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Oh my goodness!!! Good for you!!! Well done!

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Hey folks! I hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving.

I was sick for a week, and spent Thanksgiving at home. I'm all better now.

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Breakfast -- latte, brioche with honey
Elevenses -- coffee, ciabatta roll
Lunch -- leftover polenta and asparagus, persimmon, pineapple guava
Dinner -- brussel sprouts and pasta, persimmon, horchata

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Hurray for knitting, mending and drawing!

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Wednesday

Breakfast -- latte, banana, pineapple guavas
Lunch -- leftover polenta and asparagus, a persimmon, pineapple guavas
Dinner -- braised brussel sprouts on pasta, a persimmon, a banana

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Nice to "meet" you. I think you'll really enjoy this supportive community.

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Hope you're feeling better soon.

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Breakfast -- latte, home baked brioche with backyard honey Elevenses -- coffee, pineapple guava Lunch -- leftover mac-and-cheese, peas, pineapple guava Dinner -- lentil soup, garden salad, polenta, asparagus, pineapple guava, persimmon, hard cider A long, long lost friend was in town, so we had her ...

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I realize I never answered the question about my goals. A few years back, my partner and I -- without really planning to -- started phasing out highly processed food from our diet. We both agreed that food extruded from a factory wasn't really food. So, we cook from scratch A LOT, which is kind of t...

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Breakfast -- latte Elevenses -- an apple and a half Lunch -- pasta with cheese sauce and peas, pineapple guavas Dinner -- mac-and-cheese with greenbeans and shallots, apple, persimmon, dates and pineapple guava Funny day. No leftovers, so I ran to Trader Joe's for some frozen food. Came home to almo...

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I haven't seen that one, but I'll bet she kept her wits about her, and soldiered on. Can you *imagine* doing that show, live? What an accomplishment!

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Strange Eating on Sunday

Breakfast -- latte, home baked bread, a single egg omelet, half a persimmon.
Lunch -- avocado on bread, some freshly harvested chestnuts.
Dinner -- a beautiful garden salad, bread with cheese melted on it, and a persimmon tart with home made frangiapane cream.

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Hope your family is feeling better, soon.

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Agreed! People here are supportive and respectful.

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We've got amazon prime, whatever that is, and it has a video streaming service.

http://howsrobb.blogspot.com/2011/11/julia.html

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Saturday Breakfast -- latte, half a mango, bread, and two poached eggs Meeting of the California Rare Fruit Growers -- various tastes of fruit, including apples from 150 year old trees, and some jelly made of rose petals, also some delicious chocolate cake Dinner -- French onion soup, asparagus, sal...

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Friday Breakfast -- latte Elevenses -- a banana Lunch -- tortelini with pesto, peas, half a (gigantic) apple Dinner -- French onion soup, some cookies, a banana We discovered that there are ten years of The French Chef with Julia Child available to watch for free on amazon. We've been watching the v...

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I do drink a lot of water.

I have been struggling with some weird health issues -- severe food allergies, and chronic sinus infections.

I have no plan to stop this way of eating. I truly enjoy this system, but it is a bummer to say no to so many things and see no results.

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Wow. That's fantastic.

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I'm so demoralized.

Six months of being so good ... And NOTHING. No change at all.

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(I'll shamefully admit that I'd rather eat dirt than lift weights. I took a class years ago and had a miserable experience. Everyone in the class was much older and bigger than me, and they were so MEAN SPIRITED. It was horrible.)

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Oh, that's funny about the bra confusion. I've got a fairly muscular back, for whatever that's worth. I was thankfully never out of control with my eating, just sloppy. And goodness knows there are always opportunities to eat crap at work. Also, there's a lot of social drinking around the workplace ...

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What the heck is a no fat bra?

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Tyroid is normal.

I do manual labor -- working in theatrical construction.

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I have to admit that I'm feeling like I've hit a bad patch in No-S. I don't own a scale and haven't weighed myself since I started, but I'm feeling really stuck. I eat really well (or at least I think I do), and I don't eat a whole heck of a lot. But I think that nothing is happening. I've been doin...

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Tuesday

Breakfast -- latte, a persimmon from my tree
Elevenses -- a brioche roll
Lunch -- leftover (home made) white pizza
Dinner -- artichoke hearts over past

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Monday

Breakfast -- latte, a persimmon from our tree
Elevenses -- a brioche roll
Lunch -- leftover rice and veggies
Dinner -- homemade white pizza, with onions and pears, green salad, four crackers and a little cheese

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Just checking in. I've been too busy to record food. I was at the Interweave Labs knitting conference this week. Totally amazing experience. I learned to much from such fantastic teachers. Meals were pretty much like this: Get up at the crack-of-dawn, latte, simple breakfast of eggs and fruit and ho...

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May I ask why you eat "on the go?"

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They're faux-healthy cookies, as far as I'm concerned.

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Wednesday Breakfast -- latte, bread and butter Elevenses -- a toasted bagel, a pumpkin chocolate cookie Lunch -- leftovers from dinner last night, coffee Dinner -- a bean and corn burrito, a square of chocolate Not brilliant eating, but not horrible either Went into San Francisco for the Day of the ...

