Everyday Systems

Jonas Jonasson

Yeah, you're doing awesome.
I like your enthusiasm.

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Hi there, Butterfly, how are you doing?

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KL, I know where you are coming from, getting through to the next meal, mainly emotionally, because I know that I can easily not eat for say seven to eight hours - but knowing does not help somehow. Maybe I should buy a stronger detergent to wash my brains with. No BS, I probably should have written...

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I feel kind of relieved that my S-day orgy is over now. It went like: very tame-tame-complete-idiot-ordinary S-day. I don't like it that I feel sort of legally obligated to have S's on S-days. But I had a great Easter Sunday at a friend's house where everybody brings something nice & home cooked lik...

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Hi there KL,

Happy Easter to you as well. You seem to do great & your meals sound delicious.

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Hi there, KL . As No BS suspected it's only funny because I am not a native English speaker :lol: But seriously I love English because the language seems to be carrying an intrinsic sense of humour (as does Danish for that reason). When I am speaking German I am always dead serious. I also think tha...

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Well, No BS, you haven't heard me SPEAKING English. Since I am stark raving mad I have decided to take four S-days in a row. I have thought about it and I think it is the right thing to do. After all it is a legitimate weekend embraced by two legitimate religious/public holidays, i.e. this is life a...

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Alles Gute zum Geburtstag, winter woman.

Stay as you are. Well, you are allowed to decrease a little bit. I just wonder what happens if your greatness is distributed on less mass, will you be even cooler because more concentrated...?

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Eh, No BS, it is not nice to make fun of languageally challenged persons trying to provide sober accounts of their struggles! Maybe I should remove my disclaimer so that everybody thinks that I am this really funny person imitating a weird written German accent... Good to hear from you, Amy! I can a...

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I had too many eggs for lunch, the children needed blown-out eggs so I made this mountain of scrambled eggs and had about one cubic metre for lunch. Still did not feel very hungry 7 hours later but had dinner anyway, a plate full of fruit & some pretzel sticks. It was too much & too early but since ...

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So much for not overcrowding my plates... Yesterday I could have eaten the dinner plate on top of the tons of pasta on it :shock: But I didn't. Therefore: success . Good Friday is a public holiday, then there is the weekend followed by Easter Monday. I think Friday will not be an S-day for me, I don...

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Today is Monday, my weigh-in day and I have to report I never lost a pound. Never gained one either.

How could you have lost weight with all the pounds of muscles you have developed recently?

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Thanks, No BS. Friday: Success (did not have any ice-cream & mother-in-law only had a diet coke after the children had shouted through the crowded ice-cream parlour that "Mum only eats sweets at the weekend and now she is again able to close the button of her trousers"... It's good to be famous for ...

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Have a nice weekend, lion-heart.

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No BS, you are such a wise person (no irony here), all of your comments hit the nail on the head, nutritionally dense food vs. calorie dense food, that's just it. Wednesday and Thursday were successes , today is also going well. I cannot say that following NoS is always the easiest thing in the worl...

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So the first day went alright. Lunch seems to be my linchpin, it is the meal of day with really big plates which sometimes don't seem to be enough. I have to remember that it is much easier if I have want I want for lunch and not what seems sensible (like leftovers or fast food because I'd better ha...

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I was rather aiming at the overall atmosphere etc. But I fear we are invading O43's thread, sorry about this.

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You big show-off!

(Just trying to make some friends around here, hehe)

What I really meant to say was supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

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If anyone has been wondering, www.ddpyoga.com

I have been wondering actually. Thank you very much for posting this. I don't know if you're interested in this but I do not think that there are such ads/spots in Germany (Europe?), amazingly & completely different cultures.

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Thank you for the get well soon messages! Danke, germanherman. Okay, back again on this. Today is my first real N day since, I don't know, I think more than ten days. When I felt like eating it was mainly bananas, yoghurt, zwieback etc. so I was pretty NoS compliant with regard to sweets and seconds...

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Protracted stomach bug. Yuk.

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Re: the drips. Hmmm. We're watching you!

Definitely. From different countries.

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In truth, I am grateful for a lot of things!

I quite believe it. Brave girl!

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You're doing just great.

Four bosses? Must be a complicated place of work.

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@BS: :lol: No reds so far. I absolutely do not mind not eating for up to seven/eight hours although I get hungry, I don't seem to need sweets (or rather I'm only insulted if I can't have any but not desperate) but my plates are big & it is difficult to stop eating. One = done doesn't work for me, ma...

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I'm reading through all the threads I have subscribed to. Everyone seems to have a handle on this, more or less - no need for people to drink from my fountain of knowledge :wink: My motto for the weekend was A la recherche du biscuit de chocolat parfait (? French!) I've tried a couple of different r...

