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The rule is not No Sugar , it's No Sweets . A sweet is a food which is not savoury. Root beer is a drink. There is no fail here. hi thompsonspier, i am not sure if root beer has the same sugar content in the uk as it does in the states, but here it's soda, so it's definitely an S... alexandra, as f...

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Ok so this will be my first official week, in over six months, of going back to marking my HabitCal's with Red and Green's again.. I am feeling much better these days, and so I don't see the need to call every day a sick/exempt day and mark it yellow. I was actually happy to see that I had a "Red" d...

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Wow fantastic!!! Congratulations and well done!!

ps.. Hahah Reinhard, love the idea of the NoS "diet bar" fortune cookie, mini book, very good

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I just heard about the Congresses bill which is going to be signed into law, which will ban incandescent bulbs in favour of CFL and Halogen bulbs, starting next year.. by 2014 there will be no more production of incandescent light bulbs. I am very upset about this and plan on hoarding them this year...

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I agree with Noel

No name calling... I am overweight but I'd never call myself a hippo or anything else derogatory. Be nice to yourself Mrs J

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Thank you all very much

Debs x

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Here's a link to some pics of me and Richie.. The first is from October..Since then, we have both dropped at least ten more pounds, and he's grown about an inch taller, or maybe more :) http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=454551310664&set=a.442914020664.220017.671770664&theater and here he is wit...

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Thank you Teemuh!

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Thanks a lot Roxy! The pic of me and my Son here is actually about four years old. This month he will be (gulp) 15 years old! He is even *more* handsome now! :wink: I'll post a link in a moment to a pic of us from last Summer. I need to take some new ones soon as he's gotten much taller and much mor...

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Hi all, I actually joined NoS in 2005, and was a member of the original Yahoo Message Boards.. I lost almost 30 pounds by 2007, with probably only about 70 percent compliance in both diet and daily exercise. After my Dad passed away in Spring of 2007 I became really depressed for a year or two and j...

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way to go Kevin!

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Thank you very much Kevin and Lori : )

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Hi everyone, I thought I'd update my check in thread. Well, this might be a bit of a long post, but I wanted to tell people here that I have had a very difficult year due to a few long term, horrible illnesses. My HabitCal is nearly all "Yellow" to document this period as a sick period... now that d...

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keep at it! you will find the right balance for you.. NoS is a great framework but if something's not working for you, then adjust as you need to make it work :) i just read all your check in posts on your own thread and i have to say you seem to eat a very healthy and well balanced diet. i'd be rea...

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hi, just another idea.. when i usually try and do coffee fasts, for a little while and abstain, i end up drinking water and lemon, and normally i'll have it all day. i feel good and hydrated. whenever i go back to drinking coffee, i end up forgetting about the water and usually have about 3 or 4 gla...

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Hi Deb! I was wondering if you were still on the forums. Sounds like we have had a similar journey, although I guess it is really one that is familar to all dieters. Well, to tell the truth, it was a few years of serious depression for me when my Dad passed away in May 2007.. Not so much an issue w...

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welcome back alan :) i've been here but had a few years setback since you were last here between 2007 and 2009, and put quite a lot of weight back on, but thankfully, since i restarted paying attention and sticking to basic NoS, since May 2009, with some modifications, which are basically that i'm m...

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Hahahahah Reinhard!!!

Debs x

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Hey! Thank you Shannah! I haven't checked in for some time and missed your reply.. Thanks a lot! :) Well, I'm just updating my check in thread today. Both me and my Son have been sick for weeks, and it wasn't until just about a day ago, that I wasn't feeling awful. So, I did keep up my HabitCal for ...

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Maybe they're wrong Olivia and that's not an accurate evaluation. I wouldn't worry about that... One thing you haven't mentioned is your current weight/height and overall size and what your goal is in terms of all those? Keep in mind, if you are working out a lot, muscle is considerably more dense t...

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Here's a thought that hasn't been mentioned in case it helps. Perhaps you are holding onto fluid due to not drinking enough water? In the meantime, I would strongly suggest not panicking and continuing to stick with NoS and just let your body adjust a little more. Maybe that little bit of extra food...

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Hi Reinhard, thanks for posting that :) Very good article and good points, especially the issue of how people elevate these crappy energy bars and drinks as something "healthy", just because the packaging says they are sports drinks, or health drinks, when they are just pure chemicals and high fruct...

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All great news Carolejo!!!

Much love and positive thoughts as always!!!
Debs xxx

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three cookies and some lemonade doesn't sound like you went really nuts with sugar.. i agree with wosnes that it sounds more like you have some kind of virus .. hope you feel better soon

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It's fine... even if you consider it a dessert... The rule is no "sweets" which means in this situation, anything which has, as one of the main ingredients, lots of added sugar. The only thing is that you would have to incorporate it as part of your meal, and not in addition to it or in between meal...

