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Thanks for adding that last bit about the weekend. Then you were already personally rose above that occasion. If these people are hard to get rid of, making up appointments is possibly the best answer. You don't want to have angry neighbors but they can't run your lives either. We have already faked...

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By the way, I am happy for you that you will have such great company to look forward to. You will do fine. You have already had several dress rehearsals for their visit. Don't fuss with the food. Make the food secondary. It is all about the visit and relaxing surrounded by loving friends and relativ...

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So good to hear I am not the only one fighting these battles. We will get by with a little help from our friends (as Grammy says). Emotions are our friends as long as we don't deal with them by eating. I had a really good day today with no real funny stuff. There were several times I was tempted but...

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Loved you sharing your weekend on my post. Feel free to do it anytime. Regarding the friends coming over at supper time to have a drink or two and then dragging out your supper time. That is really one of my pet peeves. We have several friends who do that. They show up unannounced. Time marches on. ...

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Real whipped cream actually comes in a spray can and it lasts a really long time. I think Redi Whip makes the real stuff and the fake. Just look for the "real whipped cream" on the label. Just an FYI.

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You are the goal we are all working toward. Thanks for posting and encouraging us. Glad to hear you like to eat healthy and simply and also that you like to discuss food. On our best days, we eat very healthy too. We cook most of our own food and were foodies for so long, it is hard to get away from...

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I love "basking in your own virtue". Says it all. Thanks for the nice thoughts on my booklength post. I felt so good about it. Especially not feeling like roadkill all day Monday. It was wonderful of you to reconfirm that for me.

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Congrats on the wonderful full week. Baby steps. It sounds like you are getting the weeks down and then will start slowly working on the weekends. Sounds so rational and do-able. Good on you!!

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Weekend was a setback. I will list the foods only because I want to list why I ate each one and try to counter the reasoning with sanity. Saturday: Chocolate mid morning Reason: Was nervous. We were hosting a photography class for the Master Gardeners at our house. My brother was teaching the class....

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Sounds like you have an on track weekend. Congratulations.

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Me too. Not such a great weekend for me but determination starting today. We will do this together.

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I also like contained S events. Sounds like fun but not lost weekend fun. Thanks for the idea.

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I have one more thing I am adding to my plan. I will no longer have failures. From now on they are temporary setbacks. I think it will be easier to live with for me. I hate the word failure. Sounds too final and self abusive. Setback sounds like forward momentum is still the main action plan. Setbac...

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You guys are lifesavers. Such good advise and wonderful support. KCCC, I will check out the mind body centers around here and if I can't find one, I will check the internet. Good idea. Grammy, as always, I get good advise on how to be happy where I am and make what progress is available to me. Stubb...

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I would opt for putting a picture of a hill or mountain you want to climb on the refrigerator and skip the before and after pictures if the before ones make you want to cry. Our journeys should inspire us, not make us sad. Enough of that kind of thing in every day life. The past is past and the futu...

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Hi Butterfly, My first time here and I just finished reading through all your posts and all the wonderful advise you have received from the really great people here at No S. I would like to comment that having read through your journey, I get the feeling you think you "should" be on this journey but...

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You sound much more grounded than before. Keep up the good self talk.

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What great common sense advise from all your friends. The 10% plan is an awesome one. So is Strawberry's commonsense ideas of picturing the weight you are no longer carrying around. And G's thought that weight loss is not what helps us most. Finding and caring for ourselves has to be our ultimate go...

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WooHOO. Way to go. You are super-charged.
Hope your husband will be feeling better now that his ears are cleaned and he has help with the allergies. I don't know about where you are but the allergy index here in Wisconsin is very high.

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Hi Deb, Thanks for the lovely post on my thread. I left a huge post there this morning. I think some ideas are starting to coalesce for me. I like your suggesting about partnering up on our goals and plans. You are right. We both have a daunting amount of weight to lose and we have both been at it l...

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Thank you all for the comforting and inspiring words and ideas. I like the idea of having a talk with my inner child and also having a weekend party with that child. I am also just starting to look for ideas for things that make me happy other than food. I know now I need to stop the OCD thinking ab...

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We all struggle. Sometimes more and sometimes less. The enemy is not the food, it is what we think about the food. We give the food such power. Power it doesn't possess. It is what we think about the food and what personal power we hand over to it that causes the problem. All effort has to go, in my...

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Best of luck. I think you will like it here.

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My only comment is that you are doing terrific. I think the decisions you are making are life changing. And they are related to your eating. The more things you change in your life, the more powerful and in control you feel. That is bound to spill over into your eating patterns as well. We have talk...