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Good Morning,
Ahem, have you sticked something metal into an electrical socket?

Wow, totally supercharged, providing insightful thoughts and comments to all of us...
I like your energy.
Have a brilliant & successful February! (I know you will)

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At least we can laugh at ourselves Exactly. Tuesday, Wednesday: Success Thursday: I don't know, either success with a verrrry big plate (Greek restaurant) or S-event Eight weeks on NoS, according to my average weight of the last three days I have lost about 4 pounds since then. I am more than conte...

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Happy Birthday

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The fail wasn't too bad, it was rather reassuring to see that the world still goes on after a real fail. The three meals structure seems to be the default at the moment, even at the weekend. I had some sweets and sometimes seconds but only insignificant snacks. On Saturday I was at a party where the...

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Hi partner, I was really envious about your Ibsen experience. I love his plays also and although because they are quite scary. Dysfunctional family and the lot. And I love going to the theatre. I can also relate very much to the exercise hanging over your head, today it will be very difficult to inc...

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Thank you for stopping by my thread and the lovely poem!

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Haha, so much for hope. Yesterday: Red. Fail . Failure . Breakfast at 7am First opportunity to have lunch at a table: 4.15pm. So I had packed a banana and a pear and wanted to get something at this really nice Italian place (a panini, tramezzini whatever) because I was feeling reeling hungry and thi...

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You're doing so great.

I actually looked up hamburger soup because I live near Hamburg. Didn't recognise it, though.

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Glad you all like the flower idea! I also like to buy these little pots with bulbs that have already started to flush (? I hate this, I mean angetriebene Zwiebeln but I just can't say it in English) :twisted: Yesterday: Success I know that I have not lost very much during the past weeks and I hope t...

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I bet you'll be grand tonight.
Remember the other thread: We DO have self-control, and it is usually easier when there are others around, at least for me - and there seem to be some similarities

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You would not find me rummaging around someone's refrigerator or opening cupboards looking for something to eat.

But I would love to see the faces if I did that

Is this also the key to why we do it/used to do it? Loneliness? Boredom? Not being held accountable?

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Yes, tell us how you handled it. I'd also love to know what kind of stuff there was on the buffet. I was reminded of your thoughts about the pressure/self-sabotage thingy the other day, sometimes I want to fail just for the sake of it, if you know what I mean, not because I really want something. Bu...

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Good girl yourself!

So you all speak German around here and I have to struggle for nothing

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Hamburger soup? I bet the buns get soppy very fast.

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Yesterday: Success Breakfast 7am Lunch 3pm Dinner 8.30pm I don't like my schedule on these days. Maybe I should brown bag my lunch. Funny: I am never really hungry at lunch time, just very, very grateful after the first bite. My S-days were a little bit less than okay but I am learning. On Saturday ...

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Hi Amy, Have a nice weekend in chocolate country. In the chiller section of my supermarket I saw a packet of yummy Belgian chocolates, 400g, individual packaged, the best before date said April. I resisted but they are tempting, maybe next weekend. What I also like about NoS: I take my time at the s...

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Good that you threw it out. I think none of us likes throwing away food but what would be the alternative. Keepings one's ethical standards vs. common sense?

A very nice weekend to you!

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@MJ7910 Thank you so much for your kind words which I appreciate very much. We are in a very similar situation you are right. knowing the option is there on the weekend. If i want to, i can do that. But I don't have to. This is what what works for me also. I hope. Some day :lol: I can also relate to...

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Hi Inswsni,
I wish you a wonderful weekend!

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Congratulations on the new position - maybe the structure of NoS can help you to cope with the stress. You can do it!

Have a colourful weekend!

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I loved your nosh plate, too.
And I especially liked the "glass of wine or two" bit. I bet there aren't that many of the kazillion (new word, new word, thank you) diets/eating plans on which this is possible.

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I was laughing: You guys are soo funny. Then I was like: Wait a minute! I am also down to two (not that I don't have many trousers in my wardrobe...) I can wear. On one the knees have turned suspiciously light and on the other one the hems look really worn (Is this understandable? Threads are dangli...

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Cava and chocolate - sounds good.

We as enlightened Europeans ignore Valentine's day since it is only commercialism inflicted upon us

Good for me, no NWS-day

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Yes, that's for sure, I was just reassuring myself sort of like: This month I will not worry too much about plate sizes, in March I will start doing this. I suppose the polishing will take the rest of my life, though.

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@ all : Thank you. I especially loved your comments about in laws, so I am not alone. @ inswsn : Thank you. It helped. I like the bit that went like: Do not use it if there's mould on it. Maybe I misunderstood the word mould but if it means what I think it does I wouldn't have in the first place :lo...

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Hi Amy,

Dutch/Flemish is very close to German so that we can read most of it, I don't think I would understand spoken Flemish, however, but I bet you understand German.

