden foods, no constantly eating rabbit food or searching restaurant menus for items that are allowed. You can eat...

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I will definitely be one of those wearing purple but not the red hats. A little to organized for me. I hang around the fringes of clubs my husband belongs to. Then I can be a part of it when I want to and not when I'm not. Best of both worlds. On track day today. Possibly ate a few too many pita chi...

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That sounds like fun if it is to fight temptation or not. Enjoy.

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Cheese on toast is one of my ultimate comfort foods. The first day of our honeymoon, he made me cheese and tomato toast with a little onion powder sprinkled on top. It will always remind me of that wonderful day. Hey, now I want one too. There will be a run on tomatoes and cheese at the supermarket ...

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Thanks for assuring me my craziness is abnormal and that is OK. LOL. I loved it. Why is it that we have days where the need to eat is where it should be--in the background and other days where it is a constant nagging need. I no longer believe it is because of carbs or when I eat or whatever. I thin...

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Sounds like a good common sense plan. I feel that way about being with my sister. Who was it said "our friends we can pick, our family we are stuck with."? Good luck. It is an experiment and if it doesn't work, it is not a failure. As Edison taught us, a failed experiment is not a failure, it just s...

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You are right. I did miss some salient points. A heart attack changes the picture and certainly makes diet a lot more important. It also makes staying low stress important. There is an Oscar nominated Swedish movie named "As It Is In Heaven" that you might enjoy. It is an attitude-to-life movie that...

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Welcome and good luck.

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Cute cartoon. Thanks for the comments on my thread. I actually do like purple a lot and feel very sassy when I wear purple but I never made the connection before. Neat poem. I think when we reach this age, we have earned the right to live it our way. I want very much to do No S but there are several...

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Hi Graham, First time posting here. Did some extensive reading of your posts. You are obviously highly intelligent and try to think through the in and outs of life. I enjoy your introspection but also detect some self flagellating. I too, do not like conforming to rules when I don't necessarily thin...

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Also sorry to hear of your family's loss. Cancer has touched our lives way too many times as well. Horrid disease. Your response to that loss is a good one though. We all have just so many days on this planet and we can only strive to get as many of them as possible, live them to the fullest and be ...

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Yesterday was a good day. I thought I would be snacking before supper because my husband went shopping after work and I thought supper might run really late. I had been hungry all afternoon so I was worried, I'd cave. I asked him not to dawdle at the hardware store and to call me when he left the st...

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Happy belated birthday. The Indian vegetarian meal sounds like a wonderful way to have celebrated it. I agree with you about getting rid of the snacking Habitcal. It can be very demoralizing to see a whole string of failures. With trying to stick to No S, trying to exercise, and trying to change ing...

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I am busily writing down recipes and remembering making Floating Island dessert many years ago. I will have to try it again. I also agree with you that for the most part, I am getting more enjoyment from lighter desserts lately. On Saturday I had a lovely chocolate ganache bar at the Farmer's Market...

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If you are ordering out, it is also hard to beat veggie pizza. Enjoy her visit. My daughter was a vegetarian around that same age. Now she quite the opposite. She eats far more meat than we do. I too am going to have to get lessons on adding pictures to this system and to my emails. I keep meaning t...

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The plan you outline sounds relaxed and doable. Vacations are hard because we have all been connecting vacations with wild abandon on the food for so long, it takes some focus to relax and enjoy but not have it turn into one long S day. Best of luck and think "earrings, earrings, earrings..."

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Thanks, Dmarie and Junebug. I think this whole board is very encouraging for us all. Many times I just wander around and peek into people's posts and get inspired. The weekend went well. Had fun at the BBQ. They made a pork roast which was very tender and flavorful. Had a treat at the Farmer's marke...

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Friday and everything was on plan. Did good. Took Wednesday as an S day. Just felt like it. I will be taking Saturday as my other one because we are celebrating at friends' house. They just bought a new giant grill. My stove should only be this fancy. Should be fun to see the master chefs at work. S...

