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jenji

169# today. Green day yesterday.

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Celebrating weight milestones seems to paradoxically set me back mentally. Like, my brain might get the message that "this is all set, I can relax now" or even "I deserve a treat!" I hope that when I get to a nice maintenance weight, I can just think about the habits and decouple them from worrying ...

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Red day yesterday. We did a tasting menu at a hot restaurant. I've had them before where they are tiny portions for each course, but this place did not use that logic, and each of the 5 courses was about half a dinner plate. Lesson learned. This is not likely to happen a lot because while it was del...

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I do drink a glass of water first thing every morning, after using my asthma inhaler. So I start the day with some water.

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I have not been commenting here, but I'm still in. I mostly do my daily check-in thread instead. My one-year No S anniversary will be in late September.

I've been using the HabitCal to track my success and failure days.

jenji

Comfort myself - read a book from childhood or watch a movie from childhood. Or, alternatively, read a book that isn't heavy lifting - for me, that's sci fi or romance or graphic novels or humor. Some workbooks are comforting and a way to learn without straining myself. Treat myself - I've been tryi...

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AHHHH - I saw 166.5 today on the scale. I need to chill out, because it's not about the number. Yet, the number is validating to my efforts so far. I took my kid to the movies yesterday and skipped the popcorn. Enjoyed it just fine. I have been racking up a lot of green days. Besides the vanilla hab...

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Thanks LadyBird! I guess I have tried Reinhard's glass ceiling, but 2 glasses is too high for my ceiling (height, female, etc), so I could modify my ceiling to 1 glass. But it's super hard for me to just have one glass.... I speculate that the healthiest long-term habit for me is to make alcohol an...

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Still truckin' along. After two months of no weight shift, I seem to have moved down a pound. At least I have stayed under 160 for 5 days and the trend is showing that also. My goal is really just to stabilize at 158 which will be just fine for me. I have eliminated sugar since last September for a...

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I do think that we need to forgive ourselves a little as we puzzle through changes in routine. Figuring out what is off is not always automatic. Our first instinct about how to "fix" it may not be correct. Keep working on it. We are here for you, as you've always been here for us.

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What great progress you've had on NoS Jen!! :-) Lovely to see. You know, NoS seems classic for slow (but incremental in the right direction) weight loss. Those people that determine they are here for the moderate way of approaching food have the best success, I guess because they aren't fixated on ...

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eschano wrote:Oh I never heard of a buy nothing group, Iâ€™ll check if we have one near me! Thanks for the tip.
We are just refurbishing the kitchen and are decluttering it in the process so will have quite a few bits to give away.

Good luck!

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I do not have a system, but I am trying. I give a lot of things away on my local Buy Nothing group on Facebook, and I also give a lot to Goodwill. We also get some things from the Buy Nothing group. It's great for kid's hand me downs and books and toys, because you can pass along things you don't li...

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I had a random low weight (for me) today, and it was mildly thrilling. 167.5

I had a nice walk with my friend last night, but did not go running today. It was way too hot. I did another Yoga with Adriene video.

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I have not been very good about exercise, beyond walking and some yoga. I will declare here publicly that I WILL go for a short run tomorrow. I am going for a walk tonight with my friend. We usually do 2-3 miles. I weighed in at 169.5 today. I bent the rules a bit the other night, because I gave mys...

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I think that children can learn that there is one rule for "in our house" and another for company or special occasions. We don't buy juice as a rule, and if I do, I buy a small container (e.g., a single or double serving container, which is several servings for us). When my child was small, the only...

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168 today. I haven't had any S things yet - busy day - but I have some mixed berry pie waiting for later.

jenji

Welcome back. I'm sorry that your mum is trying to impose her disordered thinking on you. Be good to yourself and keep building your habit muscle back up. Those long days at home are hard.

jenji

Hanging in at 169.5 lbs. I marked yesterday red because I ate a couple of pieces of dried mango before making dinner. But overall, it was a mostly green day. Picture a maple leaf, just turning color in the fall: mostly green, a bit red.

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Made it to Core Power Yoga yesterday. It felt challenging but good. My boyfriend brought home Vietnamese takeout yesterday for dinner. I was really hungry by the time he came, and I finished every bite on my banh hoi. I am thinking of having my daughter's leftover pho for lunch. There is really just...