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Congratulations to your greens. Go green! Also, I am so glad to hear your son is doing so well and making incredible choices. They will stand him in good stead throughout the rest of his life. I am still working on my afternoon snack attack problem. I have been doing some questionable snacking while...

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Definitely. I have always had self esteem issues and no matter how nice people are to me, I always feel unworthy somehow. I am lots better than I used to be at accepting compliments, favors and praise but it still makes me feel uncomfortable instead of happy. Definitely worth some thought. The weeke...

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Thanks for visiting my thread. Actually, your inner adult is writing this thread in the hopes of getting control over negative thinking about food. Your signature shows that too. You are on the way. Believe in yourself and take baby steps (or would it be "adult" steps? hmmmm)

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Sounds like you had a bout of hypoglycemia. If, one day, your sugar is way high and then between meals it dips way low, it can cause shakes, dizziness, confusion, sweating, all kinds of things. The remedy is eating something or drinking some juice. It is not recommended to eat something sugary but s...

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I like your new term "scale stress". I am weaning myself off of weighing everyday to weighing just once a week. It about drives me crazy. I can't believe how tied I am to it. I want to work toward weighing once a month but right now, I would find it very hard. So I will start thinking of it as scale...

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I'm from the Midwest and a London broil is a tenderized steak that is rolled jellyroll fashion and tied with string. Is that what it is for you?
Welcome to No S and best of luck.

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Good attitude. Can't change yesterday and tomorrow hasn't happened yet. Do it a decision at a time.

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No diet is perfect for all people all the time. Make it work for you and it will be the perfect diet for you. If doesn't matter if it is perfect for anyone else. The true test is if it is maintainable and you lose weight.

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The proof is in the results and you are losing. Congratulations. We all think when we start a new diet that we are successful if we follow all the rules and that we fail if we don't. All diets were created by someone who invented the diet, tried it and it worked for them or for their control group. ...

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You are so awesome at motivating yourself and also talking down that inner voice that tries to undermine your best intentions. You have every right to be proud of yourself. There are no silly methods if they work. The only methods that are silly are ones that make you miserable or consistently don't...

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Plant sale went really well. We made around $500. Hope we do the same tomorrow. Today was a good day. Too much salt but otherwise healthy and vanilla. I had some thoughts tonight about when I obsess about food. All of us have our reasons for failing. Mine are mostly connected to my "inner child" who...

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Maybe take some time to write a pro/con list about dieting versus eating whatever you want. Make the lists as long as possible. I think we all just assume our heads understand that excess weight is bad and control is good when in actuality, I think most of our heads live in the world of instant grat...

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Thanks for the comments about our plant sale. Sad to say. I would gladly show you the yard but my husband would have to do all the educating. I am a kind of "that pretty one in the front yard with the pink flowers and pointy leaves" kind of gardener. He knows the genus, common name and habits of eve...

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I want to eat at your house. The food sounds so good and so interesting. We eat really healthy too but you are giving me new ideas every day. Do your kids like the healthy food too? My daughter luckily was not a fussy eater. Keep up the good work. You are forming new habits and backsliding happens t...

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Boy, are you right about that one, Grammy. Yesterday was another crazy day. No wonder they have stopped picturing retired people as sitting, rocking and knitting. This generation of seniors don't know the meaning of the word sit. We are having a perennial plant sale at our house this year. Our yard ...

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Congrats on letting a little failure slide and also on getting back on the horse. You have had a lot of stress lately and life will be easier when you find your way through especially if you have stayed on plan too.

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Welcome to No S. Strawberry said it so well, I won't try to improve on it. My daughter was at your weight a year ago and has since lost 50 pounds doing basically what we are all doing. She just doesn't post. So hang in there.

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Wilkommen!! Congratulations on your first green week. You are doing very well. It is really a good idea to get control of the eating while you are young. Then it won't become a problem as you get older. Where are you from in Germany? Many years ago. I studied for a year at the Marburger Universitat....

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By the way, I agree that your weekday meals sound a little light. Maybe that is why you are hungry all the time and craving snacks between meals. I think you might be trying to stick to your old diet within the No S format. Remember, if you want it, you can have it if it fits on one plate. Are you m...

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Thank you for the nice post to me. I appreciate the kind thoughts. I loved reding all the conversations on your post about diet head thinking. I too bought every book on the planet at one time or another. I had a rummage sale last week and got rid of almost all of my diet books. I found that I had 2...

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Congratulations on the successful weekend. You are a winner whatever the scale says.

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Made it through shakily today. We have to stop having weird scheduled days. I made supper and snacked on a little hummus as a starter for supper. Then my husband says he will eat later after he drops something off at someone's house. Says it will only take a minute. So I told him I would wait and ma...

