Everyday Systems

Blithe Morning

I'm reading Bread and Jam for Frances . (It's for work. Really!) Get this, for lunch at the end of the book Frances has (after she gets over having non-stop bread and jam) cream of tomato soup, lobster salad sandwich, celery, carrot sticks, black olives, two plums, a tiny basket of cherries, and van...

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I walked to work yesterday and today. It's a wee bit more than 3 miles and takes a wee bit under an hour counting stop lights and such things. Spot on with No S compliance. I did pile the plates yesterday, just because I felt the need although this morning I wasn't hungry till after my walk to work....

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Good insights. Trust the process, that you will naturally become more moderate on your S days over time. If after 6 weeks you find yourself still out of control bingeing, then maybe start tightening up on your S days like not doing snacks.

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To me, it's a sweet. Now a spoonful of hot cocoa mix in a cup of coffee is not since that is just sweetened.

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400 calories per meal? I agree, that's not much. Bumping up meals to 600 - 700 calories is not adding a heck of a lot of food. Per the advice above, add small amounts of calorie dense foods to your meals. Eat the "whole" or real versions of food. Cut back or eliminate the fat free/low cal versions. ...

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As the nutritional gatekeeper, you can start cutting back on the snack foods you keep in the house. And of course there is always the standard "You'll spoil your appetite."

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Usually, I consider a bowl a half plate and allow myself only a half plate of other food. I have also filled in around the bowl or cup.

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So last night I got home from Zumba class and was hit with a wave of nausea. Ew. It passed quickly so I thought maybe I'm hungry. I loaded up my plate of hamburger, chips, beans, 3 bean salad and fruit cup, enjoying every mouthful. After dinner, I collapsed on the couch and fell asleep. I dozed inte...

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I'm traveling again so I can't get on the scale. I'm trying not to mind that this is going to affect my data set. But I've been spot on with vanilla No S compliance and exercise so I would venture to say that my weight will remain stable. Yesterday, I took a long walk which is easy to do when you ar...

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Love that No S is getting out there. Keep us posted.

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I'm impressed. Now if we could only figure out a way to address the snacks and the sweets and the seconds...

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I wrote a post then deleted it because I realized it didn't address the core issue of the rules making sense which is something I've had to deal with. At the end of the day, we are all adults and each of us is responsible for ourselves. If you need to eat, then eat. If you don't, then don't. You can...

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I love riding my bike! I'm so glad you rediscovered it. My favorite bike paths are scheduled to be underwater this summer so I won't get much time on the bike this year.

Fortunately, I have some wide streets I can ride on.

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I've been weighing daily for several weeks to see just exactly how my weight responds to No S and my weight always goes up after S days. It then drifts down over the week. I track my weight by averaging weekly weights. And even though I wasn't seeking to lose weight, my weight has been inching down,...

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Back from my short vacation. I didn't have access to a scale but I was able to get my requisite walking in. My S days were extremely tame and on my one day of non-compliance (aka failure) the failures were small, mere dings to use KCCC's analogy of car wrecks. Since I was visiting my family and we e...

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Why are you using fat free cream cheese?

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Blithe, Sending what emotional support I can from a distance. What can others do to help? Will be thinking of you. KCCC Thank you ma'm. Support, even from a distance, is appreciated. I don't think there is much that can be done from afar except to make a point to check over not only your home emerg...

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Yesterday I did not do a workout. Rather I spent three hours sandbagging. When I say three hours, that is my best guess of time actually spent filling and hauling sandbags. That's not the time I spent waiting in line at the sand bagging facility or the lunch break we took. I was pleased to see that ...

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I started on 5/19/11. What I am wondering is if anyone started by simply not eating snacks, seconds or sweets but then again eating foods that are not restricted as in necessarily low fat, whole grain and all the rest. I am eating what I like which sometimes is whole grain, fruits, vegetables but I...

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I spent hours sandbagging last night as the low lying areas of our town might flood this weekend. Dinner was a hamburger and fries through a drive through at around 8PM as we were going from site to another. I expected a bump up in weight today because of eating the fast food but I was exactly the s...

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Grandma (the archetype grandma) ate the way she did because that's the all the food she had while growing up. There was enough for three meals (usually) and maybe some treats that someone made from scratch on special occassions or perhaps fresh fruit in season. There were no grocery store shelves ov...

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I too suggest re-framing your expectations for your first 21 days. Instead of thinking "I have to do this perfectly" you may want to view it as "I'm going to begin my learning curve." Work to be as compliant as possible, but if there is "fail" (or non-compliance if fail is too loaded a word for you)...

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Vanilla in this case does mean plain. But the ironic thing is that real vanilla flavor is a thing of sublime goodness and not bland or boring at all. Kinda like No S now that I think about it.

