Everyday Systems

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Thursday - SUCCESS

B - great grains cereal with milk, dried fruit bar, few almonds
L - 3 small chicken tacos, soy tortilla chips, dried fruit bar
D - linguini with mushrooms, olives, and tomato sauce, applesauce

Good on water. Rode my bike an hour and walked about 10 minutes.

Julie

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Wednesday - SUCCESS

B - great grains cereal with milk, mango
L - 3 small soft chicken tacos, apple, soy & flaxseed tortilla chips
D - 1/2 bbq chicken breast, chips, small frozen fruit bar

Good on water. Not much actual exercise, but put together a desk, which was a good upper body workout.

Julie

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Tuesday - SUCCESS.

B - mcdonalds sausage biscuit and hash brown
L - little leftover noodles with chicken and veggies, mango, small yogurt with grape nuts
D - homemade tandoori chicken, white rice, cabbage

Good on water. Not much exercising, just a short walk.

Julie

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Monday-Unexpected NWS Day. My boyfriend officially got a job and we went out to celebrate. My food was good, but I had 3 sugary drinks. B - bagel with cream cheese, apple juice L - 1/2 bbq chicken breast, yogurt D - 1/2 bowl of bibimbop And 3 drinks -- 2 of a cream liquor (Edradour, it's SO good), a...

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Saturday and Sunday: S-Days.

Not idiotic, but not amazing. Had chips and ice cream both days. But also some reasonable meals, especially yesterday.

Need to get to the store today to get some fruit and milk so I'll be set for the week.

Julie

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Friday - SUCCESS.

B - yogurt with grape nuts, watermelon
L - lean cuisine panini, 100 calorie bag of chex mix, small frozen fruit bar
D - few tortilla chips, Ethiopian food (chicken, beef, lentils, couple bites of potato, Ethiopian bread)

Walked about 50 minutes. Good on water.

Julie

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Thursday - SUCCESS.

B - yogurt with grape nuts, watermelon
L - sushi (spider roll, spicy tuna roll), carrots
D - korean bbq beef with onions, cabbage, potatoes, bit of softshell crab

Good on water. Walked about 90 minutes, slowly.

Julie

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Wednesday- SUCCESS

B - grape nuts with milk
L - hummus, crackers, grapes, little bit of plain popcorn
D - taramousalata, pita bread, salad with feta and oil &vinegar, mousaka

Good on water. Walked about an hour slowly.

Julie

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Tuesday: SUCCESS

B - grape nuts with milk, banana
L - hummus, whole wheat crackers, carrots, yogurt, pretzels
D - watermelon, apple, grapes

Good on water. No exercise -- its so hot is my excuse, but of course that's an excuse -- I could do SOMEthing inside.

Julie

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Monday- FAILURE. I ate cake. I should have thrown it away after eating my portion Saturday night. B - boca burger on bun with cheese, baked fries, watermelon L - cheese, crackers, olives S- cake D - cabbage, piece of paratha, banana Good on water. Walked briefly, but it was so hot and humid I just c...

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Sunday- SUCCESS.

B - chicken in bbq sauce, green beans, white rice
L - turkey sandwich, pineapple
D- watermelon, yogurt, crackers

Good on water. Walked about 25 minutes.

Julie

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Saturday: S-Day. B - orange juice L - potatoes and al pastor, white rice, few green beans S - few pieces of licorice D - chipotle chicken burrito bowl with chips S - piece of small cake Good on water. Walked about half an hour. So far so good today. Slept til about 10 so didn't have any breakfast. H...

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Friday: S-Day. B - small amount of grape nuts and milk S- chocolate chip cookies L - hummus with whole wheat crackers, nectarine D- (out with work people for a farewell thing for my boss) - 1 guinness, small mixed greens salad with blue cheese, walnuts, and grapes, bread and butter S- (out with my b...

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Thursday: SUCCESS. More or less. B - korean bbq beef with white rice, cranberry juice L - grape nuts with milk D - 1/2 piece pizza, 1 taco, large handful of chips with refried beans and salsa (I was eating the pizza when my boyfriend called and wanted to go out for mexican so i stopped and went out,...

