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Nice, ironchef and Whosonfirst. I know this wasn't directed at me but I could use the picking up this morning!

Larkspur

Still chugging along. Had a rather discouraged conversation with my husband this morning. I eat much less sugar this way & enjoy the gentle discipline and the more rewarding mealtimes. I suspect my blood sugar regulation is better and I'm persuaded of the benefits of fewer meal times. But I am not l...

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Start a novel? You're already slim & fit-- next project! (Don't stop helping the rest of us, though!)

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It is easy to get lost in various dietary recommendations, isn't it? The one that I find most difficult to reconcile is the high (usually animal) protein recommendation you see everywhere-- it's supposed to be good for satiety and weight loss, but it's also supposed to be implicated in cancer develo...

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I have been doing that too (not plating strictly so I can get the three meals a a day down.) I feel like I need to work on the one plate thing now, but I find myself resistant!

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I hear you. I like S days, but physically I feel like they don't agree with me that well. Not sure what to do about that. I find 4-6 the hardest time too. I usually do a coffee with creamer or a juice and seltzer to get me through.

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Happy birthday!

I grew up in Cottonwood-- we had a few acres on the Verde River-- pretty much paradise for a ten year old kid! Wave to the red rocks for me! Are you going to Oak Creek?

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Merry, so sorry to hear about your husband. How awful.

Welcome to the newbie

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Gah. I was going to give myself a green for yesterday, but on reflection I am awarding a red because I ate bread, salad, broccoli, fries and steak at Outback last night-- some virtual plating which would have resulted in a rather stuffed plate. I did remove most of the fries, but I don't think I get...

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Of course your approval means something

You are a master level NoSer! (Noser for short?)

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Sounds like a great month, Merry! Gratz!

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Kodiak cakes are a whole grain mix with protein added. They're easy and yummy and make the occasional sluggish morning more manageable. I know I'm eating way too many floury things. Just having one of those weeks where life seems awfully difficult. Just have to hang in there, the school year's almos...

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I'm in. I was startled to see only 12 green days last month!

✅ 02 03 04 05 Smile
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Noticing what a lot I seem to eat LOL. 7/ kodiak cakes with butter and syrup (mod!), juice and seltzer 10/ cup of coffee with two foofy creamers 12/all the things (well, two english muffins with butter, some brie cheese, some all bran cereal of all things, cherries and yogurt, chocolate) 630/chicken...

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Ironchef, I'm thinking you're in Australia? Is that right? Do they have an equivalent to an Office of Aging there? We have them on the county level here and they can sometimes help people over 65. I used to work with the chronically mentally ill and the Axis 1 paranoid folk are very hard to deal wit...

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Sounds like you deserve much praise and admiration for sticking with it during your move. Your poor husband. Parting with books does hurt! I feel that about the overreach-- everything seems so big and fancy these days. I like things to be nice, but there's nothing wrong with small/simple. (Note to s...

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So sorry about the flooding! How awful. Water situations are the worst. Re the yucky work problem, can you give it some time? I've had the experience of things that seemed intolerable either changing, or my reaction changed. I hope when the earth turns a few times this will seem less distressing. Be...

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Had a lovely weekend with lots of gardening, shoving furniture around, and food :) Nothing really wild but I was hoping to go light since I am excited about shaving off some poundage. Back to N days. I was only 12 green for the month last month and I don't think I've had a completely green week yet....

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I had an S-y weekend myself

Gratz on the 18/20 green and the weight work! I am not nearly there yet!

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That's interesting, Kathleen. I'll be interested to hear about your results. Somebody was telling me about Tabada workouts, which I'd like to try. I'm sorry you walk so much and still have trouble with your weight. Do you find that avoiding snacks helps with the munchies? I've noticed good improveme...

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@Linda-- LOL, I have that. Body dysmorphic disorder in a good way. I do a great job of editing when I look in the mirror. Honestly, I'd rather have it this way than the other! Good luck with your renters. Sounds quite ugh. Hope the house is in better shape than you fear. It does sound like a good pl...

