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oolala53 wrote:noni, I have had those phases, too. Merry, I don't have cabinet doors! in my 498 sq. ft place!

Wow, you must be getting very efficient in using your space!

Merry

Welcome and congrats on your first day! It's definitely a change and there can be some bumps in the road as you figure out what will work for you, how much is enough food etc... With regard to plate size, there are no rules (well, other than if you are eating out and the plate is more like a platter...

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Welcome! I hope you have a great year with No-S. It has definitely changed the amount of sugar I eat (not only on the regular days, but even on S days when we can eat sugar, I find myself not wanting as much, or sometimes thinking something tastes too sweet--something I would NEVER have said in the ...

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and merry, you are my hero this month!! all green in such a festive month! excellent!!!! :) Merry I just had a look at your calendar, you have had a perfect December! Well done, you must have iron willpower to get through all of those treats hanging around :D Aw, thanks you two! I think I just do w...

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But the difference between this Holiday season and those in the past is, I would get very discouraged and give it all up, then come crawling back, wishing I hadn't. This time giving up hasn't even crossed my mind, and I'm feeling hopeful this coming year. Yay! Keep it up, so glad you are feeling ho...

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I posted this on my year check-in: Favorite breakfast: fruit and yogurt smoothies (usually frozen berries and vanilla yogurt, sometimes a banana or some greens thrown in) Lunches: half a sandwich (pb & J or meat/cheese), piece of fruit, pretzels & hummus, or sometimes leftovers, or sometimes cheese ...

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Happy New Year, everyone! Well, got home from my weekend trip and found there are STILL some cookies/treats left in this house! And...I felt like I might be a little jealous about that this week (even though I have a little baggie stashed aside for myself for next weekend)--so I stashed another litt...

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bunsofaluminum wrote:Oh boy, your one year check in was inspirational! As oolala says, did you ever make it a solid year with any eating plan? I know I never have. It was just what I needed.

Thanks!

I did, but it still didn't end well--posted Dec. 6th about that experience!

Hang in there!

Merry

Decaf mocha was a mainstay either in the afternoon or after dinner for me for a few years! I've had it this holiday, too. Do you buy a mix? If so, what kind? (The one I used to buy all the time is no longer sold in our town. I can order it online but it costs twice as much! Wondering if there are o...

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oolala53 wrote:I think everyone should have to read this thread before they start and definitely before they modify or leave!

Yes! It's an awesome thread!

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Happy New Year, everyone! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: 8) :mrgreen: 8) :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: 8) :mrgreen: 8) :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: 8) 8) 8) 8) :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: 8) :mrgreen: 8) :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: I ...

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oolala53 wrote:Were others able to copy and paste kaali's calendar?

I always quote the person, then copy the calendar from the "quote" but don't actually post. Then I go back and hit reply and paste my new calendar.

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Add me in too, please, Oolala. I was confused about what we were going to do at first, but my plan is to be around for the year (and more, Lord Willing!) I have a check-in and will also use the monthly-check-ins.

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Great answer, Bluebell! I've lost weight on other diets (and lost faster than I've lost on No-S). But I've never kept that weight off because diets don't address life-long habits and I wasn't willing to continue those diets life-long. So, I came to No-S tired of yo-yo diets, and decided I just neede...

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Yeah, that's what I thought he'd say. Not a lot of cupboard space unfortunately!

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Whew! End of the month is in sight! Now, if I just enjoy a few treats moderately and don't become an idiot over the weekend, LOL!

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I think you have the right idea with a walk (exercise + sunshine on the face). Maybe you could find an exercise video you like (Leslie Sansone has "walking" exercise dvd's that I often use in the winter). One thing I like about her stuff is that you are often moving the opposite arm/leg, which helps...

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I hope you give it a good try. You can do this!

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I often have feelings like that too, even in relation to people I know are good friends! With my husband's disability, we tend to be a more quiet family and not as social. Plus since my mom moved in with my grandma several years ago, no one else is here for Christmas--so it can be quiet and lonely e...

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worth it wrote: Still plugging away. I had an NWS day as well as 2 fails since I last checked in, but am not really freaking out about it for some reason. Maybe it's the holiday season, but whatever, I'm in this for the long haul.

Good for you!

Merry

Congrats on a good day!

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Ugh! FAIL Not huge, after dinner chocolate and then a bit more! Am I ever going to get this!!!! I'm going to keep it honest and keep posting. 21 days will mine!!! Any tips appreciated. One thing I do know is if I eat dinner when I am not hungry (so I can eat with my family), it usually leads to a f...

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oolala53 wrote:Wansink says the only food on a counter associated with a lower weight is fruit. Everything else is risky. Just saying.

So, where does he suggest putting the holiday cookies in a family situation? I'm not sure we really have another place TO put them, LOL!