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I'm headed to the Interweave Labs knitting event later this week!

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Tuesday Breakfast -- latte Lunch -- leftover salad, four figs, half a pomegranate Dinner -- homemade mac-and-cheese, green beans, a handful of peanuts Knitting Night -- a homemade ginger and lime soda There were donuts at work today, as well as mountains of leftover Halloween candy. The carpenters w...

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I don't have any candy at home. It's all at work.

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All that candy needs to go away soon.

Also the donuts, and the beautiful-looking home-baked brownie-cake.

Just sayin'...

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Oh wow! Good for you!!!!!

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Halloween! I didn't eat any candy today, although there were plenty of opportunities to do so. Had a lovely weekend in Big Sur. traveling with a huge food allergy is challenging! But nevertheless, I ate nice meals, and stayed on-course. No junk at all. and few chocolate treats. Here's a painting I d...

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I echo what Blithe said.

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Oh thank goodness you don't have to deal with celeac disease.

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Sorry to hear that you had a rough day.

You really *are* doing well!

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Thanks, y'all! It was a lovely birthday. We're going to Big Sur this weekend!

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BIRTHQUAKE!!! http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/nc71671256.html Breakfast -- latte, home baked walnut raisin bread, mandarin orange Lunch -- latte, leftovers from dinner, and a cheese sandwich Dinner -- spaetzel, cabbage salad, broccolini, a beer. Four chocolate candies, later.

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Very interesting.

Unless I'm really really hungry, I'm quite good at delayed gratification.

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Wednesday

Breakfast -- latte, cranberry walnut bread
Coffee
Lunch -- leftovers from dinner, beet salad, polenta, green beans
Dinner -- home made mac and cheese, green salad

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I think thats a success.

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Another great haiku!

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I wish you lived nearby, because I'd love to let you try my partner's recumbent trike. Because of his paralysis, he has lousy balance, but the trike work really well for him.

Can you swim? That might be easy on the joints as well.

Brooding ... I know all about that.

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Tuesday

Breakfast -- latte, cranberry walnut bread, a banana
Elevenses -- Coffee
Lunch -- leftover tofu salad, a banana, and half a pomegranate from a friend's tree
Dinner -- polenta, green beans, bread and cheese, and a lovely beet salad, juice

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Honestly, that's not a lot of weight! Work on eating habits, and your relationship with food FIRST, then look at the scale.

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Sounds delicious!

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Monday Breakfast -- Latte Elevenses -- coffee and a ciabatta roll Lunch -- leftover soup and a ciabatta roll Dinner -- a lovely mixed salad with some broiled tofu on top, a banana The were handing out rugelach at work today, and my intern brought me one. It was studded with chocolate chips, I thanke...

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If they every held a free-form-haiku contest to sum off the No-S philosophy, you would automatically win it for that last posting!

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It's not the diet soda, but the mindset I have about it that worries me. I think you've hit on the key issue. Not to be totally tinfoil-hat-wearing paranoid or anything, but I really believe that the manufacturers of junk food knowingly formulate their products to be as addicting as possible. Nobod...

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Sunday Breakfast -- latte, spinach and cheese omelet, a pear Snack -- four cheapo Oreo type cookies at my handspinning guild Lunch -- a hummus wrap from Trader Joes, which although it didn't list it, must have contained something I was violently allergic to. Snack -- latte Dinner -- ??? I collected ...

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Hugs to you!

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Two and a half weeks is a blink of an eye. Don't give up yet!

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I think part of what's so valuable about this way of eating is that it re-trains us to delay gratification. So many people write about how they've come to appreciate having an appetite, and how they feel freed from mindless eating.

Would it be helpful to consider how un-food-like diet sodas are?

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Welcome! I've been doing this about six months, and am very happy with how things are going.

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The secret of garden photography? Close-ups! That way nobody can see the mess in the background!

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Sounds like you're doing really well. Good for you!

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Saturday I was supposed to go to a party today, but my partner was feeling too week to attend. Damned spinal cord injury. Some days are so much harder than others. I did a lot of work in the garden, which still looks like a neglected weed patch. Of course, it's so much better than when we got this p...

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We have a huge amount of snacks and sweets at work, and I generally don't eat any of them. However, I'm a terrible food snob, and don't like most candy.

So, I would suggest trying the second option. Take the very best for later, and just pass on the middling treats.

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Mmmmmmm.... Cheeeeeeeeese cuuuuuuuurds!

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The apple wasn't toxic!

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Friday Breakfast -- latte, bread and butter Elevenses -- an apple Lunch -- leftover rice and lentils, a banana Dinner -- rice and beet greens, latte I forgot to mention that I allow myself some "wiggle room" on Friday evenings. I tend to have such moderate weekends that I'm just not worried about gi...

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Did you feel those earthquakes? We had shows running during both of them.

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Usually they're kind of fun. These, for some reason, were frightening.

