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^ Are the Greeks still eating that famous Mediterranean diet? I had heard that they are falling the way of the west these days and a lot of packet junk has taken over in recent years.

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after making it into the 21 day club, what specifically there is to shoot for besides good compliance for the rest of one's life. I mean, the rest of one's life?! This kind of thought is exactly why most "diets" fail. People seem to need some specific goal and overlook the very fact that being lean...

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....you get applause for balancing it back to your table successfully.

or

....your wife give you the stink eye across the table like you are some little child.

or

....you get told off with "You better clear that plate smarty!"

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Regarding the slow eating; it definitely does seem to have an affect although I'm not sure what. I eat much slower than most people I know and I am also leaner than most people I know. I have been told and even read an article or two that supported slower eating due to the extra chewing of the food ...

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22/7/2009 Wednesday: Shovelglove EXEMPT - Started a new career today and it involves a bit of heavy lifting. Due to my previous back problems I have exempted my shovelglove for a few days to a week so I can access how to rebuild my program to suit my work. I know from experience over exercising the ...

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I posted a link to a doco about similar Big Food issues in a thread a little while ago. I urge everyone to view it. Was a real eye opener to me.

http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=5264

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*Takes a big chunk out of his juicy steak and watches the conversation*

Oh, don't mind me, carnivore passing through.

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What type of foods were you eating on vanilla NO S? The primary reason low-carb diets work is because people have removed copious amounts of refined simple carbs in the form of breads and starches. It's not so much that low-carb is best, it's more a case of overly high-carb is bad. An extreme exampl...

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21/7/2009 Tuesday: Shovelglove SUCCESS - 11 minutes. Again I am completely puffed out by the end of this. I find I am being puffed out doing this time amount but my muscles are not burning and turning to jelly like they used to. It's definitely a cardio issue now. Evening Luddite SUCCESS - Stage 1 (...

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I thought it interesting that an author of a cookbook in the early 1930's (I think) warned people of using man-made ingredients like artificial vanilla. The food industry obviously didn't agree. The food industry didn't agree because it's much more profitable to sell a branded product then somethin...

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For me getting hungry sometimes means that I get light-headed, weak, shaky, and very angry :evil: . Not too long ago, I was afraid of letting myself get hungry. Since cutting way back on caffeine and sugar, I have found things to be much improved. I have hope that I can one day just feel hungry and...

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I guess technically to break a habit you have to form a new habit so 21 days to ruin a habit as well. But in reality I think a good habit can be ruined much faster, perhaps a week maybe even less. This would be especially so if the good habit wasn't even properly established in the first place. I kn...

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Sunday July 19th: Weekend luddite failure. Had to look up an address. I was good about getting right off after, but I find it helpful to be very strict in my criteria. Keeps me on my toes. Great move on calling the failure, Reinhard. I'm with you on the strictness thing. I was going to go over my E...

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Firstly, my comment obviously does not apply to all people. But there is enough of an occurrence that it made me start to think on the matter. Ok now I have that out of the way, on to the discussion. :) I'm just commenting how it looks. Did you read through those posts? Tell me most of the grazers d...

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wosnes - I think most people do actually at least kind of know about it but just don't care. The person in that quote is a perfect example. Honestly, what rock would someone have to be living under to not have an inkling Maccas was bad for you? Count me a food snob then. I'm definitely getting worse...

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^ That's cool! :D I try to make my cardio and urban rangering a part of my travel as well. I find it much easier to do and much more enjoyable when it has a purpose of getting somewhere as opposed to just exercise for the sake of exercise. Truth be told, I hate exercise for the sake of exercise so m...

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20/7/2009 Monday:
Shovelglove SUCCESS - 11 minutes. Added in 2 sets of pushups. Am revising exercises and order. Completely puffed out by the end of this one.
Evening Luddite SUCCESS - Stage 1 (TV and the internet off at midnight).

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Blithe Morning wrote:The Low Carb people would be appalled at the pasta with peas but it sounds good to me.

Those same people would have died during the depression. Or given up their low carb ways quick smart.

