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October 8, 2013

Failure

I know exactly where I failed. During first break. The culinary class made hot chocolate, served with cinnamon buns. Back at it tomorrow.

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October 7, 2013

Success!

Breakfast: eggs, bacon, corn bread

Lunch: peanut butter and jelly sandwich, yogurt, half a cup of chili

Dinner: a lovely potato soup, two biscuits.

I had three glasses of milk today, and several Coke Zero (s)

No exercise

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The Mongolians and Africans looked the healthiest, but had the least amount stacked around them. As Peter Voss would say: calorie poisoning.

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10.03.2013

I ate a lot today. Not epic, but a lot. I started with a half backsided breakfast, and went from there.

Got my Power of 10 in today. So did my wife. Good workouts for both of us.

See you all tomorrow.

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Would this be spam?

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To the Guru of eating less,

Alles Gute zum Geburtstag!

And...Forty isn't so bad.

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Still not on track, but eating less. Thursday is my workout, I am looking forward to that.

Everyone have a good evening.

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September 27, 2013 Between Grandpa's near death experience, my daughter's wedding, and now my pop's open heart surgery, I have been packing the food. Interestingly, my weight has been stable. I am continuing the once a week Power of 10 workouts. I have, surprisingl, more stamina than you would think...

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September 23, 2013 Today was already a failure. But, progress was made. I think I stated previously I had been having diabetes like symptoms: grogginess after eating, shakes, eating and having to eat again, low blood sugar, sweats, etc. I had been taking a hormone replacement therapy. I stopped last...

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Well thls was a muffed day. Failure!.

I did get my workout finshed in the PM. Today's workout is what working out is supposed to be like.

I also had bloodwork done for the diabetes. I'll deal with it through diet. I.

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Sept 20, 2013

Failure

Today was what it was.

I am shifting to low glycemic, but keeping it within the No S parameters. My eye exam on Monday revealed that I might be diabetic, or starting on the path. Time to nip that in the bud.

Tomorrow is my Power of 10 workout. Looking forward to that.

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Success!

Breakfast: 2 small Mickie's breakfast burritos, two-thirds of the hash brown, milk.

Lunch: Cup of Noodles (barf), half a bag of Ruffles, Diet Dew.

Dinner: Two hot dogs, sliced tomato, quarter cup of pork and beans.

Not much else to tell you...

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Success! What a struggle today was. I got through though. Breakfast: 3 eggs, 3 slices of pepper bacon (my new love), 1 slice of sourdough. Lunch: ham and salami on Italian roll, yogurt, chilli Fritos, apple Dinner: Chicken pot pie, plum, yougurt I had an otter pop after taking my medication and it ...

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Sept 9, 2013

Failure!

How doth I fail? Let me count the ways...

I guess I need to get checked for hypoglycemia, Monday was a difficult day in regards to losing energy due to eating inproper foods. My wife even read me the riot act.

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Thank you GerkanHerman. I never, or very rarely eat fast food fries.

Weekend has been an S. I am still struggle right now with the physiological reaction I am have with sugar food, even fruit makes me sluggish now. Regular sodas are out of the question.

See younall Monday.

Johann

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Sept 5, 2013

Failed again.

I am out of my routine. Had an Instant Breakfast this morning, and by Two PM was gnawing the paint of the walls. A Snickers bar later and I was pushing coma stage. I'll learn.

Exercise: Power of 10, Super Slow, BBS workout. Or whatever you want to call it.

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Scattered is OK. That's what happened to me when I used to make make friends with Captain Morgan and then tried to post. Probably not the same thing, but... As far as No S is concerned, there should not be a problem losing 15 pounds. Of course people lose at different rates. One of the things I foun...

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Wednesday: Sept 4, 2013 Failure Something got me eating candy in the AM. By the PM I could barely walk. It is interesting the affect sugary foods have on me now. I lose physical strength and at times slur when I talk. The Mt. Dew didn't help either. So, it seems a "well balanced" meal helps with the...