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It might have been a fail on the Habitcal but not on the Mothercal. Sometimes, a situation is worth the red mark.

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Wow. That's an amazing testimony as binge eating is quite serious.

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I gave away my print copy too. I'm thinking about asking the library to purchase it so I can request my friends go there as this could get expensive. Then of course they will want their own copy...

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Thanks for the cheers, Grammy. And good on you for finding opportunities to walk. Really, it's win/win/win all the way around. I don't know why more people don't do it. So, my weight this week is about 0.5 lbs higher than Tuesday last week but still following the downward trend from Monday to Friday...

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Grammy, oh no! Thanks for the reminder about storing chemicals & cosmetics.

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Welcome, Sandiko! Well done on your snacking revelation.

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Hi Tiffani! So sorry you are you struggling with your weight, but I'm glad you are back.

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S days continue to be tamer, thanks to the daily weight monitoring. Yesterday was walking day. I walked in the morning with friends. After our walk, I came home and mapped our walk on Google Earth using the path utility. We walked 3.5 miles, at about a 20 minute mile. My eldest son wanted to take us...

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The odds of being accosted in broad daylight are fairly slim. I'm not saying it doesn't happen but it doesn't happen frequently. We tend to remember the cases where it does happen because the victims are young, attractive women and the cases are rather high profile. The statistics show that a woman ...

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Nice job. Cars in Manhattan don't make sense to me.

On a slightly related note: did you hear the piece on NPR about the bike lanes in Brooklyn? I don't know if that is where you live, but I hope the bikers prevail.

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Oh, heck. I start my S days on Friday nights with dinner. Not Friday morning if someone brings in a treat, not Friday afternoon at the dreaded 4PM slump, not Friday when I get home from work and I'm hungry and want to nibble my way to dinner (ruining my appetite as I go) but with dinner . Friday nig...

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Read Brian Wasink's book "Mindless Eating". To a certain degree we are hardwired to eat if food is available. I imagine that some of us have stronger urges to forage for food than others, which today looks like going in search of a snack. You would have been the rock stars back in the hunter gathere...

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Go, Thalia, go!

Today is ride your bike to work day.

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I averaged my weight last week and this week and I'm three quarters of a pound lighter this week. As I mentioned above, this all could be within the normal variation and not representative of any weight loss. My goal isn't really weight loss but finding out what happens to my weight when I am compli...

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NoSRocks, on my daily check in thread, I've been weighing myself daily as part of an experiment. The last two weekends, I've gained 3-4 lbs on the weekends and lost it by Friday. Keep going!

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I went to S events. I allowed myself 5 a week with each S counting as 1. So if I had seconds and a dessert that was 2.

But even that was too much tracking for me so I went back to Vanilla No S.

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I'm sure most of you know this, but ...er, "elimination" (ok, I'll say it - urination) before you weigh makes a difference. This morning's before weight, 145.4, the after weight, 144.6. This is why weight can be so fickle and we shouldn't give too much importance to one measurement. Based on the obs...

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I can't think of what vitamin you are missing by giving up snack foods or sweets.

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As part of an initiative to start people biking and I imagine walking instead of driving short distances, Clif Bar has set up the 2 Mile Challenge. Log your miles May - October to earn points for the team you joing (350.org, Alliance for Walking and Biking and National Safe Routes to School Partners...

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There's definitely a bloat factor. I don't know that I would call it detoxing but I feel puffier and weigh more on the weekends than I do during the week.

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Interesting, but one of the unintended consequences of daily weighing is that I did calm down my S days, which definitely needed calming. This is both good and bad, in that (good) my S days are calmer and (bad) I don't think daily weighing/charting is sustainable for the long term so I won't really ...

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Food allergies or some other medical consideration might be at play here. Until you figure that, try plating your meals differently. Plate breakfast then eat half of it, eating the other half when that hunger hits. Do the same for lunch and dinner. Your mod could be No Sweets and No Seconds, eating ...

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People have different circadian rhythms, that's for sure. DH is a night owl. He can stay up to 1AM no problem. Not me. I'm an early morning person. I wake up without prompting by 6, often earlier. It doesn't surprise me the same is true for hunger. You're hungry when you're hungry and that's just th...

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Down 4.5lbs since I started. I'm on track with No S and workout requirements.

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Alexandra, when you say minimal weight loss what do you mean? How much have you lost? How much do you want to lose?

Looser pants while enjoying your treats on weekends and having full meals seems like a good deal to me, even if it did take four months to get there.

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Jaimie's chicken fingers. I like the part about bashing the chicken with a pan. http://www.jamieoliver.com/us/foundatio ... IC_CHICKEN

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Any diet with martini in the name has to be good! The rules sound very sane.