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Lots of grazers there. One thing I notice, not just on that post, but on almost all food forums, is that grazers get very uppity at people who eat 3 squares. It's like they subconsciously know they look like pigs and are lacking self-control and get defensive about it around people who don't graze. ...

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I used to have a very serious MMORPG addiction. It consumed my life completely for 2 years, and when I say consumed I mean I literally did nothing else at all. No job, didn't leave the house, didn't socialise, nothing. It came on the back of a nervous breakdown thanks to my job at the time. When I f...

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19/7/2009 Sunday: Shovelglove EXEMPT Evening Luddite - SUCCESS - Stage 1 (TV and the internet off at midnight). I watched a late CSI:NY episode and turned everything off at midnight. An added bonus of Evening Luddite was I finished reading the bible cover to cover last night. It took me about 18 mon...

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Yeah. I knew you weren't doing it as a regular thing. Just wanted to let the less knowledgeable people know about the potential issues.

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This guy is incredible, though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZOjNz6bjIs Reinhard I'm in awe of that kind of strength and control. What else to say besides WOW!!!!! :shock: :shock: :shock: Here is another one I found after watching the one you linked. It's pretty amazing. Mute it though coz it ha...

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I wish you luck in recovering to good health, Phayze. I also hope you find peace and contentment with your training regime. I know firsthand how painful over analysis of training methodology can be. I used to worry so much about my training plans that I never got around to doing them most of the tim...

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I disagree on the diet soft drinks Marc. The "diet" versions of soft drinks are no better than the regular ones. The replacement sweeteners such as Aspartame are terrible for your health. People are deceived into believing these drinks are better for them which is just not true. To make matters wors...

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You could call the oval bin "The Black Hole of Calclutter". Cheesy? Oh yeah! Awesome? Oh yeah!

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I have read some horror stories about excessively high reps on exercises if it's done regularly. One particularly nasty one that comes to mind was a guy that did 1000 pushups a day. His elbow cartilage basically disintegrated. Once in a while as a feat of strength and endurance is cool but as a regu...

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KCCC wrote:Did anyone think I was leaving the boards, even for a nanosecond ? Actually, I am... for vacation. I may pop in when I have wireless, but won't be around for a bit. Y'all be good!

I did when I saw the title. Then I read it and realised you were a politician!

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While I won't warn you completely off doing mods you should be careful. If you take a look around the forums you will see that mods are the ruin of people more often than helpful.

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That would be me. I coined it for urban ranger on a bike in this thread.

http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=4421

I don't mind you using it. Who were you before though?

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18/7/2009 Saturday:
Shovelglove EXEMPT
Evening Luddite - SUCCESS - Stage 1 (TV and the internet off at midnight). I watched a late CSI episode and turned everything off at 11:50pm.

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I was really appalled at how the food service industry figures out the proper ratio of salt, sugar and fat to keep the brain wanting to just keep stuffing it in... I shouldn't be but I am... I think it's very reasonable to be appalled at this. It's a sad indictment against society that it's not fro...

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I hope this doesn't turn serious. Of course I don't think Reinhard is a sell-out like that to market his own version of something. A totally new product is cool but oh how I HATE branded diet versions of food and training equipment you can get way cheaper unbranded! If the price is comparable and th...

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17/7/2009 Friday: Shovelglove SUCCESS - 10 minutes. Solid workout. Not quite as strong as yesterday. Felt it a lot in my forearms. Evening Luddite - SUCCESS - Stage 1 (TV and the internet off at midnight). Turned TV and the internet off at 11:30pm. It was a struggle since Le Tour de France is on cur...

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My sleep has always been an issue and continues to be one of the biggest problems in my life. Itâ€™s not that I canâ€™t sleep, far from it. I sleep quite well when I get to sleep but the problem is getting to sleep in the first place. My mind runs riot into the wee hours of the morning and I sit up ...

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Iâ€™m so sick of the media/celebrity circus; so much so that I decided to make a parody book cover. It voices my distain much more effectively than words ever could. Please note the subjects covered are not jokes and nor do I consider them lightly. This is simply a way I could express my disgust at ...