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So sorry about the stress, ironchef. DH works in the field and he has had the experience of a truly loony person calling the Board. There was no merit in the claim-- it was truly weird-- it was dismissed and all was well, but it was very stressful for him. Hopefully the overseeing body will have had...

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Oolala, my dear friend and I talk to each other with headsets on and get gardening, dishes, etc done. The time flies :) I much prefer working and yakking to just talking (but there is always so much to be done.) Linda, I found when I was at home I always felt more or less under the gun. In some ways...

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Had an awful evening yesterday. I am hoping to cut back my hours to be more available to care for my daughter and my elderly MIL-- which in the US is a thing because health insurance for the self employed is crazy expensive, like $2000 a month expensive. We can afford it, sort of, but it feels risky...

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It all sounds really good. I'm sorry you got caught in the middle. I hope it's a good visit and not too stressful.

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Note to self: do not eat a generous lunch with apple chips and then drink a large iced tea. Those chips are rehydrating. Oof.

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Woot!

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I haven't looked too carefully at the source, so read this with a grain of salt. You can find research on either side but I'm more convinced by the 2 or 3 meal a day crowd. Would be interested in other people's thoughts: http://drritamarie.com/blog/hormonal-control-of-blood-sugar-and-optimal-meal-ti...

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Thanks, I'll try it! Still looking for the perfect lasts-five-hours breakfast.

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Hi gingerpie! Would it help to consider-- your blood sugar might have been worse if you had not made those changes? We tend to forget in this day and age that the march of time has a pretty big role in things like this. And there is good evidence that less frequent meals is better for blood sugar an...

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Time for my slightly off-topic remarks, LOL. I have mixed feelings about WLS. I worry that the research has been subject to bias from the industry-- I don't know that that's true. I gather with surgeries in general the mortality rates are worse before the kinks get ironed out. So it could be they're...

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I do hot chocolate in the afternoons too. I used to do clean eating with a cheat day, so the S days are kinda familiar to me. So that's what, 104 S days a year not counting holidays. If I think of it that way that helps me avoid the snatch and grab mentality. Whatever nice thing it is, it'll be ther...

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I should have done that yesterday. Almost 8 hours between lunch and dinner and when I did finally eat, I got so. tired. I should have had something when I hit six hours. Enjoying the thought of your watermelon fence...

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So two green days, woot. Feels good. b/ezekiel cereal with a small box of raisins, ch soy smoothie with banana, whey and konjac root (sounds like I should be mixing that in a cauldron with an incantation-- "Keep me full until lunch!") 10/ coffee with two creamers 1145/salad, small ham pretzelwich, t...

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I'm curious, Oolala. I'm trying to determine how you established what your peers think is ideal? As in, oh, a 5'8" woman should weigh X? Or, someone said, "Stop right there, you're 6/10th of a pound too slim!"?

Hope your cold is better soon!

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Biggest struggles-- Hmm. 1. Making it between meals was VERY hard at first. It's easier now but not easy. Schedules are hard to control-- I've gone 7 hours between meals, which is not my natural bent, I assure you! 2. The fact that it's a gradual trimming of calories versus a dramatic reduction. Thi...

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Linda, sounds like you'll be looking for merit aid versus need-based aid. Certainly we did not manage to save $250K per child-- DD's college is $67,000 a year. It's a small liberal arts school that meets full need so we usually pay about half that, but it's always a bit of a nailbiter. I was really ...

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Awesome steps.

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What a lovely poem.

No S all the way LOL.

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So, a great Saturday, a little high rev food wise, but lots of heaving and lifting and shoveling in the garden. Was feeling good about weight loss and NoS, loving life and everybody. Sunday not so good. Did hours of byzantine financial aid forms for daughter 1, which were late and we didn't realize ...

