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I just want to comment on the fact that so many of these lunches sound like the kind that might be recommended on a diet. See, we get to a similar place but more naturally by choosing over a period of time. I'd be curious to know what kind of soups people are eating--mostly broth? If the soup has al...

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Okay, I'm not just responding to someone else's success today. I made it back in after I-don't-know-how-many months!

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Yes, ma'am!

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It may be part of American-suburbia-drive-to the-supermarket-adulthood, but remember in a lot of the world, daily shopping is still the norm. Up until recent times, I'm pretty sure Europeans had much smaller fridges than Americans. They didn't keep near the food around that we do. If it's easy to sh...

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Depending on how much you eat, 30 minutes is not bad. Depends on whether you have conversation, too. Better eat the hot things first!

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I think there is something psychological and possibly even a mechanical feedback system in taking the time to chew food well and really taste it. I think that's why only a certain fraction of people do well on meal replacements, especially drinks. There's not enough chewing that goes on. Even if I m...

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I don't think it's hooey at all, but I don't think it has much to do with weight loss. I think the environmental damage is hard to argue with, but whether it's worth it to preserve that or not is a matter of consumer priorities, and the poor would take an even bigger hit, just like they will if biof...

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I'd say the heavier someone is when s/he starts, the slower that is. I'd say heavier individuals have a better chance of having more dramatic changes, though not necessarily. I've been surprised that some people here have only about 10 pounds they want to lose, and they do it in a month or two! I ju...

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Not a bad S day. Less full than after many.

oolala53

Thank you, Bright Angel, for that definition. Very clear. Spiritsong, you're doing fine. Way too early for a mod. Three weeks is a nice benchmark, but is really just the beginning. No need to be in any more of a hurry. Wanting to be done and have it all figured out yesterday is one of the problems w...

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I'll tell you something I do--hope I'm not repeating myself-- to make meal preparation easier, but you have to be okay with leftovers. I usually buy a big package of chicken breasts or the like (and I'm single) or a pot roast and roast or crock pot it relatively plainly. I buy hamburger patties, too...

oolala53

With all due respect to the few faithful No S-ers who eventually calorie count, tracking my food calories would be my absolute last resort. We've just had too many successes here without it. No S doesn't mean you can eat any amount on a plate forever and lose weight. It's meant to get you more aware...

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I don't think Melanie's moves were supposed to be the focus, but yes, she is going a bit far. No S has definitely made it easier to ignore these things. And thankfully, I still love smelling good foods, though I prefer savory to sweet in the office. And not fish, though I love eating it. I just do i...

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The dinner time might be an issue at first, but I sometimes eat dinner at 5 and don't have a problem with waking up hungry or even getting hungry if I stay up late. Not to be rude, but are you sure they were real hunger pangs or just an urge go eat? Did your stomach feel EMPTY? If not, I don't think...

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I don't think it's something to freak out about to be in the overweight range. I'm still in it, but my blood work is always so good that it's hard to get to riled about the numbers for health sake. However, I know that I have binged my way to a much higher weight than I need to be in the past. I've ...

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This is great!

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Had a fried chicken lunch at around 2 pm. Thought I wasn't even going to get hungry for dinner, but it hit around 9. Split pea soup and bread. Feel great. Oh, I tried a Pilates class that was different from what I expected. A lot more traditional. That plus a 30 minute walk let me check off both res...

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Who knows? More important just to know what happens with each of us and act accordingly. Even if a food makes us want a lot more food, just resisting the urge can help quell that desire in the future. So many people here who often overate many foods can typically eat moderate amounts of those foods ...

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I was just thinking we should have a thread where people write about a recent meal and how delicious it was. I bet there'd be a lot of simple ones. Yesterday I was in a hurry and just smeared good mustard on a still-frozen piece of Trader Joe's Tuscan bread and added a hunk of leftover pork roast. I...

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Just as long as you aren't "bored..." I'm not.

