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I coteach with four teachers in high school. In previous years, we typically had between 35 and 40 students in our classes with up to half of them Spec Ed. (Yes, that's not supposed to happen.) In my opinion, they were nightmares. This year, the classes are a bit smaller, the students are older, and...

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With that hostess, play hard to get! Good going.

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Weekend felt good. Green Monday. Failed today.

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Welcome, gingerlily and Heather. Try to focus on sane habits first. if you can. How well has focusing on the scale worked in the past? If not much, it's a perfect time to try something else. I'm pretty sure sane habits has led to more satisfaction and peace than having a perfect body has. There are ...

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I have long said that people shouldn't be aiming right off the bat at lowering calories, but just as Reinhard recommends, concentrate on habit, even if it means ending up eating the same amount of food for awhile. Start at the highest possible calories! But that works only if the person is willing t...

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It wouldn't happen fast, Merry. I deduce that it would take about a year or more. Along other lines: My obsession with finding more and more reasons for moderation and ways to manage appetite is strong, like voracious diet explorers. (Drooling over The Hungry Brain is an example.) Actually even stro...

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I'm kinda hijacking the thread, so skip this if plain No S is your main focus. I'm serious. Boy, Tracey, my obsession with finding more and more reasons for moderation and ways to manage appetite is strong, too, like voracious diet explorers. Actually even stronger than my attachment to food. Lettin...

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To anyone who joins this challenge, please consider sometimes bumping your recording up for us poor sots who aren't good at coming in a daily basis to update. Edits do not get email alerts.

Thanks.

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In looking at the original page Reinhard wrote as a bit of explaining of the 14 words (because a newbie on Spark was asking so many questions), I came across a link to this thread and decided to bump it up. It's too bad some people who have quit because they got too discouraged after having the stat...

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Kudos Kudos Kudos

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Unfortunately, almost all people reach a standstill in weight loss, and it's rarely at as low a weight as they want. The body can do a lot to protect its fat stores and keep its set point. It thinks it's saving your life! Even if you were ever thin, having a higher weight for longer than a few month...

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Honestly, TFK, when you said that, I felt a cold feeling in my stomach because it is so rare for people to truly know this is it until it's at least a year or even more. That's true for any big eating change, especially anyone who had an emotional eating habit. But I'm trying not to be a prematurely...

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Such a feat!

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lin, skipping any of the S's on S days as a matter of course (meaning without making some new rule about it) because you just don't enjoy them IS vanilla to me. S days were never meant to stay free-for-alls. In the book, Reinhard said eventually S days were meant to pretty closely resemble N days wi...

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And you want the comfort in your body of not overeating, and having no regrets when your head hits the pillow!

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You'll probably find later that you can tolerate a few non-routine meals, but it can sure throw you in the beginning, if that's what you're already used to. I think the brain thinks, okay, the experiment is over, we can go back to the old habits. And I completely agree to have other reasons to stick...

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Bluebell, I've always felt the same way, though I occasionally entertained being stricter about what I had on my plate or even-shudder-calorie restriction and monitoring. But I never considered snacking. Even recently, when I gave myself a bit of a break, I never thought of myself as letting it go, ...

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It seems you could afford to have a small snack, something un-dense like an apple, a couple of hours before dinner. When I've failed with something like that, I found that hunger came back in a relatively short time. Alternately, you could save something from your brunch to have for that snack and s...

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gingerpie, do you have a check-in thread?

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Do reading specialists work with regular-sized classes at a time?

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I admit I didn't really commit until 12/26 (of 2009). But since you can have generous plates of the savory foods of the season any day (and ask to be able to take home offerings that look especially good), it's definitely doable with a minimum of pain even now. And you'll enjoy your food more! If yo...

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This is all such good news, and your weight loss is not slow at all on No S. In fact, it's rather stunning! I think most people don't lose that fast. I agree with you that ideally, NWS days should be designated in advance. Otherwise, it will take precious decision currency from automaticity, as the ...

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I've had a ton of failures since two months of going back to full time work in July. I have decided to let myself ease back in with a mod because next week may be my last week teaching (and thus a possible ending to being around a lot of people and this kind of "ritual" obstacle to resolve). This wi...