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Good idea Sienna

Sleep deprivation causes increased levels of cortisol, and decreased ability to produce insulin.. both are causative factors in disrupting a healthy metabolism.

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Hahah three year old's aren't too good with keeping secrets!!
Hope it was a lovely day for you Reinhard

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Fortunately being an S day, we can all celebrate with our esteemed leader!!
Happy early Birthday to you Reinhard!!!!

Debs xxx

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Wow I'm so excited!!! This exercise stuff has been just enough to flip the scales and get me off the plateau/gain lose the same two pounds for months cycle.. I'm finally losing weight!!! I'm down another two pounds since last Sunday!!! That's a new "low" for me since I restarted in May 2009!!! I bel...

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Doing planks ?? Awesome ! 20 seconds, good work ! Your son is an athlete, 2 minutes, wowo !! Once I tried doing only one plank, I was holding it for 3 and a half minutes, phew. But that was a max. 1 rep. I normally don't do that ... it was just a test. The whole thing is mental really, you just hav...

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marygrace, i'm guessing that's probably because it's dissolving whatever built up deposits are there from hard water.. just taking a guess

my mom told me that soaking a clogged shower head in vinegar will remove the hard water residue, like calcium, from it.

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Thank you Oolala

Have a nice week!
Debs x

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I'm very pleased to announce that, after a week of paying close attention to eating well, and drinking water more regularly, plus four days on habit for exercise, I'm now down 4 lbs since last weekend, and at a *new lowest weight* since may 2009!!! Also, today marks my tenth full month of being main...

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Apple cider vinegar is an incredible thing which is good for sooooo many health issues.. i'm sure it doesn't taste "yuck" at all.. thanks for the tip Mark :) ps.. i would take the rinsing bit seriously, because vinegar breaks down calcium.. this would of course, affect the health of your teeth and b...

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Thanks Oolala :) Hope u have a great week! So I started doing planks today.. they are very hard for me.. my stomach is totally out of shape and I'm at least 75 lbs overweight, so holding myself in that position was challenging!! But I did three sets and counted for as long as I could hold it.. At fi...

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Hi Aleria, good luck figuring this out. If you are going to be doing Aikido three days a week, I'm sure you will develop a little more of an appetite! :D I would actually suggest to have very small meals, like a banana and some yogurt or something like that, instead of totally skipping a meal. Not t...

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Had my first walk in weeks yesterday after being sick for weeks, that really felt nice! :) I really want exercise to be more of a priority and will be putting my energy on making sure I don't skip days. I still feel a little guilty about the past month, but considering I was really ill, I'm gonna tr...

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just checking in quickly before my checkin thread falls completely by the wayside.. I was sick for the past 4 weeks and still recovering.. it's been impossible to exercise feeling as I have, and very very depressing, but i'm slowly on the mend. looking back to getting back to normal. more updates ho...

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Wow!! Congratulations Starla!! Great work!!

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I'd suggest a fourth mini meal, like a fruit or salad with some cheese or nuts, at 4:30 or so like you mentioned.. that's a lot of hours in between meals. No snacking is really a rule to keep from mindlessly non stop grazing randomly.. if you have a regular afternoon meal, that's small, it will prob...

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Oh Carolejo!! This is very wonderful sounding news!!! :

I pray that all stays well and you have a healthy baby!!!
I am not on here checking on threads that often, so sorry for not seeing this earlier. Will keep checking for updates! Please give Steve my best and hugs to you both!
Love

Debs

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But it seems to me that the time to diagnose a problem and to start adding extra rules to the system is when she has got the actual system down and finds she isn't losing, not in the first week when she's trying to do the really difficult bit of giving up snacks. If a perfectly legal coffee gets he...

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ps.. congratulations on your fantastic weight loss this year!

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just try to use regular milk instead of half and half..
good luck

i wouldn't worry about this at all myself.. i don't think coffee with or without cream constitutes a snack.
enjoy NoS!

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Congratulations and keep up the great work!

gratefuldeb67

Reminds me when I was losing weight and I was thinking once I would be done, months later, I would go to a fast food place and have delicious burgers, just once ... never happened ! Oops. Yeah, I could do it - - it's strange that I'm not even tempted really. That's really great Marc! Good for you! :)

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Great strategy

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Well actually I don't really like failing, but I felt like posting a little thought. After a number of years, with the initial "knee jerk" resistance to the word "failure" in the first few years of doing NoS, I have reached a new phase in my NoS evolution.. I actually *prefer* to post failure, right...

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i have to make one note tho about your description which isn't accurate.. the right picture says "hips tilted forward".. this is actually not right. In the pic on the left, the hips are tilted forward.. In the pic on the right, the pelvis is tucked under and the coccyx comes forward, but the hips ar...

