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Mon 2/27 Wt- 145 1/4 B-Coffee L-tuna sandwich; half banana; nuts; small cookie D-Kung pao chicken; rice; pineapple spear; salad; cookie I'm a little disappointed in Monday's number, but it's not totally unexpected. It's also No S's highest weight number, normally, after a sweet weekend. But I'm dete...

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Sat. 2/25 Wt- 143 1/2 Sun. 2/26 Wt- 144 3/4 Sat, I stayed with the 3 meals. I had unexpected company this night, and ordered Sicilian pizza. I ate 1 1/2 squares. Would have loved to have more, tho'. Two desserts followed along with some candy. Sun, Two main meals. Went to visit a sick relative in th...

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TexArk said, "I made artisan bread last night and wrapped it up, but I could smell it most of the night. I am sure the receptors in brain were lit up big time." I made a honey oatmeal bread, that I kept whiffing. Heavenly! But I'm giving it to my mother-in-law, so it wouldn't make a presentable gift...

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Fri 2/24
Wt 145 1/4

B-one slice iced raisin bread w/butter
L-half avocado; handful of leftover McDonald fries; nuts; 2 thin cookies
D-one thin slice of saus-stuffed pork roast; salad

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Thurs 2/23
Wt: 145

B-sm yogurt
L-chicken; rice; a few bites of turkey sandwich; few grapes; thin cookie; nuts
D-spaghetti' sausage and meatball; slice of buttered iced raisin bread

Altho' I could fit all savory foods on my little plate, it was obviously calorie packed.

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Wed 2/22
Wt: 145 1/2 (yeah, I figured something like this would happen after our fast-food visit late last night.

B-coffee w/cream
L-(Mom visit) sm bowl of broc/chz soup; square of choc; pie slice
D-minute steak sandwich; sm handful chips; slice of pie

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Tues 2/21 Wt: 144 1/2 B-one piece toast w/butter and an egg; coffee w/cream L-pizza slice; orange; nuts D-sm bowl potato-corn chowder; crackers; pie Snk- 1/2 choc shake; some fries Went to hospital to visit a relative with DH and sons. Youngest wanted a Shamrock shake afterwards, so we all treated o...

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Mon 2/20 Wt: 145 1/4 Having a problem with acid reflux. Could be the German choc cake with all those nuts in it (and sugar!) I'm sure the fudge didn't help either. Need to drink more water. B-coffee with a little cream L-1/2 PB&J sandwich; a few torilla chips; nuts D-chicken and rice; kale; one cook...

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My Sdays: Wt: Sat. 144 1/4 Sun. 145 1/4 Not too bad weight-wise. I didn't gain Mon from Sun. Total 1 lb gain on S-days altogether. Made a German choc cake on Sat and between the four of us it was gone by Sun night. I probably had 3 slender pieces. One slice of pizza for dinner, cut in half. Some lef...

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Having a place to go while walking is so nice. I hate walking if there is no-where to go. I do have a bank, about a two mile round trip, but I need warm weather for that.

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Lol, heliz!

Tear out pages to clean your windows.
Origami.

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Fri Feb 17
145

B-1/2 banana
L-one taco; 1/2 avocado; 1/2 banana
D-chicken; rice mx; salad; nuts

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Thur Feb 16 Wt 145 B-sm bowl cereal w/milk L-more leftover lasagna; broccoli; 1/2 orange; nuts; choc covered cherry D-spag w/sausage; other half of orange; thin slice of cheesecake Daughter and granddaughter visited this morning. Gave them a slice of cheesecake, but didn't indulge, knowing I'll have...

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Wed Feb 15
Wt 145 1/2

B-coffee w/cream
L-leftover lasagna; broccoli; 1/2 orange; nuts
D-minute steak sandwich; chips; 2 pickle slices

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We eat pizza every Sat night. Many times I'll make it, because 2 large pizzas every week is costly. I always ate two slices of pizzeria pizza or 3-4 slices of homemade, because they are smaller. It's an S-day, you know? But it was a weight saboteur for me. So now I select a goodly size slice and cut...

