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NoelFigart

That's cool!

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No-S Glass Ceiling Exercise I suppose I should get out and walk today. It seems that the proper way of eating has just clicked this time. No failures on the No-S front. Getting exercise every day is now my habit-focus for the month of Oct. While not thrilled about starting with a failure, I suppose...

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Hope you have a wonderful day, Reinhard, and a wonderful, joyous year to come.

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This is my upteenth time starting this. I think I have tried everydiet imaginable. But I am determined to make this work. I am turning 40 in January and I feel like I have accomplished nothing in my life. So weight is something I can accomplish and I will and No S is going to help get me there. Hon...

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Sure, I'll join in. My goal is at least fifteen minutes of exercise every weekday. Oct. 1: Failure Oct. 2: Success Oct. 3: S-day Oct. 4: S-day Oct. 5: Success Oct. 6: Success Oct. 7: Success Oct. 8: Success Oct. 9: Oct. 10: Oct. 11: Oct. 12: Oct. 13: Oct. 14: Oct. 15: Oct. 16: Oct. 17: Oct. 18: Oct....

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Vanilla No S means doing the diet strictly according to the rules -- neither creating additional exceptions or adding additional restrictions. As long as you eat three one-plate meals a day with no snacks on weekdays and are off the hook on weekends, that's Vanilla No-S. It is my strong personal opi...

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I have struggled a LOT.

My internal switch happened when I realized that no dramatic solution was going to work and if I couldn't cope with a moderate, daily solution, my maturity really needed examining. (If I can't deal with moderate dailyness at 40, that's just to embarrassing to face!)

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DaveMc wrote:On a slightly different note, I find myself saying (or thinking) "No" to what I think of as "half-desserts".

That's too cool!

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Okay, you have to have the picture actually ON the internet somewhere, like Flickr or Picassa or your own personal website. Once you've got that, it's very simple. Just click on the button across the top of the screen that says IMG (for image), then after the text appears in your post (it'll be the ...

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ARI wrote:Today was another success, and I'm really proud of it because I was craving a cookie SOOO badly. But I stayed strong.

Yeah! Congratulations. It gets easier.

Don't worry, the world is full of cookies and S-days are coming.

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No-S Glass Ceiling Exercise I am sooo enjoying my meals. I mean, I do really just eat a one-plate meal, but GOD they're wonderful . I am quite serious when I say that one of the big motivations for staying on No-S is that meals taste so GOOD when you're hungry for them. I know, immature hedonist, t...

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I am so glad that you weren't hurt worse than a few bruises and being shaken up.

Helmets good.

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I got to thinking about this. Sometimes we talk about slacking and stuff. For me (and I'm not attempting to presume to choose for anyone else) is that I am trying to frame No-S as Just The Way I Live. I don't want to think of it as a diet even if it really is. I want to think of it is what I'm going...

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mimi wrote:Does being two hours away from DC count?! Probably not, huh?

I grew up and lived my first 30 years in Fredericksburg.

I'm exiled to New England *weeps*

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Okay you know how everyone's like, "I can't do No-S, I'd diiieeee if I couldn't have my snack at the least little sign of hunger"? So, when your husband or SO starts lookin' really GOOD to you and he catches you with THAT look in your eyes, does that mean you don't wait till the kids are asleep? *wr...

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No S Exercise Glass Ceiling I'm declaring it a green on No S even though I haven't had dinner yet. As hungry as I am, if I'm willing to wait for dinner (and I am), it's clear I'll follow through. I was going to declare it a "fend for yourself" night with my son. I do this if I don't feel like cooki...

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Nom Nom Nom!

I'm always curious about ideas for good soups and this sounds like a winner!

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I'm a big fan of swimming for exercise, Grammy G. I started about three years ago when I wasn't getting much exercise because it HURT to walk. (Arthritis and lack of movement are a bad bad combination, and I was only 37 at the time!) That regular lap swimming combined with a weight training program ...

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No S Exercise Glass Ceiling I had intended to take the day off for exercising, but I'll call it green if I walk to the grocery store. I may walk to the grocery store again today. LOL. I'll pretend I'm French! I had something happen where I felt really angry and felt myself getting hungry. I realize...

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I'm very new to this forum, so please excuse me if this was discussed previously. My question is this: What do you tend to do if you miss breakfast? I don't mean skip it but sleep through it altogether. Do you still do three meals? Like lunch, dinner1, dinner2. Or just lunch and dinner, and too bad...