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Wow those are great pictures and they accentuate the proper form and the minor distortions that happen when people use bad form.. it doesn't take much to put yourself at a disadvantage if you use even slightly bad form, when exercising and then, make yourself much more susceptible to hurting yoursel...

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just fyi, the parasympathetic nervous system (rest and digest) is much slower than the sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight). While the nerve impulses in the sympathetic nervous system are lightning fast, traveling at about 200 mph, the impulses that travel from the organs to the brain, throu...

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If I don't eat quickly, I do know when I'm comfortably full, but it does take about 10 mins more waiting time, to get that signal from my stomach to my head. If I eat quickly, I can easily eat two times if not even more, than what I should.

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Hi Reinhard :) Love your "shocking" system! :wink: The thing that drives me nuts, as a driver, is when bikers around here ride against traffic, like when people walk against traffic.. it's not the same.. people just have forgotten that bikes are vehicles, just like cars, and they should be reminded ...

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That is wonderful!!! Congratulations!!!

Debs

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Hi :) It's great to look forward to S days!! That's the whole point!! If you know you have a treat waiting for you, and that keeps you in line Mon thru Friday, then you are totally getting the beauty of NoS :wink: And believe me, it really does taste better, when you know you earned it and deserve i...

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Well, after many months, of only really focusing on NoS and on my changes in diet, ie: going mainly vegetarian, and elimination of artificial ingredients and hfcs as well as msg, where I actually had to put a lot of effort an attention on those, I am now happy to say, I'm ready to focus on adding re...

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Thanks so much Carolejo!! Hope you and Steve are well

Hugs xxx

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Well done Larissa!

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Hi guys! Thanks Reinhard and Grammy G! :) No worries Reinhard, it's been ages since I checked in here myself! :wink: Well I've found a helpful thing for my water retention that I can recommend now Andreamuse :) If you drink a large glass of water each day with the juice of half or a whole lemon, it ...

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Aw thanks very much Grammy G! I'm hereby adopting u as my NoS Grandma! :wink: Guess what! I am down *another* pound today!!! Couldn't believe it when I saw it!! I'm so used to seeing my one or two pounds lost, go back up then down, then up, ad nauseum!! This weekend my Son and I enjoyed one nice tre...

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pps... Congratulations RJ on your 18 lbs in 10 weeks loss!!! That's phenomenal!!!

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Keep your chin up RJ, you will change that binge thing over time.. it takes a lot of repeated failures to change life long bad habits, but you will do it.. I took years to *not* enjoy gorgefests, but now, if I ate the same way I did pre discovering NoS in 2005, I know it would be a very unpleasant e...

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Congrats Marc!

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Thanks so much Grammy G! I messed up last night tho, and had an orange in the middle of the night.. I was just thirsty and didn't feel like having chlorine tasting water (our water is very chlorinated here).. I almost tried to "fudge" and give myself a "green" for my "No Eating after bedtime" HabitC...

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Last night I was so close to eating something after waking up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night.. But, I talked myself out of it.. Something to the effect of "No you aren't!!!" repeatedly, and then I drank a bunch of water and went back to bed.. I am soooo proud of that moment!! I nev...

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Thanks Andreamuse, you sound like me

Debs

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Well after spending lots of mental energy and being very annoyed at having to do that, I am ditching the No Scale Stepping idea... I thought it would be helpful, but it proved to be more annoying than helpful.. I wouldn't miss the scale if it weren't here tho, but since it is, and staring at me ever...

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ps.. Ok since I am starting this new No Scale stepping HabitCal today, I will make Sundays my official weigh in day from now on instead of Mondays. I am glad I'm doing this because, daily scale stepping is really frustrating and a bad weigh in can really mess up my mood, and is just distracting from...

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ps.. minor note, since I'm just starting this new HabitCal today, I will make Sundays my official weigh in day rather than Mondays.

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I'm just reposting this from my own daily check in thread as it is somewhat fit for a general discussion.. I was sick all week till today with a virus, so there's been no exercise. I really haven't taken a lot of liberties with extra S's, aside from half a small frozen drink at Dunkin Donuts on my w...

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I was sick all week till today with a virus, so there's been no exercise. I really haven't taken a lot of liberties with extra S's, aside from half a small frozen drink at Dunkin Donuts on my worst day (still proud I threw out half of it yay me!!) and therefore, I have thankfully, not gained anythin...

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I am doing really well this week and have had all green days for NoS and no night time eating.. I had one failure, and two S days for exercise. The first was on the first day of my period last week, which was very heavy, and the second was for yesterday when I woke with a migraine which lasted all d...

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Regular salt is fine, it's msg and all artificial sweeteners that should be banned if they are really concerned about peoples health.