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Good for you for taking the walk. Way to make your own needs important too. Also congrats on having the hamburger. I have to remember that. My husband and daughter love spaghetti with meat sauce and I have never been a fan but I eat it when I make it for them. Maybe from now on, when they have spagh...

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The scale can really be debilitating. We all go along feeling good and proud of ourselves and then one weigh in and we think we are losers. I looked for a good scale for years and finally googled "accuracy of scales". All the articles I read said they are only right within a 5-8 pound variance regar...

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Way to go on the 5 # weight loss. Men lose weight faster than women and they stress less about it. That is a fact of life. A maddening one but none the less a fact. Comparing is not always good. Last January, my husband and daughter and I decided to do a 3 month weight loss challenge. I should never...

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Had a very busy but great weekend. Our rummage sale went fine and we made a little money too. Did tons of walking, lifting talking and everything else that goes along with a rummage sale. My sister was here helping me and selling some of her own stuff on Friday so I turned that into an S day and mad...

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I don't have much of an issue with night eating because I would get killer heartburn but I do have bad problems somewhere between 4 and 5 in the afternoon. I am tired and it is a while until supper. I feel actual hunger and want to make up all kinds of excuses to munch something. So I know where you...

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So glad you had a good weekend. You were overdue. Welcome back to the world of the living.

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Thanks for leaving the note. I love that last bit about losing a pound a week and that a year will pass whether I do anything. I may change my signature to that sentence. It really did something to my head. Thanks.

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Good thoughts.
Yesterday ended very vanilla and happy.

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Here's hoping the ENT specialist can get to the bottom of this illness for you. Feel better soon.

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First visit to your post. You are doing so great. It really makes me think I can do this if I just start being my own coach like you seem to be doing. Thanks for the role model posts. Keep on with those self motivators.

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I agree stress eating really sucks. I haven't found an answer yet either. I think we all grew up learning to deal with "I'm scared, lonely, sad, frustrated, angry etc." with getting a cookie, getting an ice cream cone or eating a pile of chips. Those were all things we did to make ourselves feel bet...

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You have some high level stressors in your life right now and it sounds like you are doing everything you can to live through them minute by minute. You are such an inspiration to me because we have a lot of drama with my daughter at the present time and before talking to you and others here on line...

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It is tough to distinguish between being anal and playing with the rules. It has happened twice to me that I am cutting something up for supper and suddenly realize I am chewing. Do I spit it out or remind myself to be careful of mindless eating and not count it. Maybe the difference is if it is a m...

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Made a good Tuesday and so far through lunch, a good Wednesday. I went out to Appleby's with 3 girlfriends and we had a good chat and all 4 of us ordered salads. It was good, filling and it feels very rewarding to have stayed on plan. Last night we had a nice supper with the couple who came to visit...

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Great advise and I am certainly going to take it to heart. Yesterday was a success. It felt good getting back on track. We are having a couple over for dinner tonight and will be setting up a rummage sale for Friday on Thursday with my sister and daughter. My sister is a huge snacker and I will have...

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You are an inspiration! What a week you had and you survived it. I used lots of excuses to give up last week and regret it. I will remember you for this upcoming week. Regarding your son, I have a 35 year old daughter and grade school/high school for her and us was a nightmare. If I had it to do ove...

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What a lovely post. I am having a day today doing nothing but what I want to do and I was feeling really guilty until I read your post. I am going to just enjoy it. The work and things I need to deal with will just have to wait until tomorrow. Thanks for the Zen moment.

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Yah! You are feeling better. Just in time for spring/summer. Thank heaven for antibiotics. I don't like medicine but when it is necessary, it can make all the difference in the world. Your meltdown was probably a accumulation of all the sick days, worrying and feeling bad. I think those meltdown mom...

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Thanks for the posts everyone. Grammy, you won't be sorry if you down size. I already love my leaner cleaner house. I can find everything and there is ample room for all my stuff so I am not sorting through closets and drawers, knocking stuff over etc. I go to the closet and there is the item I am l...

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For many of us, the S days are the problem. I did good on Saturday and not so good on Sunday. Result was, had lost a pound and a half on Friday and Monday morning it was back. We will change our mindset if we try. It is the only hurdle we have left to leap over.

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Why do we love the foods that make us feel awful? I do the same thing. We had fish last night with sweet potatoes and broccoli. I felt great after eating it and satisfied. The night before we had a cheesy lasagna thing and it was delicious until the heartburn, heavy feeling and blahs set in. By our ...