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Sept 3, 2013 Success! Breakfast: two small Mickie D's breakfast burritos, milk Lunch: 8" Jimmy Johns Vito, half a pickle, Diet Coke Dinner: chicken breast braised in white wine, potatoes Romanoff, salad, milk. This was very filling. Potatoes and chicken cooked in a pressure cooker. Activity: not muc...

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South Beach, like Atkins, is another low carb approach. Except with South Beach, instead of a picture of a smiling Robert Atkins (I have a lot of respect for the good doctor actually...), South Beach gives you the scent of the tropical air, sandy beaches, Art Deco architecture, and beautiful people.

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Success!

Breakfast: Two "small" BK breakfast burritos, milk

Lunch: ham sandwich, baby dill pickle, salted tomato, small bag of bbq chips, Coke

Dinner: Rama Thai and rice

Activity? Just worked, then rode the ride mower.

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08.29.2013 Success! Meal 1: Protein Drink Meal 2: Ham on wheat, tomato, apple, Chili Freetos (small bag) Meal 3: Glass of milk, apple Meal 4: A braut, mashed potato, sauerkraut, tomato, glass of milk Exercise: Super Slow workout * I had the milk and apple after my workout knowing dinner was not for ...

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JustforToday made an interesting comment concerning Atkins (Low Carb). Being sick (vomitous) after low carbing. The last two evenings (not this evening), I ate very low carb and was nauseated after each meal. I am glad I am not the only one.

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Success!

Breakfast: eggs, hash browns, sausage

Lunch: Spicy Thai Chicken Burrito, six (?) Tortilla chips

Dinner: Ham sandwich, tomato (peppered), pickle, stick jerky, grapes

Activity: chased a golf ball for nine holes.

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Keep at it. Pulling tassles on corn does seem a bit tedious though. As well as being physically able, that was quite a mental feat as well. If you can do that you can knock out the No S.

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I'll be fifty in six months. I bet my wife would tell you I can still be a toddler.

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Good job!

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I agree with GermanHerman (cool handle).

I would "throw in" The Art of French Cooking by Julia Child, and maybe one of the following three: Body by Science, Power of 10 (Zickerman), and/or Slow Burn (Hahn).

Have a fantastic journey.

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Success! Breakfast: 8 oz whole milk, two scoops of Body Fortress protein powder, one tbs. Nesquik, banana. I think the whole milk made this more filling and I got to lunch no problem. Lunch: fried shrimp, fried rice, Diet Coke. This made me sluggish for part of the afternoon. Dinner: Chef's salad w...

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Aug 26

Success!

Breakfast: egg, bacon , cheese on English muffin.

Lunch Webdys Numb. 1, medium with Coke.

Dinner Sirlion Steak, with garden salad with bleu cheese, whole milk.

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Success!

I got something right this week.

Also, made it to the rehab center and got the workout in.

Tomorrow!

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Success! Good day. Breakfast: bowl of Corn Chex, orange juice half a cup of strawberries. Lunch: chicken sausage, half a peach, yogurt, half a pickle Dinner: Texas Road House, rib eye steak, potato, house salad, roll w/butter. I ate half of the rib eye and potato. Really sore from yesterday's worko...

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That was interesting, thank you for posting.

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As some of you know, I don't dig oatmeal, but am willing to try the Old Wessex Scottish brand a go. But, I don't want to buy a twelve pack. Amazon only has twelve packs advertised. Does anyonw know where this brand maybe found in the singles?

Thank You

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I have the paperback copy and the digital copy on my Kindle Fire (and my parents told me TV was a waste of time

). Anyway, I lend my paperback copy to people when someone expresses an interest.

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08.14.13 I have been failing on a spectacular level lately. Monday and Tuesday were a wash. Today has been good. So far scrambled eggs and toast for breakfast and a garlic chicken sausage, wheat thins, and a pickle for lunch. I need to start flying straight, I appear to be showing some pre-diabetes ...

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Weekend has been good. I have apparently under fed the last two days, which never hurts. I did not get sore from Wednesday's workout, and looking forward to this coming Wednesday's workout. I am back on Cymbalta, my grandfather is in his last few days, weeks, months? And I have had some anxiety. It ...

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Those cookies aren't cheap either.