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I am also trying to do this, usually (you should note that I am a very experienced NoSer, I have lived to see four to five S-weekends at least), my Saturdays are much better because the habit carries over and they are somehow similar to my N-days and Sunday nights are worst when I am rotating trying...

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You're heroic, I think the Lent thing is such a good idea. I will not observe it, I am sulking because soon we are no longer the boss

I had a look at your link, the recipes sound delicious

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Thanks, Amy! You're so right & so lucky that I will not repeat the conversations we (they) had

The day is not over yet - I have decided to make some soda bread and will have it warm & with butter. Can buttermilk go off, I mean it is already sth that has gone off, isn't it?

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made the effort to get back on the path each and every day, each and every meal

This sounds like the key to me.

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Dear diary, I did not have any cake. I tried to do it by putting the empty paper cups of the muffins my son had on my plate but, of course, did not get away with it. In-law next to me, whispering loudly: "Starving yourself, are you? Hehe." The whole audience looked at me, I mumbled sth. about dentis...

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Pancetta, onions, basil and parsley chopped into tiny pieces fried in olive oil and stewed for ages in very little home made broth until everything gets really viscid (?). Mixed in a bowl with Grana Padano and fettuccine. Together with a green salad. Yum.

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Jonas, do you think the difficulty to "fuggedaboutit" is simply because we have trained ourselves for years to obsess over food? Yes, I think so. Yes, yes, yehehehes. It seems to be a habit for most of us :wink: Writing on this board is also one way of compensating for this obsession I suppose Re: ...

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This is so great everybody trying to help me to figure this out.
Thank you all!
I will definitely remain an undercover NoS agent since there will be some traditional dieters (see the thread about telling them about NoS)

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I love No "S". It is just such an insanely simple formula. Fill your plate, fill your face & fuggedaboutit!!!

You're so right!
Sometimes the last f is just a bit more difficult

Green suits you

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okay, I have converted you units of measurement 5'4"" seems to be about 1.62 and I seem to be about 5'9" in your world (so, technically speaking you are a dwarf :wink: or I am a Germanic giant) this puts the 120 into perspective I like your mantras about your S-days. My S-days are by no means perfec...

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This was exactly my plan

But I usually favour honesty so let's see what happens

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Oh Amy,
Don't get me wrong, but that red seems to have been totally worth it if you know what I mean. And four greens out of five is still something!

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The CAKE situation will be like that: About 6 to 8 grown-ups at the table then the cake is cut and everybody is offered a slice. Then the second cake is cut and it is assumed that you will have a piece of that one if you (the English grammar gets into the way...) did not have a slice of cake1. You'r...

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Kudos to you!

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I had way too much coffee to be able to write sensible stuff (e.g. I was just thinking I hope you are a dwarf - "I consider 120 maintenance") but I just wanted to tell you that - otherwise

- I can relate to what you wrote about your S-days.

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So how's your week going?

Wish you all the best

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Of course, all of you are right big plates don't matter - and I seem to need them at the moment. @oolala: okay, the pretzelsticks&fruit plate was not a huge meal but do you know what: it was only small because of you because in several posts you have stressed the importance of getting hungry before ...

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Oops, did I miss something in your thread? Have you proclaimed it to be your perfect NoS breakfast?

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Breakfast (9.30am): Two bread rolls cut in halves with cheese/cream cheese/cold cuts on each of them, some small tomatoes Lunch (4.30pm): Some pretzel sticks, some grapes, some melon, everything fit on a breakfast plate (it was so very late and I did not want to spoil my appetite for dinner) Dinner ...

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Thank you, so granola is what would probably be called crunchy muesli (KnuspermÃ¼sli) in German. In my book it would be a sweet for NoS purposes.

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Your signature hasn't changed yet, chapeau!

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@Amy: I just managed to. Weird, it seemed to be so easy last week and this weeks it's again really difficult sometimes. But then again, doing NoS it is easier to notice when&why I feel the urge to eat although I am not hungry. @MJ7910 - is this a flight No? :wink: Maybe you're right about the cappuc...

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Kop op (?)
It will get easier, you've already mastered some very difficult situations

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A big breakfast would be a banana, yoghurt with muesli (or is it granola in English? I would like to start a separate English food vocab thread but I suspect I would be the only one interested in it :) , wholemeal bread with butter and cheese for example. What you've said about eating garbage and th...

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Hi there, thanks for stopping by. I usually have breakfast around 7am and on some days the first opportunity to have a lunch break is 3.30am or 2.45 am if I am lucky so I relate to your mini fasts. On these days I also try to have a big breakfast and sometimes I am even not hungry anymore after a ce...