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Wednesday: SUCCESS.

B - orange juice
L - yogurt with grape nuts, apple, baby carrots
D - pizza, garden salad with dressing, 1/2 frozen fruit bar

Good on water. Walked about 100 minutes, but slowly.

Julie

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Tuesday: SUCCESS. B - cereal with milk, banana L - rice with chicken, pretzels, peach D - something legal out at a work meeting. Good on water. Did my 20 minutes this morning. No other real exercise but I feel like I've been running around all day. I'm physically tired so must have gotten something ...

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Monday: SUCCESS. B - great grains cereal with milk, small banana L - small quiznos tuna sandwich, almonds, apple D - crackers, couple chips with guacamole, couple olives, cheeseburger, few bites pasta salad, 1/2 corn on the cob with butter, few cherries, 1 beer Good on water. 20 minutes arms and abs...

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Friday - FAILURE. Saturday-S-Day. Sunday-S-Day. None of those horrible. Walked about 30 minutes Saturday and about an hour yesterday. I have a barbeque to go to tonight. That'll definitely be a challenge. But I can do one plate. And I really really don't need any sweets. I've had a good breakfast an...

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Thursday: NWS Day. It was one of my best friends birthdays and we went out to celebrate. The day was otherwise a success. B - cereal with milk, peach L - feta, hummus and olive sandwich, yogurt, pretzels D- pizza, 2 beers, small frosted brownie. yum. Good on water. Did some pushups, but that was abo...

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Wednesday: SUCCESS.

B - yogurt with grape nuts, banana
L - sushi (spicy tuna and spider rolls, ebi nigiri), apple, edamame
D - cheese and crackers, few olives, small plate of spaghetti with homemade tomato sauce

Good on water. Biked 60 minutes and 20 minutes arms and abs.

Julie

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Tuesday: SUCCESS. B- grape nuts with yogurt, almonds L - rye toast with butter and cheddar cheese, pretzels, apple juice, side spinach salad with feta and olives D - salad plate of leftover rice with pork and mushrooms, cherries Rode my bike an hour (to and from work), 20 minutes arms and abs workou...

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Monday: SUCCESS. B- great grains cereal with milk,banana L - rye toast with irish butter and cheddar cheese, almonds, side spinach salad with feta, olives, and ff raspberry vinagrette dressing D - fish, few lima beans, white rice, cherries Good on water. Rode my bike 60 minutes (turned out to be fas...

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Saturday and Sunday: S DAYS . Saturday was fairly mild. Yesterday was slightly idiotic. I ate a LOT of cookies. It was pretty stupid. I made myself feel sick. I haven't done that in a long time. I did walk about an hour on Saturday and then stand for about 3 more. Sunday I walked about 30 minutes. T...

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Friday: SUCCESS B - yogurt with grape nuts L - sushi (8 pieces of salmon roll), banana D (with friends) - bread with artichoke dip, tortilla chips, pasta with veggies and chicken, asparagus, mixed greens salad, 2 glasses wine, 2 bites chocolate pie (that sounds like a failure, but I actually think i...

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Thursday: FAILURE. B - ygurt with grape nuts, nectarine L - few handfuls of unbuttered popcorn, 4 cookies D - hummus with pita bread and carrots, 3 baileys, 1 beer Not too great. It was a lousy day and I gave into cookies and then alcohol. And the worst part was that the cookies actually did make me...

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Wednesday: SUCCESS.

I wanted candy pretty bad today, but resisted.

B - grape nuts with milk, banana
L - wasa crackers with cheddar and munster cheese, yogurt, apple
D - pizza, strawberries

Good on water. Walked about 25 minutes.

Julie

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Tuesday: SUCCESS . B - grape nuts with milk, strawberries and blueberries L - yogurt, wasa crackers, pita chips, hummus, pretzels (was supposed to be a turkey and feta sandwich instead of the wasa, pita and hummus, but the sandwich got ruined and couldn't be eaten so that was other stuff i had avail...