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I hope they realize what a good employee they have. Not many people would come in when they didn't have to so they could deliver better service and help co-workers. It sounds like my old job used to be. We were a group who at one time did that for each other on a regular basis. By the time I left th...

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Allrecipes is my go to as well. Always very good and usually easy. Never had a bad recipe from them. 2 to try that work for me. Minestrone soup 1# of hamburger browned with one chopped onion. Put in a crockpot with large bag (or 2 small bags) of mixed frozen vegetables, a quart of your favorite past...

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I agree with Oolala. Cheesecake and fudge in the same group of N days??? You must be masochistic. There is no way, short of sewing my mouth shut, I would have survived that. One of those on a weekend maybe but both during the week? Did you need them for something or was this self sabotage, plain and...

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Congratulation on the milestone, Skykitty. I loved that you danced around in celebration. I know I would too. Enjoy you new "status" in life.

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That shopping trip sounds just like us. We both like shopping for the house or yard but when it comes to clothes, he is the slow shopper. I have often said that if styles wouldn't change, I would buy enough clothes to last the rest of my life and never clothes shop again.

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So right, Grammy. My mom summed it up one time when she said you wouldn't take 10 million dollars for the ones you have but you wouldn't give 2 cents for another one. LOL.

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It sounds like you will be having a wonderful end to June and into July. I think it is a great idea that you are sort of mapping out your plan ahead of time to stay on track and not have to try to fit in your walking etc. on the fly. Smart thinking. I am sure you will have a great time and it will b...

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Thanks Stubbie. I too am trying to enjoy people and things instead of focusing on food lately. Seems to be getting easier to do. I sure hope so. Took me long enough to get with the program. Ha. Today was a good food day. Stayed on plan. Ate healthy. It is late and I should be in bed but it is rainin...

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Hi Junebug and welcome. No S should have 4 S's. The 4th should be no stress. You had a lot of MUSTS in that last paragraph. LOL. Pitch the musts and do the best you can. Some of us started slow, doing one S at a time, some have crazy weekends until they get going. Some come back again and again (lik...

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Stop long enough to ask yourself what is going on. Remember, it might not be about the food. This is a commitment of time and energy. Are you maybe committed a lot of other places right now? Is your time stretched too thin? Are you stressing about a lot of things? Sometimes, it is just good to stop ...

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Thanks for the kudos, guys. I appreciate it. Today was mostly a success right up until 5 minutes before supper. There was a little snacking that might have taken the plate over the limit but considering the circumstances, I am OK with it. My daughter's possible car lead fell through and she is tryin...

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Great attitude about keeping the dieting mindset at bay. Food obsessors do well here. It eventually seems to lead us to no counting, weighing or over thinking things as long as we stay with 3 meals, no snacks, no sugar. Couldn't be simpler. The weekends could get crazy for a while but give yourself ...

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It is sometimes hard to juggle schedules and eating especially on N days. I try not to think of those days as over indulgences. They are really more unavoidable inconveniences. To me, these are things like if someone fussed and made something just for you or you are held hostage at a job function or...

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First time browsing here. You are an inspiration to us all. I can't believe losing weight on a work/vacation. On to the next month. Can't wait to see what progress you make this month.

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Congratulations on the S day sanity. I managed somewhat better this weekend too and you are right, it feels great. Good luck with finding alternate forms of comfort. Hope you find some that make you as happy or happier than the food did.

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My Saturday went well and I think my decisions to leave this day an S day was a good one. The Garden Walk was a resounding success thanks to my husband's great leadership and hard work and the dedication of all the volunteers and garden hosts. It was a day of grab food wherever you can though so cus...

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Thank you all for the sound advise and support. NoSRocks, I identified with everything you said. We could have been twins at the workplace. Oolala, thanks for the "random" support. Made me laugh. Grammy and Strawberry, as always, thanks for the sound advise and for supporting my decisions. As of tod...

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Best of luck with your choices. I think you are right in trying to make a plan that will work for you.