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Pedometers are not really too accurate. I used to use one all day to see how close I came to 10000 steps. Sometimes, I would count the steps I took to go downstairs and deliver papers or something. I would check the steps before and after. It was rarely really close. I don't remember the name but I ...

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I hear you on the eating to TV thing especially. My husband and I got in the habit many years ago. After a hard day at work, it was so nice to sit in a comfortable chair and watch a little mindless TV and eat. I still like it but many seem to think it would be better to just mindfully eat. I too wil...

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I don't know if you ever watch Biggest Loser but weight loss is such a strange thing. Sometimes people on those shows try their darnest, do everything right and eat perfect meals all week and then get on the scale to find they have lost nothing or maybe just a pound. They beat themselves up and then...

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Hi Deb and thanks for saying hi on my post. I remember you well and what an inspiration you were to all of us newbies back then. How have you been the last couple of years? Lovely picture of the 2 of you.

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Only had one MRI and I agree it is not a pleasant experience. Thanks heavens they have them though as they help diagnose so many things. I was getting panicky toward the end of mine and the person giving it to me kept asking if I was doing OK. I asked her to stop announcing how long I had to go beca...

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Just went to my site and read your ideas regarding the hummus. I jotted them down because they are very helpful. We are at the marketing idea phase of setting up the business and I never thought of kids lunches or grab a lunch as a possible target group.
Thanks.

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Yesterday was a success. Some unexpected drama with my daughter but I decided it had nothing to do with what I ate and stayed vanilla all day. Made the day a lot better at the end of it. Eating a lot of junk would have only made the day worse. I liked my decision to leave food out of the equation. I...

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You inspired us all again, Grammy. I loved the "good enough" story and I swear I will use it on our next crazy company day. I want to see the company and they want to see me. The house, table, dinner etc. is not the issue. Thanks for sharing the yoga thoughts.

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The last time I was here, I lost 8 pounds slowly and had a few failures. Instead of hanging tough and staying with a program that worked with my lifestyle, I started to play around with it. Before I knew it, weight loss was stagnant and I had changed the program so much it was unrecognizable. I left...

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Way to make me really hungry for bread. It looks so delicious. Glad you are feeling better.

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Speaking as a bread maker myself, that is quite an accomplishment what with the smell wafting through the house and all. Congratulations. I will have to try that soon if I want to stay vanilla no S.

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Today was not so much a failure as a crazy day where regular meals were not possible. We tried to do too much in one day and got stretched out past supper time. We ate a quick burger between lunch and supper because we have to be to a meeting that would take us way past supper. Then when we got home...

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That cold really has been hanging on a long time. Something like that can take all the zip out of you. Maybe you should be drinking some of that lemon with honey. I love marmalades and everytime I read one of your posts, I want some. I will have to try it sometime but here in the cold northwest, lem...

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How wonderful it was to read all of your kind words and excellent advise. I intend to follow it all. It already feels so much better to have expressed it all. It makes it seem more finite somehow. All things have a beginning middle and end and thus nothing good or bad lasts forever. And yes, I think...

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You are an inspiration to keep motivated and positive. I just read through your posts and admire your tenacity. You are in the right place, I think. It will just take time. This is the only diet I found that understands we need breaks from our dieting occasionally. It just takes time to learn to do ...

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I really appreciate all the welcome messages. I am starting to remember the warmth that kept me here before and brought me back again. Day 2 was a success too. Breakfast- raisin bran, half a banana and a piece of whole grain toast Lunch- leftover pork chili and rice Supper- My husband's wonderful Th...

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Hi Grammy, I too was here before and have returned. Retirement is lovely and I thought dieting would be a breeze after I was retired and wouldn't be facing constant treats at work and going out to lunch. Wrong. We have a lot of retired friends who now want to go out off and on all week long! Wonderf...

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I looked through the list of names of people I remembered from the last time I was here. I recognized your name and Deb's. I wish it weren't necessary to be back but it feels right to be back. How have things been going?

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Wow! I am amazed at your posts. We try to eat organic and we also try to eat vegetarian a couple of times a week. I can never think what vegetarian things to make and when I read recipes on line, it always sounds like I would be starving if that was all I ate. I got lots of ideas from reading your p...

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You seem to be doing very well. Keep up the good work. My husband has decided to do No S with me too. The support really helps. We can do this.

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Thanks for the greetings and well wishes. I did OK yesterday. Not snacking was harder than I thought but that's my biggest issue so that was to be expected. On to day 2.

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I was here successfully about 4 or 5 years ago. I needed to lose about 40 pounds at that time. I loved the diet and was a member of the 21 day club. I thought I had changed my eating habits forever. I hadn't. After I reached the 21 day mark, I had lost 8 pounds and was happy with my progress. Then f...

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