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169 again this morning. I am wearing a cute summer dress that I could not wear last summer (because of too much boob for my comfort). I fully support any lady showing her cleavage if she likes, but I feel uncomfortable about how I look when my cup runs over.

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I ate Indian food twice this weekend. Yum! Actually, four times, because I had the leftovers for breakfast. My sweet this weekend was coconut ice cream. I did a yoga workout on Saturday, but not much else in the way of exercise.

I weighed in at 169.5 this morning.

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I made it yesterday, by the skin of my teeth. I saw an exciting number on the scale this morning. I know itâ€™s not smart to dwell on a number, yet still, I am happy to see that little drop today. Iâ€™m fully prepared for some ping-ponging up and down before, I hope, settling a bit lower. The number...

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Another hard afternoon. I guess I didn't eat enough lunch - two bean tacos made from some leftovers and a dried peach. I came home from an errand picking up my farm share and started getting food out to make myself a late lunch, totally forgetting for a moment that I'd already eaten, until I saw my ...

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Weighed in today at 170.5. Keeping my head down to stay the course.

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Today has been hard. First time in a while that I was home alone all day. I briefly contemplated a â€œhealthyâ€ dessert, even getting out a bowl, then putting it away. I also opened the fridge at a non-meal time and stared into it. I didnâ€™t feel hungry, just on a mission. I did close the fridge wi...

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oolala53 wrote:And doing the cleanup.

Yes!

jenji

171 today. Although I did not hew to the rules completely on my cruise, I did keep to three meals, with some attention to getting 1/2 the plate veggies. I had sweets a few times. It is so nice to have someone else making you enticing veggies and salads.

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I havenâ€™t decode yet whether today is a yellow day. Itâ€™s Independence Day, and I am charged with bringing dessert and wine to the BBQ. Itâ€™s so hot, I am loathe to turn on my oven. I might just buy dessert. Next week, we are going on my first-ever cruise, and I know I will have some special day...

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Sometimes grief can push us to do something when inertia has held us back. Wishing you some peace, some time to grieve, and maybe some new insights as you deal with this one-year mark.

jenji

Green today. I had a bunch of delish ice cream over the weekend. I am currently waiting for my boyfriend to get home with dinner - takeout pho ga.

jenji

I'm sorry about your loss of your classmate. Suicide has such a ripple effect on people around the deceased. May his memory comfort friends and family.

jenji

Green again. I did a yoga video this morning from Youtube (Yoga with Adriene), a nice followup to all the hiking this weekend and the weight training I did during the Doctor Who marathon yesterday.

I saw 172 again on the scale yesterday, randomly. Did not weigh today.

jenji

Green today. I did just have a cup of warm milk to keep me away from the many snacks my family just bought for Doctor Who watching.

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Honesty helps you think of next time. You could have declared (NWS) or tried establishing a new habit of not assuming you will need food just because you're exerting yourself and are far from, well, the ice cream. :) I like to say I have snacks right in my thighs. I did need the bar - I was shaky a...

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I had another red day yesterday. I am using Habitcal to mark both reds and greens. This one was a day I probably should've planned as a NWS/yellow day at the outset. We were hiking in the White Mountains, and I had a bar during the hike and an ice cream afterward.

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174# today. I had a red day yesterday. My cousin was in town, and I haven't seen her in years. I suggested walking into a local fun square, and we got ice cream. We were in line before I even thought about No S. I limited the damage with a kiddie size, and as it happened, I didn't like the flavor en...

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Lately I'm noticing that what I think about taking seconds of is my own cooking. Like if I serve a delicious bowl of soup to my kid, but she only eats one bite, my first instinct is to eat the rest myself. I bought a bunch of silicone lids that are various sizes and fit many bowls and plates, and I ...

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Hi Sharon,
I saw your post about the scale, and I can't remember if I mentioned the Happy Scale app to you? I weigh myself on a regular scale, then I enter it daily into Happy Scale, and it calculates a moving average.

jenji

Green yesterday. I was sick but stuck to the 3 meals, one of them being chicken soup. I had a carnitas burrito for dinner.