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Tues Feb 14 Wt 145 1/2 B-coffee with cream L-1/2 chicken salad sandwich; 1/2 avocado; an orange; 1 oz nuts D-beef & barley stew; bread; sm slice cheesecake Valentine's Day is a Special Day, but since I already implemented the sweet mod, I'd say the licking of the cheesecake batter paddle was "special"

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Mon Feb 13
Wt 146 1/2

B-coffee with cream
L-Smart Ones for lunch
D-Lasagna with a meatball and sausage and salad. All fit on my little plate. The piece of garlic bread did not.

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Hi Liz, I also started a sweet mod with my meals in Feb. So far it's working well. I didn't overeat sweets the way I usually do on the two weekends that passed, even with company and plenty desserts. I knew I could have them any day. I've even didn't have sweets all day yesterday (Mon). Didn't reall...

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Mon Feb 13 Wt 146 1/2 My highest weight day much like many No Ser's. Sat/Sun I stuck to 3 plates, but I still like to bake and eat sweets on S days. I'll eat a sweet for breakfast on Sat and usually Sunday, too. Then I've been eating a sweet after lunch and dinner. It really is less sweets I've been...

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Love your signature, Dandelion!

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Fri Feb 10
Wt 145 1/2

B-coffee with cream; sm bowl oatmeal; 1/2 banana
L-salted roasted chicken skin (I know, weird); 1/2 banana; 1/2 blueberry-filled doughnut.
Snack-oops! 2 crackers
D-tuna noodle casserole; salad

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Thur Feb 9
Wt: 146

B-coffee with cream
L-1/2 chicken salad sandwich' 1/2 pear; 1 oz nuts, cookie
D-spaghetti with a meatball; banana; three bites of cherry pie

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Good for you! S-Holidays always seem to be just around the corner. Have you thought about the leftovers of your birthday cake, and how you will handle that?

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I had that problem too, at first. Click on the Log In above and, well... log in.

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Wed Feb 8
Wt: 146

B-coffee with cream
L-slice of toasted sourdough spread with guacamole and topped with a fried egg; 1 oz nuts; 1/2 blueberry donut
D-minute steak sandwich; chips; pickle; sm slice cherry pie

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Tues Feb 7
Wt: 146 1/2

B-coffee with cream
L-leftover fish; 1/2 orange; 1 oz nuts
D-chicken chili soup; bread; last piece lemon meringue pie (yay)

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Keep up the good work! With each "No" you gain strength with habit.

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That is pretty flippin' awesome!

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Mon Feb 6 Wt: 147 I'll make my wt numbers red if I've gained from the day before, but I'll only make them green if the number is less than any other number from starting the small plates in Jan. Otherwise it could be, gain a pound (red), lose a 1/4 lb (green), gain 2 lbs (red), lose 1/2 lb (green). ...

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Spanikopitas sounds so good... I'm getting ideas! Did you make them?

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Sun Feb 5 Wt: 147-1/4 I Knew it :( ! B-One pancake with butter and syrup (this is the am't I always eat, because I'm not a big pancake fan) L/D-Beefed up Raman Noodle soup (grandkids requested it); sm slice of lem meringue pie. Normally, I would eat a sweet snack between breakfast and lunch, but I r...

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Sat. Feb 4 Wt. 145 1/2 hmmm...1 lb loss in one day. This is highly suspicious. B-a rather large banana muffin, to test my new silicone jumbo muffins pans (don't ask!) L-Pizza... son is experimenting on making personal-size stove top pizzas for the last three Saturdays. I wish he would get it right s...

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I would be careful about googling your problems. Sticking a label on you is not helpful. And if I was in your place about religious fasting, I wouldn't do it unless you were at the place of being spiritually enriched. I could remember my mother saying to pray and fast for a sick relative. I did pray...

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Good plan with plenty of time between each eating session.