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Monday: SUCCESS . B- grape nuts with milk, 1 slice cheese with a handful of wheat thins L - turkey sandwich, few indian cracker-y chip things, nectarine D - lobster ravioli with tomato artichoke sauce, mixed greens salad with poppy seed dressing, bread Good on water. Walked about 15 minutes. Not muc...

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Friday: S-Day. Saturday: S- Day. Neither ridiculous, but both definitely S's. Sunday: Success. Not fabulous, again. But within the rules. B - grape nuts with milk L - (in the car) mcdonalds 2 cheeseburgers and fries D - (at a fundraiser I was working) l3 tiny pieces of bread, some cheese, walnuts, 2...

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Thursday: SUCCESS. B - great grains cereal with milk, banana L - turkey panini (business lunch out), small mixed greens salad D - hummus, pita chips, little bit cheese, 2 pieces bread with butter, 1 small piece lox, few baby carrots, 1 guinness Good on water. Walked about 20 minutes plus ran around ...

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Wednesday: FAILURE.

Ugh.

B - granola with milk, banana
L - turkey sandwich, apple, indian cracker-y things
S- candy bar (it was sitting on the table when I got home and somehow I just couldn't resist it -- so stupid)
D - tilapia and rice

Good on water. No real exercise.

Julie

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Tuesday - FAILURE. Not a huge one, at least. B - grape nuts with milk, nectarine L - bologna & cheese sandwich, side salad with bit of blue cheese and fat free thousand island dressing S - blueberry muffin, iced skim latte D - big bowl of cherries, cheddar cheese and wheat thins, few olives Good on ...

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Monday - SUCCESS . B - potato pasta with tomato artichoke sauce, yogurt with blueberries L - tuna salad with wheat thins, cherries D - julienne salad with poppyseed dressing, baileys on the rocks (not quite perfect, but at a wake type event after a funeral and it was that or beer, which makes me sic...

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A bronze for me for June -- 1 slip, 3 NWS days while on vacation.

I didn't track for anything but food.

July's already blown in terms of medals because of my NWS on vacation. I might do a mini-month and scale the medals appropriately because I think it helps me to tally it this way.

Julie

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I'm back from vacation. It was wonderful. I didn't follow No-S at all, though. I feel totally fine about that actually. I didn't at all obsess about food. I think this is a really really big deal. One difference I noticed is that on trips like this is in the past I'd be thinking about when the next ...

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Tuesday: SUCCESS. B - grape nuts with a tiny bit of granola and milk L - lean cuisine fish and mac&cheese, banana D - chipotle burrito bol with chicken, chips Good on water. No exercise -- planned to walk, but it started completely pouring this afternoon so it's not really possible anymore. I leave ...

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Monday: SUCCESS . B - bagel with cream cheese, little thing of applesauce L - pastrami, little turkey, few bites cheese (this was supposed to be on a sandwich, but the bread tasted so bad I just took the meat out and ate it), apple juice, yogurt D - jimmy john's turkey unwich (wrapped in lettuce ins...

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Sunday: S-DAY. Til 6pm. Then Success.

L - crab rangoon, shrimp shumai, massaman curry with beef
S - wheat thins, 3 chocolate covered macadamia nuts
D - granola with raisins and milk

Good on water. Walked about 40 minutes.

Julie

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I've decided to try doing my S Days from Friday at 6pm to Sunday at 6pm instead of all day Saturday and Sunday. I'm wondering if anyone thinks this is a bad idea? Why?

Thanks.
Julie

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Friday: SUCCESS . With a caveat. I've decided to try doing my S days from 6pm Fridays to 6pm Sundays. Does anyone think that might be a bad idea? I'd love to hear why if you do. B - grape nuts with milk L - 2 wasa crackers with a laughing cow wedge, applesauce D (after 6) - chips, 3 chicken tacos, 4...

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Thursday: SUCCESS.

B - grape nuts with milk
L - turkey sandwich on a bagel, yogurt, peach
D - pizza, 1 beer (not too healthy, but still no-s

)

Good on water. Biked about 60 minutes, walked 20.