Weighed in at 172.5 today.

jenji

Had one of those alarming weigh ins today - 176.

Stayed green today. I had chicken soup for lunch and leftover aloo gobhi for dinner. I'm still use the HabitCal.

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Yesterday was also a failure (red day). Two this week. I was running around a lot yesterday evening - jetted home to walk my neighbors dog, then turned around and drove back to Central Sq to pick up my kid after rehearsal, then stuck in traffic getting my farm share and getting home. So dinner was q...

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171.5 today.

I did stay green yesterday. Intending to stay green today. I am wearing a pair of cute capri trousers today that would not have fit 6 months ago. Feels good.

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sharon227 wrote:Cocktail party? That's a tough one, congratulations on just having one little bite. And as you said, at least you enjoyed it!

Yes, my friend is running for state rep, and her kickoff event was at a farm to table fancy pants restaurant near Harvard.

jenji

173.5 today. Two failure events yesterday: 1 - half a fancy deviled egg, which my kid bit into at a campaign kickoff party, did not like, and asked me to take. I popped it in my mouth. (It was delicious. The worst is when you cheat, and it tastes bad, lol.) Other than that, I did not eat anything at...

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I was hungry a lot in the beginning, but after a few weeks, I was no longer hungry between meals. I bridged the gap by drinking milk or even occasionally a glass of unsweetened kefir, but I no longer seem to need it.

jenji

Zumba and yoga sound fun! I joined a gym because when the weather's bad, I started slacking off on exercising. Nothing's better for me than a little running when the weather's great outside, though! I had an aha! moment when reading your reply. We both agree that we love exercise because it's good ...

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I really worked the S day yesterday, with a bowl of buttered popcorn during a Dr. Who marathon with the kid, plus a walk to the local ice cream parlor for a cone of the flavor of the month: strawberry rhubarb. I decided to make the popcorn my dinner, since we ate it about 6:45 pm, so there was no po...

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Good luck with your procedure!!

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Hi Jen! I've been lurking on your thread ever since I saw this I used to tell people that I was researching to write a how-to guide, "How to stay slightly fat despite exercise". and wanted to say hi :) I could write a companion book "How to not lose an ounce despite daily exercise". I did two "60-d...

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172 today. Yesterday - how to mark? I had two drinks out, cocktails, not terribly sweet, but more than I'd planned. I did not eat food outside of meals. I know in the original system, R allowed himself 2 alcoholic drinks a day, but for me, one drink is more my limit. Anything more is both too many c...

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I have had green days since Monday. I am pre-planning my dinner tonight because I'm going to a hipster taco place with a group, and I don't want to be waylaid. I was going to get one glass of wine, but I see that they have a few non-sweet cocktails, so I might get one of them. The Red Wedding sounds...

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I failed with panache yesterday. I decided to bake a pumpkin pie, and then I had friends over to eat it. It was worth it but not a planned NWS day. Oh well.

Today - on track thus far.

jenji

172.5 this morning

I did yoga yesterday, which felt challenging and good for me. My hips are so tight. I think Iâ€™ll go out for a run. Itâ€™s so nice out.

jenji

I've started trying to use the HabitCal on here. I am unable to reconstruct April in full, but I have a record of the other months. It is nice to be able to see it all in one place. When I was losing weight, I did not have perfect compliance, but it was much better. I had 4-5 red days in Oct, Nov, D...

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Watching hummingbirds, making art, and listening to an Audible book sounds like a great day. I'm sorry that you are feeling the what-if moments right now. Let yourself feel it, then say goodbye to the feeling and wish it well if you can.

jenji

Something nice I've noticed is that I am no longer hungry outside of mealtimes, except when I have a late dinner. I may slip up and eat, but I am not hungry. I think I have my appetite in a more reasonable expectation place. Speaking of gluttony and expectations, I also have noticed that I have a te...

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Merrygoround wrote:Good luck with the relay.

Thank you! It was fun.

Thursday was green.
Friday was yellow (S day).
Monday - green.
Tuesday - green.
Wednesday - so far, green.

jenji

174 today. Yesterday was red because I ate some of my daughter's leftover rice and peas instead of just putting it away or composting them. Other than that, I did not cheat.

