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gratefuldeb67

Thanks Blithe Morning!! LOL
I enjoyed reading those.
Unfortunately I am not the kind of person who could muster up the "even coolness" to deliver them right, and probably would feel bad for saying them afterward anyway.
Love,
Debs x

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I'm sure this will pass, but I had a very upsetting thing happen today. I went to see my Son perform in a play this evening, and some old lady was sitting with my Mother, and at the intermission she came up to me and was trying to figure out who I was, as my Mother was talking to me about Richard's ...

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Wow!!! You did great Becky!!! :D I'm going to check the library for those Leslie Sansone vids and see if I like em, if they have them.. I did some snow shoveling today and yesterday, but I'm sure it would be nice to have an indoor walking thing to do as well for when it's like this outside.. Enjoy t...

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Thank you Reinhard!

Debs

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funfuture wrote:Can't remember all the meals this week but know that I have had all green days.

Well done gel!

Debs x

gratefuldeb67

Yeah girl! Rollin wid da Success days!

Have a good one!

Debs x

gratefuldeb67

Wow!!! You are a cookie resisting Superhero!!

gratefuldeb67

ps.. I am still using HabitCal.. and although not "officially" trying to do 21 days on habit now, I am shooting for a success rate of at least 80% or more for the month. (I'm really crap at math, so basically I'm saying if I have one failure a week it I will roll with it, but trying to keep myself f...

gratefuldeb67

Thanks Fun! Well honestly, the last few days I've taken a big nose dive and had a few nights of eating in the middle of the night.. one night was *three* bowls of cereal (not buying apple cinnamon cheerios anymore!) and last night I had an apple while actually laying down to go to sleep and then a h...

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Ditto!

gratefuldeb67

Thanks Janie!
Move over please and make some room for me in front of that wood stove!
I really feel like bears are the only "sane" beings during Winter..
Hibernating would be sweet!

Have a nice evening.
I think I'll go look for some firewood tomorrow

Debs

gratefuldeb67

Hi all, just chiming in here. I never used shoes when I Shovelglove.
Similar to Yoga, which is done barefoot, this seems like it would be weird with shoes. I find being barefoot very grounding and better for balance.

Debs

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Just enjoy yourself Anne! If it's only a few days, don't worry about it. Stay off the scale for a week after you come back and I bet you will see no difference :wink: If you have the budget, and feel like a bit of "home cooking" why not have dinner at a wonderful restaurant in the Village called Pro...

gratefuldeb67

Hey Becky! Great to hear you are fully recovered and doing all that awesome exercise!! Good for you!!

Love

Debs x

gratefuldeb67

Congratulations Janie! Not cleaning our little ones plates is such a big thing! Definitely worth being proud of! You exhibited great self control!
Nice work

Have a nice week.

Debs x

gratefuldeb67

Hi Anne :) "Vanilla" in this context means, basically "Plain"... A lot of people tend to want to make NoS more complicated with more added rules and personal restrictions. But when people here refer to "Vanilla NoS" they mean doing the basic plan, with nothing extra, no added restrictions, and nothi...

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Thanks a lot Karen!
Have a nice night

Debs x

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Well folks, it's been seventeen days on NoS Habit for me and I'm really glad I tried this, but today I had a very erratic eating day, and I'd say there's really no way to "justify" and virtual plate etc, just to make it come out a "by the books" success, in terms of habit. I haven't eaten badly, but...

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Not sure but that link should be in a thread of it's own, in case it isn't already..

I'll definitely email them

Debs

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Thanks Becky! When I get myself to do this five days a week, I know I'll start seeing some weight loss.. I've been very sedentary this month.
Really gonna make it a priority next week to change that.
Hope you are well!
Have a great day!

Debs x

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Hahaha!! Funny, I had a cinnabon this morning! Also enjoyed a bunch of hersheys kisses too.. Send the rest of the bag off with my Son to his youth center tonight, to donate them to the other kids there :wink: Thanks a lot! I do feel very good that my habits are starting to take hold here. It's getti...

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Kathleen wrote: sooner or later, I'm going to want to eat so that I feel good and not so that I maximize the amount of food I eat in a short period of time.