Merry

My breakfast is almost always a fruit/yogurt smoothie. The other meals vary.

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oolala53 wrote:Mine are going into a little storage space off the garage...

Nice!

I have the chocolate from my stocking stowed in my desk drawer (in the folder labeled bills, LOL! A little something fun when tax season comes...)

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oolala53 wrote:If the Joneses were permachocolate-and-crud-food snackers.

LOL, my mind wanted to make this rhyme. Trying to decide if I like crud-fud or crude-food better!

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Tortie wrote:I'm sorry that these aren't the exact quotes..

The first that bit me on the bum, was:

something like...You are 50 lbs overweight, you have no business worrying about antioxidants.

YES! I remember this one sticking out to me too!

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Monday I was so glad for an N day, it wasn't hard at all for me, but today, all the goodies still out on the counter started calling to me. I left them alone though! I've got my stash in the freezer (and I've got a stash of chocolate from my stocking in my desk drawer--I'm kind of excited to see how...

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Packed myself a small baggie today! I don't know if the goodies will still be around by this weekend--but even if they are, I won't be home, and I know they won't still be around in 2 weeks! So, I put a few favorites in the freezer for a couple of weeks from now!

Merry

Interesting idea, you'll have to let us know how that works out. What made you think of that (rather than something like one day per week as a way of cutting down S days?) We keep our tree up until after Epiphany but don't necessarily have special foods etc... that whole time. I find my body has cer...

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threewhales wrote:I am back and ready to develop some good habits that will carry me through!
I am home and it feels right.

Welcome back!

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So sorry you're sick. I hope you're feeling better soon. What a blessing that your mom is there!

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We both reflected that now that we eat mostly healthily most of the time, our bodies can't comfortably handle excess eating any more! Sometimes I wonder if it's not so much that my body can't handle it, but that I felt awful most of the time when I ate too much food/too much sugar most of the time,...

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Thank you Merry, I hope you had a MERRY Christmas as well!! Today turned into a red dot day. Kept sneaking licks of every piece of cheesecake I served, evening sides up...that kind of thing. Grazed through both lunch and dinner. The last two kids got the stomach bug so our official Christmas dinner...

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Bunsof/ thankyou for posting. Ur right it is a dieter mentality. But currentky my S days are chaotic and stressful so I wouldn't yet be able to add S days on top of red days. It is something to think about in the future though. I will be looking for mods for S days until my eating is under better c...

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tracey0829 wrote:Finally a GREEN day. I did end the day with some chocolate milk, which is borderline questionable, but i'm okay with that!!!!

Yay for a green day!

Merry

Have you looked at what makes you switch--what is your mindset that encourages you to switch daily? Are you thinking that you want something you'll like better, or that's more effective or that works faster...are you bored? Something else? I think if you can figure out the thought process that trigg...

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the two sisters whose book I read about a decade ago and who were the only ones who had a system that I followed for any length of time. Can't remember their names right now but I do still have the book and the card index system I made when I read it first time out. The Sidetracked Home Executives ...

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Oooh, great thread idea! I'll have to go through and highlight some and decide!

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LOL, I'm with you--so glad tomorrow is an N day!

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Merry Christmas!

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lpearlmom wrote:sliding in my socks all over the house w my kids

The BEST kind of exercise!

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Welcome Lizzie--you can do this! (And as Maggie said, join the monthly challenges if a year is too long to commit to).

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Amy3010 wrote: I think what worked best for me so far was to have a small meal a few hours before yoga and then a small snack (like an apple and yogurt), that could have fit on my plate earlier, when I get home at 8:30.

Sounds like a good solution, I'm glad you found something to work for you on those days!

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lpearlmom wrote:
Exercise: running through the Costco parking lot in the pouring rain

LOL!

Happy Hanukkah!

Merry

Hope you are enjoying time with family and friends

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FB reminded me of a video I saw 5 years ago--Josh Groban singing O Holy Night, set to scenes from The Nativity Story. Thought I'd post a link for those who might enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zh-yR0pbmU

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Hi all, and season's greetings! I left No S after a few months, mainly due to my previous brain-washing from other writers (mainly Gillian Riley, who's anti-diet, anti-rules and anti-caring-about-weight-loss, and Debra Waterhouse who is pro-snacking), but also because I wasn't losing any weight. Lo...

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Another 1/4 lb down this morning 8) Can't weigh in tomorrow and then it will be Christmas etc so probably my low for the year is 11st 10.5 lb which is 12.75lb off in just under three months. Not bad. I am not writing off the end of the year though. I still have 5 more greens to put on my habitcal.....

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oolala53 wrote:It's a skill to either ignore or talk back to reasons to eat between meals. We can't depend on their not cropping up.

This is so true!