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Looks like most don't weigh. I go through phases. When I am weighing, I record it every day and average it once a week. I see that weight fluctuates daily in such a way that it is obvious that it is not about fat loss. Fat loss cannot fluctuate the way the scale shows. I've lost a pound over night, ...

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Anne Barone has written extensively about how she learned to eat in France and lost 55 lbs. about 35 years ago. I remember especially her saying that no self-respecting French woman has a stash of candy bars in her desk! It's just not done. However, some American habits are spreading to France. Ther...

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Thanks for keeping us informed of your journey, which is basically pretty darn successful.

oolala53

Wow, I can't believe how far down the line I am in just one day. I crashed in the late afternoon and then on into the evening for YEARS ( most of my adult life and long before No S) with just a few months of exceptions. Miraculously, I found that for awhile at the beginning of No S a cup of mocha st...

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And as Reinhard says, there is no such thing as before and after. There is only before and during. One of the articles in the National Weight Loss Registry reports that "Once these successful maintainers have maintained a weight loss for 2-5 YEARS --caps mine--, the chances of longer-term success gr...

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Had a decent weekend though I wish I'd eaten less chocolate than I did. Still less grazing than last year or even a month ago. It's almost 11 a.m. and I have not been hungry for breakfast. A bit of a nuisance as I'm about ready to go take care of some things I'd been putting off until I was on vacat...

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I don't appreciate nearly enough our lovely weather in San Diego. Glad you're taking advantage. I'm enjoying looking out of my windows seeing the hummingbirds whirring in on the hanging red geranium and the cape honeysuckle that winds into the tangerines. So lucky!

oolala53

good job.

oolala53

Addendum: I am pretty much sure that I wouldn't have had more success with any other book's suggestion.

oolala53

Though this is not promoted as a system for eating issues like bingeing, I have found it very helpful. I'd say last year I decreased it my bingeing by 80%, and I'm decreasing it even more now. However, even when I was a bingeing I had decent meals. No matter. To end disordered eating, you have got t...

oolala53

I usually have 5 servings of veggies and 2-3 of fruits on N days. About a cup of cooked veg and 1/2 cup raw (like a carrot) at lunch and a cup at dinner, varyingly raw and cooked. Many of my cooked veggies are frozen-- so easy. Fruit at at least 2 meals. This means only about half my plate can be st...

oolala53

First tried fall of 2008. In 13 months, probably had only 5-6 Vanilla No S weeks. Starting end of 2009, I felt I really needed to do something and I pulled off 3 months of compliance, losing 8% of my weight that has stayed off. Have had wavering time since then, but my failures were relatively small...

oolala53

I've had a 5-day week of N days. I did go for Chinese food tonight, which is a little bit of funny stuff because it is such a habit not to take a full plate, so there was virtual plating. I feel good about it.

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Sledgehammers?

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I'll get back to you more later, but where are there ads now?

I thought you used to have ads for pedometers, at least, but I've been jumping around a bit on the site and see only the ad for the book and the few No S products. Where will these ads appear?

oolala53

So glad to hear it! I'm on another board where there is a group of people over 50 who have reached their goal weight and are maintaining it. I haven't yet, but I read it for inspiration. So many people reinforce the idea that it's hard after a certain age, but it's not impossible. I want to keep aim...

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The wine may give you an urge to eat, but I doubt it's real hunger. One of the beauties of NO S is that it gets you to start distinguishing between real, empty-stomach hunger, and just urges to eat. It gets easier to resist the urges and they even subside more, too, though they can pop up sometimes....

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I know it says Meyer lemon marmalade, but I still can't figure out that photo. How was it taken? It's beautiful.

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It has only recently been possible for me to even think of planning for one or two simple treats. I have modified my S days because it just wasn't happening for me that the desire for going overboard was going away on its own. Even though I've had two good weekends, it still doesn't sound like fun o...

oolala53

Wow, you are facing a lot. Sorry your food allergies are limiting some very good choices. I'm sure you'll be able to work around them, though. Moderate, regular meals can only help, I would think.