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Thursday Breakfast -- Latte, two ciabatta rolls Elevenses -- coffee Lunch -- leftover pasta and brussel sprouts, two bananas Dinner -- rice and lentils, also some broccoli raab from teh garden that neither of us liked I ate lunch really late, and experienced a pretty decent-sized earthquake while I ...

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Wednesday

Breakfast -- latte, plain yogurt with wheat germ and a little honey
Lunch -- a spinach and blue cheese pastry-thing, sauerkraut, grapes
Dinner -- pasta and braised Brussels sprouts, a piece of cheese

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Good for you!!!

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Wednesday

Breakfast -- latte, bowl of cereal
Lunch -- lentil soup, a beautiful garden salad
Dinner -- more salad, home made mac-and-cheese, one cookie, three squares of dark chocolate.

Sick with a sinus thing. Bleh.

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Monday

Breakfast -- latte and bread
Lunch -- cucumber nori rolls, a lot of grapes
Dinner -- lentil soup, a few tortilla chips, a peach

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It does get easier! Be tough! Hang in there! Stubbornness is awesome!

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I think about S days as a chance to enjoy a little extra, but I don't gorge on crappy food. We just don't keep junk in the house.

Also, I believe that guilt has no place at the dinner table.

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I've been doing this for about six months. Haven't stepped on a scale, yet. I like how things are going.

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Restaurants still serve foie gras? Good gracious! I thought that practice was long-gone.

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I hope everyone had a nice weekend! I'm noticing that if I don't record my food right away, I forget what I've eaten. I also have realized that I like to treat Friday night as the start of the weekend. I think I'm going to allow that, unless I start seeing a problem. Friday Healthy food all day. Fiv...

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Y'all should have seen the massive rash I sported through the summer of 2010, just from TOUCHING my tomato plants. I finally manage to buy a house, I plant my own garden, and WHAMMO, I develop an allergy to all the best vegetables. This SUXXXXXXXXX.

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I hope you have a great weekend!

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Sounds like you're doing well. Have a great weekend!

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I will admit to disliking cupcakes. I really hate cheap, gloopy frosting, piled to excess on bland airy cake. Bleh.

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Wow! Good for you! You're in inspiration to us all.

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Good for you!!!

Have a great weekend!

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I think a vegan diet is great, unless one is eating a lot if highly processed foods (fake mayonnaise, phony cheese, that sort of thing). I'm a long time ovo-lacto vegetarian, myself. There was a study out this week saying that if the world population kept growing at its current pace, we'd have to DO...

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Yeah, mine too,

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I really don't think you have to "re-set the clock" every time you have a failure. I feel this gives too much negative power to failures, and undermines your many successes. If you had 99% success, but re-set after 1% failure, you wouldn't be focusing on the 99%, would you? No. The failure would hav...

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It's also worth mentioning that I've had SERIOUS problems with newly-developed food allergies. Suddenly, I can't eat anything in the nightshade family (no tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, eggplants or tomatillos). This has been a HUGE pain in the butt. I pretty much can't eat at restaurants. My partner ...

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Scones are made with cream and butter and sugar. Very caloric! Watch out! It's not just flour and fruit, after all...

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I seems like you're agonizing about an awfully insignificant amount of weight. While good habits *are* really important, do those three pounds really matter? They're just numbers, and as we all agree, those numbers move around a lot in the course of a day. Forgive me if I'm stepping out of line with...

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Your meals sound lovely.

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My partner is paralyzed and I'm the sole bread winner. I totally know what you mean by comfort food. Maybe you need to be a little less hard in yourself? Maybe you should reframe the language you're using? What if you say "unplanned snacking" instead of "binging?". Now, I know NOTHING about binge ea...

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Wowie! Love your good attitude!

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I haven't weighed myself since starting no-s. I don't own a scale, and don't plan to buy one. I've been a pretty healthy eater for years. I'm a vegetarian, and somewhere along the line became interested in phasing out highly processed foods. I started no-s because I'd noticed that I'd developed some...

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Thursday Breakfast -- latte, bread and butter Elevenses -- iced coffe, a slice of bread Lunch -- leftover salad, a tangerine Dinner -- it was my beekeeping club's annual party. Because of my crazy food allergies, I ate very strangely. And I had a slim slice of fruit torte, and some rosemary mead. It...

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Waiting for a miracle, huh?

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How do we report spam on this forum?

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Wednesday Breakfast -- latte, bread, grapes Lunch -- cheese sandwich, apple, coffee Dinner -- tortilla chips with grated cheese, and a beautiful bean rice and veggie salad It was opening night of another show. I enjoyed the party, but wasn't interested in any of the food. (I did have a small beer be...

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Tuesday

Breakfast -- latte, bread
Elevenses -- coffee, bread
Lunch -- veggie sushi, grapes
Dinner -- stir fried vegetables over noodles, and some bread

Brutal allergies today. Huge headache. I need to drink more water.

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Limiting fruit helps fight off binge eating?! Wow.

This is why the one-size-fits-all diet just doesn't work. Fruit is my friend, not something I have to guard against. We're all do different, which is a good thing, but complicated.

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Good for you!

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