Julie

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Wednesday: SUCCESS.

B - granola with raisins and milk
L - from the bag lite caesar salad, 2 rye wasa crackers, grapes, macadamia nuts
D - sauteed pork and green beans, rice

Very good on water. No exercise yet, but plan a post-dinner walk and later evening weights/crunches.

Julie

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Ended up not having the potatoes with dinner and walking 15 minutes. So even better. Good.

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Tuesday: SUCCESS. Dinner hasn't actually happened yet so I'm just predicting but I feel confident. B - bagel with cream cheese, grapes L - light laughing cow cheese (2 wedges) on rye wasa crackers, yogurt, apple D - (at a business dinner) grilled chicken sandwich, potatoes Very good on water. No exe...

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Monday: SUCCESS . B - grape nuts with milk, banana L - (at a caterer tasting for a theatre event) - 4 oz. beef tenderloin with swiss chard, corn porridge, grapes in grape reduction, shot of watermelon gazpacho, bite size cheesy polenta topped with pulled pork, about 2 ounces of assorted (really good...

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Sunday: S-DAY. B - little bit of leftover chinese food, 1 piece See's candy (it's completely unbelievable to me, but the box is STILL not gone -- this is the longest I've ever had a box of candy in my life, and even better I'd be fine with it if my boyfriend finished it) L - spinach ravioli in tomat...

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Saturday: S-DAY.

B - slice of cheese, few crackers, blackberries
L - chinese
D - couple bites cheeseburger, bit of potato salad, little fruit salad, slice watermelon, few tortilla chips, a piece of paratha, little eggplant curry
S- brownie

Julie

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Friday: FAILURE . B - half a caramel fudge brownie L - a little bit of sushi, a little ginger peanut noodle salad S - carrot raisin muffin D - 2 drinks of raspberry vodka, creme de cassis, and lemonade, some spinach artichoke dip with tortilla chips, few fries, 1 piece buttered multigrain toast Did ...

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Thursday: SUCCESS.

B - grape nuts with milk
L - turkey and jarlsberg panini, chips, dried apricots
D - strawberry banana smoothie, 2 slices cheese and whole wheat crackers, olives

Very good on water. 50 minute boot camp class.

Julie

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Wednesday: SUCCESS. B - 2 packets instant oatmeal, small banana L - tuna with a little miracle whip, whole grain crackers, sun chips, apple, yogurt D - small mixed greens salad with apple, grapes, blue cheese, and a few walnuts, bread with butter Great on water. Walked 30 minutes. Might still do my ...

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I ended up having green beans with my dinner too. So even better.

And weights/crunches are done. Yay for me.

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Tuesday: SUCCESS.

B - granola with raisins and milk, big bottle of cranberry juice
L - pork and rice with bbq sauce, apple, 3 crackers with hummus
D - tilapia, rice

Great on water. Walked 20 minutes. Will do my weights/crunches still tonight.

Julie

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Monday: SUCCESS . A so-so one. B - grape nuts with milk, few bites of banana (the rest was bad) L - 1 small piece pizza, large salad of mostly greens with few other veggies, some cheese, edamame, olives, egg white, raisins, sesame seeds, honey mustard vinagrette dressing, 1/2 dinner roll D - small b...

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Sunday: SUCCESS. Albeit not too healthy.

B - cheese-its, peanut butter
L - cheese omlette, potatoes, english muffin, tiny bit of cheese grits
D - pizza

Ok on water. No exercise, but none planned (other than walking through the airport and it is a big airport).

Julie

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Saturday: S-DAY. B - strawberry banana smoothie, apple danish L - roast beef sandwich, chips, cookie S - popcorn, 1 fruit skewer D - steak satay, fresh spring rolls, cup of wonton soup S - peanut butter cups Ok on water. Walked about 45 minutes. Travelling back home tomorrow morning and then back to...