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My improvement will be to use the Habitcal everyday. I also want to get back into the 21-day club, but I'm not going to track that here. This is just for Habitcal. I have other desires, but I'm going to just stick to improvement. It 's been awhile since I've had a sense of optimism, so I don't want ...

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In regards to not having a sledgehammer, I have some free weights around from previous lifetimes which I use-when I am doing resistance work at all-- instead of buying a sledgehammer. I think the point of the hammer was to avoid investing in a bunch of exercise equipment, but if you've got something...

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Not eating at the movies was a practice I took up years ago. Partly it was just about being cheap. Mostly it was because I usually go to the movies after or nearly after a meal and am not hungry. When I'm really hungry, I don't crave popcorn or sweets. Though I've been a slave to chcoolate for many ...

oolala53

Thanks for the support. Yes, this is pretty much the plan for me. As time goes on, I may continue to tweak what I have for N day meals and modify the weekends, but it will basically be No S. I do have some extra rules for my meals, but I'm happy with them and they were the way I had pretty much gott...

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The very next day, I had a failure. Dang! Won't go into the details--or maybe I will, just to record. It was standardized testing and students and teachers had been given little snack packs every day. I did fine. I did a favor for a colleague who bought me a muffin. I was fine. Then I went into the ...

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It's really been only a little over 2 years that you've been gone-from Dec of 2008 to Dec. of 2010 is only 2, plus the three months since then. And you came back weighing a little less than when you left! Good job! I hope you'll allow me to rib you a bit. Did you notice that on your last post in 200...

oolala53

Fantastic! After 3 years off. Wow. There's no place like home.

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As Reinhad has said, eating frequent meals may boost metabolism, but the long term inconvenience will probably doom it, I did manage for 7 years on work days, but it was such a relief not to have to worry about those perfect snacks when I switched. Plus, it's supposed to keep your blood sugar up and...

oolala53

If you feel satisfied, that's what counts. I hope you are not choosing these things as a way to cut calories, though. but if they are convenient, enjoyable, and leave you content. mazel tov. What's the cereal for, breakfast? If you read the checkins, you'll see people eat a variety of food types. So...

oolala53

Sorry about your weekend. Is there any chance you might experiment with not trying to settle your stomach? Just put up with the feelings until you actually get hungry? It might just be a few hours. I usually feel better in the end when I just wait it out, though it may be less pleasant along the way...

oolala53

I'm pretty sure WW uses the BMI, which I think says a woman of 5'6" can be as high as 154 lbs. to be in the normal range. You got robbed!

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Life happens. It's all about the long run.

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I know the BMI has detractors, but does not apply just to people in the US. And whether people think it's accurate or not, the average American is 25 lbs. heavier than he/she was in 1960. I don't think people were underweight then. It's very true that the subjects at either end of the height scale o...

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Day 10 Success. Funny stuff: I was almost home for dinner, but I stopped to get some red peppers. While I was in the store, I remembered I had plugged in my little hot pot to heat up some onion soup broth to have on my way home. It was just before I went to pee before I left work, and just forgot. I...

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Probably not. How often do you run into that situation? I think you'll bounce back.

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Laura, you gotta give yourself a break. maybe you won't go off the res on your first S days, maybe you will. Being an idiot on your first (or sixth or even tenth) is not a reason to despair, IMHO. It doesn't mean you or No S is wrong. It just means you haven't figured it out. Just imagine that even ...

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I haven't felt it lately, but I've talked other places on the board about feeling grief at the idea of not being able to overeat certain things. Never again eat several big big pieces of bakery sheet cake with heavy-duty frosting, including a huge rose? never again eat twelve ounces of Hershey's kis...