I remember when I was a girl hearing about businessmen and the two martini lunch, whatever that was. Of course, showing up back at work w/ two martinis in you would be immediate grounds for dismissal in most jobs today.

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Not really. The closest I've found is the 9inch Diet. Some here have found books on intuitive eating helpful, but I like the structure and boundaries of No S. That said, there are several books which complement No S. Mindless Eating by Brian Wasink. In Defense of Food and Food Rules by Michael Polla...

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I will drink juice but not often. I usually drink a whey protein powder drink if needed because it keeps me fuller longer than juice does and I don't like milk.

ETA: I'm not looking to lose weight either. I do want to maintain.

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Down 2.4 lbs in 2 days. Again, I doubt I really "lost" that weight. So far, still compliant with all the Doable Fitness requirements. Doing research I think makes it easier to be compliant in that I want a clean data set. Thanks Grammy. I'm nerdish enough that I think approaching this from a scienti...

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I gained 3.5 lbs this weekend!

Ok, so I doubt I really gained that much. Still, it's instructive to see the impact of S days. Interesting.

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Rationale: I've been doing No S at varying levels of compliance for about 3 years. My weight has remained stable and even the less/non-compliant times have not resulted in noticeable weight gain. However, this is more a sense on my part than actual data. Given the propensity of people to be optimist...

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talia, well done! Re: S days. I don't think you earn them. They are just part of the plan. I think making food a reward is part of Diet Head in that it gives food a power that it should not have. Pretty soon, you start feeling deserving or unworthy then entitled or deprived. Not a good place to be m...

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I think the unlimited (how) was as significant as the Froot Loops, Cocoa Puffs, peanut butter cookies, Reese's Pieces, etc. (what). A while back I was eating some sort of cracker and ate and ate ate. I literally felt I could not stop. And it wasn't even that good after all was done. A very odd exper...

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Woah, that's a big thing to give up. Harder than the usual ones, I'd have thought. I should clarify that I replaced some of my browsing with devotional reading. And I was also scrambling to finish my thesis, so I had a huge project with defined outcomes to keep me occupied. It could have been a lot...

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Great opinion piece, Wosnes. Really, cooking from scratch with plain ingredients is about as far from elitist as you can get even though the re-discovery of this practice is entering the culture through the university and old guard media. One of the reasons I was so hopeful about a Food Revolution T...

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Rather than tweaking No S can you add exercise or something like a new hobby to the weekend to keep your hands busy? The general counsel is to not get too restrictive on S days. How long have you been doing No S? If you absolutely must, maybe just pick one of the No S to carry through on the S day, ...

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Getting children on board w/ No S is pretty important. I've been doing some childhood obesity work and the statistics are alarming. My state, SD, is ranked 35th in the nation in terms of childhood obesity with a rate of 13.5% according to a Robert Wood Johnson study. ( F as in Fat: How Obesity Threa...

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I'm closer to the McLa-Z-Boy family than the Stickley's myself. They like chicken nuggets? Well, show them that chicken nuggets made from scratch aren't difficult and are equally as tasty. On the Food Revolution Community Facebook page, there are a number of people who specifically mentioned the fro...

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Since a spoonful of sugar in coffee is allowable, a spoonful of ketchup on a burger or hotdog is also allowable. I don't think too many people have gotten fat from eating ketchup.

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I read that it was ratings too. And I'm sure that's part of it. But I don't think it's ALL of it. I mean, after only two episodes, how bad can the ratings be? It won an Emmy last year which is probably why ABC lined it up for May sweeps month. And now they move it to Friday nights in June which is a...

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Have you seen Jaimie's Oliver's Food Revolution ? The tv show focused on getting Jamie to overhaul a US school lunch program and he was having a dickens of a time this year getting into the Los Angeles system. Jaimie had a very sensible approach to food that was compatible with NoS, especially No Sw...

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I have hot Bengal Spice Celestial Seasonings tea w/ half and half. It's my psychological dessert.

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I'm curious. Did anyone sign up and get accepted? What's the process like? What sorts of info do you have to provide. Unless you have some sort of non-disclosure agreement, I'd love to hear the back story.

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I need to eat fresh veggies regularly. I can tell the difference if I go too many days w/o.

That said, I can't really call it a craving.

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I use a protein drink for the same situation just so I'm compliant with the drink part. I think the idea of throwing a spoonful of yogurt in a shaker cup with water is a good one. You'll get hydrated too, which is important for working out. The older I get the creakier I feel if I don't have somethi...

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You know, I read a blog post related to spiritual disciplines that pertains here. Sometimes, you have to practice a discipline because it addresses a specific struggle you have and not because it's part of living the faith. The article gave the example of dominating a conversation. One could invoke ...