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Catch up time: small plate, daily wt (that morning), sweet mod Wed, Feb 1 Wt: 147 B-coffee with a little cream, small bowl of oatmeal L-1 slice of homemade pizza, 1/2 orange, small slice of choc cake D-sm piece homemade hoagie, pot chips, 1 butter cookie Thur, Feb 2 Wt: 147 B-coffee with cream L-lef...

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Life, thanks for the encouragement!

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I've decided to start a check-in after all this time on No S. This is my third attempt at this wonderfully sane diet. First, my stats: 60 y/o female at this writing (the female will stay), and height is 5'1" (*gasp*...I shrunk an inch!) BMI is at 27.8. The BMI works for me, but not everyone. My 21 y...

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Going to add a mod this month. Last month I added a smaller plate. I'll keep that, and add a sweet with the meal, since my S-days are still not where I want them. If this doesn't work, I'll drop it, mid-month if I have to. :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: 8) 8) :mrgreen: :mrgree...

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Tracey, it does that to mine, too. I cut and paste ":mr green:" who is on the end of my post, onto the highlighted date. If I miss a few days, I copy and paste until the last date - then I cut and paste.

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When I started having weight worries years ago, my husband told me to weigh myself everyday. I figured his advice was coming from his ex-wrestling days, so I didn't do it for long, because I wanted to see larger chunks of weigh fall off. So most of my weight- struggling days of weight watching were ...

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Congratulations on your daughter! I always ate like a construction worker when I was pregnant.

And don't be embarrassed...many of us left and came back again. It's my third time. The posters here are kind and understanding.

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Wonderful news, Bluebell!

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Oolala, I've never had a check in thread. Perhaps one day. I do the monthly challenge instead for now.

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Do only what your body allows you to do. You can still lose weight without a lot of exercise when you follow No S. I'm quite sedentary, but I still lose despite being short and older. When I do exercise it's for my flexibility not weight loss, so I'm never disappointed or worried that I skipped a da...

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Thank you, Merry, for the details and the encouragement you give to posters. Will be looking forward to hearing from you in new year. Best to you with your exercise regime. I know mine suffers as well.

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StephC, if you use the orange font color you will see your numbers better, and it still looks yellowish.

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"What did Clint Eastwood say in Heartbreak Ridge concerning adaptation?"

Please tell us!

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Thanks, Oolala. It's gets harder to feel that stomach hunger the older we get without putting a very small amount on each plate. My mother who is 91 - and was overweight most of her adult life - eats a tiny bit at a time now, because that's all she can fit. The Dr. wants her to gain weight. I wouldn...

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I'm experimenting with a smaller plate for dinner. It's 7 1/4" rim to rim and I having been filling all of it, esp. when there are a few offerings on the table. I'm a short 60 y/o and rather sedentary, and my cooking is on the rich side. I don't want to change that, (and some things I can't change, ...

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Thank you for the encouragement, Merry, and a good year for you, too, as well as all our No Ser's!

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Tortie, No S did wonders for my acid reflux. Three moderate meals a day, 5 days a week. It didn't even leak over into my S days gone wild. Just give your digestive system some time to adjust. Caveat: I know if I have a few "red days" in a row, there will be some reflux returning, and will take a few...

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In again! I month trial of smaller plates for lunch and dinner. 8) :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :) 8) 8) :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: 8) 8) :mrgreen: 17 :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: 8) 8):mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: 8) 8) :mrgreen: :mrgreen: Day ...

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In my house any store bought cookies go into a tin in a cupboard. Not tempting to me. The homemade cookies go into a freezer. I just take out a little at a time. The rest of the family helps me eat them. About two months ago I bought three multi packs of my favorite chocolate candies (the smaller ki...

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I thought it meant, Keeping up with the Joneses

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It's the first time I didn't eat all the skin off the turkey while carving it.
(I think I left this on the wrong post and don't know how to get rid of it)

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Well, I gained a few lbs, then lost a couple (I thought stress puts weight on). Not too bad for me over the holidays, although they're not quite over yet. But if I don't throw my hands up over the whole thing, that is, give it all up, I figure I'm ahead of the game.