I hope you are feeling better today Kathleen.
This sounds like a very good goal to me.
Love,

Debs

gratefuldeb67

Don't weigh yourself every day Anne..
Two pounds can be caused by a lot of things.
I'd suggest only weighing once a week.
Sorry, but I'm sure that two pounds is just temporary.
Really, don't worry.
Love

Debs
ps.. you don't have to call me by my profile name.. Debs is fine

gratefuldeb67

Oh I am so sorry to hear about this sad news!
Sending my deepest condolences to you Sister!
Blessings
Debs

gratefuldeb67

Haha!
Thanks Fun

Cheers

gratefuldeb67

Hahah I take it you don't like sardines..
I love them but that's just me

Here's a list I just found. I think I may have been a bit off with my numbers.
Hope it helps.
Have a nice weekend

Debs

http://www.ucsfhealth.org/adult/edu/cal ... index.html

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I'm gonna start today with cutting the amount of powdered hot chocolate in my coffee down and see how that helps.. Cold turkey didn't work for me last time.. Got in a really bad state actually. But I think I'm ready to give it a go again and just cut it in half, weaning myself down baby step style. ...

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Thanks Fun!! It's been rainy here a lot this week, so still no outside stuff. I'm so paranoid that I'll get sick again and am *just* feeling better this week, after over 2 months being really ill... But even getting out to sit in my car is better than being inside, so I will try to do that more. It ...

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Yeah I don't know why that 14th word was omitted from the new version.
I liked the "Sometimes" part of the whole equation.
Am I wrong? Was it changed for any reason that I missed and don't know of?
Have a great weekend!

Debs

gratefuldeb67

Congratulations Anne on not having the sweets the other day when they were in a "pile" in front of you.
That is really hard to resist!!
Enjoy your weekend

Debs

gratefuldeb67

Wow!!! Amazed at your will power!
Counting down to the weekend with you!
Good work on your successful day KCCC!
Peace,

Debs x

gratefuldeb67

Great plan!!!
Have a nice weekend Sis

Debs

gratefuldeb67

Hope you feel better soon!
Sorry about your throat. I like Ricola menthol cough drops.
Get some rest and don't worry about walking when you aren't well.
Take care and have a good weekend!

Debs x

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Thought I'd see if a link to a pic which I took of myself this evening would work.

Debs

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.c ... D=40025738

gratefuldeb67

HelloKitty wrote: And I do believe in moderation, for everything

I do too

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No worries Kitty. I'd say as long as you don't have more than a few glasses a day it's still semi borderline.. I wish I could curtail this in my own daily coffee, but I tried to and it had really disastrous results for me.. So I focus on watching the cookies, cake, soda etc.. It's slower, no doubt, ...

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Thanks Rene! I had them for breakfast this morning and they tasted all the better for waiting

Have a great day yourself and thank you for your support and kindness!

Debs x

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Thank you very much Bright Angel and Reinhard "Angel"

Love,

Debs x

gratefuldeb67

You go girl!!!

Great plan!!
Love,

Debs x

gratefuldeb67

Hi Hello Kitty.. I am responding to your post here just to make a distinction. I am not condemning you for having that tablespoon and a half of syrup.. I myself have powdered hot chocolate mix in my coffee, and that is definitely a lot of extra sugar each day. Over the whole day, I usually have abou...

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I know I have less brain cells these days

LOL

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Reinhard should be invited onto Oprah for sure.
He's the smartest, nicest, most wonderful diet guru on the planet!
People all over can benefit from NoS, Oprah included.
Love,

Debs

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("Appetite, if you don't calm down I'm going to take you to Le Bernardin!"). This may seem paradoxial (and expensive) Reinhard Hahahaha!!! How funny!!! I was thinking about Lutece and how sad it is that it has closed, and thinking of what the next best thing would be if I ever wanted to treat someo...

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Hi Kathleen! It does take time to get to a point where you don't really want to overdo it on S days.. but even years into it, once in a while, we have some pretty big blowouts.. I'd say the best way to deal with this is to give yourself a *loose* structure of allowing yourself a few S's per day.. I ...

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Hey guys :) Just wanted to pop in here to share a personal triumph.. I'm now past halfway into the 21 days, on my thirteenth day today.. Yesterday evening I was very very stressed.. Got some chinese mixed veg and pork dumplings.. made a good sized plate for dinner and had lots left in the containers...

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I think that Reinhard didn't step on the scale for well over a month or two when he first tried doing NoS for himself.

Glad to hear it's going so well!

Debs

gratefuldeb67

Hi Anne

You are doing great!!!
I hope you might consider posting your home made crepe recipe here sometime

Peace,

Debs

gratefuldeb67

Feel better very soon Becky!!
Love,

Debs x

gratefuldeb67

Hi Fun! Sorry bout your emotional driven snack episode, but it sounds like you really did great at keeping it very contained! Kudos to you! I think part of your problem now is that you seem to make the most tasty food! Maybe if your cooking was worse it would be easier not to have seconds :wink: Any...

gratefuldeb67

Welcome and good luck!
NoS works. It's slow but it works.
You have some great goals!