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I was away too but only because I gave up recreational internet browsing for Lent. I did notice that my NoS compliance really suffered w/o the board support. I've never done a check in thread but I may start as I'm discovering that yes, even I respond to the positive reinforcement that comes from tr...

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Why are you fasting?

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Well done murphu! Getting the weight off around your waist is especially noteworthy as waist weight has a strong correlation to disease and illness.

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QC: Oh my weekend was over the top too. Part boredom, part stress relief, part hormones.

It happens.

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The oranges at dinner were a success. I wasn't sure DH or DS would eat them, but they did. Huzzah!

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I agree with Noel. I generally don't snack on S days as snacking makes me feel ucky but at the beginning it was important to me to be able to do so. I now have a mod where I have S opportunities. I allow myself 5 - 6 during a week. I had seconds and sweets on Wed. and seconds and sweets on Friday so...

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Vicki, You've given me an idea. I have some oranges and apples that need eating up. Maybe I'll start preparing them as a finish to our dinner.

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My inner toddler needs a nap. My outer big girl does too. I swapped menus around tonight just so I could have spaghetti, meatballs and homemade bread with Newman's Own Sockarooni Sauce and a liberal application of parmesan cheese. And a salad. I do like the salad. We were going to have pork chops bu...

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I hated, I hate, I will hate cooked spinach. Because of cooked spinach and hot creamed tuna, I never forced my kids to eat foods that they disliked. This summer I took a class with a guy who didn't like onions. Onions! I love onions. I think he's probably taken a lot of grief for his onion hating be...

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Puttanesca. mmmmm

I really should stop reading food related posts after 4PM.

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Lots of good insights here. We are hard wired to eat and to find it pleasurable. If we didn't, we'd go extinct pretty quickly.

Behavior CAN overcome biology but be patient with yourself. This is hardest when your habits are still just forming.

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I raised two US Marines. They sure learned to run.

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I think we as a people are still sorting out nutritionism and good eating. According to this article, the food program in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) does not add salt to its from-scratch offerings. Nasty, indeed. http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/ct-met-new-school-lunches-20110220,0,6830768.sto...

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DH loves that type of show. We don't get Showtime but he is all about the Syfy.

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So sorry to hear about your mother, KCCC. That's got to require some major life overhaul. I do agree that a low sodium restaurant would be much welcomed, especially as the baby boom starts getting up there in years. I think about this as high blood pressure runs in the women on my side of the family...

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I'm out of the loop on teen television. I can't imagine the crap a cheerleader would take for wearing even part of a uniform other than on a game day. I would suspect that it might even be against regulations in some schools as some coaches are very strict about those sorts of things. I know that my...

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IIRC, sugar also influences "mouth feel".

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I'm in the real food category myself (mostly). What I mean by real food means is anything I don't make from scratch has to have ingredients that I can pronounce and could find on my grocer's shelf. I do allow myself a little wiggle room i.e. Panko bread crumbs as they have dextrose. Things I buy pre...

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Our kitchen is maybe from the 70's. We have counter space but no island, no pot filler faucets, a double stainless steel sink. I essentially use a 16" x 32" (I measured it!) space to cook. I could get an extra 10"deeper by moving the utensils, the scale and the knives but I'm not sure to where. I ha...

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Vicki, well done on scoring one on diet head!

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I keep this in mind. I'm 46 and happy with my weight. But I'm becoming more careful about my eating and have started hitting the weights hard to hang on to muscle mass. However, it seems once you are through menopause the weight can come off, judging by the experiences of some of our over 50 women.

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All the best on this endeavor, Bright Angel! I'm sure you'll keep the good moving forward.

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I just realized I've had homemade chocolate chip cookies in my desk for over a week. I threw them out since they weren't wrapped and I suspect they are stale.

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I eat lunch in front of the computer at work because I don't have any other place to eat. But just because I'm at my desk doesn't mean I have to be ON the computer. Something to think about.

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Interesting. I didn't know that about Candida. Hope you feel better soon.

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132. Yeesh. I don't think so.

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Nice! Welcome back.

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wosnes wrote:hehe -- I think ideal weight should be determined by how much you weigh when you look in a mirror and think, "not bad," OR when your favorite pair of jeans fit. Or both. Only slightly teasing here....

Girl, you're so sane you're crazy.

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Hooked? Probably not.

But a lot of us here have found that after a while sugar isn't as enjoyable as it used to be. It's too sweet and the little zing that it gives you not really all that pleasant. So, cucumbers might start tasting better.

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I think ideal weight should be determined by some co-efficiented metric of BMI, waist size, body fat %, muscle mass volume, eye color and shoe size.

Especially shoe size.

In other words, I don't think weight can really be determined by a formula.

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