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I think it's called vanity sizing. Not sure when they did this. Maybe the 80's? I'm sure it was done to make people feel better about shopping for clothes, so they spend more of their money.

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I own both those books. I gave the second written French Woman book to the library, as I didn't like it enough to keep it. I cleared out most of my diet books, but kept those two, because they were worth keeping to me. (And of course the No S diet book). I enjoy these old gems dug up from the archiv...

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I was just wondering what to have for dinner: I have sausage, cabbage and potatoes and they sound good. I'll make it into a soup, because I try to make Tues Soup Night. Thanks for the idea.

My daughter makes some type of taco every week for her family and they never complain!

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Welcome back KCCC. Always good to hear from you and your posts!

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Here's hoping for a greener Dec. :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: 8) 8) :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :) 8) 8) :mrgreen: :mrgreen: 14 15 :) 8) 8) :mrgreen: 20 21 22 23 8) 8) 26 27 :mrgreen: :mrgreen: 30 8) Looks like no NWS days this month. Just doesn't seem right. I'll ...

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I had china plates passed down to me as well. The dinner plates are 10" and the shallow soup bowls are 8". I put the 8" plate at my place settingon Thanksgiving, then changed my mind, because there were so many sides that even one spoonful of each wouldn't fit. Boy, was I sorry! I only filled my lar...

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I'm thankful for Reindard's book to keep referring to, the kind and helpful people on here, and that since No S, I'm able to go a day (and more than that!) without snacks and sweets.

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Enjoy your wonderful mean. Question: Lebanese green beans? How is that prepared, if I may ask?

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Oolala, if you mean the private message...no I did not get it.

BTW... good job on your green week!

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Good articles! Love how they give credence to the No S eating. Has anyone ever read the book, "Slim by Design" by Wansink?

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My trouble spot also starts on Thanksgiving through to NY's Day. Actually, it has always gone beyond that, because that is my throwing-in-the-towel time. I have ditched No S and anything else I employed (like fasting 2xweek - last round, not now). It begins with permasnacking; the actual dinners are...

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Understood, Oolala.

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When my favorite chocolates are in the house, that is all I can think about. Even if my weekdays are kept on plan, the whole bag of chocolates will be gone by Sat/Sunday.

When I don't keep chocolates in the house, I don't think about them.

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Oolala, Congrats on your plan! Can you share it?

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:arrow: :arrow: 01 02 03 04 :) :) 07 08 09 10 11 :) :) 14 15 16 17 18 :) :) 21 22 23 :D 25 :) :) 28 29 30 :arrow::arrow: :arrow: Day 3: I was so hoping to have a full green month :( Days 9&10: DH home from hospital. No S thrown to the wind. Day 15: Baked a bread with dried fruit in it. Couldn't resi...

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I wish I was a No S'er during all my pregnancies. This forum didn't exist then, but it was and is always a simple and normal way to eat. During my last pregnancy, I saw I was going in the same vein as the others: eating too much, permasnacking, etc... so at 4 months I put a screeching halt to it. I ...

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kaalii, I'm glad you found your answers!

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Good for you, alsuzeGirl, in keeping an operation as a last resort! And you may strive for 21 days, but there are successful No Sers here that are happy just having a full green week, so don't give up. It's a satisfying and sensible way of eating for life. Make use of this site, with the podcasts an...

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oolala53 wrote:Noni, do you have a check-in thread? You don't need one, but I looked and couldn't see it, if there is one.

No, oolala, I think about it now and then, but I don't have sticktoitiveness, and I'm wouldn't want others to see what a mental case I am...lol

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[quote="oolala53" If there's anybody out there who fell into a pattern that stayed the same for two years or more after just a few weeks or even months, give us a holler!" I wish I could give that holler! If I could do things differently, I never would have left No S X2, because my weekends were wil...

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"So Garfield, it would seem, was on NoS?"

perhaps with a drastic modification...lol

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You're still a youngster! Happy birthday, Reinhard!