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You have every right to feel good about your eating. You sound very sane and normal. I think that is what you were going for when you started here. Also, don't worry about the politics. I think everyone Rep or Dem is questioning things more than they used to. Far less is being taken for granted and ...

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Congrats on the new house and on the decision to relax and give your own dieting ideas a try. Trust in yourself and believe you want to be healthier and you will slowly start to make better daily decisions. We can all do this.

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I can smell the perfume from here. Way to go, Grammy. Enjoy the sweet smell of success.

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I wonder how long we overweight people have been feeling guilty for eating and afraid to question our motives. I sometimes think we have all spent so much time feeling we lack willpower, motivation, drive, stamina, character etc, that we never really addressed the messed up relationship we all have ...

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Found it. Thanks for the directions. I also love it. I tried it today as a matter of fact. We were checking out at a hardware store and there were candy bars. I was hungry because it was close to supper. They looked so doable. Then I thought, they are just decoration and it made me laugh. Don't know...

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I am a meal planner from way back. I do it once a month and then shop for the meals four or five at a time. I also agree with everything KCCC said about having some standard ingredients on hand all the time. Saves the time constrained dilemma of what to make at the last minute. Just close your eyes ...

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Best of luck with the first step. Be good to yourself every step of the way. Learn from successes and failures.

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I can smell that perfume now. We are all rooting for you.

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Congratulations on getting back on track. You sound very centered and happy with who you are are where you are in life. That is an admirable trait and one many of us are trying to zero in on. Your life sounds as chaotic and anyones and yet you seem to swing left, then right, then slow on center. Kee...

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Hi Oolala, I just finished browsing your thread for about and hour and wonder is you know how much you have grown in the last year or so. It is amazing to see the progress. Your struggles have made you stronger and seem now to be bringing you the peace, freedom and self respect you were longing for....

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5 failures since the beginning of June means 11 successes. Congratulations on the successes!

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Today was a typical N day and just fine. I ate 3 times and it was good. I loved reading all your responses and encouragement though. It made my day. Thanks, all of you. GK, I am with you on eating and reading. I wish I didn't love it so much but eating in and of itself is mostly boring. At work, I r...

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Plans changed for today because of the weather. The trendy restaurant was extremely small and most of their tables are outside. It was rainy and cold so they could not accommodate us. We went to another bar/grill type place a I have a cup of home made soup and a nice salad. They carried a locally ma...

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Thanks, GK. That is what I am hoping for. Potluck done and I stayed on plan. It was easier than I thought. I ate a nice plateful of food. I looked at the desserts and said, "You look good but this is not the day for you." Then I pictured having one of the desserts pictured on the website for the tre...

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My weekends are still way too wild but I agree with what the others are saying. Reinhard says weekends are like weekdays but if a treat happens on those days, it is OK. He never suggested an all out eating frenzy. Eating frenzies on weekends were my interpretation of the rules because that is what I...

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I love mysteries and while I was reading a lot of Diane Mott Davidson's books, I went through a really bad food time. The heroine is a caterer. When she is working out the mystery, she is usually cooking and her cop husband is a good cook too. They are always talking about melting butter, thick crea...

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My weekend was much larger than I had planned. I will also give you a large pat on the back. I think the final leg of this journey is having S days just like the one you had last week. Way to go.

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Great attitude. Hope your summer is relaxing and fun.

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Isn't it wonderful that No S is all about when and not about what we eat. Everyone can follow their own heart and it is still a good fit to be here.

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OK, I am soooo going to steal that phrase about hunger not being the problem. That is going on my refrigerator. Story of my weight problem as far back as I can remember. The battle I am fighting this time is me, not the food. Thanks for giving me a battle cry.

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Hang in there, gk. Hanging in there on the tough days teaches you more than hanging in there on the easy days. Tough days are the time to question motives for eating. KCCC just wrote on her thread: "If hunger is not the problem, eating is not the answer." This could be a break through day for you if...

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