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So sorry for your difficulties and big kudos for your guidelines. We're on your side!

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I keep thinking I'm getting things strict again, but it's spotty. Going to have to do some inner digging. I'm thankful I have only 7 days left to be around food before the winter break, though there have been a few days with none out. Fine with me.

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Part of the magic.

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Sorry for your loss, Amy.

Nice to hear from you, though. Warmest wishes for your using the Habitcal.

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We hope so, too!

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The "pointless" motivation greater success is because it actually is more immediate for you than some future health issue. You've had the experience of the pointlessness, so you're operating from a recent memory that helps combat the memories of being rewarded. Keep magnifying the value of avoiding ...

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Yes, health issues can suddenly make people do what they said was impossible before. Just goes to show that motivation makes a huge difference, but I also think it's pretty darn hard to invent that kind of intensity when the health problem isn't already there. There's a big difference between "I sho...

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I don't know what happens with other people and sick days, but I gave up feeling that sick days should be similar to S days at all, nor should they resemble the days my mother fed me foods which might have been comforting but not healing. I tend now to resist the desire to eat for some kind of excit...

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A brief mention of Reinhard: I've been looking at the blog of Stephan Guyenet, neuroscientist who studies obesity and particularly the science of eating and overeating. In one of the responses, someone included this in his comment. "Hi Stephan, Thank you for keeping this great blog running. You, Rei...

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May this be THE time you get it going. It can still take a bit of time to get consistent green weeks. Just keep trying!

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uh oh re:gym. Lots of great workout videos on youtube, including bodyweight ones. Stopgap.

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No kidding! that's huge

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What else would you be willing to change to see a drop on the scale? It's extremely hard to out-exercise overeating. But exercise is good for other things. If you are eating modern refined foods or mostly dense foods and feeling like you should be able to eat all you "want" during fasts, it is likel...

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I could have sworn I've read your posts more recently!

Pretty impressive to have done the yoga training and be teaching it.

Must have driven you crazy to be doing yoga and gaining weight.

Can you remind me what kind of teaching you do? Are you later in your career?

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Bit by bit.

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Hmm, it's a bit of a handicap not to be able to cook with vegan. Not even rice?Bake or boil white and/or sweet potatoes? Dried beans in a crock pot? Can you get cooked beans in big quantities? Any two starches, along with veggies, olive oil or nuts, and fruit can make decent lunches and dinners. Bre...

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Congrats on CT scan

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Being reminded how undoable your options are can be a great catalyst to sticking with No S.

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Wish we had a thumbs up icon.

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kudos

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8 yrs! Prolly mostly water retention from restaurant food.

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Well done outlasting the urge to spite your husband. Coffee is a good interim choice. Youâ€™re gonna love that pie tomorrow.

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I can't take a December like November has been. I've been brainwashing myself to some degree to get ready. It's about round 10 on that, and I am older with less time to get it right and more at stake, so I might have a chance.

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Hi, Bluebell. Checking in. Saw your post about how you felt like you overate because you're missing your son. The books I've been reading lately say there are SO many reasons we overeat. Eating in a restaurant alone is about five of them! And comfort, such as it is, is one of them, though that one i...

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Hi! Just wanted to say that I'm 64 years old, 5'5" but haven't weighed less than 130 for about 52 years. I'd bet your history is different.

And kudos for staying in the 150's for so long after a big gain and then loss.

Good luck!

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Welcome! And yes, food IS powerful. Cruddy food can make us think terrible things about ourselves and fool us about what we need. And why not? If there are substances that can help people reduce thinking depressed thoughts, why not things that can make them think those thoughts? The time between the...

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I have been at the point for most of my ride on No S of feeling like there wasn't much reason to want a lower weight because I wasn't going to do anything different anyway. I WAS willing to keep adjusting my eating for other reasons, though, mostly to try to cooperate with hunger or lack of it, but ...

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Hi, Crystal. Just dropping in. The idea of being able to go out to eat in Singapore sounds pretty good right now, even as I've been reading sources that recommend simplifying our meals and limiting our choices, at least at any one meal. Hope you enjoy the experience before, during, and after you hav...