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Gratz on the green week and the prudent use of YNAB! I was using that but I'm back down to just Mint. Finances are an area of particular wigging at the moment because it's Fafsa and profile time-- oi. Here's to a great, green week.

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Oolala, I really think you could be an awesome health coach. When I was looking around at What Am I Going to Do About it, I almost hired a coach-style service. Somehow you put things in a way that's very helpful. So my home scale is a not very fancy analog thing, and if you push it the wrong way wit...

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Interesting. I am sorta hoping to lose a poundish a week and I have not been quite meeting that. I ballparked my dinner calories yesterday and came up with 680. So if I'm eating roughly that x 3 plus 150 calories of juice and coffee creamer, I'm maintaining with cause :) I could try to burn more cal...

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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170420162254.htm I do still drink diet soda. It waxes and wanes. I like unsweet tea just fine, but my husband is addicted and drinks tons of the stuff. I wish I could get him OFF it. It would also help me to not to have it around. There have been various...

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Your meals sound so nice

Wishing you a good spring Friday.

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b/ ezekiel with raisins and milk l/leftover Indian with, yes, naan d/matzobrai (however you spell it-- I'm only an honorary Jew) with butter and syrup and banana, and six malted milk eggs RED Annoyed at myself for eating too much delicious naan with the family at dinner last night. I'm never going t...

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Nice first quarter! I'm jelly

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Dental work is upsetting. I know as a grown up I always feel it shouldn't worry me so much, but it does. So I think you get a huge atta girl for going and doing that difficult thing and, as you say, it's nothing you or he could have anticipated. Sounds like Terry Pratchett and walking was a great re...

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Great steps, nice meals. How did the rest of the day go?

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Tuesday was green, whew. 7/ smoothie (ch soy milk, whey powder, banana, konjac root = weird but tasty) 1/ lunch out. Did ok despite lateness. Thanks to the Easter refueling :) Half a chicken salad sandwich, bowl of chili, potato chips which I usually ignore but these were good and I was ready to eat...

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Hope your house sells fast, TexArk!

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What a good day, Skycat!

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Oh, Maggie, so sorry! That sounds so stressful. Good quote, excellent thing to remember. My in laws divorced after thirty years of marriage, over twenty years ago. Which meant that my husband and I have had to do the errands and emotional support because there were no other siblings nearby and they ...

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After a lovely weekend, I took today as an S day because I knew it would be that or a fail. All the kids home which feels really festive and I wanted more time with our nice treats. Boxing things up, and asking the kids to put their own candy in their rooms. It's incredibly simplistic, but it helps ...

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I've been having a shot glass of chocolate chips after dinner sometimes. Chocolate is not my favorite sweet but I do like it and I like to fancy it's good for me

I personally hope not to do other things because I think it would take more focus to stop at a bit.

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Hm, I read that more as, humans have enormous resilience. There's quite a bit of research out there that seems to indicate we eventually bounce back to baseline pretty well from a variety of dreadful events. so that's kind of comforting. I do think we have a certain amount of brain devoted to fretti...

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Gratz on your streak and the completion of taxes!

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Aw! So glad things are good

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I feel ya, I had some malted milk eggs and that felt like more than enough

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8/ 2 kodiak cakes with butter and syrup, banana
1230/ 2 slices pizza at the mall with the fam

5 pm/ cup of light sweet coffee

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Hope you slept! That's the worst!

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You're learning, right? Not broken. Learning new things takes time and in this case, you have to persuade your body you can feel good on a different eating schedule. It's a perfectly reasonable, viable schedule, but your body may not see it that way at the beginning. I know mine didn't. I am the mom...

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Sounds like an awesome day. Do you feel good physically?

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Sounds like a lovely food day. Kudos on those steps.

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My plan is to keep Friday and Monday as N days and happily S out on the weekend.