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Friday: S-Day . I decided to switch today and Sunday just this once with the clearly special situation of being at this conference. I don't see any need to have 3 S days in a row this week since I'll be home by noon on Sunday. B - small bagel with cream cheese, glazed donut L - roast beef sandwich, ...

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Thursday: SUCCESS . B - at aiport -- mcdonald's hash brown and most of a sausage biscuit, oatmeal raisin breakfast bar L - turkey bagel sandwich, chips D - 2 potstickers, small caesar salad, mashed potatoes, roll Weird food and not too healthy overrall, but I'm proud of myself for maintaining so man...

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Wednesday: SUCCESS. B - grape nuts with milk L - most of a quiznos tuna sub, few chips, peach D - leftover massaman beef, banana Very good on water. Did my weights/crunches, walked about 10 minutes, spent hours cleaning, lifting, organzing, dragging things cleaning up the office at work. It really w...

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Tuesday: SUCCESS.

B - granola with milk, blackberries
L - bologna & cheese sandwich, yogurt, peach
D - massaman beef curry, crab rangoon

Great on water. Walked 50 minutes, did my weights/crunches.

Julie

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Monday: SUCCESS . Sort of. B - grape nuts with milk, banana L - bologna, salami, and cheddar sandwich on rye, tortilla chips, carrots, peach D - eaten in two parts, the first quite snacky, but the fact that it was cut off when it was and contained to not complete junk and then a normal, but slightly...

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Doing good so far despite a VERY stressful day at work. I really wanted to have some chocolate earlier, but stopped myself and reminded myself that that made no real sense. Need to stay vigilant for the rest of the night. I think my boyfriend may want to go out to dinner and might suggest some less ...

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Sunday: S-Day . B - cheese and crackers, olives L - turkey sandwich on rye S- chocolate covered macadamia nuts, microwave popcorn D - 1/2 frozen pizza S - indian frozen yogurt dessert (shrekhund) Very good on water. Rode my bike 3 miles, walked 30 minutes and up and down 3 flights of stairs 4 times ...

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In recent weeks I've noticed that the biggest thing that helps me with both N days at home and much more ordered and reasonable S days at home is to eat breakfast the way I normally do on N days at work. It seems easiest if I eat the same kind of thing at near the same time, but even just eating a r...

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Saturday: S-DAY . B - grape nuts with milk, sweetened iced coffee L - pasta with ground lamb in tomato sauce, banana S- 2 pieces See's candy, large handful of macadamia nuts D - (out) -- fresh spring roll, some orange chicken, some vietnamese style pork chop, rice After dinner (with a group of frien...

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Friday : SUCCESS . Not a healthy dinner, though. B - granola with raisins, milk L - turkey sandwich on rye, raspberries D - 2 mini burgers (the plate comes with 4), few fries dipped in various sauces, some nachos, 2 beers Very good on water. No exercise. Planned to do it at night, but then had 2 bee...

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My May 2007 Personal Olympics

So close, so sad, but no medal for me.

No-S: 3 failures, 1 exemption.

Still I think that's better than last month. Next month I'm going to do it! I'm also going to track daily exercise -- weights and cardio with the same medal rules as No-S.

Julie

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Thursday: SUCCESS . B - grape nuts with milk (I'm *very* into these these days) L - mixed greens salad with goat cheese, walnuts, craisins and raspberry vinagrette dressing, crackers, peach D - turkey sandwich on rye, tortilla chips, blackberries Very good on water. I did end up doing my weights/cru...

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Wednesday: SUCCESS. B - grape nuts with milk L - turkey and jarlsberg panini, large handful of chips D - honey bunches of oats with milk, strawberries, banana I'm being lazy about exercise. I need to just make myself do it -- a walk and my weights tonight, then boot camp tomorrow. I will definitely ...

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Tuesday: SUCCESS.

B - oatmeal, banana
L - 1/4 of a pb&j sandwich, small cup of chicken and dumplings, small green salad
D - buffalo chicken salad, some fries

Great on water. Didn't manage to get any exercise in. I truly didn't have time even to walk for a little bit.