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Haha

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Thanks Marc, I'm one of those people who starts shaking after a few seconds, but that's cos I'm 240 lbs and haven't done abdominal exercises for years, and planks are hard!!! But I am tired of having a 42 inch stomach, and a back that often feels tight and weak as a result of slack abs.. I'm really ...

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Hey Marc, I just wanted to congratulate you on how well you have been doing :) Also, I came by to ask you about planks, and I see you have been doing fantastically with them! I tried to do them last year when Richie was doing them in school as part of his cross country track and field team training,...

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good luck with this! i think that when you have a failure, and then think, "well if i failed why not just give up all together and eat whatever and however much now, that i want" is a kind of "self punishment" really... not just "giving in"... you don't wanna punish yourself.. if you have a failure,...

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I just wanted to pop in and say hi to you Reinhard

That's cute that you tuck your wife in!

Hope you're well

I've just recommitted to *ultra* strict NoS and am finally focusing on adding exercise.. Hope I'll have some nice updates in a few months!
Have a nice weekend!

Deb

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Ok I had one cookie today since mom had lots of stuff here for her guests while she was sitting shiva, but I stopped at that and when all the guests left I threw away all the rest of them and gave some to our neighbours.. I exercised too today and feel great!! Im so glad i didnt eat more of those co...

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Well, I had a bit of an upsetting day today, but im happy to say that i totally stuck to my plan and didnt give in to emotional eating, even tho chocolate was in my head a few times during a few bad stress moments. Yay me!! I am going to be thin no matter what, and im gonna get there by just paying ...

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i cant stand her, she seems like a mega bitch on steroids

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Hi Everyone :) I have had a very tumultuous month this May.. we moved from our apartment, back to my Moms.. its a long story, but suffice it to say, I was very lax about keeping track on my habitcals for the last few weeks since then. My habits for diet have still be fairly good, tho i cant attest t...

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Go Mrs J!!!

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Good for you!!
Me personally, I tend to flush stuff down the toilet (as long as it won't clog it up) because I don't trust myself to not fish it out of the garbage later

Keep up the great work!

Debs

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Welcome Back!!

Debs

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Fantastic Bookman!!! Congratulations and well done!!!

Wonderful to read your post and very inspirational!!!
I'm glad you're really focused on new healthy habits, that's absolutely terrific!!!
Thanks for posting this inspiring news!!!

Debs

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Good luck Mo! I heard something once on a tape which I found helpful. Losing weight, in a really sustainable way, is like getting a college degree. There are some days that are good and some that are total disasters, but as long as you stick with it, eventually, you will get there, even with the dis...

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Thanks everyone!!!

Debs x

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Thank you Rene!

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Thank you Reinhard!

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Thanks everyone, I really appreciate your responses! :) Kathleen, I totally know where you are coming from, and have had my "moments" in the past few years, where I'd be feeling like I'm getting nowhere fast, and then, I'd think for about 5 seconds, of trying something more "diet-y", because, yes, i...

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Thank you Sophia!

Debs x

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Testimonial time!!! I'm very excited and figured that this was testimonial page worthy :) I started NoS years ago, and had a lot of success with it, but then I had a setback for a few years and unfortunately gained back almost all that I lost. So I recommitted to it about 16 months ago, and started ...

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Woooo Hoooo!!!! I have been really really really good and trying so hard to eat well this last few months.. I hoped it would turn into weight loss and it has!!!! This morning I weighed in and I am now two and a half pounds down from last time.. aaannnnd, i am now at my lowest weight in a whole year ...

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just read thru whole thread.
Sorry to hear about your Father in law passing Wosnes.
you have my deepest sympathies x

gratefuldeb67

"Boy! These beets are really good!" -- beets? That's not at all like me to sing praises of beets. . Hahah funny, i just baked my first fresh beet last night and ate it plain.. It was soooooo good!!! :) I think there's a quote on Reinhard's home page about beets as well, Haha, we can form the NoS Be...

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Nichole wrote:Yup, she says it about her own food... It's really awkward. She says it in a sarcastic tone, kinda. I guess you have to be there!

LOL, sounds annoying!!!

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Ok quick update.. Last weigh in was March 25th.. i had lost 3 lbs over the prior 2 weeks... Since then, my Son had his 14th Birthday, and that week we definitely had a lot of treats..We got the most yummy cake ever and I didn't dump the leftovers, so we had a few red days that week. So I gained a po...

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Thanks for the info Over43 :D It's good to have intelligent default foods that are helpful in not being hungry later throughout the day, and losing weight. I'm just getting into making hard boiled eggs so they are ready to go in the fridge.. eating some egg salad on an english muffin now, made out o...

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There's about a ten minute lag time between when you are physically full and when your brain senses you are full.. Why not try pacing yourself a bit, and pausing mid-plate for five mins and have some water.. go slower and see when that full feeling hits you.. I don't wanna say skimp on your plate, b...

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