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I guess I feel I need some more brainwashing. I started reading bits of Salt, Sugar, Fat free on the web. It's infuriating how much power these forces have had and continue to, and how dependent we are on them not only for food but also for jobs. I guess I'm ready for the facts, though. I would not ...

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I don't recommend skipping meals. Do your best to stick to meals, possibly getting a regular sized plate to arrange appetizers on and making that your meal. Remember that you can have more freedom on the weekend, and that you have probably enjoyed many good food in the past and will again. I doubt y...

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May I ask to be reminded what the beginning of the 195 days was about? tx

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A great perspective regarding nourishing.

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You are posting more than many on the original team!

Sorry to hear about your health issues. Warmest wishes for your upcoming surgery.

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Thanks for staying with it on Team 2017!

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I'm assuming we'll hear from you soon. Holiday eating soon!

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So glad you're still on the Team 2017 train.

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Hi! So glad you're here with Team 2017 to ride through the holidays!

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Still would. Have you found something else you like better?

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Stay with us through the holidays! That's when the most gain usually happens.

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We'd love to have you come back to Team 2017 to get you through the holidays without the yearly gain. Unless you found something else that you like better.

Cheers!

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Happy Birthday to your sons!

And congrats on still being in the game of Team 2017.

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Just wanted to congratulate you on still being in on the Team 2017 game!

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Hi, again, 3squaremeals. I'm afraid it wasn't DESPITE dieting and bingeing... Have you also been reading Eat Like a Normal Person? She is big on "nourishing" meals. I get what she means, though there are divergent opinions about what's "nourishing." I think she just means NOT manufactured salt/sugar...

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No BLT's: bites, licks, or tastes.

Including eating the leftovers off your kids' plates

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It's been about six months. Have you been able to implement No S, or something else? Have you been able to maintain where you were, keeping off 5 stone?

Warmest wishes.

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I just read The Hungry Brain. He reported that researcher Susan Holt found way back in 1995 that boiled potatoes were the most satisfying of 38 common foods.

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It's been about a month. Any update?

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Does anyone know how to upload photos? I can't get those multiple-photo arrays on Facebook. Just a few on my laptop.

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Agreed! I realize now you weren't asking, just stating. Oh, for muscular calves! If I didn't say it before, welcome.

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You are in an enviable position: not panicked about your weight, etc. I think you'll be very happy. I'd love to hear your feedback after a few weeks' compliance. Just keep thinking about how good that next meal will be. I've NEVER been sorry I waited for the meal, and am almost always a bit sorry if...

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You are doing great!

The leptin effect is after fat loss, not from a light meal. But if you're feeling low, and a bit more food helps, by all means. It may be worth an experiment, though. Perhaps it's not actually related to intake; that might be a coincidence.

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Not sure if you've gotten enough feedback but here's plenty https://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=5928 I am probably repeating myself from the above thread, but here goes. I did weigh my first two years; I weighed every day and averaged it once a week. I was never willing to do anything dif...

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Welcome! It's common for people to chastise themselves, but not necessary. In fact, as most of here know, it's also bafflingly typical to go overboard with small mistakes. It's called the What the Hell effect (literally, that's what researchers often call it) and is one of the main things successful...

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Your BMI is 27.4. The great news is that your modest goal, which would put you just slightly inside the overweight category, would drop you way down to LIGHTER than 70% of your same cohort! A woman would not get near the bang for her buck. Not that we're in a battle of the sexes or with our peers! I...

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Whether you get to 50 lbs. lower or not, this plus weaning yourself OVER TIME off a lot of manufactured food is bound to support better health. I'm sorry I didn't find it in my 40s because the sugar damage I did then is something that can show up decades later.

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I never experienced such things, even when I was doing intermittent fasting last year, but I'll still ring in with saying that it seems perfectly okay to start back with more smaller meals spread out, and then see if you can taper off later. I've also read others say the dizziness and other side eff...

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I started a thread about some sugar effects that are affecting my thinking about it, and ended up getting off on a personal tangent, as I wanted it to stay mostly "just the facts." I had posted that I might try to revert to 1822 usage, but comments made me realize that might be going too far. Here i...