Friday will be an S-day. I am participating in an overnight relay, and I don't want to worry about when or what I eat.

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Hi Jenji, congratulations on reducing the amount of unplanned eating you are doing from days to events, as well as the weight loss. May I respectfully suggest that if you are still having weekly unplanned eating events on N days you don't restrict further at the moment. It is tempting when weight l...

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I fell off the wagon with checking in, but not with the habits. I got to a place where I stopped losing weight, and seem to be naturally maintaining at 175 lbs. I've kept the habits pretty well - I seem to have one failure each week, but just a failure event, not a whole day off the rails. I am grat...

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Today something incredible happened to me. I opened one of the cabinets in my kitchen to get something and I found a bag of a snack that I love. My daughter opened it a week ago and I did not remember that she had stayed there. In my good times of diet that bag would not have left my head until I h...

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174 this morning. Green yesterday and Monday. I made a sausage ragout sauce that was delicious, and we had it for dinner on Monday and lunch today. Dinner last night was lamb chops and sauteed purple cabbage. Today for breakfast, I made buttermilk scones, and I am still trying to figure out how to a...

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I haven't seen it. I get what you are saying - it's nice to see actors of all body types getting work. But what a message for kids... to eat it with a spoon. I am not a big pb eater, but I can see that the sugar in Skippy could make it very attractive and dessert-like. I know that lots of people eat...

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OK, I'm back, and mostly recovered from my big event. I need to make myself an April calendar. Some fails last week, which I may be able to remember more accurately if I check my datebook. Today - green so far. I ended up grabbing the school lunch, which included some chicken, sweet potato roasted f...

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Hours in the car this weekend, broken up by some walks and one run. We celebrated Passover and Easter with the families. This is a high stress week before my fundraiser (major annual event) on Friday. I am going to try to channel my stress into the idea of taking care of myself to protect my body du...

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Your food sounds excellent, to me. I also love how you're doing your habitcal with emojis. Clever! Thanks! 175 again today. Bit of a fail yesterday - I ate a nectarine, and then I finished my kid's nectarine that she handed me. Then I ate some seconds (rice and peas) while putting away leftovers. I...

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One of my board members is slim, and I realized that she's trained us that the only snack she wants at board meetings is a clementine. She seems genuinely delighted to have one, and exclaims over it, and we are all satisfied that we've fed her. I realized that she did naturally what I've been trying...

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I will not get an Easter basket or candy. I get one for my kid, but my boyfriend is Jewish, and it would not occur to him. This weekend, we will have a big Passover meal on Saturday, with plenty of indulgences and a lot of wine. My kid doesn't like chocolate too much, so I don't bother getting her a...

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175 again today. Drank more water and black iced coffee today instead of hot coffee with milk. I feel more peppy, maybe because I'm hydrated. Yesterday with a big salad for lunch with chicken breast, and I saved some for a side in today's lunch. Then dinner was takeout from a Thai place (silver nood...

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How well do frozen curries travel in the post? :P I'm going through a vegetarian phase (it's cheap, it makes me think more carefully about what to cook etc, but I'm not bothered enough to fully commit to vegetarianism), so the curry is quite lentil-y. Oh and chickpea-y. All started to use aup a but...

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175 today. I want to pay attention to 1/2 fruits and veggies on my plate, no virtual plating, and more water. Yesterday was a good choice for lunch - a salad from the salad bar and small cup of soup. I put some three bean salad and beets on the salad, and that made it quite filling. March 2018 âœ… â...

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automatedeating wrote:What a nice thing for you and your daughter to do together!

It was nice. She is 13, and she was fired up. I wanted to just be lazy and go to the rally at the end, and she was determined to march the whole way.

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Green day! It was a challenge. I have such a desire to eat constantly. Sometimes I feel like a shark who has just smelled fresh blood...like I want to eat everything in sight. It's not hunger. It's just this very strong urge. Very hard to ignore. Oh I'm hoping that this feeling goes away eventually...

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This often happens to me. The email servers decide where to put them not just because of your actions, but also because of how others who use your system (gmail, hotmail, yahoo, etc) have categorized the same types of messages. I try to fish them out of spam and mark them "not spam" so the gmail ser...

