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Day 2 s-day game night with the neighbors last night. Didn't go too crazy.

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Baby steps are the best kind. They will get you where you want to go. Congratulations on your first week.

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I am honored to know you

I'm nervous as can be waiting for the finale

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Hi Abe, glad you are doing well overall. Some days Are crazy days but you knew that already. Remember to set your alarm tomorrow.

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Hello and welcome. Good luck with your journey.

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Hey! Those are my favorite things to worry about as well. I've added "I don't have any funeral arrangements made for when my Mother passes and I won't want to have to make hasty decisions thus grossly overpaying for basic services at the time so I better get moving on that". I even worry about it in...

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I agree the challenge was worth it for all the insight. Keep at it and you will established some great baseline eating habits!! Sorry you don't feel better though. I'm sure that part is pretty frustrating. After the diet, maybe you should have a talk with your doctor about possible medical reasons f...

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This week officially sucks. I've been tired and can't get to bed at a decent time all week. (even tonight) And, Itt clearly and distinctly has a negative impact on my evening snack habit. At least I know the signs to look for now and will try to develop a plan to handle it. Right now, I'm thinking b...

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Hey Linda, I'm so glad things are settling down for your family. You are doing great with all the changes.

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By George! I think you'll make it!

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Not a great day again today but not the worst day either. Got Through the evening with no snacks or wine but, most unusually, had some cookies in the afternoon that someone took to work.

Well fiddle dee dee, tomorrow is another day and thus another chance.

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Day 9: failed dismally try again today. It would be different if I actually enjoyed what I was eating. I mean after the first few bites. Very strange. Why continue when the enjoyment is gone? . . . Something to ponder today. I do think it has something to do with tiredness but I'm not sure what the ...

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Looking on the bright side- you got to Visit with your daughter

Day 8: success went on an 8 mile hike at my husband's pace not mine. Amazing how it makes you want to sleep.

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Holy cow!! Has it been 2 weeks already? Why does it seem so short when you do it but so long when I do it?

You are almost there.

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welcome back Sarah and congratulations on your 6 pounds. That's great!

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I'm sorry for your loss. I'm glad you knew about no-s and that this is a good place to get support as you stabilize your eating habits.

Welcome back

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Day 7: s day over-ate yesterday and am paying the price today. Yuck

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Day 6: s day

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Day 5 success and it's the weekend and I'm down 1 more pound. It's starting off to be a good day. It's also 9 degrees which is not so good but hopefully short lived.

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I'm right behind ya' babe. Just lead the way.

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Hey Walkerlori, I've been missing you!! glad to hear you are doing well and living strong :) Off again so soon to another race? I'm totally jealous. I'm still training for my summer solstice hike but it is really cold and unpleasant around these parts. Hopefully, that will be coming to an end soon a...

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Of course there is hope for you! :) There are folks here with all sorts of different histories but we all have food and/or weight issues. Otherwise we wouldn't be here. The idea is simple but the application can be quite challenging. The key is to be both persistent and consistent. If you fail, don'...

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I don't know anything about these issues at all! I have the toughest gut ever. The question that came to my mind was "Is it possible it takes more than 3 weeks to experience a change?" If you really believe you should see positive changes by now and haven't, I don't see any reason to stick it out 5 ...

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Day 4 success

I almost sniched a few of my husband's nuts but then I remembered I'd have to fess up. I'm glad I resisted the urge.

Ok, I just realized how my check-in reads and I'm crackin' myself up!

I guess it's good that they were my husband's.

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Oh my gosh, me too!! When you get to 21 days I'm going to write on the 21 Day challenge post.

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Hi freegirl. 35 days!! I bet you're proud :wink: In regards to your increased snacking, I'm wondering if you are "looking" for that sugar fix you used to get. I discovered that either a glass of milk or a cup of warm milk with a drop or two of vanilla really helped me get over the "looking for somet...

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I'm very happy your husband is doing well. I have to wonder though. . . Did you dust your bike of as well? Bike rides are a marvelous way to connect with family

and a great de-stresser. Just sayin'

Hope your week continues to go well.

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Day 3: success

Thanks for encouragement everybody. I couldn't do it without you!