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I came up with that one myself; although I'm not sure if I subconsciously remember it from somewhere.

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Happy 1 Year No S Birthday!

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Good idea for a thread. "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." - Randy Pausch I have my own variation of this quote that I feel more aptly describes how I choose to live. The idea being that we can change at least some of the aspects and circumstances of our lives. It ...

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I can sympathise with your feelings. The legalese of the modern world is tiresome. Two generations ago some neighbour probably would have just shot the dog right there in the guys yard after this incident back in ye goode olde days . I'll settle though, don't want to get started on how bad the moder...

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I stumbled upon urbanranger.com when I was googling LOTR and rangers.

This lead me to the rest of the everydaysystems.com network.

I'm so cool!

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Remember there is a 21 Club badge now too! Check the 21 Club thread for details. How's that for incentive?!

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From what I've read it was BIG news when it aired on ABC. A bit of a career definer for that guy, which is good I think. It made me really think about the entire chain of food production, not just the crapola we buy in the supermarket.

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Just a quick thought on two possible things that could help you out: 1. Possibly look at consuming some metabolism boosting foods. Chilli and other spices come to mind. They are super tasty to add to meals too :) 2. Specific exercising that will build muscle mass. A bit of extra muscle is always goo...

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It's definitely not an old wives tale. Sure it may not scientifically be 1 hour before = 2 hours after but the concept is very real. There is comprehensive scientific proof that sleeping at night vs day is better. Also having a regular sleeping pattern has shown significant benefits over shift work ...

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vmsurbat, that's an awesome result. I'm sure it was the slower and more stable approach that allowed the long term success. As you have already pointed out "speedy" is not the way; it's a gimmick to sell diet plans and all the additional branded food replacements. You are doing so well.

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Very interesting post there. It's great that you were able to realise those issues with snacking. I have found the snacking issue to be exactly the same as you described. Eating one snack makes it so much easier to eat the second and so on. It's a vicious cycle. Well done for spotting it and taking ...

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Welcome aboard! Don't be too worried about your plate size. Most of the more experienced NOSers took a while to get their plate size sorted. If you just stick with one plate you will work out visually how much you need to fill yourself up. That's why it's such a useful indicator, because it is very ...

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16/7/2009 Thursday:
Shovelglove SUCCESS - 10 minutes. Increased reps on most exercises. Felt it quite a bit in my muscles.

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Welcome aboard MissAlecia. It sounds like you are off to a very good start with No S. I'm sure you will get a lot of support on here; people are always boosting each other. Also there is lots of information to read in the various forum sub-sections. Good luck.

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Specifically regarding the chocolate in the items; I don't think it will be a problem for you as you understand its potential for problems and are clearly in control with it. I don't think you have anything to worry about.

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125kg to 170kg each.

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Great story princesspamf. It's wonderful when you can enjoy what you eat without it guilting you. Congrats.

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I imagine it would look something like this:

The caricature is curtesy of Zander Cannon from http://www.bigtimeattic.com/blog/labels/Fan%20Club.html. The rest is my work.

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jenlio97 wrote:I had been doing well this week. At the pool with the kids I had some pretzels and then it was a scattered dinner time, and then I had a choclate banana. OK I got a red day but I need to turn it off.

It sounds like you controlled it well and didn't go completely nuts. Good job!

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You are most welcome, Reinhard. Glad you think it's cool!

I hope it adds something extra to the 21 Club.

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Thanks for the kind words everyone. I hope it gives you all the extra motivation and incentive it was made for.

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I love watching those World's Strongest Man competitions. I don't ever want to be built like those guys (but I wouldn't say no to that strength) but I thoroughly enjoy watching the sport itself.

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You're doing well. A waist measurement will quickly identify if the gain was muscle or otherwise. Keep it up!

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I for one am wildly excited by the end of my eating and buying of "diety" foods. They are all full of air, sugar, general crap and other things that are probably carcinogenic for all we know. And I got suckered in and bought them FOR YEARS. I've become quite interested in how and where food is sour...