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Good idea for the cake. Colleague gave me a cupcake everyone else was saying was killer. They wanted to see me eat it. I told 'em it's going in the freezer for the weekend.

oolala53

What a brilliant post! Gosh, I wish I had more wisdom to offer. I've gone the other way. Twenty-five pounds less ago and twenty years ago, I aligned myself more with obese people than normal-weight ones. Now I'm surprised sometimes (probably similar to you) when I see myself in a picture or somethin...

oolala53

Probably repeating myself. Just to reinforce: it is a good technique to leave food at some point, but it complicates things when you're first starting. The plate IS the limiting method IN THE BEGINNING. If you don't eat what you put on your plate, I think it makes it harder to learn what portions to...

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Everyone is unofficially in the 21-day Club, I guess. The tradition is when you get 21 days straight, you go to the 21-day thread and post that you've met that goal. The days are supposed to be consecutive, so, yes, you do have to start over. Some make it on their first try; many take more than one ...

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No S doesn't say you can't have these things because it's about the long term. However, it can't defy the laws of chemistry. If you take in more calories than you use, you won't lose weight. That being said, just eat your plate of food, drink the amount that doesn't make you feel too full, and see w...

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Why are we talking about leaving food? You get to eat all the food on your plate.

Remember that you can have beverages between meals.

I ate after dinner for YEARS! Now it's normal not to. I'm content. I never got hungry, anyway. It was always just habit.

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Ever since I read Shogun, just about anything goes, though mine are relatively traditional. but yeast powder and Parmesan cheese are more likely in my oatmeal than brown sugar and cinnamon. Miso soup with veggies can be on the menu, too. or anything left over.

oolala53

"If you snack just as much as before, and add a big breakfast on top of that, you're not going to gain anything!"

I think you meant you're not going to lose anything. And I agree with you.

oolala53

An extra 20 lbs. is not huge. but, yes, I support you in getting back into the habits.

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Imogen, Reinhard admits his results aren't guaranteed. But I doubt he's sneaking in some other workouts and not telling us. Not sure he's doing it for appearance, either, though I'm sure he doesn't mind looking good. I have a feeling he's be doing Shovelglove for functionality. Some people can be cu...

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To other posters: Oh my gosh, isn't a measure of how psychologically healthy a person Reinhard is that he doesn't even know who the P90X guy is? I think what's also valuable about this updated posting is that you have gone well past the 5 years of maintenance that most weight losers don't get to. I'...

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I first read the book from a library. I've read many diet and eating control books out of libraries, but I own two copies of No S. One for me and one I keep around to give away when appropriate.

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Juices between meals are okay according to the plan. I see it as chewing between meals that is recommended against, or drinking anything that has been blended to make it liquid enough to drink. so no smoothies. Personally, I don't drink juices. I think they encourage consumption that wouldn't happen...

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Long ago I read that it was best not to eat a cold cereal product unless sugar was not in the first three ingredients. That cuts out a lot of them and definitely anything frosted. Health food stores have no-added sugar puffed cereals. I don't like that the Fiber One has fake sugar but I like the cru...

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Sorry I've been missing out on your journey. It sounds like a good one, the kind I need to follow. Consider me an official stalker!

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I'm late to seeing that you're back, but congrats on getting your second No S wind.

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What about your two meals doesn't seem like enough? Are you hungry in the morning but just in too much of a rush? Is there a fridge at work for milk? You can keep a box of cereal (I'm partial to Fiber One mixed with the Trader Joe's high fiber cereal) and some nuts at work all the time so that you d...

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That is wonderful! I am so looking forward to being able to say that again. Today is day 7.

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I'm trying to imagine what would make me think it was worth it to eat only 500 calories a day and then how I would do it! If someone else kept me very busy and also kept me away from the food...oh, being in prison, that would do it! I know of a woman on another site who did lose weight using the pla...

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I'm set to follow daily checkins of a few no-S-ers, but they aren't showing up. I was browsing some of them today and saw that, yes, I am designated to watch the topic, but I'm reading the posts for the first time. Anyone know what the issue could be?

oolala53

maybe Reinhard should sell "Idiot" buttons, too. or refrigerator magnets, anyway.