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Thanks, Jackn. A couple of these look doable for me. The others made me sweat and my heart race just watching them. Does that count? lol

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The first time I did Vanilla No S, I lost nearly 25 lbs eating only three meals. My breakfast was small, but lunch and dinner was very sufficient on my one plate. Too many sweets and snacking on the weekends caused a stall in weightloss (I only needed to lose a few more pounds for a normal BMI), whi...

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Here's hoping for less red this month. :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: :) :) 03 04 05 06 07 :) :) 10 11 12 :wink: 14 :) :) 17 18 19 20 21 :) :) :) 25 26 27 28 :) :) 31 Day 12: Made cake for hubby's birthday tomorrow with too much sampling. Should have made it on our special day, inst...

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I hear you, kaali. I will have a red on Fri, and quite possibly tomorrow as well.

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Wow...14 miles--good job!

And happy birthday!

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every ONE pound of weight loss has the effect of taking - - 5lb of stress taken off the knees - 7lb of stress taken off the ankles - 10lb of stress taken off the spinal discs it makes it well worth-while the effort doesn't it?!! Keep going! This makes sense. I've been 5'2" for many years, and latel...

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A small bag of peanuts to get you through until dinner? Yes, it's fine and it's considered No S with a mod. Many here have mods to make No S doable and enjoyable.

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I hear you about the reflux, Linda. Anytime I overdue sweets on the weekend I need to pull out the Tums.

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Looking at your stats, you should move here to the US. You'd be a size 4 here...lol

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Wishing you well, reneew! My S days cause backpedaling, also. I keep thinking in my mind what I want to do with them, but like your signature says...

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Reinhard makes an exception for sick days. You do whatever it takes to feel better.

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The two times I moved No S to the shelf was just after the holidays. The over consumption of food, the leftovers, the weight gain, and the disappointment in myself for my lack of control neutralized me. It would be good to think of this now, and even plan as much as possible my behavior on these spe...

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The trick is to act determined when you don't feel determined. It's when you are most tempted that you will get the most benefit from not giving in. Love this! After all, how will we learn to stop giving in to temptation if we keep giving in to temptation? We ought to have a list of inspirational q...

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Kaali: I do not like the taste of molasses, but I took it like medicine. A spoonful of it into the mouth, followed by water to wash it down. If you try to find various ways to put it into your food, you may feel it ruins the taste of your meal, and give it up. Reinhart: My husband's bloodwork came b...

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kaali, I remember when I was pregnant and low in iron, the Dr told gave iron pills that constipated me. Instead, everyday, I took a spoonful of Haddon House brand molasses that was rich in iron, without the constipation. I wasn't able to find it in the stores anymore for subsequent pregnancies, and ...

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I only take magnesium to help with sleep, but for my 20 year old son who gets "blue" often, he takes the vitamin D3, along with K2, as he was tested to be short on D. I've read that this is a good combination( Vit D and K2). He also takes a chelated magnesium, as well as my husband. It's just an all...

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Congratulations, reneew...keep up the good work!

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oolala, I keep forgetting to read the daily journals of others. I read up on yours, and appreciate the insights from you and other posters. I wish you answers to good health.

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oolala said,

"I'm moving toward less food, but it's not a happy change. I'd rather have my appetite back."

What's happened to your appetite? Personally, I would be happy with a lesser one, that is, as long as it wasn't from illness.

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I enjoy reading and also watching some tv. I used to always have a snack when doing these activities. It was difficult at first to give up the snacks, but now, and for years, I only have hot tea, summer or winter. I come to enjoy settling down with it when I read or watch, just as much as the snacks...

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I miss our family reunions, a groaning board of Lebanese food. You are excused!

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I'm in again :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: 01 02 :) :) :) 06 07 08 09 :) :) 12 13 14 15 16 :) :) 19 20 21 22 23 :) :) 26 27 28 29 30 Day 5: Labor Day Day 6: I was minding my own business, when assaulted by leftover Labor Day treats. Day 7: Labor Day treats still hanging around. Day 22: Sabotage! B...

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