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It's Salbei in German, Amy. So, do you speak Flamish? And thank you, SpiritSong but you haven't seen me combing through the kitchen goodies cupboard 10 minutes ago willing to trade in my heroic green for a demeaning red for the price of a single piece of anything nice&sweet. So far I have been able ...

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Striking parallels and I'll subscribe to that:

I couldn't even tell you what I'd eaten that day. But now, because I'm eating less, I can remember precisely what I ate that day and look back on it fondly. Oh, that sausage was good. So very good.

And I've sure learned a lot of new expletives

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Great job circumnavigating the WTH effect!

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Thanks to all of you! Selv-destructive eating behaviour is just not what it used to be, I mean having a really big plate for lunch and stuffing two pieces of sugar free chewing into your mouth instead of just one somehow lacks in dramatic impact. :arrow: Yesterday: Success I went to the cinema and I...

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Tonight we were going to have left over Tuscan style chicken (made in the oven with pancetta, tomatoe sauce, red wine, rosemary etc.) but just before dinner time the door bell rang and a friend gave me some flounders (plaice?) they had just brought with them from Denmark. Fresh fish on a Monday frie...

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This is going to be my personal rant about this last week. When I mentioned the chicken pox and the unreliable babysitter Amy said that I had been having a rough week. And I had not even mentioned that I had had a dentist's appt. on Monday and that the dentist's chair went out of order when I was ly...

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Thanks for stopping by - and your vivid descriptions of your life in a completely different world. I would love to see you kicking your way down your snow packed streets.

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I just had to look up elliptical. I kept reading epileptical and thought: Now this new American fitness trends does sound sick

But it seems to be something which I know by the good old German name cross trainer.

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perhaps being forced to choose an activity that has a more "reasonable" calorie burn will also nudge us in the direction of more "reasonable" eating habits, right along with No-S, of course. So at the end of the day it ends up being a good thing. That's exactly what I thought, I would love it if my...

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Hi Amy, It will definitely get easier and more automatic at least that's what I have experience and since we seem to be twins... :lol: You mean Belgium like in truffles, wafers, beer etc.? I think I did not only gain the weight because I ate too much due to the disappointment of not being able to ru...

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Thank you, BS! And you, too, Amy, To cut a long story short: I've have tried most cures but there does not seem much I can do about my foot. I have decided that it won't be chronic, every time the pain gets less I try to run gently but every time it gets worse the next day... I have tried cycling bu...

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We have a family to cook for and we love cooking and we eat meat so I do not know if this actually helps, but nevertheless maybe some ideas: On Thursdays or Fridays we collect ideas for next week's meals for the evenings we are at home (so that the shopping can be done on Friday or Saturday) and try...

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Life is all about the little situations!! Even truer, No BS Yesterday: Success Breakfast: The usual yoghurt with muesli, small slice of bread, grapes Lunch: Leftover meat sauce with Farfalle and grated cheese, 1 carrot, 1 pear, some grapes Dinner: A big but not huge plate of homemade very yummy tom...

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Amy, this is really weird: I'd been running seriously since 2006, had done 2 half marathons and quite a lot of 10k races and I loved it so much. It was my way to relax, get fresh air, deal with stress and more or less stay in shape (okay I was neither really slim nor fast but I was okay) and at the ...

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Laughter is incredible therapy

You're a good therapist!

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As you have said it's not a terrible fail
New game new chances!

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Thank you Amy and No BS for your encouraging words, this means a lot to me :) There's triumph in so many little situations, when I was playing games with the spotted chickenpoxies yesterday I felt ridiculously proud when I thought that I did not feel the need to check the goodies cupboard (cabinet?)...

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I shouldn't have worried about last night's dinner, the babysitter cancelled at very short notice so I could not go. :evil: I was a bit sad&mad but at least I didn't fall back on comfort food. Yesterday: Success Breakfast: 3 slices of homemade bread, some grapes and plums and tomatoes Lunch: Mountai...

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I have just finished my 14 minutes absolute minimum of compliance exercise routine. I have the feeling that the 14 minutes aren't getting me very far but then again not exercising has not got me very far, either. Chicken pox rules this house so I won't be able to go running before the weekend anyway...

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Stepped on the scales after the first 21 days. Surprise, surprise, my weight is still the same. Patience will be my middle name. I think my plan for the rest of the month and February is to fine tune my plates and to be more consistent when it comes to exercising. S-days were a bit ugly, at least Su...

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when it comes down to it, the scale's a big ole liar most of the time.

and those insincere jeans pretending to be too tight not to mention those new bulges I feel when I press my arms to my body: devious to the point of genius

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Again: Thank you Amy. :D I didn't have that feeling of mastery over eating behaviour when I tried to do No S the last (first) time. I had set up a separate habitcal for each of the Nos and it simply did not work out. I never seemed to be able to succeed in all the three of them at one time. This tim...

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