Debs

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These are all so good, thank you! I will add mine that I actually posted a while ago to another topic: "That was good, but I've had enough". Hi Danger Will Robinson.. I just wanted to say thanks for "That was good, but I've had enough" as I was able to implement it yesterday at the diner when we we...

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Then at night, I kept thinking about that last blueberry muffin sitting on the kitchen table. I got so obsessed with it that I was unable to concentrate on the movie I was watching. The muffin seemed to be exactly what I needed. "Just give me that muffin and then I can die happy!". Well, again I di...

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Yeah I wouldn't fool with the pills...
This is gross, but you can flush your large intestine by drinking about a quart of room temp water with a few tablespoons of salt in it.
But then you have to stay near a bathroom for a few hours.

Debs

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Janie!! You totally rock!!!!!!!!!!
That's like when I threw the stale donut out my car window

You should definitely be very proud of yourself!!!!!

Love,

Debs

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ps.. Yes, the taste of real cocoa is very bitter.. This is why most chocolate is mostly sugar and fat.. But these days there are all these heavy duty dark chocolates which have more cocoa.. I don't really like them.
Gimme a Hershey bar any day.

gratefuldeb67

If the main ingredient in any beverage is sugar, then it's a sweet.
Commercially made chocolate milk is definitely an S, unless it's with fake sweetener.
Congratulations on your 4 good days Meg!

Debs

gratefuldeb67

Do you mean a colonic/hydrotherapy thing, or do you mean the Lemonade diet?

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That's a very good plan Connorcream

That's what S days are for!

Good luck Noel with your Urban rangering!

Debs

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Salad is good for you Karen.. Nah worry

Have a great weekend!
Love,

Debs x

gratefuldeb67

Okay it's been a full 7 days now into the 21 days and I had all successful days for NoS, and *no night time eating*!! Didn't keep my original commitment to exercise daily, and only meditated once actively, but I'm so glad about the first week of sticking to three meals a day.. Yesterday, by the way,...

gratefuldeb67

Thanks Rene!
I know how you feel! It's a hard time of the year too...
I'm starting my S'sing, as always, Friday evening..
That's how we have always done NoS.

Good luck with sticking to "No way Jose'ing"

Debs xx

gratefuldeb67

Good luck and good idea Baby! Try to include something green for at least one of your meals I'd say, and then other than that, yeah,,,, don't worry at all. You will be fine. And *definitely* do include a little bit of oil or butter in your cooking.. It's so much nicer to feel you are eating somethin...

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Hahah!! Yeah it's kinda catchy! Glad you had a good day Rene :wink: Today I was hungry *ALL* day, and I even had normal meals.. I feel like last nights hunger was carried over to today.. This is very unusual for me, as I normally have a sluggish system and it takes me hours to get hungry, and once I...

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Thanks Karen! Tonight will be tough. I'm still awake and have been very tempted to eat something now.. I'm hungry and it's been an emotional day, as I found out that my good friend, the bloke I am fond of in England, just lost one of his closest friends and needs to go to the funeral tomorrow. He lo...

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Hi Orange..
This is far nicer than all that boring food logging!
Welcome!
Best of luck to you!

Debs

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Yay!!!!!!!!!!!
Good for you Becky!!!
I'm thrilled for you!!!!
Love,

Debs x

gratefuldeb67

My personal feeling is try to just use HabitCal to track your compliance with the NoS habit.
I feel it's the simplest and simple is good.
Good luck!

Debs

gratefuldeb67

Oh my God!!! That's brilliant KCCC!! *Obesogenic environment* I love that phrase!!!! Someone please include it in the New Webster's NoS Dictionary! Yes, mark it and move on. It was a good learning experience. Next time, pretend you are in a movie and you are the protagonist in some Science fiction p...

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howfunisthat wrote: I have a friend who took his printer behind the barn and shot it with a shotgun.

Hahah! Why??? Bad paper jam??
LOL

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Okay then, good for you!

Debs x

gratefuldeb67

Hahah, i don't know.. I guess it depends on how bad a cook one is! LOL.
I always try to make my food look nice as well as tasting good.
Food stylists!
What a world

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Hi friends! I just created a new daily HabitCal for myself.. It sounds silly, but I get so bad about going out in the Winter that I made one specifically for that purpose. I am not even putting a time limit on it. Just named it "Get out in Sun everyday" Once I'm out there, as long as it's not a supe...

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Hi Blue, good luck with your experiment. May I suggest that it's the consistency of daily routines that will be the foundation of true habit forming. I understand you don't have that much of an appetite these days, so you are basing it on this. But when we change these structures often enough, they ...

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Hi Mrs. Partridge. Hope it's going well for you. I don't think it's as much a physical thing about the appetite being activated, so much as just being stimulated to be thinking of eating by being around food. I think a lot of things can start up your appetite.. Even just looking at food. My son told...