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Glad your kitty is doing better.

Are you sure your hurting back isn't related to endless snow shoveling? Personally, I swear by stretching both before bed and when I get up.

Hope it clears up soon.

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Hi Linda, I'm glad things are settling down for you a bit. Don't worry about the bump in weight. If you can honestly say you are following your program, it is probably just a "mystery" bump. :? Kids will eat anything if it is presented with the expectation that they will like it. We adults don't giv...

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I'm sorry to hear about your cat. I hope he recovers from what ails 'im.

Good job with the alcohol. Are you feeling better? I was pretty surprised by how much better I sleep.

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Challenge day 2: success

I was going to say something witty but now I forget what it was

I guess I'll just go have my coffee instead.

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No worries. Just mark it and move on. We all have days that are seriously off target but if you learn from it and get back in the groove today it won't have any lasting effects.

Good luck..

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Congratulations on a great week. Looks like you found your groove.

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Hi Linda. I'm glad things are going well. I Agree. You'll figure it out.

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Enjoy, relax and have fun!

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Challenge day 1: success

I'm probably jinxing myself but I really think March is going to be my month. 21 days here I come.

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That is a victory!! Nothing leads to success like success.

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S-day I put off my shopping to today so that I could go on a 10 mile training walk with my husband and daughter for the Rachel Carson trail Challenge. I'm glad I did but now we are going to have a day of snow/rain/ice. :cry: If I end up being stuck at home shoveling snow today, I'm going to be very ...

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Hi Mitchelll, Would it help you to relax and enjoy your process if you realize that there is no actual requirement for 3 meals per day. Because guess what? There is no actual requirement for any specific number of meals per day. The "rule" is simply no more than one plate of food at any one meal. No...

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Wow!!!! You are awesome! !! Congratulations on the amazing success. Isn't it wonderful to be able to write all those great results?

3 cheers to you!

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Hi Noel, I hear you about the lack of love. I'm a hiker not a swimmer but I have the same basic rule. I have to at last get outside before I'm allowed to decide not to walk. Once I'm outside though, I always end up being fine. Its just the getting outside that is the hard part. My daughter (15) is a...

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Hi Linda, You are doing great with all the changes!! One thing that I do to reduce cooking stress (or at least when I do do this it reduces cooking stress :? ) is to develop/find 5 super easy meal ideas and to always have those ingredients in the house. That gives me a work-week's worth of automatic...

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You are my hero and my inspiration. :lol: 4 days easy as pie!! So, still haven't come up with a great gift idea but I'm going shopping with my weight loss winnings today and I'm not coming home without something nice for my husband. Unfortunately, his favorite surprises usually include hunks of meat...

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Thanks oolala. You're right I think. Focus on the positive change and the negative behavior will diminish. So, on that note: in Jan. I had 10 fails. A few, if I recall correctly, fairly significant. In Feb. 5 fails non particularly significant. It gets a bit confusing because I changed my glass ceil...

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Glad to meet you.

I hope you find what you need here on the boards. I look forward too learning about you.

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failed again. I looked back yesterday. I've been working on a 21 Day challenge since July. I'm definitely doing better. (Far fewer red days and far less significant fails) but it is starting to get irritating that I can't make it 21 days. What did the little engine say? "I think I can. I think I ca...

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Day 4 a fail I think I didn't eat enough dinner so my will power was weakened in addition to being hungry. In retrospect, should have gone with a cup of warm milk but I didn't think of it at the time.

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On your way to 21. Good luck today. Are you still being nicer to your husband? I'm trying to be nicer to mine as well. I'm thinking of buying him a tiny surprise gift but I can't come up with any good ideas.

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Weird how we can feel so in control one minute and then 1 hour later be behaving just the opposite. It sounds like you have a solid plan in place. Which is 1/2 the battle. I've been thinking about the idea of eating habits and whether they will ever become truly automatic. I think what you said make...

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Challange day 3: success

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s for survival?

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Good call going back for the dishes. Sometimes we get so busy helping others we forget we are allowed to ask for help ourselves. Plus it justfeels good to be the one helping and not always the one being helped.