Julie

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Monday - S Day , Memorial Day. I feel sort of bad about it. I didn't really want to take 3 days in a row. Plus I'm going to a Cubs game tomorrow night and staying "on plan" will be really hard. I guess the right thing to do is not worry about today because it is legit according to the system and jus...

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I ended up also having 2 chocolate covered macadamia nuts last night. Sunday: S Day. B - pancakes with maple syrup, sausage links L - 2/3 of a pb&j sandwich, taro&sweet potato chips, cherries D - dinner at olive garden with friends -- 1/2 a baked ziti dish, plate full of salad, breadstick, split des...

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Saturday: S Day . B - cheese and crackers L - 2/3 of an Amy's Mushroom and olive pizza (500 cals, not for the sake of counting, but for the sake of understanding the amount and health quality) S - 3 pieces of See's candy D - homemade nachos, cherries, cup of milk Good on water. Walked an hour. Julie

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Friday: SUCCESS. Sort of. I had one cookie, but I was so close to falling into a binge that stopping with one and staying on track for the rest of the day is a major success. I think this is the first time I've gotten this close to failing on a Friday and pulling it back together. For me that's enou...

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Thanks, Mimi! That's really helpful to hear.

julie

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Thursday: SUCCESS . B - grape nuts with milk, grapes L - 2 oz. cheddar cheese, whole wheat crackers, peach, small green salad D - pita bread, hummus, bit of tuna salad, bit of guacamole, tortilla chips, cranberry juice Lots of water. Walked about 40 minutes, although not all at once. Will do my weig...

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Back to report that I've resisted the milk and will try and go to bed without it. I think it'll be fine. And better for me.

And I did do my weights.

julie

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Wednesday : SUCCESS . B - grape nuts, milk, blackberries L - chicken with rice and bbq sauce, 1/2 pear D - mixed greens salad with grilled chicken, blue cheese, walnuts, whole wheat crackers I'm leaving work now and feeling pretty hungry so may very well also have a small glass of milk when I get ho...

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Tuesday: SUCCESS . B - banana, mini bagel with cream cheese L - chicken with rice and bbq sauce, grapes D - small green salad, whole wheat crackers, yogurt Very good on water. Did my morning weights/crunches. Walked to and from a bunch of different buses today. Planned my breakfast and lunch for tom...

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Monday: SUCCESS.

B - banana
L - homemade tuna salad, whole wheat crackers, grapes, green salad
D - chicken burrito bol, tortilla chips, cherries

Very good on water. Will do my weights/crunches still tonight.
Will also plan and make my meals for tomorrow before going to bed tonight.

Julie

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Mine sort of are and sort of aren't. During the week when life is the same I very routinely eat my breakfast of oatmeal or cereal and oftentimes a fruit (depending upon how hungry I am) and pretty routinely eat my set lunch. Dinner gets a little more difficult for me to keep healthy, but one plate i...

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Sunday: S Day . I'm putting the candy away tonight so I can't be tempted all week. And I'm looking forward to that help in stopping eating it, although I've quite enjoyed it all weekend. B - about 3/4 of a masala dosai (at a restaurant) Snacks- some more of the See's and hawaiin care package candy, ...

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Wow, Annie, 25 pounds is great! How strict are you about your S days? And how much attention to eating healthy/balanced vs. just letter of the No-S law N day meals are you paying?

Julie

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Saturday: S DAY. I'm definitely still tending to snack and sweet a lot on S days. Maybe nothing to worry about, but maybe it is? No breakfast. L - small amount of chicken with peapods and rice Snacks - 3 pieces of See's candy from a gift box given to me on thursday, a bunch of sweet potato and taro ...

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Friday: FAILURE . Ended up having some sweets and snacks -- all at once, really a snack that included some sweets. Still had 3 meals, none of which were huge. Could have been much worse, but could have been much better. B - small bowl of cereal with milk L - pasta with pesto, olives, and a few pine ...

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Thursday: SUCCESS . B - great grains cereal with milk L - home made chicken salad sandwich, whole wheat crackers, apple D - pb&all fruit sandwich, some other small protein thing likely now that I'm back from my boot camp class Did my boot camp class, but about halfway through I slipped and twisted m...