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I stumbled on this article this evening, I found it interesting:

http://www.exercisefraud.com/fatfarm.html

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Another vacation day. Have a good weekend, see everyone Monday.

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August One 2013

A "vacation" success day. Believe it or not.

Breakfast: Scrambled eggs w/ cheese and ham, toast, Coke

Lunch: Turkish Fare

Dinner:Two slices HawaÃ¯en pizza, garlic bread stick

Did a bodyweight Superslow workoutthis morning.

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I thought I would drop in...

Though traveling, and not no essing specifically, I am still eating less. Spent yesterday at the Pacific getiing blasted by 30 mph winds.

Got my workout in this morning, bodyweight, looking forward to next weeks gym workout.

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One meal a day is the premise of the Warrior Diet. One large meal in the evening. I tried it for a day. I didn't make it to breakfast.

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I'll be in California until Saturday. I will be taking S Days, but I seem to have a bit of a stomach virus so I am not eating a lot anyway. Nothing like being nauseated, with intestinal cramps between Wells and Elko.

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Congratulations, one month is excellent.

Over43 · 07.28.2013 S Day Traveling tomorrow.

S Day

Traveling tomorrow.

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S Day

Truth be told, this was an excellent S Day.

On to tomorrow.

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Annie,

I enjoyed your second post. I also lost a good deal of of weight on Atkins. But if I ge sick of steak, you know I over did it. Keep up the work.

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I forgot weight watchers. I am a dork.

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I saw a post in which the poster stated she had left No S for fast weight loss. I understand that sentiment. Then I started thinking about diets I have tried besides No S. And yes, some have come in the middle my No S journey, on and off journey. So here they are: Low Carb (of course) Paleo (see abo...

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July 26, 2013

Success!

It feels good to be able to write that down. Croissante sandwich and oj for breakfast. I had a Cuban sandwich for lunch. I skipped the fries, had a 12 oz. can of Coke. Dinner was a lovely bowl of chowder with two slices of French bread.

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Annie, may I add with others, my regrets at how family has spoken to you. I am one ofthose who can eat until he is sick, and do it over the next day. It isn't as bad as it was when I was young, but satiated is a feeling that I can not recognize.

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Well, after Cymbalta, a sun lamp, and whatever else my good doctor tried, he finally blood tested my testosterone levels. Sandra Bullock probably had more testosterone in her system than I did. That, the doc believes, was the root cause of depression, fat gain around my waist, etc. So I have been on...

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No, I'm the classic if I don't eat breakfast I end up eating more the rest of the day.

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How are all my pals doing? School starts in a month, which is good,I am spirraling without the structure of work. Fifteen years until I retire, my wife is already dreading it. I shelved the DDP Yoga, I started having all kinds of lower back pain. So I am doin the once a week Super Slow workout and c...

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Failure

Drank a 44 oz Coke. I will let a can of Coke go, butb44 oz has to be counted as a failure.

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06.25.2013

Success today and yesterday. The end of last week sucked.

I have been getting my DDP Yoga workouts in. Last Friday I got the Extreme workout in. More of an Insanity type workout than a "true" yoga workout.

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I need to change June 18 to failure. I ran into a date shake and a Hershey bar.

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06.18.2013

Success!

Breakfast: scrambled eggs and hash browns

Lunch: one pork rib, seven fries, bratwurst, half an avacado, mocha.

Dinner: Petite steak, mashed potatoes, slice of Italian sourdough, watermelon, glass of milk

Exercise: DDP Yoga Double Black Diamond

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There are S Days when I go wild. A kind of what the heck day. I have found when I do that my next S Day is usually more under control.

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Sorry to hear about your car. But the most important thing in a deer versus vehicle encouter is you are OK. That is often not the case.

Keep up the good work on the No S.

P.S. I need to ask, are you one of Christ's children? Or Elvis?

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Very interesting as Boris from Rocky and Bullwinkle would say. I do think some "eliminate a macrnutrient" diets are more valid than others, but I don't see them as being viable for most people over an extended period of time. I personally know I am not going to eliminate carbohydrates, or fat, from ...

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06.17.2013

Success!