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176 today. Going for lunch soon - forgot to pack anything, so I will go out.

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I did go running this weekend (2.6 miles), and I also did hot yoga. It felt like a good balance of activity and rest. I am finally over a cold that I've had since returning from Arizona.

jenji

175 today.

Green yesterday. I had Indian food at lunch and dinner. Yum!

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jenji

Congratulations to you on developing strong habits and making progress! I am still working on getting consistent. I am pretty good about eating 3 meals and keeping it to one plate. I like to cook, and I always eat breakfast with my kid, so that part came naturally to me. I try to make a good 1/2 or ...

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173.5 today. Green yesterday, and no real desire to eat between meals. I did have a glass of plain kefir when I got home with the groceries, which helped fortify me for putting away the groceries without eating them. Last week, at our school's big potluck, I had the first occasion when a person told...

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Congratulations on 3K.

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Sometimes I get a decaf latte as a treat after work if I am struggling to make it until dinner. It still feels like a treat, but I don't use any sugar or get the flavors.

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175.5 today. Managed to stay green yesterday, including having water at the movie theater, but no snacks. Victory over bad habits! It was a weird day for eating - we ate a late breakfast due to the snow day, and after the movie, I had a reception for work. I ate 3 hors douvres as "lunch" at the rece...

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175 again today.

Failure - pie, hot chocolate, and those peanuts. Going to the movies today and will be avoiding the popcorn.

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yesterday was a good, compliant day. Not to be hyperbolic, but I was STARVING between meals. We usually eat dinner around 7:30 pm, but yesterday, I was going strong in the kitchen at 6:10 pm and I really piled that plate with food, a lot of it leafy. This showed how lax I have been in recent weeks ...

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175 today. Fail yesterday was peanuts while cooking dinner. Today will be tough for green because I'm at home for the blizzard. So far, I am okay, but we'll see. I always want to eat a lot on snow days. March 2018 âœ… âŒ âï¸ âï¸ âœ… âœ… âœ… âœ… âŒ âï¸âï¸ âŒ 13 14 15 16 âï¸ âï¸ 19 20 21 22 23 â...

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Welcome back!

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Thanks, ladies. I'm going to aim at fewer choices (not ten) and be more thoughtful before buying how something could fit in so that making an outfit isn't like planning a raid on the enemy camp. I'm even contemplating down the line decreasing the color palette. I said JUST contemplating! It's proba...

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Allisonmeg wrote:This could be the day for green! I am determined to start this week off on a good note.

B- special K quiche w/ cheese
L- 2 eggs w/ cheese, salami
D- 2 pieces Mario's pizza

Go, green, go!

jenji

This is a really poignant and beautiful entry. Even though I am short, I relate to the feelings of your post. I have found that over time I have grown to have gratitude for my body for what it does for me and I appreciate my strength and health and that is far more valuable to me now than being sve...

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I eat yoghurts on N days as part of meals. They sometimes have some sugar in, but it's no sweets not no sugar and I generally wouldn't consider a fruit yoghurt a 'sweet'. I do stay away from yoghurts that are flavoured chocolate, toffee, caramel etc. I eat yogurt all the time on N days as parts of ...

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174 today. Friday night fail was eating my kid's sauteed mushrooms and salad instead of putting the leftovers away.

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I remember being in my 30s, and my weight at the time hovered around 150-155 lbs. I was ashamed of that number and my body. Looking back, I had no models of what normal weight should be for my height. I only heard about the weight of models (clearly underweight) and runners (same). I like to read Ru...

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I liked reading your story. How is the experiment of less drinking going?

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172.5 again today on this snowy day.

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jenji

Welcome back. I am so sorry about your sister, and I know that holidays and birthdays with your daughter's loss must be raw. Be gentle with yourself. Keep feeding yourself good meals.

jenji

I am fully capable of taking seconds on everything, and thus eating a full, second dinner.

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Oh. My. God. I have literally just realised that though I have been thinking Iâ€™ve been eating massive portions... I have not been having seconds! So probably eating the same amount in total. The difference being that I can can now see how much Iâ€™m eating. A revelation!!! LOL. I realized after I...

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Jumping in here to say nice job on getting out for a swim after coming home the other night.

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