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Wednesday: Success . Technically. Dinner was crap, though. B - grape nuts with milk, apple L - frozen meal fish and mac & cheese, green salad, few crackers D - tortilla chips and cheese Good on water. Did my weights/crunches. It was pouring rain when I got home so couldn't walk/run or bike. Will mak...

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Tuesday: SUCCESS.

Just a quick check-in to report the success.

Food was ok.
Water was great.
Exercise - weights/crunches, 15 mintues walking (planned to do more, but the light rain at the beginning of the walk turned into a heavy rain about 7 minutes in so I turned around)

Julie

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Monday: SUCCESS . A tiny bit funky, but still a technical success. B - grape nuts with milk, dried apricots L - homemade chicken salad sandwich, applesauce, 1 piece pizza (the pizza part is the funky part, but it did all fit on a plate) D - out at a business meeting -- chicken caesar salad Great on ...

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Sunday - S DAY -- mediocre one. B- leftover super thin italian style pizza, little gnocchi with pesto D - at my book group -- egg casserole, hash browns, small scone, fresh berries with a little chocolate sauce Snacks - light microwave popcorn, ice cream bar (this was a success because in the past I...

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Saturday: S Day -- a successful one. B - cereal with milk L - sauteed tilapia, green beans, white rice Snack - cookies D - out with friends -- most of a fried fish sandwich, few onion rings, 2 sweet mixed drinks Very good on water. Walked/ran as expected (7/28 running). And then walked about 45 minu...

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Friday: SUCCESS . Definitely could have been a healthier one, though. Groceries -- mainly fruits and veggies -- need to be bought today. B - cashews, a biscuit L - turkey sandwich, large handful of chips, 100% apple juice D - 2 very small pieces of bread with olive oil, 3/4 of a super thin italian s...

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I'm a little disappointed -- I did my usual weekly weigh-in this morning and have gained a pound and a half this week despite feeling like I've been doing such a good job. Of course, it's only been 4 days of eating good and exercising since my last S days. And the day before that was a ridiculous fa...

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Thursday: SUCCESS . B - grape nuts and milk L - hummus with crackers, green salad D - pb&all fruit on oatnut bread, unsweetened banana chips, cashews Very good on water. 55 minute boot camp class. It's been a successful week so far and I'm feeling good. I've decided to stop counting days-- I don't t...

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Wednesday: SUCCESS.

B - oatmeal, banana
L - hummus with pretzel roll, apple, yogurt
D - pulled pork sandwich (the dry rub kind), a few fries, 1 small corncake with butter

Good on water. Did my morning weights/crunches.

Julie

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Could you eat your breakfast a little later to hold you longer?

Also, I find oatmeal to work very well. You could have a glass of milk with the oatmeal and a banana? Or some nuts along with the oatmeal so you have protein to help hold you?

Julie

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Tuesday: SUCCESS.

B - banana, packet of instant oatmeal
L - tuna pasta salad, green salad, apple
D - frozen fried shrimp, piece of matzo with butter

Great on water. Did my morning weights and my evening walk/run.

Julie

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Monday: SUCCESS.

B - grape nuts with milk
L - chicken with rice, apple
D - tuna pasta salad, strawberry yogurt

Very good on water. Weights and crunches this morning.

Julie

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Friday fell apart. And I became a complete idiot. Two things went wrong -- first I ate to feel less stressed. Very very bad. Second, the lunch I brought turned out to be bad and I didn't address that right and just right away go out and get something else, which left me very hungry and vulnerable to...

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Closing in on a Day 9 Success . B - great grains cereal, lowfat milk, banana L - baked fish and mac&cheese frozen meal, carrots, blackberries D - out with a work colleague so not sure exactly what, but will keep it to one plate and try to include some veggies. Good on water. Decided to abstain from ...

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Day 8 - Success.

Not the healthiest dinners, but not very big in size -- had 1/2 a philly cheesesteak sandwich. Sure was yummy.

Julie

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