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Hey Mitchelll, Glad you are doing well. I'm wondering if you have some sport or league that you you might enjoy joining. Around here they have a variety of adult sport leagues as well as rowing, drum boats, even table tennis and unicycles. I only mention this because it doesn't seem like you are ove...

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Challenge day 2: success

I took 2nd place in the weight loss challenge.

A little money in my pocket and proof that vanilla no-s plus exercise works if you work it.

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Challenge day 1: success

Weigh in for the weight loss challenge at work today. I remain optimistic although I know no-s is not the fastest way to lose weight. I'm hoping to have the advantage of discipline.

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Very interesting. It encourages me to keep in keepin' on.

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Your doing great! ! It is wonderful that you are gathering so much information about which foods help you and which hurt you. I hear you about the cooking. It gets old fast. But I cook almost everything from scratch so that I can better control what my family eats. There just is no they way to have ...

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That's wonderful! ! I'm so happy for you. My plan is to follow no-s until I stop losing weight then to follow no-s just because it seems so darned sensible. Does it ever become automatic I wonder? I mean to a real habit - like the kind you never have to think about? Have a great day flinging your ha...

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Well said oolala. Eliminating something we really enjoy just for weight loss is punitive. But eliminating something because it makes us feel icky is care-taking. Great job freegirl. It sounds like you really have a handle on this. It really does get easier doesn't it? I took a small bite of dark cho...

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s-Day uneventful again.

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Who used to like snow but now hates it with a passion that knows no bounds?

I'll go first: me

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Glad to hear you're feeling better. Enjoy!

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s-day relatively uneventful.

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So, here's the thing about friends. "Can't do with 'em; can't do without 'em"

At least we have each other

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Hi Linda, I'm glad you are feeling a bit better. I agree with freegirl that your Husband and your bff are two different things. I mean my husband is my bff in some ways but not a girl way. I'm sorry but it is hard to put into words. I mean he and I talk about everything under the sun and not a day g...

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Hi,

Lookin' good so far. I'd totally easy Pringles for lunch if I had them. That's why I don't have them.

I'm sure all the no s habits will come back quick. I think it must be like riding a bike. You never forget how to keep your balance.

Good luck on your return journey

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Day 1 was a fail not a bad one. Just a mini handful of nuts. Feeling much stronger and confident all the way around. Also feeling amazingly strong due to my exercise. I'd like to add some strength training and/or flexibility work to the mix but I'm afraid off overloading myself with goals. I'll have...

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Oolala cut out one Scotch and some bread each day, and be sure to move around on your feet for two hours a day. This puts me in mind of my dad who lost weight (and kept it off the remainder of his life) in the 1970's by following the "push away" diet. When he was finished eating he "pushed away fro...

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A few things come to mind: 1) life is ugly. Sometimes we can manage to pretty it up a bit. But most of us have had a lot of ugly in our lives. If your life isn't always as pretty as you'd like it to be, it just means you are human. 2) I don't think you have to worry about getting too much support he...

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Kathleen, I'm curious about your plans to stop no-s after losing 5 pounds. Assuming you follow no-s sufficiently to lose 5 pounds, it is doubtful that you would loose it in less than 5 weeks Therefore, wouldn't that be enough time for your body to be adjusting to less food? To "ratchet down" as you ...

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One thing that helps me is to realize that not all friends have to be all things. By that I mean, maybe the mom's group meets some of your needs but not all of them. That's ok. No one person or any one group can be perfect. Just by reading over the conversation, nothing jumped out at me (except, as ...

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Is unsweetened cocoa just milk with cocoa powder? I've never tried it and have always assumed it would be unpleasantly bitter.

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No worries. Do what you need to do and say what you need to say.

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Perhaps I don't understand the point of the article. But after reading it twice and following all the embedded links I'm left thinking, "Huh??" What is no-s plus urban ranger or shovel glove if not eating less and moving more? To my mind, the nice thing about No-s is that the rules are simple to lea...

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It is possible you mention it here because: 1) you know we will not judge harshly or 2) you are hoping we will have time to intercede before you actually lay down. Unfortunately, we are too far away to really give you the on-site support you need for #2 so we'll have to go with #1. :wink: If you hav...