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I NEVER eat anything remotely diety. Full fat milk, plenty of butter and olive oil, full fat cheese, white pasta, plenty of bread. I do eat plenty of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains as well (particularly oatmeal), but prepared in an appetizing way. Nothing abnormal about that. Just like the lo...

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Be careful. Defiance isn't always a good thing. It can end badly...

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The granola/energy bars and trailmix aren't sweets if eaten as/with a main meal so I don't see that as a problem in itself. I, personally, could never consider a muffin as anything but a sweet/snack no matter when it was consumed. It's certainly not a real meal in any sense of the word and I would h...

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You want it just over here?

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I'm sure it's my imagination, but it actually seems faster... I'm sure it is faster. I've been a computer technician for 10 years (just recently got out of the industry). I've seen plenty of low memory older computers load webpages painfully slow even with a very fast internet connection. Reply is ...

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15/7/2009 Wednesday: Shovelglove SUCCESS - 10 minutes. Felt strong again today. My muscles are recovering faster between exercises and I am able to jump from one to the next with nearly no rest now. I increased reps on all the exercises. I am not getting the burning and jelly muscles to anywhere nea...

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"Mounted Ranger"

The bike is your horse.

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Jammin' Jan wrote:Actually, wouldn't it be wonderful if EVERYONE at the Atkin's board joined you here?!

Only if they had woken up to the truth of Atkins otherwise it would be quite terrible I think.

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I found myself having a "This guy thinks like me!" moment when I first stumbled onto everydaysystems.com some time ago. I find myself often doing the Strider thing in my mind as I walk and am a huge Tolkien fan. The mental imagery behind most of the systems is a very strong part of why they work so ...

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Good stuff SavvyV. Go for gold!

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The HabitCal is indeed a very powerful tool. I have pushed through a few days with shovelglove and the thought of having a red square was a stronger motivator than all the benefits of doing shovelglove on those days.

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The fatal flaw with Atkins, and indeed most diets, is they are solely designed to lose weight with no interest whatsoever in actual health beyond the weight loss. The very notion that pork rinds are ok but fruit is not should warn everyone off this kind of foolishness immediately. What is the point ...

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14/7/2009 Tuesday:
Shovelglove SUCCESS - 9 minutes. Felt very strong again today. Increased reps across all exercises. Muscles really felt it but not turning to jelly like the earlier days. Did it 10 minutes ago and it's still hard to type this though!

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That no-s brings back the shared family meal is to me not only a great "side benefit," but to my mind a clue to its fundamental rightness compared to the compartmentalized eating encouraged (or even required) by most other diets. Breaking bread together, shared, communal eating, is the most basic s...

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I see your latest blog post references the idiotic "caveman power diet". I made reference to it myself on this forum not too long ago. Here: http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?p=62979&highlight=#62979 He's a fool that guy for sure and he's serious so that's ultra scary. The Warrior Diet is ...

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The man's work is obviously well researched and solid. Hopefully it will bring about a bit of a paradigm shift in how food is allowed to be produced and marketed. Even if it doesn't it should help a lot of people realise that eating out, even "healthy" choices really aren't at all. My only concern t...

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Very solid progress. Look at all those SUCCESS days. Two thumbs up!

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Lunch: Chicken stir fry with wild rice and side salad with oil/vinegar and water. One cupcake in celebration of my sister's bday. I do not consider this a failure, it's kindof a light yellow day. Supper, 2 hotdogs, chips, apple slices with cheese. I am kindof doing a mod that if I am offered a swee...

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Time for training!

Motivational enough?

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3 month challenge- - it takes 3 months to permanently begin to change habits. . . That long? I've always understood habit formation to be 21-28 days of continuous practice/success. And Iâ€™ve read and heard that figure numerous times from numerous sources. I would imagine the habit would be well an...

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Welcome aboard. You are doing great! That kind of fat loss is something to be proud of. I am sure with the additional support and information you find on the forum, website and NO S book you will be roaring ahead toward your optimal lean weight.