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But... wosnes, the Sooper Sekrit Nowlige will be MISSING if she doesn't buy the BOOK!!!!

(Note to the humor impaired: I'm being goofy. She's right that you can read the webpage and get everything you need. I just wanna see that book succeed and sell well).

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Well, I needed something I'd forgotten for dinner tonight and remembered that if I can walk a half a mile to get it, that's Just Too Lame To Drive It. Thing is, I seem to be out of shape, as walking a mile is enough to get me a bit sweaty. LeSigh. Still, the real answer is still to walk everywhere I...

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I am right now drinking a cup of coffee with a spoonful of sugar and a little bit of half-n-half. That's how I drink my coffee and I don't sweat it. I'd consider those really sweet coffee drinks sold at the Coffee Chain of Evil a sweet in my book, but they have about 12-16 spoons of sugar in them. T...

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marleah wrote: I chose to be vegan precisely because I realized that I would not kill an animal, so I am not going to pay someone else to do it for me either.

Fair enough. It's internally and morally consistent.

I WOULD kill an animal, so I feel it's moral for me to pay someone to do it.

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I find it darkly ironic that it's the adults who are upset, especially as I doubt most of them are vegetarians.

I'm thrilled the children haven't been infected by that insanity yet.

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I know I don't know you and don't have all the facts. But the harshness with which you are treating yourself worries me. S days are kinda SUPPOSED to be off the hook to get you out of a diet (read temporary) mentality. There's a lot more about what you're posting about your eating habits that has me...

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Another View of an S Day: Today I had an eggie basket for breakfast (take a juice glass, stamp a hole in a piece of bread. Fry it in a pan with some butter and crack an egg in the hole. I like the yolk runny). For lunch I had a cheese sandwich and some plain yogurt with strawberries sliced into it. ...

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Drove the kids to band this morning, and then came home and went back to bed until noon. :( I am really embarrassed to tell this on myself. Obviously I'm a glutton (30 pounds overweight) and now I'm admitting to sloth as well. Yuck. You could turn that into an S-day exercise "treat", you know. Exer...

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I'm recording how I ate just to show people an S Day. I made no attempt to be "good". I have Tai-Chi on Saturdays and walk to the class. It's about half a mile there. I didn't want to do it on an empty stomach, so I had a peanut butter sandwich and a cup of coffee for breakfast. But when I got home,...

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Since I am still working on compliance with Vanilla No S for the month of Sept as my monthly resolution and the month is almost over, I was casting my mind around for another goal for Oct. I was going to an exercise class today and was considering taking the car when I thought, "The class is half a ...

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No S Exercise Glass Ceiling I did go for an Official Swim, but I'm making a conscious effort to Urban Ranger more. Ideally what I'd like to do is just have walking 10,000 steps as a totally standard and normal part of my day, and then whatever exercise I feel moved to do on top of that. (Probably s...

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Oh dear. I'm so sorry you're feeling frustrated.

Yes, tomorrow IS another day. An S day, in fact... Try to enjoy it sensibly and don't try to punish yourself.

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Stopping smoking probably is the priority, so doing what it takes isn't bad idea.

I'll be cheering you on, certainly, as I bet you'll do great.

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I've been NoSing for 11 days. Yesterday I wore my jeans that I hadn't worn since before starting NoS. When I last wore them about two weeks ago, they fit fine. I had hoped they might be a teeny bit looser - but in fact they were tight and uncomfortable. I didn't expect them to be falling off - but ...

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Well, there ARE more men on this board than the average diet board, yes. It's possible the women on this board also come across as a bit less.... cheerleader like and more lifeguard like in the range of feminine styles. Few people follow the advice in the very beginning because it's so radical, but ...

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I had occasion to replace my computer and in deciding what should go on the new one, I took the leap and did not migrate my diet tracking software. I really think that keeping No-S as vanilla as possible for the first few months is the best way to make sure that you're cleaning up your habits, and I...

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No-S Exercise Glass Ceiling I had the first failure I've had on glass ceiling in.... Gosh since I got serious in 2007 or so. Had a friend over that can outdrink a Viking and I had three martinis keeping up with her. Did you know that when you don't drink as much, it not only takes less alcohol to m...

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guadopt1997 wrote:What station is it on?

Uhhh...

Netflix. I don't have broadcast TV.

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It WAS a successful day because you stuck to the plan. Don't complicate it or go for more perfect.

For myself, I do tend to "eat what's sot before me" and not worry about it. If it means a big meal later, who cares? In the grand scheme of things it probably evens out.