Breakfast: Ham, egg, cheese croissant, diet Coke

Lunch: left over brisket, half a chicken tender, salad milk

Dinner: crock pot chicken over rice, salad, peach, chocolate milk

Exercise: DDP Yoga Strength Builder and nine holes with cart.

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June 16, 2013

Breakfast: Slim fast

Lunch: egg and sausage sandwich, pop tarts, Coke

Dinner: ribs, cole slaw, corn on the cobb, slice of Texas toast sans butter, Mt.Dew.

Walked around Jackson Hole.

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Hello Dee, Remember the immortal words of Dr. Christiaan Bernard: We do more damage to our health worrying about what we eat than we do by what we actually eat. Somewhere in there is a lot of wisdom. No S affords us the ability to stop worrying about what we are eating, I hope. So focus on three pla...

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06.15.2013

S Day

Thank goodness. I didn't eat breakfast until 10 AM and I grazed most of the day. Dinner was eggs and bacon. Exercise was the DDP Diamond Cutter. Great workout.

Have a Happy Father's Day tomorrow.

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06.14.2013

Success!

Breakfast: ham and egg on croissant, mocha

Lunch: bratwurst, shrimp salad, banana

Dinner: Slice of stuffed pizza, salad, one can of Coke

Exercise: Tomorrow

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June 13, 2013 Success! Breakfast: Sausage and an egg burrito, homemade latte w/Splenda Lunch: bratwurst, Cheese Its, shrimp salad, Coke Dinner: 2 homemade burritos, chocolate milk Played nine holes of golf with the cart I noticed on Jan 23, 2013 I had written that I was going to do DDP Yoga for two ...

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June 11, 2013 Success! Breakfast: ham, cheese, egg croissant and an iced mocha Lunch: 3 taco wagon tacos, small mango soda Dinner: Two fish fillets, onion rings, shrimp salad, apple, chocolate milk. Exercise: Not sure about tonight. On the exercise note, I went in yesterday for back and hip xrays, w...

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For new folks, Welcome, One of the nice things about No S is the idea that it is flexible. I think, in my opinion, that a bowl of oatmeal (yuck) on a plate, with other items would be a plate. Sometimes I go with three meals a day, I may have a bowl of soup and a sandwich. I count it as one plate. Sa...

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I was a sugar "addict" long before the low-fat admonitions. My older brother is a sweet freak and has always been slim, never followed any fad. But yeah, low fat didn't help. But I don't believe the majority really stuck to it. I think they were mostly like I was: eating compliant meals and then ov...

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06.11.2013 Success! Breakfast: hash browns and cheesy scrambled eggs Lunch: bratwurst, sliced tomato, corn Dinner: steak, macaroni salad, tomato/cucumber salad Exercise: DDP Yoga Diamond Cutter at 5:00 AM Two straight success days. I'm not sure what prompted me to get up and exercise at five, but it...

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06.10.2013

Success!

First successful day I have had in sometime.

Breakfast: croissant sandwich, iced mocha

Lunch: Late, eggs and bacon

Dinner: bratwurst on bun w/mustard, Mac and cheese, salad.

Exercise:DDP Yoga Double Black Diamond

Over43 · June 9, 2013 An S Day... Not much else to report.

June 9, 2013

An S Day...

Not much else to report.

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So I have always exercised, but during stress I do eat more. What the hey? I should be exercising more.

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I think, while either diet can work, it takes a very focused individual to do either. I'm not sure the case for moderation is taken with either approach and in his book Dr. McDougall writes that you can eat all the types of food he endorses, as much as you want, without repercussions. Although, I wo...

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June 8, 2013

Today was vacuuming day, I vacuumed up whatever food was around, and ate it. And, although it was an S Day I have decided to post everyday to get back in the habit. No exercise today, those days normally fall on M-T-Th-F. I like having Wednesday off as a rest day.

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What do I do when I fail? I just seem to naturally gravitate back to No S. Being healthy is a life long journey.

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Thank you for posting that. It was excellent.