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I gotta say, I'm not sure what the right question is because I am a binger and it is not often that I don't "want" food. Even if I'm sitting stuffed and bloated, I can still want food. But I have certainly gotten to the point with No S where I don't still keep eating it as often or get to that point...

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N of the Damned: you call that an infraction to feel bad about? See, if you had just let yourself eat the dang plate of stuffing and say, "hey, it was a plate, so what if I have a little soup, too? I rarely eat a whole plate of carb. No biggie." I wonder if you had, would you have felt compelled to ...

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Not sure what you meant by not being able to be trusted with a regular size dinner plate, but if a smaller plate leaves you content, mazel tov! And congrats on the side effect of weight loss! Just curious; about what percentage of your weight is that?

oolala53

Ditto the no guilt, esp. on day 6. Actually, guilt might never be what you want to incite, but after 6 months of 3 meals a day and no weight loss, you might at least consider how dense your foods are and how full you need to be, if becoming a moderate eater is your goal. It's just very hard for me t...

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I'm almost to my first perfect N week in quite awhile. I still had an urge to ruin it about an hour ago. Habit. Done with the people-contact obligations of work and it's a Friday. But I've made it to 4:30 pm, so I think I'm safe. I sent the rest of this as a reply to a message in my inbox and I'm po...

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I happened to check in with this just before I'm getting ready to go home for dinner and a lot of bacon, cheese, and a low-carb wrap sounds pretty good right now!

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You might want to look at the daily check in of bluebunny27. I think he started at 280 pounds and went down to about 190 over the course of a year. I might be wrong but not far off.

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I lived in Iran back in the late '70's. Iranians used pressure cookers every day. I've never lived without one since, though most people I know think they are either dangerous or just don't know what to do with them. They had brands there we rarely see here. I have a Presto and one very similar to o...

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Welcome back and see how it goes. The research shows that most who lose on low-carb end up living a moderate carb life in the long run. Most maintainers gain a few pounds and then stay there. You may find that your meals are more low-carb than they were before low-carbing. I know Volumetrics, the Zo...

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I've never had to go six weeks on soft foods/liquids, but I've been very satisfied for about the same amount of time as from eating solid foods when I pureed cooked veggies and grains and added either cottage cheese or plain protein powders plus olive oil or other monosaturated or omega-3 fats. Surp...

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Brent, I commend you for being here. This is sanity. I'm going to go home and walk just from reading your post.

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That's the spirit!

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At the risk of alienating the women here by posting a link to a pretty provocative female exerciser, but who is freakishly strong as well as thin, so I give her her props, here is a link to a program that posts a free daily workout that a fair number of people seem to swear by. I've watched many of ...

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I have definitely worked out consistently over several months and had great success. These programs do seem like an advantage because you're not having to guess and I'm assuming they have it figured out what body parts to push on each day. I didn't keep it up, though. Why not try doing 15 minutes of...

oolala53

I think there can be a lot of confusion over what it means to "want" something. There are many S days on which I "want" to eat all day long and I do. I'm not very happy at the end but it doesn't stop it from happening. I think each person has to figure out for S days what is a good enough reason to ...

oolala53

Yes, a large percentage of people here go through S days of overeating. For me, the pleasure of N days still makes using the plan worth it. Before No S, many of my days were like S days gone wild, or close to it.

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It did look good, and though we don't "care" around here, it wasn't high calorie, either.

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Here is a link to a study on a different kind of record keeping of food intake. It reminds me that when I first started looking at this site, one of the participants had pics of her meals for about a year! She stopped posting because she felt she had learned to eat moderately and wanted to give her ...

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Congrats! I've said before that I think this is a great program for people with binge issues.

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I'm serious that you, Reinhart, should consider something like that to market. If Pet Rocks could make someone money, an Air Snack Bar could, too. Or Wisdom Snacks. On another site, women were sharing their favorite snacks under 150 calories. I said mine favorite one was air, although I did share my...

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