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No S Glass Ceiling Exercise Today was interesting. I got a new computer (a netbook), so it's been pretty easy to ignore food in favor of a nifty toy. My son heated up some spaghetti noodles and sauce we had in the fridge. He served me a plate that was just LOADED. Oh, it was a plate and it was lega...

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No S Exercise Glass Ceiling It's so easy being green... Seriously, it feels like there's been some switch thrown. I'm not losing very fast, though my 30 day moving average on my weight has a small trend down. When I get that over a 180 day period, then I'll probably relax about this and stop tracki...

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My S days have a big range. Ideally, I like them to be three basic meals plus a treat or maybe a snack. Sometimes they are. Last weekend, I did find myself snacking on some really good bread most of the day on Saturday. Thing is, that's okay. I'm trusting to my good S-day habits to gradually carry o...

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Dandelion wrote: If they have to spend more than 30 minutes on a meal, that's too long.

I generally don't mentally "count" oven or crock pot time in cooking, as I can be knitting with my feet up and listening to an audiobook during that time. I doubt I ever spend more than 30 minutes on a meal.

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Hey wow.

I was just checking my Habitcal and realized that I've made the 21 day club with no failures on No-S. I wasn't shooting for it, specifically. I was just making sure that I didn't break habit on eating.

Now to do the same for exercise. How nifty.

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Oh, and I have to get in a plug here for NoS. Since I started back in April, I've been eating more and more real food, so much so that when I looked at the picture accompanying that article, it occured to me that I don't buy any of that stuff anymore - not even the Hellman's mayo, which used to be ...

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I actually feel angry reading things like this. The implication is that the American public is too dumb to understand that a fudgecicle is a *@#$& TREAT! HAVE the darn thing if you've decided to have a treat, sure, but goodness gracious don't talk about a fudgecicle in the same breath as making nutr...

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No S Glass Ceiling Exercise Saturday and Sunday weren't the best S-days in the world, but hardly the worst. I didn't adhere as well as I could to the basic three meal structure. I was snacking a lot on bread or toast. Eh. I mentioned this to my husband and he commented, "Well, S-Days are supposed t...

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Sounds like a perfectly good meal!!!! I wouldn't mind a plate of sushi and an evening of Torchwood too! Though I'd be careful of drinking too much wine if you're watching the latest season of Torchwood! I, too, am a scifi geek! :D Drinking too much wine, hell! There are a couple of episodes I don't...

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I'm left-handed and it was difficult for the instructor to help me. It's probably not so much finding a leftie to help you as finding someone who knits Continental style. I am right-handed, but because I came to knitting from crochet (where you carry the thread in the left hand anyway), I learned t...

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I hope you feel better soon!

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My dinner planning skills are so uninspired at the moment that I have considered using the school menu as inspiration. Corn dogs, anyone? I thought that No-s would solve the problem of making meals the whole family will like, but it really didn't. It is better, but not the easy carefree meal planni...

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You'll be surprised at how well this works. Weight loss is usually pretty slow, but if you keep the habits, it's steady and permanent.

Yes, you CAN do it and you'll find as you go on you'll LIKE it. This diet really is a food-lover's dream, because it encourages you to savor and enjoy your food.

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No S Glass Ceiling Exercise Last night was nice. My husband and I got sushi. I don't have Japanese dinnerware, so I served it on the fine china. It still made a gorgeous presentation. I know that sushi isn't an S and all, but it's kind of a treat in our household because of the expense of good sush...

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Great idea -- and thanks for the pictures, Noel. Bento boxes + no-s seem like a great combination. I had no idea that they correspond so precisely to a single plate -- and with such satiating visual impact. Reinhard Well, Reinhard, the Japanese have an expression, "The eyes also eat." You know how ...

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Husband: The kid is going to be away tonight. Want to do something nice this evening? Wife: What did you have in mind? Husband: Well, it's a shame it's not an S-day. I was thinking sushi, a glass of wine and Torchwood*. Wife: Sushi is No-S approved as long as you don't eat more than would fit on a p...

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Here's something I discovered serendipitously: that a scant half cup of ground beef makes a quarter pound. So, I buy ground beef on sale in 3lb packs and scoop it out in half cup measures on a cookie sheet. I pop it into the freezer for about 20 minutes (or longer if I forget) :oops: then move it t...

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"setting my goals to the 120% level" Oh dear lord, I've done that! Well, do that! My biggest challenge in life, really, is to get into the moderate dailyness of accomplishment. Oh, I can buckle down and produce the most amazing body of work when it takes my fancy, but I'll go total focus and be exha...