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babybird wrote: The mind can be a manipulative thing.

It sure can! Sorry you had a rough day, but at least you're looking at it and learning from it.

Hang in there!

Merry

21/12/16 green day as was yesterday. So many urges to eat Ferraro Rocher!! Several times I had the instant - I need to eat as I was anxious about little things. Kept thinking well I just can't eat sweet as its a N day and the urge passed very quickly. Previously I would convince myself to have just...

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Ugh, I hate the stomach flu. Hope you are feeling 100% soon!

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LOVE a good thrift-store bargain! Enjoy! Yeah, I think it's hard to communicate to family or even friends--I think you really have to be in the right mindset to accept No-S. It's so obvious...and yet so radical, all at the same time! I do get wanting to "take that weight off now!" I have to fight th...

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Christmas cookies baked...can't wait to try one tomorrow! More baking to do then...

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Jen1974 wrote:Mine is a sucessful fail story (:

These are good to celebrate too--when we see growth in how we respond!

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Bluebell wrote:Shortbread out on the table for guests, none passed my lips!

wow! Way to go!

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I would like to ask if others can relate to this but I've noticed that as I don't have anything to follow with no S apart from a set structure-3 plates a day, I've been bored as I'm not reading literature on the diet or googling or calculating/ evaluating a specific diet. I've been bored... As I ha...

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How's it going, Mimi? Hope you're maintaining as you wanted to. We're rooting for you!

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Good S days, with three meals plus chocolate, and on Sunday I nibbled M&M's after dinner. I have to regrettably count today as a red day, because I ate a (not that delicious) sugar cookie at lunchtime. Yes, it was part of the meal, but I haven't been "allowing" myself sweets so... and today I've be...

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Amy3010 wrote:Bah humbug - Monday was red. Okay, determined to have the last 9 N days this month green. That will still make it my greenest month in 2016!

Go for it!

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nettee wrote:Success - December's habitcal is looking good

Awesome!

Merry

Of course not! Be proud that you don'' know old time drug culture. It just means that someone is looking for a fix. I'm not sure, either, but I think it was for heroin. Some equate it with craving. Maybe I'm usiing it wrong because craving to me is much stronger than what I usually feel, but it's a...

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Oh, I thought you were starting to think you would miss your Friday S routine enough to change your mind. Ah, gotcha! Well, I'm with you on that thought then! I really WILL miss it, but I'm determined to keep to what I (very rationally!) decided. In October I hit 184 but regained those lost lbs. wh...

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lpearlmom wrote:Glad you had a nice time!

Thanks. Our pastor's family hosted, and they are such a blessing. It really was a great time.

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I love it, go for it, Maggie!

I fully intend to be here a year from now, but can't wrap my mind around a year-long challenge. I need things in smaller bits and have appreciated the monthly challenges for that!

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What about Christmas Eve? Won't there be sweets you want to take advantage of? Or did you declare it an S so that you could nibble in between meals? Both good reasons. Not sure I follow you. My normal S days are Friday and Sunday. I switched it for this week so that Saturday and Sunday would be the...

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5'6" 120 lbs is a SIZE 12???? I'm 5'5" and would have to LOSE 22 pounds to be that FAT (Not going to happen on purpose!) I can wear most 8''s. I'm 5'5" and the last time I was at your weight (142 it sounds like), I was wearing a size 12! (that was about 15-17 years ago). That's actually about where...

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The STRong Way (a thread here) calls it "jonesing." That really puts it in perspective for me. Oh, I'm just jonesing. I've heard that a few times, but fear I am missing some really obvious reference or meaning that I should know--I have no idea why it makes sense to call it that! Should I crawl bac...

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The huge advantage I found both today and yesterday is I was 100% able to control urges to eat sweet food and therefore binge. This is the ONLY plan that has given me control over managing to abstain from food when I've been stressed out.... and having a demanding 11 month old I definitely am!! AWE...

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Well, now I've created a little quandry for myself! I switched my S day this week from Friday (my normal S day) to Saturday on habitcal for the holiday--only I'd forgotten that I'd decided that and I've REALLY been looking forward to my Friday morning treat this week! Oy! I think I'd better leave th...

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oolala53 wrote:But other things affect the sense of satisfaction as well, and No S can't cure those. Good ol' human frailty!

Ugh! Sorry you're still going through a rough patch (I was hoping maybe you were turning a corner here).

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oolala53 wrote:To me there's a big difference between that hollow feeling and just desire with no hollow feeling.

Yes! I've always referred to the latter as "the munchies." That means "I want to eat" (and may not even know WHAT I want to eat!) but not "I'm hungry."

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Gotta celebrate those kinds of victories

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A weird thing that happened though was one of the woman offered to loan me her ski clothes for our ski trip coming up and she asked me my size in front of everyone. It was a little uncomfortable and I was surprised when she said she had stuff that fit me. For some reason I thought she was heavier t...