I have so liked that I can discuss favorite Easter treats without feeling uneasy and "undeserving." I don't eat that stuff every day. It's a treat and will be much enjoyed

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7/ cherry whey konjac shake (sounds awful, but it's good), 1.5 english muffins with butter and lemon marmalade my daughter brought back from Italy 11/ coffee and creamer 1230/ beef barley soup, apple with peanut butter, slice of homemade spinach pizza while lunching with my DAUGHTER, yay 4/ small gl...

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4 sun salutations. Not counting walking the dog around the block, which is too lame to qualify as anything. But the dog liked it. B/oatmeal with chopped apple, sliced almonds, raisins, brown sugar and butter, coffee with creamer 1215/ triscuits, cuppa beef barley, raisins, apple chips, cherries And ...

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Yay!

Before I became a nurse, I ran the database for a Heart Transplant Group. The coordinator was run off her feet and didn't have time to eat the massive amounts of goodies that grateful patients sent. Not so good for me

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I always take heart from Linda's story of not losing much weight the first year and then the second, focusing on lighter plates and losing quite a bit. I am losing quite slowly as well-- maybe four pounds this first month. But it is down, and that definitely helps with motivation. A moderate approac...

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Best wishes, Skycat! Keeping off more than 50 pounds is a wonderful achievement in itself. I'm always so impressed by the things people do to manage their weight. I found WW too little food-- I can't grok fasting 3 days a week. 14 lbs sounds very achievable. Gratz on the supportive husband. It helps...

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4 sun salutations 730/ 2 kodiak cakes with butter and syrup (one of my mods, people), juice and seltzer with konjac root, tangelo 1115/ ate early because I had to schedule wise. Also very hungry. Small bagel with bacon and cheese, half a banana, cherries and plain yogurt 4/ juice seltzer konjac 6/ c...

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Awesome day, awesome step count.

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My idea is to clear a bit of time to sit down and enjoy your nice food--? I sometimes eat at my desk working, which is less than ideal. Maybe you can carry a plastic or paper plate and put everything on that.

I don't know how many bites I eat-- more than 15, I'm pretty sure!

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Looking forward to hearing from you

Cool blog.

I was very sorry to read of your loss.

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Oolala, Rule 1, stop watching deflating German movies! Gosh! ANYBODY knows that! (Can you tell I'm teasing you?) I get the impression you are really smart. And I wonder if that can make it a little harder to find your tribe, because your tribe is clustered on one end of the bell curve. Not necessari...

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Welcome! Looking forward to hearing about your first days! My first few days, I focused more on no snacks and no sweets and gave myself a little room with seconds, because I was worried about making it between meals. And sure enough, 10 am and 4 pm were really hard, because I was used to eating at t...

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I'm so sorry to read about your worries regarding your 17 year old. Parenting little kids is an absolute cake walk compared to parenting teens. The stakes feel so much higher and the solutions more difficult to see. I hope your daughter connects with her strength and that you are able to worry less....

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The brunch sounds delish and like a happy social thing. I'm so sorry about the sturm and drang with your friend. It sounds like you were straight with her about what was worrying you, and she did not handle the information at all well. Friendship is a gift and there is no point in exposing yourself ...

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I find myself wanting to try Marmite! I wonder if I can get it at Wegman's. My daughter is coming home from England on Wednesday, I wonder if they would let her bring a jar through customs.... Planning to visit in June, I can just wait until then!

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So a good weekend, maybe not what I consider ladylike S days, but not too messy. I did have this weird dream where I was definitely experiencing scale anxiety. The nature of No S is moderate, but there is no question I am trying hard and invested in the outcome, and I had this bad dream involving we...

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Hope it warms up where you are. I'm very grateful for sun today-- it helps!

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Thank you for your good wishes! I think I did ok not overeating-- I just would have been too uncomfortable for too long without the snack, and eating together as a family seemed like my more important goal. Another one up for no S: I am really enjoying the habit of satisfying hunger all together aro...

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Good luck with the house showings! I hope it sells really fast. Do you like your new place?