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I ended up going on a personal tangent, so I'm pasting it to my check in thread. Feel free to post any of those sugar effects on the bod, if you think they might be motivating. I hope anyone who doesn't want to be influenced by such data won't read this thread! I"m going to edit my first post and pu...

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Go back and really remember in detail how pleasant it was to live that green week. Remember the comfort in your body and how good you probably felt at the end of each day. Decide: is there anything that's worth giving that up for? Would I be willing to be uncomfortable at times to get that feeling? ...

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Very admirable goals. Isn't it a shame that we all have to make such firm resolutions to savor our food? but it is natural for humans to eat more when there's more variety. It's how our ancestors got to be out ancestors.

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Or habitcal.

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Fewer red days is definitely an improvement! Be glad you don't have a big American Thanksgiving feast to look forward to. I haven't been compliant so it's a little hard to feel completely relaxed about it. I'll try to bring you to mind today and Friday (Thursday is the big day) so we can have solida...

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MM, out of curiosity, how long does watching Lustig last? Are sodas your only way of not sticking to a diet, or are they gateway drugs? I'm toying with the idea of aiming in 2018 to have only the sugar a person in 1822 would have, and possibly weaning myself off stevia on N days. I think that would ...

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Kathleen, nice to see you and thanks for commenting! I think it is not possible to measure the efficacy of any program in less than two years. What can feel easy and right for periods of time can become shaky and difficult later. That's why Reinhard says there is no such thing as before and after: o...

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Thanks for your concern, but I don't quite understand, as I think I was saying the same thing. I believe the quest for appearance is a false idol, meaning not the real thing. (In fact, when people here lose weight, I almost always congratulate them on the HABITS that got them there, not the loss its...

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If you've been at it a year but not had a lot of time green, it's hard to tell what the issue is. If your intent is to lose weight, see if you can "put a fence around the law," and see what happens. It's only then that you'll know if you have to make some purposeful mods. The hard truth is that some...

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Thanks, Larkspur. I assume you are agreeing with me that chasing cosmetic pounds is seductive but for mostly the wrong ultimately only marginally satisfying reasons. I, too, thought IF could flow nicely with No S. I read tons and tons on the benefits but rarely discussed it here because it's not rea...

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Alert for anyone experimenting with fasting! You may not want to read this. Well, I've been off the deep end. More dessert in a sitting than I had eaten in several weekends. And other stuff, but that's enough detail. My goodness. The urge can come over me and I don't even try to fight it. How I'm go...

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red red red red redÂ Can't even keep track. I who kept harping on how I needed to be in training for the holidays. Aack! I'm going to a weeklong retreat at which there will be a potluck lunch and dinner and a snack table all day. I haven't done as well as I would have liked in the past. We shall see.

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I know this will sound like an impossibility, but you absolutely have the right to tell your mother that she does not have permission to criticize your weight or your eating. Ever. This is just too fraught an issue to allow just anyone to comment on. If she has nothing nice to say, she can't say any...

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Well, come to think of it, I did "undereat" compared to what I was used to compulsively eating before No S. But it wasn't by plunging down to low levels.

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My meals had gotten to the point before No S at which they were reasonable, often even "healthy." I did have my savory junk at some meals on No S for...well, sometimes still now, but certainly a lot less as time has gone on. But my big issue was sweets, bingeing or at least semi-bingeing on them eve...

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I love his voice and delivery. I don't know if I've just gotten used to it, but he sounds to me just like I'd think he would. He makes it all sound so...
reasonable! No wonder he said he thinks he never did emotional eating.

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Welcome home, Kittson.

(I'm trying to imagine sticking to keto or consistently under eating for a year.)

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I like Satter but also feel torn. Her emphasis on eating as much as you want looks like it gets used to justify some intense overeating with people admitting that they later felt stuffed, but not taking that as a sign that something was off. She also says to get to meals hungry, and yet says snacks ...

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I'm a little surprised that walking on a treadmill desk felt like it was too much. When I read about them, the recommendation was to keep the pace at about a mile an hour. 'Course, that's still several hours of walking a day! I wonder how many steps that was? I also remember a guy named Covert Baile...

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to those discouraged after the "honeymoon"

another kudo for Reinhard (unless it's been posted B4)