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Welcome back! You should copy your post and put it somewhere when you are tempted to leave NO-S again--remind yourself where you have found success!

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Not sure what you mean by evening out, though it might be true. Can you say a little more? I guess I just meant that after not really feeling hunger for a time, now you are struggling the other way and having some red days (whether that's due to sweets, snacks, or seconds calling to you). The body ...

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I did WW for a short period of time. I bought the scales/ book/ app / ww yoghurt/ wraps. I spent a lot of time understanding the Plan and buying specific food. It was mentally very time consuming. I lost weight very quickly. 4 pounds in a week but it all came back on once I had stopped. Yeah, that'...

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Rather than reading testimonials, I encourage you to read the thread on people who left and came back. They nearly all left because they felt they weren't losing fast enough and they nearly all come back heavier, regretting they ever left, and determined to make sane habits, not weight loss, their ...

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oolala53 wrote:Does open house pretty much mean all-day eating affair? (for the others) I can forgo a lot of pumpkin but I did have an order of pumpkin pancakes with pumpkin creme at Denny's this year. Me and pancakes still got a good thing goin'.

Well, eating from 3-6! Still too much... Nice time though!

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lpearlmom wrote:Yay for pumpkin! I don't know if you have a trader joes by you but I love going three during the Fall. Pretty much everything is pumpkin! 🎃

Enjoy your open house tomorrow!

Linda

Thanks! Sadly no Trader Joes by us!

Merry

It doesn't help that I'm failing so often and have never been able to find the balance between wanting to avoid failure enough to tough it out and getting miffed when I had to record it, despite all my advice to others. I kind of wonder if you are going through a phase of "evening out" in a way, af...

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I dunno what happened to all that.,as I think I've been mostly failing. However, the good news, I guess, is that it takes only one good meal gap to feel I'm back on track and that I haven't ruined things! I so appreciate this about No-S! Hope we can all end December strong! I'm glad for an N day to...

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Looking forward to a Christmas open house tomorrow, and made iced pumpkin cookies to take. Can't wait to have one tomorrow (today's an "N" day for me, so I didn't eat any). We love pumpkin anything here!

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Hang in there!

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My son has a couple of minor breaks in his little finger :( and I had to leave the meal before it was served. Technically a fail as I didn't have a proper lunch and the flapjack was definitely sweet! Sometimes life just conspires against us. Ouch! However, "splint" starts with S, and since you made...

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Yay for a green day!

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Jen1974 wrote:No S is learning to fail small.

Yes! I totally agree!

MaggieMae, I totally think that having a small fail is a sign of victory & should be celebrated for not becoming a big fail. Good for you!

Merry

noni wrote:I think it's called vanity sizing. Not sure when they did this. Maybe the 80's? I'm sure it was done to make people feel better about shopping for clothes, so they spend more of their money.

Did women's sizes ever make sense? Men's sizes are so logical...

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Great job Bluebell and Maggie!

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Sorry the class didn't happen, but I hope it turns out to be good. I have a few Leslie Sansone dvds too. I like to rotate those in during the winter when it's harder to walk. My favorite workout though is the T-Tapp Basic workout (14 minutes even! with an optional 2-minute add-on move at the end). I...

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Aw, sorry your kiddos are sick, I always hated to see mine sick. Hope they are feeling better soon!

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I don't do mods because I wouldn't be able to stick to them (if I let a "treat" be allowed, I think it would be a slippery slope for me, LOL! So for me, it makes all my internal alarm bells go off! But I know it seems to work for some. I would say that if you do introduce a mod, give yourself a foll...

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MaggieMae wrote:
Me, too, noni! It's been kinda quiet on here lately so I've been reading the first posts. They're new to me!

I've always meant to go back and see what I posted when I was first here in 08 or so...

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LOL, I remember that episode!

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My Mum and Dad live half an hours drive on the motorway. Merry well done on your loss this year. I watched you start and am mad with myself to not be 2 stones lighter than this time last year like you are. Thanks. Be gracious to yourself--we're all dealing with different things, and it sounds like ...

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I'm sorry about the funeral. That would definitely be a rough day. Hoping this week goes well for you--good for you for hanging in there.

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Sounds like a good idea for the storage box! I keep my s-day treats in a file drawer at my desk, LOL! I don't think about it too much, and only notice if I open the drawer. Sometimes I forget it on S days, and then will notice a week or two later & wonder what's in there, LOL!

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I often do my exercise routine during a TV show too. Whatever gets it done!

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Welcome back, Anne! I'm so sorry to hear about your father. Does he live near you--are you involved in his care? I hope your transition back to NoS goes well!

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Thanks, I'm looking forward to year 2!

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