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B/ cherry whey shake, 1.5 English muffins with egg and cheese L/barely remember. Swamped and working. Big headache. Muffins? 2 cheese sticks. Small box of raisins. Very sad lunch. 2/ cup of coffee with vanilla creamer. Somewhat comforted. Head better. 5/ chicken, 7 or 8 cashews 730/ rest of chicken,...

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Just saw your post from a couple of days ago. I'm so sorry you are feeling caught in the middle. I hope things are feeling easier.

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Merry, I'm sorry for your loss.

Sounds like you did very well considering and you have a good plan of attack going forward.

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Lizzy, did you try coffee with milk or (what I do) whole milk cocoa at four? I find it really helps getting me through until dinner. My uncomfortable times are 10:30-11 (bf is at 7) and sometimes around 4 pm, because I always ate at four when I got home from work. The after school time has been surp...

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That's a pretty modest red LOL. It's funny, in theory I am full of sensible advice about how to tell people you don't have much free time and say Just Say No. But in practice... I am cochairing one committee at church and active on another, sing in the choir, drive daughter to ballet an hour or more...

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Oolala, I did some sun salutations this morning LOL. So that's something! B/ cherry whey shake, half a bagel with blue cheese, some orange juice with very disgusting psyllium that I didn't realize was flavored space age orange. Gross. Did not finish. 12/ plate of homemade nachos, bran muffin 4/cocoa...

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Yeah, but am I doing it? LOL I'm tryin'! It's hard when Duties don't let up-- 50 year old perimenopausal balogna in a big ole generational sandwich. Neither husband nor adult son can drive; we're managing three properties (and three mortgages) since my FIL died suddenly last fall, MIL is failing, fa...

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This is why it's so easy for the metabolically thrifty to stay overweight. 300 extra calories a day (sooo easy to do) is 30 pounds.

On the other hand, it's encouraging too-- walk two miles, and consistently cut 100 calories--?

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7/ kodiak cake with butter and syrup, banana bran muffin, juice with selzer 12/ 2 bran muffins with butter, nachos with beans and cheese, 3 figs 615/ 3 chicken wings, cucumber salad, 3 potato wedges, a few cashews and a tablespoon or two of chocolate chips I am calling kodiak cakes green. So there. ...

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So sorry you were not feeling good yesterday. Good for you for staying on track despite setbacks.

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I like that phrase: "Start as I mean to go on!" I have trouble losing weight too. I was heartened to see that some people did not lose much the first year and used the building of habit to drop weight later. I like the other benefit of NoS so much that I'm hoping to stick with it regardless, but of ...

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7/ not hungry (hmm) and sort of rushed and fussed and cranky. English muffin with butter and jam and a cherry whey shake which I brought to work. 11:45/ couldn't wait any more-- two slices of marathon bread, 8 triscuits, cheese stick, blue cheese, rainbow salad with sunflower seeds and raisins and v...

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So sorry yesterday was too much :( Looking back at my blog, I can see that my life is a cycle of Too much work! Cut back! Then-- I need to get us health insurance! (Husband is in private practice.) Then, Too much work! followed by I need to get us health insurance! An infinite loop LOL. It seems har...

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Best wishes on the planned retirement! How thrilling! What did you make of the THM diet? I've read some things about fat + sugar being tough weight-wise, but it seems to me the caloric effect alone would be enough to account for that. I get lower carb being good for weight loss. I'm just not convinc...

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A really nice weekend, though heavy on the Swedish Lemon Pie. I want to remind myself that though it did take the equivalent of a third of a pie (via the "just a sliver more" system) I did reach a place of satiety and contentment even with that extremely fabulous pie. I was not even jealous of my hu...

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And another one, from the AHA-- recommending standardized meal times and portion sizes, more food earlier, less food at night, and avoidance of snacking for CV health: http://www.practiceupdate.com/c/49197/3/6/?elsca1=emc_enews_top-10&elsca2=email&elsca3=practiceupdate_primary&elsca4=primary-care&el...

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Ice cream for breakfast sounds awesome! Especially cashew cream, yum.

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