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I feel your pain on the clothes issue. Depending on your figure, drapey tops that you can belt tighter as you lose weight are a nice option. If you're really curvy, they're also pretty flattering. Ready to Wear (you know, the stuff you find off the rack) doesn't fit ANYONE all that well, really. Nop...

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This has been linked to before, but I always find it interesting. The thing that surprises me is the amount of packaged foods most buy. There are just a few exceptions. What also gets to me is the correlation between amount spent on food and percentage of packaged foods. That's almost across the bo...

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On the first month of NoS, following it reasonably well, I gained 1.5 pounds. I work out on average 3 times per week (resistance and cardio). I've had a few additional S days other than the weekends, but otherwise, been following the rules! A pound and a half does feel incredibly frustrating, yes. ...

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I liked your post, NoelFigart. I hope someday to get to that point seeing as how I am struggling just to have one successful day on No S. I have read the book a couple of times but I have not read it in a very long time. I am going to read it again to remind myself why I really want to do this. Per...

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For Thurs: No S Glass Ceiling Exercise I've been bad about exercise this week, but I really am not sweating it, as I want to make sure my eating habits are completely wonderful this month before I make a goal of getting my exercise in order. I've fallen back into checking calorie counts on my food -...

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Well, I was tempted to have an extra slice of Italian Bread a friend brought over with the spaghetti tonight.

I resisted, but I think that sitting at the table chatting for a LONG time after the meal is done can induce feelings of wanting to nibble.

I ate slowly to try to offset that.

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I was thinking about strictness this morning as I was looking at the cinnamon buns set out for the students and I was getting my coffee before class. I realized I wasn't in the least tempted. I'd had a good breakfast and it wasn't an S-day, though it did get me wondering what would be really good fo...

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If you're feeling ill, you need to adjust your meal size up, of course! If you're eating a minimum of 1500 calories a day, you'll need to break that up between 3 500 calories meals. If you've been nibbling, it's entirely possible you're not used to eating that much at a sitting. That doesn't help yo...

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No S Glass Ceiling Exercise I'm teaching all week this week. This means I'm on my feet for about five to six hours and bouncing around the classroom trying to keep people interested in whatever computer application I'm teaching at the time (usually some MS Office deal). While it's one of my favorit...

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I don't buy that.

I eat fewer calories when my diet is higher in fat. Low fat and I get really HUNGRY.

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Canada never had Prohibition, either.

We Americans can be complete jerks when it comes to moralizing through legislation. We're an intense and immoderate people, and make some nutty collective decisions often.

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24 hours.

Though these days I just filter it.

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vmelo: Yes, it does. I didn't learn it from learning about drinking water, but from learning about how to care for fish and making bread. If you let water stand, it's safe to put fish in. If you let water stand, the chlorine evaporates and won't interfere with yeast rising for good bread. Not scient...

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No-S Glass Ceiling Exercise I'm packing my gym bag to hit the pool tomorrow morning. I don't care if it's a loser workout or not, only that I do a workout. Today has been a little more sweets intensive and less meal-oriented than my weekends usually are. Travel, you know. Still, I hardly went crazy...

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Friday:

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We went out to dinner late, but I stuck to No-S just fine and ate an appropriate dinner -- no appetizers, and one plate. I was HUNGRY, but okay.

Satuday

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As it turned out, we went out to dinner. I had a single plate, no appetizers, "right size" meal.

All good. Off the hook for the next couple of days.

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For the most part, my daily schedule is pretty set, at least in terms of meals. I have breakfast sometime between 7:30 and 8:00 most mornings, lunch ~12:30 and dinner around 18:00. Today is an N day, but I'm travelling to meet some friends. I'm having a larger than usual breakfast and a late lunch, ...

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I made far too small of a bento for lunch. I decided to tough it out. But that's a good reminder to make enough!

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Thanks Reinhard. I've been weighing every day and plotting a moving average curve. I don't have enough data to know for sure, but it is looking more and more like a fluke. I think a minimum of a week moving average is necessary to get a better view. Possibly a month is better. Even so, I think part ...

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KCCC wrote:
(I'm also KCCC on Ravelry, if you're on there.)

NoelFigart there, too.

I didn't get into knitting sweaters until I moved from Virginia to New England.

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I'm with ya on the "real food" thing, wosnes!

I don't make a real, conscious choice to eat low fat, but I eat so many real fruits and veggies, whole grains and unprocessed food that I do NOT sweat a slice of cheese or real eggs for breakfast if I want them.