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13/7/2009 Monday: Shovelglove SUCCESS - 9 minutes. I felt strong. I increased reps on my later exercises and kept them up with the beginning ones instead of slowly dropping reps as the routine progressed. The weekend recovery period solidifies the work of that week and leads to strong gains in the n...

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Remember habit is powerful, for good or for bad. Every time you do something or don't do something you reinforce that same choice. Quitting gets easier every time you quit. Not quitting gets easier ever time you don't quit when tempted.

You can do it.

Bushranger · 12/7/2009 Sunday: Shovelglove EXEMPT

12/7/2009 Sunday:
Shovelglove EXEMPT

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I'm making this weekend (today and tomorrow) N days for Mimi. Missing dessert tonight was rough!!

Bushranger · 11/7/2009 Saturday: Shovelglove EXEMPT

11/7/2009 Saturday:
Shovelglove EXEMPT

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Just a side note *rant alert* I've read a bit about the Zone diet and the thing that bothers me is that bread is not allowed, but Zone diet bars containing cane sugar are? :shock: also butter is not allowed because it is saturated fat (and therefore being in a 5 mile radius of it will kill you appa...

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MMmmmmm French Vanilla Icecream. The most creamy and vanillary of the icecreams! Is vanillary even a real word or are google hits adverspeak?

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I'll come up with one. Give me a week Reinhard and I'll PM a design draft to you.

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I really should get some kind of reward... Be wary Rebecca. It's that "I deserve this" mentality that advertising pushes that makes so many people buy themselves a treat for no real reason. People two generations ago worked much longer and harder than we do and didn't have a fraction of the labour ...

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Yep. It's those snacks that really make the difference. Whenever you reach for a snack mindlessly stop and actually mentally acknowledge you just went for a snack. Then the real kicker is to ask yourself "Am I hungry?" I have been surprised by the amount of times it was purely out of habit and "some...

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Ultimately I think a big reason I got fat was that I could eat 5000 calories of the food I liked and be less full than by eating 1000 calories of what I'm eating these days. Indeed. I notice this also and it's because the junk food is so calorie dense by volume but at the same time they are mostly ...

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10/7/2009 Friday: Shovelglove SUCCESS - 8 minutes 30 seconds. I went a bit harder today with less rest between sets and slightly higher reps. My biceps, shoulders and forearms feel like jelly and it's actually very hard to type since I only finished training 5 minutes ago. That was my first straight...

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I am feeling rather puffy and heavy and very tempted to go on some crazy diet. But am trying to hold onto to the fact that that's what caused me to be here in the first place! Hang tough Moxie! As you've already realised, it's those crazy diets that lead to total burn out and mega binges that cause...

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Itâ€™s good to see other people know the good stuff. I've been taking Kyolic aged garlic extract and gargle a tea tree mouthwash. Vitamin C is sorted with freshly squeezed orange and nectarine juice that I use to take the Kyolic garlic since it's a liquid. I also do neti; it's a yogic practice of fl...

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Hi again Magicman. I've noticed a few times through your thread here that hunger is a big issue. I myself get these hunger pangs on occasion and have found guzzling a large glass of water to be helpful. Also, something to remember. The habit of eating all the time primes your body to be hungry often...

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There are some people that make themselves feel better by bringing others down. Correction, try to make themselves feel better. People that attempt to bring you down almost invariably have their own issues and often those issues relate to the very things they are targeting you with. Their self este...

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It's not just another way of saying I'm fat, I do in fact have a wide frame. I'm also strong as an ox for an untrained guy. I jumped into the gym doing the same weight as my friend who has been bodybuilding for two years. That's what I was thinking, about the large frame and musculature. 226lb lean...

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I wonder whether it's counter-intuitive or too intuitive. In a way, no-s is almost offensively obvious. Too intuitive :) Plus it's a solution instead of an excuse and most people don't want that. Being excused for some personal failing is easier than fixing it. Congrats on your weight loss so far T...

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Most low carb diets refer specifically to the breads as the problem and not what you listed there. Of course low carb is complete horse dung when you look at it on a global scale of health and bluezones (longevity hotspots). I personally think the real issue with carbs is not the carbs themselves bu...

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