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I have been absent for two months. Of all things, episode 686 arrived on my Facebook page this afternoon. I thought some might be interested in the Jimmy Moore podcast since Reinhard was interviewed a few years back. http://www.thelivinlowcarbshow.com/shownotes/ Enjoy the "banter" between Dr. McDoug...

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Well, it's been awhile, but I'm wandering back. I have been doing DDP Yoga 3-4 days a week. I have been eating like poo. Time to settle down a bit with my food. I hope everyone is doing well.

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Do what you want, if you are eating three meals a day, with a 3:00 PM snack, and losing weight, then hats off. I can't do that because a snack becomes a meal, or two.

Make the No S yours. Think of your 3:00 snack as a fourth meal.

Good luck.

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Well I am back from Palm Springs. Tuesday was a 14 hour, 1000 mile drive home. (Not quite a thousand miles.) I must be getting old, I used to remember when drives like that were an adventure. Now it's tedious. I lost a couple of pounds down there, I did a lot of swimming and walked the golf course, ...

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emmay wrote:Thanks No BS. I had a good weekend, some indulgences but no crazy eating. Ready for more green this week.

Power through the coming week.

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How does one end up in the Canadian Arctic?

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When I am lying (?) on a beach that is being lapped by Caribbean waves.

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The pup is Klaus. We had one earlier last summer, Amadeus, but he ran through the invisible fence into the path of an oncoming car. Klaus doesn't do that. I had an epiphany this morning at 2 AM while I was sicker than a dog. The last week and a half, I have had a hard time not eating. I think when I...

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A) You are a spamming Troll.

B) There is no such thing as detox.

C) You are a Troll.

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You are all fine posting on my thread if you would like. Jonas if you are interested in DDPY they ship world wide. In fact the team ddp yoga has a German group. I have joined, but, the one and only post has been in German (who would have thought?), and my language skills have faded since college. My...

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Fail I have eaten so much today I feel as if I should be ashamed. I am always embarrassed for Adam Richman when I see how much food he shoves in his pie hole, now I can be embarrassed for me. Well everyone have a good evening, apparently there is a storm warning for Eastern Idaho/Western Wyoming Sun...

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I agree that it is miserable, and the results might be dubious (even though the efficacy, NIH aside, is hard to determine for humans due to our built in longevity), and even Walford warned about anorexia, it is still an interesting theory for me. Obviously No Sers don't restrict their energy intake ...

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It seems that we often tunnel vision on a few diet genres here. Usually No S v. Low Carb, which might be just fine since some low carbers are pushier than network marketers who live down the road. Once in a while Dean Ornish comes up, I discovered John McDougall last week, and there has been talk of...

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Success!

Breakfast: Egg burrito, Ruthies Latte'

Lunch: Chicken Strips, 1/2 an order of fries, mozzerela stick (1)

Dinner: Left over pizza, chocolate milk

Workout: Double Black Diamond

Everyone have a good day!

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I don't remember drinking a Coke until I was 16 when I took a job at Burger King. Growing up it was Kool Aid, a glass, and milk. In the summers we were told to "get the heck out of the house..." No shirts, no sunscreen, and no shoes, (No we weren't pregnant...), at lunch time we had a sandwich and w...

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I have seen several of those documentaries. Fat Head might be my favorite, but possibly Food Inc. Is the most important. But I can't forget Joe Cross helping that trucker from Iowa lose all that weight in Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead. I enjoy documentaries as well. I really struggled with Super Size Me...

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Good job CTK. Keep it up.

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Success!

Breakfast: egg burritos cranberry juice

Lunch: TV dinner, handfull of chips (about 280 calories actually)

Dinner: A slice of Chicago Stuffed Pizza, salad, Diet Coke

Workout: Double Black Diamond, 69 minutes...

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I hate to use the word intuitively, but I think most of us intuitively know what we should, or shouldn't be eating. I used to wonder why people could lose weight on Atkins, Ornish, et. al. But when you step back and look at them, they have many things in common, no sweets, sodas, etc. I would includ...

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I imagine you listened to Reinhard' s message about WTH effect. Tomorrow is another day. I have such a short attention span that sometimes I forget I'm on No S until I have eaten so much I feel like crappola as well.

You are doing a good job, keep it up.

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