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When I skip seconds, my mom tells me to not get anorexic on her. I have tried to explain that the way that I am eating is the opposite of anorexia, but it makes me feel uncomfortable, so I find myself just giving in and eating because it's easier, but I don't even enjoy the food! Does anyone else h...

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No S Glass Ceiling Exercise Well, didn't exercise today. But my client finally paid me, so I can get my family's gym membership paid for. We're all going together in the morning. Back to pumping iron and swimming for Noel-san. I'm so happy that I didn't just get mad and snack today. I've been sayin...

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Clarinetgirl, keep in mind that being pretty hungry 20 minutes before a meal has historically been the NORMAL way to feel. One of the reasons I like No-S that has little to do with diet and weight loss is the fact that I really ENJOY every single meal I eat because I AM hungry. Really, it's great fo...

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I also hold the strong opinion that environment DOES affect choice, more than we individualistic-Americans would like to think, and that we've built an AWFUL environment for healthy choices. Which is what I think the article is mostly about. Yes, the permasnacking, lack of formal meals, the hatred ...

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That passage sums up everything I liked and everything I hated about "French Women Don't" in a nutshell! Americans, especially women, have come to accept being overweight as the norm. Many are not the least bit self-conscious . What PLANET has this woman visited? She seems to think that if people d...

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Ten pounds a month that comes back with more v. three pounds a month that stays away forever due to lifelong habit?

Hmmm.... I think you made the better call by far.

Congratulations!

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I've been doing strict vanilla No-S for ten days and have gained 2.5 lbs. GRRRR. The thing is, I KNOW I'm not eating more than before I got back on No-S. My S-days were hardly excessive. I know my plates aren't excessive, either. This feels frustrating. I'm going to give it a month before I re-assse...

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No S Glass Ceiling Exercise Today was weird. Last week there was a lot of talking to myself about why I couldn't snack. I didn't talk a lot about it, but I had to keep total focus and reminding myself that I'm No-Sing, so no snacks. Today I had no desire at all and did not spend my day thinking No-...

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What ticks me off is statements like this: The program gives the seal to both regular and light mayonnaise, which could lead consumers to think they are both equally healthy. I'm pretty sure that they're trying to say that light mayonnaise is better than regular. I think light is less healthy than ...

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AUUUUGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*runs in circles, rolls on the floor GIR-style*

Wosnes, I thought you LIKED us! How could you scare us like that?

*weeps*

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*wince* I'm sure you do put on muscle easily. I did not mean to hurt your feelings. Forgive my cynicism, but it's so very common in a gym environment for women to claim gains of large amounts of muscle when the scale changes. For the AVERAGE women, and even some of the genetically gifted hard traine...

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Welcome ColdPlay! Have you read the book yet? It's not expensive, not long, but is packed with ammunition to help you stick to the guidelines and not be swayed by other's opinion. I highly recommend it. I think I've read parts of it a dozen times! Amazon.com carries it... Hang in there... janie I'm...

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She is a bodybuilder, with photos of herself on her desk. *snip* I don't want to look like this when I grow up! I promise that you won't just from pumping iron a few times a week and doing No-S. Do the strength training. You'll thank your younger self when you're in your eighties. (Shovelglove and ...

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Yes, this is absolutely standard advice. (I work the desk at a gym to get free access to a pool). And if you're trying to diet down to 10% body fat as a female bodybuilding competitor, that minor metabolic advantage is necessary. But to get it, you have to eat an incredibly rigid amount of calories ...

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Didn't do any sort of working out today.

Dinner, however, was wonderful. Got my son to play sous-chef and we made a lasagna together.

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Get the best, warmest boots you can afford. I'm from the South, where dainty shoes are more common, and indeed, are my preference. But every year, come November or so, I bless the fact I got talked into buying some ugly, clunky, really heavy boots with a thick tread and removable lining. I've replac...

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Hey, Shirls!

Just came back, meeself! Good to see you!

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Yesterday wasn't a "fun" S-day. I didn't eat three meals, but nibbled (I'd INTENDED the three meal thing, but it didn't' work out that way because of weirdness with guests). I don't really feel like I went overboard, but I think I like three meals and then a nice dessert or something best as a way t...

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maslowjenkins wrote:I think I would feel stuffed after eating everything in the bento box, but a bit deprived if I ate that from the plate. hmmmm, interesting!
what size is your bento box? I've been thinking about getting one.

It's the same amount of food.

That bento is 580 ml.

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