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Thank you Rene and Blue!
Much apprecia*loved*

Debs x

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Okay managed two days of success with NoS and *no* night time eating! Last night was hard because I was a little hungry.. But I said "No way Jose" to myself every time I thought how I didn't want to mess up my committment to 21 days. Down three pounds this morning! Woot Woot! LOL :) I'm feeling very...

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That is sooooo cool! I love that kinda stuff ;) I was a Bachelors of Music at Queens College and studied voice.. Graduated in 1989.. Did a lot of semi professional chorus stuff in NY for a few years. Been a casual guitarist since I was about 9, and mainly these days just do folk/rock and reggae stuf...

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Brilliant idea Blithe Morning

Reinhard should have a link to Myspace as well I think.
Peace,

Debs

gratefuldeb67

Hahah! Oh! LOL
Thanx Blithe Mornin

gratefuldeb67

I see what you're saying! Good for you. Yes give yourself credit for making a plan for yourself!
Thanks for sharing your story!
Love,

Debs

gratefuldeb67

Hahahahah!!! G-Ray vision!
Nice one Super-Rein!

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I'm about to check these out now Rein.
Hahah! What was Schwerpunkt again?!! LOL

Debs x

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We were sitting around on Friday night at her house and I thought it would be rude to her to not try it. Though I hated having to mark the day red, I preferred that to hurting her feelings. Weighed myself today and up a pound so now I wish I hadn't. I feel very confused. I'm sorry you feel confused...

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That's a great idea Bright Angel! Do you mind me suggesting that maybe you make one out of two of those by renaming it "Made and followed eating plan"??? Less habit cals but the same goal? Don't feel embarrassed to do *anything* that will help you take care of yourself! This is all a learning proces...

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Phineas wrote: It is hard to believe how far I've come in such a short time. I have been rigidly adhering to No S for 10 weeks now, without one red day, although a few extra S days came due to an illness and holidays ect, but that's what they're for right?

Wow!! Fantastic!!

gratefuldeb67

Great news Phineas!! Good on ya!!
Inspirational!!

Debs

gratefuldeb67

What gig?? Are you a musician too??
Good luck this week with straight NoS Karen.

Debs x

gratefuldeb67

Thanks Rene! I appreciate that!
Hope you are well!

Debs x

gratefuldeb67

ps.. What's KWIM stand for??

gratefuldeb67

Hi all :) To Connorcream, I have actually found that measurements can vary between a half and inch and an inch, depending on a few factors which affect water. After a workout, my measurements are usually less and then they may go up the next day. So, I guess I'd suggest just measuring yourself only ...

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Hi friends! I just wanted to report that I had my first, across-the-board, green day yesterday. NoS, Exercise, and *no eating in the middle of the night*! I'm really chuffed! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: I did, however, not keep my promise not to step on the scale.. This morning I weighed, which was dumb. It...

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Oooh! Food at Becky's place sounding very good today!
I heard that Adzuki beans are super duper healthy

Have a nice week Fruity Becky! LOL
Love

Debs

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Hahah!! That's something I used to do when I was about 6 years old!!! LOL! Well Bless her, and just show her how to keep her hands and fingers clasped, and her forearms nice and parallel, so they frame her head and create that little tripod. I can do it without a wall, but initially, my instructor u...

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That's good to hear! Yes, you eventually learn naturally to curb the excess on S days KCCC.. Funny, last night before N days hit, we decided to go and get a few candy bars. So I'm there thinking, lets get two king size somethings, and share them half and half.. Would you believe that after each of u...

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Thanks Fun gel

Good luck to you too!!
I'm very psyched to do this actually!
Love,

Debs x

gratefuldeb67

Ahhhh Fun that's wonderful! Yes synchronicity indeed! hahah!! Yeah, once you know how to do a headstand it's like riding a bike, and you can do it even after a long time. Definitely about just finding that balance point. Meanwhile, why not have your eight year old practice right in the corner of a r...

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No you won't! LOL You can do a modified version simply by putting a mat on the floor, or a thick blanket, and getting up close to a wall, and resting your legs and low back on the wall.. It's not hard to do an unmodified shoulder stand. Just takes a little practice. Not a headstand! Although those a...

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Good for you!!!

Debs x

gratefuldeb67

Okay..I know I'm not supposed to "worry" about the S days, but I really do binge uncontrollably on my S days. And, I don't like it. So, I'm going to today, Sunday, an S-day, PLAN the day - just a bit. I'll have 3 meals, and also, at most 2 snacks, and at most 2 sweets. That would be far less than I...

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