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Donuts!!?? Man! I hope it was good :lol: I'd look like this :shock: if I tried to eat a donut. Did it have both filling and icing? Lets see, if I could eat anything I wanted as a once a year treat what would it be? I think it would be home made roast chicken (dark meat with skin) with mashed potatoe...

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fail don't mind to much though. I was really hungry. I'll have to plan today a bit better. Failed with two handfuls of mixed nuts and 1 glass wine. So, I'm not sure joining a weight loss challenge at work was such a great idea. I joined because I thought it might give me some impetus to tighten up ...

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Challenge day 10: success

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Hi Zippadee, I exercise as soon as I arrive home so I don't have time for a snack. I don't know if I look forward to it as much but I never, ever regret it. I was never able to replace my after work-snack with something else because, like you, I really wanted the snack. But, when I set an exercise g...

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Why is fat Tuesday an s-day for you? That's a real question. I'm not religious and I'm wondering.

This is what I know:
1) fat Tuesday comes before ash Wednesday which is the beginning of lent.
2) people have a big old eat-fest before lent.
3) The part I'm missing . . . why?

Anyway, enjoy!!

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Hi Kathleen, There's a lot of choice in this book, which means there is a lot of thinking involved in working your way out of overeating. My gut feel is this is not a good approach, and I am not sure why. My gut would would tell me the same thing because . . . when I think about food . . . I eat foo...

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Thank you so much for sharing. I'm sorry to hear of your loss but I'm happy that you we're able to find ways to care for yourself as well. No-s is just so gosh darn sensible.

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You are doing an amazingly difficult thing. Be nice to yourself and do what you need to do for your greater good.

clearly, right now, the issue of smoking is a bigger issue than a handful of lozenges. Good luck! !

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Hi, welcome and good luck on your journey. The folks around here are very friendly and helpful. I'm sure you'll find good guidance.

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Challenge Day 9: success

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Ah, stress. Our double edged friend. A few things I do that (sometimes) help. 1) Any type of deep breathing/ Count to ten combination. It is especially effective if you can even do a simple stretch with it. For example: stretch your arms above your head and take a slow breath in for a count of 5 the...

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Challenge day 8: success

Feelin' strong

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Thanks for taking the time to write. It makes me happy that you are at peace with food and that you are sooo enjoying exercise.

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Sorry your having a hard time. I agree with lovedby2. One day - one minute- at a time. Alarm going off? stand up. Don't worry about the next step yet, just stand up. Standing? Get dressed. Don't worry about what comes afterÂ dressing yet. Dressed? Get your breakfast. Don't worry about after breakfas...

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Hi Linda,

Good luck with your slight s-day mods. I find eating from a smaller plate very helpful. It sounds like you are making great strides.

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Challenge day 7:s-day

I might just stop shoveling snow for the year. On the other hand, I've been using it as my cross-traing. I'd have to find something else to use.

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Challenge day 6: s-day

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whilst cooking supper

I love that you use whilst. It's like typing with an accent. If you don't mind sharing, where are you from? Do you also properly use "shant"?
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bjalda I'm glad something I said was helpful to you. Good luck. I hope you can find peace with food. Perhaps, on days you feel a it is all a bit unfair, you can try imagining how people with severe food allergies or diabetes must feel.

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omg!!! You are 1/2 way to 21 days and 12 days on the way to the rest of your lIfe

Way to go! !

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Challenge day 5: No-s + glass ceiling: success So, was cooking last night and nibbled on 2 or 3 cashews as I was adding them to the stir fry. Today I'm debating with myself whether or not I should count them as a fail. The phrase "fence around the law" came to mind but I think I really run on the pr...

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Challenge day 4:

No-s + glass ceiling: success

Ho hum . . . It's getting boring.

just kidding . . . Success is never boring.

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Walkerlori,

I'm a steadfast believer in acknowledging what is right. We really don't do that enough. I hope you are able to get your positive energy back soon.

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Hi, I really enjoy this way of eating although I also enjoy complaining about how "hard" it is. :roll: I don't have the process down to a habit yet but I'm still able to reap the rewards of a relatively thought free way of eating that addresses all my quirky eating bad behavior. Fair warning . . . I...

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Challenge day 3:
No-s + glass ceiling: success

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